arXiv AI By Zheng Lu, Mingqi Gao, Qinlei Xie, Wanqi Zhong, Hanwen Cui, Heng Cao, Zirui Song, Yifan Yang, Chong Luo, Bei Liu, Yiming Li

Token Predictors Are Not Planners: Building Physically Grounded Causal Reasoners

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arXiv:2606. 01810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current benchmarks for embodied vision-language planning often favor linguistic next-token prediction over physically grounded next-state reasoning.

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