arXiv:2608. 06544v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models for visual control typically learn compact latent states by reconstructing observations, implicitly encouraging representations to preserve information across the entire visual input.
By SM Mazharul Islam, Manfred Huber
arXiv:2609.37250v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) couple future visual-state prediction with action generation. By adapting video generators or image-editing models pretrai...
By Yang Zhang, Jiangyuan Zhao, Chenyou Fan, Jiayu Hu, Xiu Yuan, Chenjia Bai, Xiu Li
The paper introduces the Dual-Latent World Model (Dual-WM), which separates local execution and long-range planning into distinct latent spaces and dynamics models. A new learning method, Long-Horizon Representation Learning with Weighted Rollout (LoRe), supervises predictions at both levels using exponential horizon weights. Experiments on five goal-conditioned visual control tasks show that Dual-WM improves success rates over strong baselines, especially at longer horizons.
By Delin Zhao, Zhengrong Yue, Shaobin Zhuang, Junlin He, Xiaoyu Chen, Zikang Wang, Yuxin Liu, Limin Wang, Yali Wang
arXiv:2609.10506v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Action-conditioned latent world models predict future visual representations, enabling zero-shot goal-conditioned robot planning and control. However...
By Nisarga Nilavadi, Ralf R\"omer, Moritz Reuss, Michael Krawez, Tobias J\"ulg, Angela P. Schoellig, Rudolf Lioutikov, Wolfram Burgard
arXiv:2606. 31232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning visual world models for planning requires compact latent dynamics that remain sensitive to actions, yet reconstruction-free joint-embedding objectives can collapse to action-insensitive representations.
By Zhenghao Zhang, Yuanxiang Wang, Zhenyu Guan, Yujia Yang, Bingkang Shi, Tianyu Zong, Hongzhu Yi, Guoqing Chao, Xingchen Chen, Tiankun Yang, Chenxi Bao, Tao Yu, Jingjing Zhou, Jungang Xu
arXiv:2609.37165v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remain brittle under visual distribution shifts, often relying on spurious correlations tied to domain-specific f...
By Junghyun Kim, Ngseo Kim, ChungWoo Lee, Seoyeon Lee, Woo-Jeong Baek, Adam Zhou, Chip Huyen, Jun-Ki Lee, Gi-Cheon Kang, Byoung-Tak Zhang