World-as-Graph: Relational World Modeling Through Latent Space Graphs
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WALT introduces a method to align latent trajectories with pretrained driving world models, creating a compact generative trajectory space that preserves action-relevant semantics without altering the original model. The approach uses a dual-branch autoencoder to map raw waypoints into this latent space and transfers visual world knowledge into trajectory representations. Experiments on NAVSIM benchmarks show modest performance gains and a 30.5% reduction in planner FLOPs, indicating that maintaining world representations while extracting action-relevant information can improve trajectory planning efficiency.
Relationally Grounded Latent World Models for Autonomous Driving proposes using traffic scene graphs as privileged semantic supervision for latent world representations. The approach builds actor‑centric scene graphs from nuScenes 3D annotations, encodes their relational structure with a frozen text embedding model, and aligns visual latent representations to this semantic target during training. At inference the supervision branch is removed, requiring no scene graphs or 3D annotations and adding no extra computation, while achieving a 5.9% reduction in average trajectory L2 error and a 52.4% drop in collision rate compared to the LAW baseline.
arXiv:2609.36985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The central challenge of world modeling is to learn representations that capture how the world evolves. However, existing world models predominantly...
The Representation World Model (RWM) learns states, transitions, and executable plans directly within a representation space, bypassing traditional explicit dynamics models and action-space search. It uses inverse-dynamics supervision along latent paths to shape the representation geometry, enabling direct planning by constructing a latent path between current and goal states and recovering actions via inverse dynamics. Experiments on continuous-control benchmarks and robotic manipulation tasks demonstrate RWM’s effectiveness and potential for complex embodied control.
arXiv:2603. 12231v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning good representations is essential for latent planning with world models.
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.