MoLA infers a mixture of latent actions from generated future videos via modality-aware inverse dynamics models to improve robot manipulation policies.
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EA-WM generates more accurate robot world rollouts by projecting actions as structured visual fields in camera space and using event-aware bidirectional fusion to better capture interaction dynamics.
Being-H0.7 adds future-aware latent reasoning to direct VLA policies via dual-branch alignment on latent queries, matching world-model benefits at VLA efficiency.
π₀.₇ is a steerable generalist robotic model that uses rich multimodal prompts including language, subgoal images, and performance metadata to achieve out-of-the-box generalization across tasks and robot bodies.
ViVa turns a video generator into a value model for robot RL that jointly forecasts future states and task value, yielding better performance on real-world box assembly when integrated with RECAP.
Action Images turn robot arm motions into interpretable multiview pixel videos, letting video backbones serve as zero-shot policies for end-to-end robot learning.
A verifier called Future Forward Dynamics Causal Attention enables adaptive action execution in World Action Models, reducing model inferences by 69% and improving success rates in robotic tasks.
Sim-and-real co-training for robot policies is driven primarily by balanced cross-domain representation alignment and secondarily by domain-dependent action reweighting.
Vision-geometry backbones using pretrained 3D world models outperform vision-language and video models for robotic manipulation by enabling direct mapping from visual input to geometric actions.
AIM predicts aligned spatial value maps inside a shared video-generation transformer to produce reliable robot actions, reaching 94% success on RoboTwin 2.0 with larger gains on long-horizon and contact-rich tasks.
Veo-3 video predictions enable approximate task-level robot trajectories in zero-shot settings but require hierarchical integration with low-level VLA policies for reliable manipulation performance.
Fast-WAM shows that explicit future imagination at test time is not required for strong WAM performance; video modeling during training provides the main benefit.
DreamZero uses a 14B video diffusion model as a World Action Model to achieve over 2x better zero-shot generalization on real robots than state-of-the-art VLAs, real-time 7Hz closed-loop control, and cross-embodiment transfer with 10-30 minutes of data.
Action-state consistency in World Action Models distinguishes successful from failed imagined futures and supports value-free selection of better rollouts via consensus among predictions.
The paper introduces World Action Models as a new paradigm unifying predictive world modeling with action generation in embodied foundation models and provides a taxonomy of existing approaches.
A comprehensive survey that organizes the literature on world models in robot learning, their roles in policy learning, planning, simulation, and video-based generation, with connections to navigation, driving, datasets, and benchmarks.
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From Imagined Futures to Executable Actions: Mixture of Latent Actions for Robot Manipulation
MoLA infers a mixture of latent actions from generated future videos via modality-aware inverse dynamics models to improve robot manipulation policies.
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EA-WM: Event-Aware Generative World Model with Structured Kinematic-to-Visual Action Fields
EA-WM generates more accurate robot world rollouts by projecting actions as structured visual fields in camera space and using event-aware bidirectional fusion to better capture interaction dynamics.
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Being-H0.7: A Latent World-Action Model from Egocentric Videos
Being-H0.7 adds future-aware latent reasoning to direct VLA policies via dual-branch alignment on latent queries, matching world-model benefits at VLA efficiency.
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${\pi}_{0.7}$: a Steerable Generalist Robotic Foundation Model with Emergent Capabilities
π₀.₇ is a steerable generalist robotic model that uses rich multimodal prompts including language, subgoal images, and performance metadata to achieve out-of-the-box generalization across tasks and robot bodies.
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ViVa: A Video-Generative Value Model for Robot Reinforcement Learning
ViVa turns a video generator into a value model for robot RL that jointly forecasts future states and task value, yielding better performance on real-world box assembly when integrated with RECAP.
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Action Images: End-to-End Policy Learning via Multiview Video Generation
Action Images turn robot arm motions into interpretable multiview pixel videos, letting video backbones serve as zero-shot policies for end-to-end robot learning.
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When to Trust Imagination: Adaptive Action Execution for World Action Models
A verifier called Future Forward Dynamics Causal Attention enables adaptive action execution in World Action Models, reducing model inferences by 69% and improving success rates in robotic tasks.
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A Mechanistic Analysis of Sim-and-Real Co-Training in Generative Robot Policies
Sim-and-real co-training for robot policies is driven primarily by balanced cross-domain representation alignment and secondarily by domain-dependent action reweighting.
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Robotic Manipulation is Vision-to-Geometry Mapping ($f(v) \rightarrow G$): Vision-Geometry Backbones over Language and Video Models
Vision-geometry backbones using pretrained 3D world models outperform vision-language and video models for robotic manipulation by enabling direct mapping from visual input to geometric actions.
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AIM: Intent-Aware Unified world action Modeling with Spatial Value Maps
AIM predicts aligned spatial value maps inside a shared video-generation transformer to produce reliable robot actions, reaching 94% success on RoboTwin 2.0 with larger gains on long-horizon and contact-rich tasks.
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Veo-Act: How Far Can Frontier Video Models Advance Generalizable Robot Manipulation?
Veo-3 video predictions enable approximate task-level robot trajectories in zero-shot settings but require hierarchical integration with low-level VLA policies for reliable manipulation performance.
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Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination?
Fast-WAM shows that explicit future imagination at test time is not required for strong WAM performance; video modeling during training provides the main benefit.
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World Action Models are Zero-shot Policies
DreamZero uses a 14B video diffusion model as a World Action Model to achieve over 2x better zero-shot generalization on real robots than state-of-the-art VLAs, real-time 7Hz closed-loop control, and cross-embodiment transfer with 10-30 minutes of data.
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Is the Future Compatible? Diagnosing Dynamic Consistency in World Action Models
Action-state consistency in World Action Models distinguishes successful from failed imagined futures and supports value-free selection of better rollouts via consensus among predictions.
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World Action Models: The Next Frontier in Embodied AI
The paper introduces World Action Models as a new paradigm unifying predictive world modeling with action generation in embodied foundation models and provides a taxonomy of existing approaches.
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World Model for Robot Learning: A Comprehensive Survey
A comprehensive survey that organizes the literature on world models in robot learning, their roles in policy learning, planning, simulation, and video-based generation, with connections to navigation, driving, datasets, and benchmarks.