EmbodieDreamer: Advancing Real2Sim2Real Transfer for Policy Training via Embodied World Modeling
Abstract
The rapid advancement of Embodied AI has led to an increasing demand for large-scale, high-quality real-world data. However, collecting such embodied data remains costly and inefficient. As a result, simulation environments have become a crucial surrogate for training robot policies. Yet, the significant Real2Sim2Real gap remains a critical bottleneck, particularly in terms of physical dynamics and visual appearance. To address this challenge, we propose EmbodieDreamer, a novel framework that reduces the Real2Sim2Real gap from both the physics and appearance perspectives. Specifically, we propose PhysAligner, a differentiable physics module designed to reduce the Real2Sim physical gap. It jointly optimizes robot-specific parameters such as control gains and friction coefficients to better align simulated dynamics with real-world observations. In addition, we introduce VisAligner, which incorporates a conditional video diffusion model to bridge the Sim2Real appearance gap by translating low-fidelity simulated renderings into photorealistic videos conditioned on simulation states, enabling high-fidelity visual transfer. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of EmbodieDreamer. The proposed PhysAligner reduces physical parameter estimation error by 3.74% compared to simulated annealing methods while improving optimization speed by 89.91\%. Moreover, training robot policies in the generated photorealistic environment leads to a 29.17% improvement in the average task success rate across real-world tasks after reinforcement learning. Code, model and data will be publicly available.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2507.05198,
title = {EmbodieDreamer: Advancing Real2Sim2Real Transfer for Policy Training via Embodied World Modeling},
author = {Boyuan Wang and Xinpan Meng and Xiaofeng Wang and Zheng Zhu and Angen Ye and Yang Wang and Zhiqin Yang and Chaojun Ni and Guan Huang and Xingang Wang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05198},
year = {2025}
}
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Project Page: https://embodiedreamer.github.io/