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Latent Particle World Models: Self-supervised Object-centric Stochastic Dynamics Modeling

Machine Learning 2026-03-06 v1

Abstract

We introduce Latent Particle World Model (LPWM), a self-supervised object-centric world model scaled to real-world multi-object datasets and applicable in decision-making. LPWM autonomously discovers keypoints, bounding boxes, and object masks directly from video data, enabling it to learn rich scene decompositions without supervision. Our architecture is trained end-to-end purely from videos and supports flexible conditioning on actions, language, and image goals. LPWM models stochastic particle dynamics via a novel latent action module and achieves state-of-the-art results on diverse real-world and synthetic datasets. Beyond stochastic video modeling, LPWM is readily applicable to decision-making, including goal-conditioned imitation learning, as we demonstrate in the paper. Code, data, pre-trained models and video rollouts are available: https://taldatech.github.io/lpwm-web

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@article{arxiv.2603.04553,
  title  = {Latent Particle World Models: Self-supervised Object-centric Stochastic Dynamics Modeling},
  author = {Tal Daniel and Carl Qi and Dan Haramati and Amir Zadeh and Chuan Li and Aviv Tamar and Deepak Pathak and David Held},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.04553},
  year   = {2026}
}

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ICLR 2026 Oral. Project webpage: https://taldatech.github.io/lpwm-web

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