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A primary challenge for visual-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) is to generalize effectively across unseen environments. Although previous studies have explored different auxiliary tasks to enhance generalization, few adopt image…

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Training robotic policies directly in the real world is expensive and unscalable. Although generative simulation enables large-scale data synthesis, current approaches often fail to generate logically coherent long-horizon tasks and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xiang Liu , Sen Cui , Guocai Yao , Zhong Cao , Jingheng Ma , Min Zhang , Changshui Zhang

Long-range dependencies modeling, widely used in capturing spatiotemporal correlation, has shown to be effective in CNN dominated computer vision tasks. Yet neither stacks of convolutional operations to enlarge receptive fields nor recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Xiangyu He , Ke Cheng , Qiang Chen , Qinghao Hu , Peisong Wang , Jian Cheng

World models that forecast scene evolution by generating future video frames devote the bulk of their capacity to photometric details, yet the resulting predictions often remain geometrically inconsistent. We present VGGT-World, a geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Xiangyu Sun , Shijie Wang , Fengyi Zhang , Lin Liu , Caiyan Jia , Ziying Song , Zi Huang , Yadan Luo

Recent advances in pixel-level tasks (e.g. segmentation) illustrate the benefit of of long-range interactions between aggregated region-based representations that can enhance local features. However, such aggregated representations, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Leonid Sigal , James J. Little

Deploying learned control policies in real-world environments poses a fundamental challenge. When system dynamics change unexpectedly, performance degrades until models are retrained on new data. We introduce Reflexive World Models (RWM), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Carlos Stein Brito , Daniel McNamee

Model-free reinforcement learning algorithms have exhibited great potential in solving single-task sequential decision-making problems with high-dimensional observations and long horizons, but are known to be hard to generalize across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Boyuan Chen , Chuning Zhu , Pulkit Agrawal , Kaiqing Zhang , Abhishek Gupta

Developing effective world models is crucial for creating artificial agents that can reason about and navigate complex environments. In this paper, we investigate a deep supervision technique for encouraging the development of a world model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Andrii Zahorodnii

Dynamic graph representation learning has emerged as a crucial research area, driven by the growing need for analyzing time-evolving graph data in real-world applications. While recent approaches leveraging recurrent neural networks (RNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Shengxiang Hu , Guobing Zou , Song Yang , Shiyi Lin , Yanglan Gan , Bofeng Zhang

Reinforcement learning is a promising paradigm for solving sequential decision-making problems, but low data efficiency and weak generalization across tasks are bottlenecks in real-world applications. Model-based meta reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Qi Wang , Herke van Hoof

How do computers and intelligent agents view the world around them? Feature extraction and representation constitutes one the basic building blocks towards answering this question. Traditionally, this has been done with carefully engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful approach for robot learning. However, model-free RL (MFRL) requires a large number of environment interactions to learn successful control policies. This is due to the noisy RL training updates and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Maria Krinner , Elie Aljalbout , Angel Romero , Davide Scaramuzza

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) are a widely accepted standard for synthesizing new 3D object views from a small number of base images. However, NeRFs have limited generalization properties, which means that we need to use significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Paweł Batorski , Dawid Malarz , Marcin Przewięźlikowski , Marcin Mazur , Sławomir Tadeja , Przemysław Spurek

In the era of deep learning, data is the critical determining factor in the performance of neural network models. Generating large datasets suffers from various difficulties such as scalability, cost efficiency and photorealism. To avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Chahat Deep Singh , Riya Kumari , Cornelia Fermüller , Nitin J. Sanket , Yiannis Aloimonos

Understanding and replicating the real world is a critical challenge in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research. To achieve this, many existing approaches, such as world models, aim to capture the fundamental principles governing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuqi Hu , Longguang Wang , Xian Liu , Ling-Hao Chen , Yuwei Guo , Yukai Shi , Ce Liu , Anyi Rao , Zeyu Wang , Hui Xiong

While reinforcement learning from scratch has shown impressive results in solving sequential decision-making tasks with efficient simulators, real-world applications with expensive interactions require more sample-efficient agents.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Remo Sasso , Michelangelo Conserva , Dominik Jeurissen , Paulo Rauber

Recent advances in autoregressive neural surrogate models have enabled orders-of-magnitude speedups in simulating dynamical systems. However, autoregressive models are generally prone to distribution drift: compounding errors in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qi Liu , Laure Zanna , Joan Bruna

World models improve a learning agent's ability to efficiently operate in interactive and situated environments. This work focuses on the task of building world models of text-based game environments. Text-based games, or interactive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mark O. Riedl

Model-based reinforcement learning agents utilizing transformers have shown improved sample efficiency due to their ability to model extended context, resulting in more accurate world models. However, for complex reasoning and planning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Pranav Agarwal , Sheldon Andrews , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

Relational data present in real world graph representations demands for tools capable to study it accurately. In this regard Graph Neural Network (GNN) is a powerful tool, wherein various models for it have also been developed over the past…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Robert Guirado , Akshay Jain , Sergi Abadal , Eduard Alarcón