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Despite advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), their integration into language-grounded, human-like embodied agents remains incomplete, hindering complex real-life task performance in physical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhili Cheng , Zhitong Wang , Jinyi Hu , Shengding Hu , An Liu , Yuge Tu , Pengkai Li , Lei Shi , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Sample efficiency has been one of the major challenges for deep reinforcement learning. Recently, model-based reinforcement learning has been proposed to address this challenge by performing planning on imaginary trajectories with a learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Guangxiang Zhu , Minghao Zhang , Honglak Lee , Chongjie Zhang

Scaling up deep Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods presents a significant challenge. Following developments in generative modelling, model-based RL positions itself as a strong contender. Recent advances in sequence modelling have led to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Vincent Micheli , Eloi Alonso , François Fleuret

Meta reinforcement learning (Meta RL) has been amply explored to quickly learn an unseen task by transferring previously learned knowledge from similar tasks. However, most state-of-the-art algorithms require the meta-training tasks to have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Lu Wen , Songan Zhang , H. Eric Tseng , Huei Peng

Symbolic world models (e.g., PDDL domains or executable simulators) are central to model-based planning, but training LLMs to generate such world models is limited by the lack of large-scale verifiable supervision. Current approaches rely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mengkang Hu , Bowei Xia , Yuran Wu , Ailing Yu , Yude Zou , Qiguang Chen , Shijian Wang , Jiarui Jin , Kexin Li , Wenxiang Jiao , Yuan Lu , Ping Luo

Agentic reinforcement learning increasingly relies on experience-driven scaling, yet real-world environments remain non-adaptive, limited in coverage, and difficult to scale. World models offer a potential way to improve learning efficiency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yixia Li , Hongru Wang , Jiahao Qiu , Zhenfei Yin , Dongdong Zhang , Cheng Qian , Zeping Li , Pony Ma , Guanhua Chen , Heng Ji

Latent action models (LAMs) offer a promising path to pre-training embodied agents on large amounts of action-free video. They infer latent actions between consecutive observations that can later be decoded to ground-truth actions using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Marcus Fechner , Hamza Adnan , Constantin C. Lüth , Matthew T. Jackson , Alexey Zakharov , J. Marius Zöllner

Generative world models (WMs) can now simulate worlds with striking visual realism, which naturally raises the question of whether they can endow embodied agents with predictive perception for decision making. Progress on this question has…

A long-standing goal of reinforcement learning is to acquire agents that can learn on training tasks and generalize well on unseen tasks that may share a similar dynamic but with different reward functions. The ability to generalize across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Chengyang Ying , Xinning Zhou , Zhongkai Hao , Hang Su , Songming Liu , Dong Yan , Jun Zhu

World models are essential for autonomous robotic planning. However, the substantial computational overhead of existing dense Transformerbased models significantly hinders real-time deployment. To address this efficiency-performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shicheng Yin , Kaixuan Yin , Weixing Chen , Yang Liu , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) agents operating in high-dimensional observation spaces, such as Dreamer, rely on learning abstract representations for effective planning and control. Existing approaches typically employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Michael Hauri , Friedemann Zenke

Learning a world model for model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents can significantly improve the sample efficiency by learning policies in imagination. However, building a world model for Multi-Agent RL (MARL) can be particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yang Zhang , Chenjia Bai , Bin Zhao , Junchi Yan , Xiu Li , Xuelong Li

We present Unified Latent Dynamics (ULD), a novel reinforcement learning algorithm that unifies the efficiency of model-free methods with the representational strengths of model-based approaches, without incurring planning overhead. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jashaswimalya Acharjee , Balaraman Ravindran

In recent years, Model-based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has demonstrated significant advantages over model-free methods in terms of sample efficiency by using independent environment dynamics world models for data sample…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Zifeng Shi , Meiqin Liu , Senlin Zhang , Ronghao Zheng , Shanling Dong , Ping Wei

Pre-trained language models in the past years have shown exponential growth in model parameters and compute time. ELECTRA is a novel approach for improving the compute efficiency of pre-trained language models (e.g. BERT) based on masked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Junmo Kang , Suwon Shin , Jeonghwan Kim , Jaeyoung Jo , Sung-Hyon Myaeng

Much of model-based reinforcement learning involves learning a model of an agent's world, and training an agent to leverage this model to perform a task more efficiently. While these models are demonstrably useful for agents, every…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-01 C. Daniel Freeman , Luke Metz , David Ha

In recent years, as machine learning, particularly for vision and language understanding, has been improved, research in embedded AI has also evolved. VOYAGER is a well-known LLM-based embodied AI that enables autonomous exploration in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Wakana Haijima , Kou Nakakubo , Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo

The rapid progress in embodied artificial intelligence has highlighted the necessity for more advanced and integrated models that can perceive, interpret, and predict environmental dynamics. In this context, World Models (WMs) have been…

We explore building generative neural network models of popular reinforcement learning environments. Our world model can be trained quickly in an unsupervised manner to learn a compressed spatial and temporal representation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 David Ha , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Sample efficiency is a critical challenge in reinforcement learning. Model-based RL has emerged as a solution, but its application has largely been confined to single-agent scenarios. In this work, we introduce CoDreamer, an extension of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Edan Toledo , Amanda Prorok