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Generalist Vision-Language-Action models are currently hindered by the scarcity of robotic data compared to the abundance of human video demonstrations. Existing Latent Action Models attempt to leverage video data but often suffer from…

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To make effective decisions in novel environments with long-horizon goals, it is crucial to engage in hierarchical reasoning across spatial and temporal scales. This entails planning abstract subgoal sequences, visually reasoning about the…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have gained popularity for learning robotic manipulation tasks that follow language instructions. State-of-the-art VLAs, such as OpenVLA and $\pi_{0}$, were trained on large-scale, manually labeled action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Bahey Tharwat , Yara Nasser , Ali Abouzeid , Ian Reid

Robots in uncertain real-world environments must perform both goal-directed and exploratory actions. However, most deep learning-based control methods neglect exploration and struggle under uncertainty. To address this, we adopt deep active…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Kentaro Fujii , Shingo Murata

Recent advances in vision-language models have enabled mobile GUI agents to perceive visual interfaces and execute user instructions, but reliable prediction of action consequences remains critical for long-horizon and high-risk…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Weikai Xu , Kun Huang , Yunren Feng , Jiaxing Li , Yuhan Chen , Yuxuan Liu , Zhizheng Jiang , Heng Qu , Pengzhi Gao , Wei Liu , Jian Luan , Xiaolin Hu , Bo An

A goal of artificial intelligence is to construct an agent that can solve a wide variety of tasks. Recent progress in text-guided image synthesis has yielded models with an impressive ability to generate complex novel images, exhibiting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yilun Du , Mengjiao Yang , Bo Dai , Hanjun Dai , Ofir Nachum , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Dale Schuurmans , Pieter Abbeel

Embodied navigation in open, dynamic environments demands accurate foresight of how the world will evolve and how actions will unfold over time. We propose AstraNav-World, an end-to-end world model that jointly reasons about future visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jintao Chen , Junjun Hu , Haochen Bai , Minghua Luo , Xinda Xue , Botao Ren , Chengyu Bai , Shichao Xie , Ziyi Chen , Fei Liu , Zedong Chu , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Shanghang Zhang

We present a simple and intuitive approach for interactive control of physically simulated characters. Our work builds upon generative adversarial networks (GAN) and reinforcement learning, and introduces an imitation learning framework…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Pei Xu , Ioannis Karamouzas

Humans develop an understanding of intuitive physics through active interaction with the world. This approach is in stark contrast to current video models, such as Sora, which rely on passive observation and therefore struggle with grasping…

Latent Action Models (LAMs) have rapidly gained traction as an important component in the pre-training pipelines of leading Vision-Language-Action models. However, they fail when observations contain action-correlated distractors, often…

Reliable anticipation of traffic accidents is essential for advancing autonomous driving systems. However, this objective is limited by two fundamental challenges: the scarcity of diverse, high-quality training data and the frequent absence…

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This work introduces World-GAN, the first method to perform data-driven Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning in Minecraft from a single example. Based on a 3D Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture, we are able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Maren Awiszus , Frederik Schubert , Bodo Rosenhahn

An interactive robot framework accomplishes long-horizon task planning and can easily generalize to new goals and distinct tasks, even during execution. However, most traditional methods require predefined module design, making it hard to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Boyi Li , Philipp Wu , Pieter Abbeel , Jitendra Malik

World models have become crucial for autonomous driving, as they learn how scenarios evolve over time to address the long-tail challenges of the real world. However, current approaches relegate world models to limited roles: they operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tianze Xia , Yongkang Li , Lijun Zhou , Jingfeng Yao , Kaixin Xiong , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Humans naturally build mental models of object interactions and dynamics, allowing them to imagine how their surroundings will change if they take a certain action. While generative models today have shown impressive results on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Sruthi Sudhakar , Ruoshi Liu , Basile Van Hoorick , Carl Vondrick , Richard Zemel

Robotic manipulation in real-world settings remains challenging, especially regarding robust generalization. Existing simulation platforms lack sufficient support for exploring how policies adapt to varied instructions and scenarios. Thus,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Ning Gao , Yilun Chen , Shuai Yang , Xinyi Chen , Yang Tian , Hao Li , Haifeng Huang , Hanqing Wang , Tai Wang , Jiangmiao Pang

Dynamical systems theory and reinforcement learning view world evolution as latent-state dynamics driven by actions, with visual observations providing partial information about the state. Recent video world models attempt to learn this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhen Li , Zian Meng , Shuwei Shi , Wenshuo Peng , Yuwei Wu , Bo Zheng , Chuanhao Li , Kaipeng Zhang

World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for embodied control because they explicitly model how visual observations may evolve under action. Most existing WAMs follow an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tianyuan Yuan , Zibin Dong , Yicheng Liu , Hang Zhao

Advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential in facilitating high-level reasoning, logical reasoning and robotics planning. Recently, LLMs have also been able to generate reward functions for low-level…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Marta Skreta , Zihan Zhou , Jia Lin Yuan , Kourosh Darvish , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Animesh Garg

Bridging the gap between natural language commands and autonomous execution in unstructured environments remains an open challenge for robotics. This requires robots to perceive and reason over the current task scene through multiple…

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