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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 video models, a leading approach to world modeling, face fundamental limitations. They often violate physical and logical rules, lack interactivity, and operate as opaque black boxes ill-suited for building structured, queryable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Felix O'Mahony , Roberto Cipolla , Ayush Tewari

Autonomous driving systems depend on on models that can reason about high-level scene contexts and accurately predict the dynamics of their surrounding environment. Vision- Language Models (VLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Stefan Englmeier , Katharina Winter , Fabian B. Flohr

Recent advances in large language model (LLM) have empowered autonomous agents to perform multi-turn interactions with tools and environments. However, scaling such agent training is limited by the lack of diverse and reliable environments.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhaoyang Wang , Canwen Xu , Boyi Liu , Yite Wang , Siwei Han , Zhewei Yao , Huaxiu Yao , Yuxiong He

Learning predictive world models from raw visual observations is a central challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), especially for robotics and continuous control. Conventional model-based RL frameworks directly condition future…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jseen Zhang , Gabriel Adineera , Jinzhou Tan , Jinoh Kim

Offline meta-reinforcement learning seeks to learn policies that generalize across related tasks from fixed datasets. Context-based methods infer a task representation from transition histories, but learning effective task representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Mohammadreza Nakheai , Aidan Scannell , Kevin Luck , Joni Pajarinen

Recent advances in unsupervised learning for object detection, segmentation, and tracking hold significant promise for applications in robotics. A common approach is to frame these tasks as inference in probabilistic latent-variable models.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Yizhe Wu , Oiwi Parker Jones , Martin Engelcke , Ingmar Posner

Data-efficient learning remains a central challenge in autonomous driving due to the high cost and safety risks of large-scale real-world interaction. Although world-model-based reinforcement learning enables policy optimization through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jiazhuo Li , Linjiang Cao , Qi Liu , Xi Xiong

A unified simulator that can model diverse physical phenomena without solver-specific redesign is a long-standing goal across simulation science. We present a learning-based particle simulator built on a single transformer architecture to…

Extracting and predicting object structure and dynamics from videos without supervision is a major challenge in machine learning. To address this challenge, we adopt a keypoint-based image representation and learn a stochastic dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Matthias Minderer , Chen Sun , Ruben Villegas , Forrester Cole , Kevin Murphy , Honglak Lee

Sequential modelling of high-dimensional data is an important problem that appears in many domains including model-based reinforcement learning and dynamics identification for control. Latent variable models applied to sequential data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Oliver Limoyo , Trevor Ablett , Jonathan Kelly

Seeing clearly with high resolution is a foundation of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), which has been proven to be vital for visual perception and reasoning. Existing works usually employ a straightforward resolution upscaling method, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yi-Fan Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Chaoyou Fu , Xue Wang , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Rong Jin

This work highlights that video world modeling, alongside vision-language pre-training, establishes a fresh and independent foundation for robot learning. Intuitively, video world models provide the ability to imagine the near future by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lin Li , Qihang Zhang , Yiming Luo , Shuai Yang , Ruilin Wang , Fei Han , Mingrui Yu , Zelin Gao , Nan Xue , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu

World models have attracted increasing attention in autonomous driving for their ability to forecast potential future scenarios. In this paper, we propose BEVWorld, a novel framework that transforms multimodal sensor inputs into a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yumeng Zhang , Shi Gong , Kaixin Xiong , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiaofan Li , Xiao Tan , Fan Wang , Jizhou Huang , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Object-centric world models provide structured representation of the scene and can be an important backbone in reinforcement learning and planning. However, existing approaches suffer in partially-observable environments due to the lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Gautam Singh , Skand Peri , Junghyun Kim , Hyunseok Kim , Sungjin Ahn

Recent advances in diffusion-based text-to-video (T2V) models have demonstrated remarkable progress, but these models still face challenges in generating videos with multiple objects. Most models struggle with accurately capturing complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Aimon Rahman , Jiang Liu , Ze Wang , Ximeng Sun , Jialian Wu , Xiaodong Yu , Yusheng Su , Vishal M. Patel , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum

The performance of learned robot visuomotor policies is heavily dependent on the size and quality of the training dataset. Although large-scale robot and human datasets are increasingly available, embodiment gaps and mismatched action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiqi Wang , Mrinal Verghese , Jeff Schneider

This work proposes the Lattice Boltzmann Model (LBM) to learn real-world pixel dynamicity for visual tracking. LBM decomposes visual representations into dynamic pixel lattices and solves pixel motion states through collision-streaming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Guangze Zheng , Shijie Lin , Haobo Zuo , Si Si , Ming-Shan Wang , Changhong Fu , Jia Pan

Autonomous inspection in hazardous environments requires AI agents that can interpret high-level goals and execute precise control. A key capability for such agents is spatial grounding, for example when a drone must center a detected…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xian Yeow Lee , Lasitha Vidyaratne , Gregory Sin , Ahmed Farahat , Chetan Gupta

Reinforcement learning (RL) agents have shown remarkable performances in various environments, where they can discover effective policies directly from sensory inputs. However, these agents often exploit spurious correlations in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Elisabeth Dillies , Quentin Delfosse , Jannis Blüml , Raban Emunds , Florian Peter Busch , Kristian Kersting