English
Related papers

Related papers: Interactive World Simulator for Robot Policy Train…

200 papers

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

Despite remarkable progress in driving world models, their potential for autonomous systems remains largely untapped: the world models are mostly learned for world simulation and decoupled from trajectory planning. While recent efforts aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhida Zhao , Talas Fu , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

Physical interactive robotics, ranging from wearable devices to collaborative humanoid robots, require close coordination between mechanical design and control. However, evaluating interactive dynamics is challenging due to complex human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chenhui Zuo , Jinhao Xu , Michael Qian Vergnolle , Yanan Sui

Agents that understand objects and their interactions can learn policies that are more robust and transferable. However, most object-centric RL methods factor state by individual objects while leaving interactions implicit. We introduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Fan Feng , Phillip Lippe , Sara Magliacane

Emerging world models autoregressively generate video frames in response to actions, such as camera movements and text prompts, among other control signals. Due to limited temporal context window sizes, these models often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tong Wu , Shuai Yang , Ryan Po , Yinghao Xu , Ziwei Liu , Dahua Lin , Gordon Wetzstein

Identifying predictive world models for robots in novel environments from sparse online observations is essential for robot task planning and execution in novel environments. However, existing methods that leverage differentiable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yifan Zhu , Tianyi Xiang , Aaron Dollar , Zherong Pan

With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, a lack of data has become a major obstacle to enhancing perception model accuracy. Researchers are now exploring controllable data generation using world models to diversify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xinqing Li , Ruiqi Song , Qingyu Xie , Ye Wu , Nanxin Zeng , Yunfeng Ai

Recent advancements in predictive models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in predicting the future state of objects and scenes. However, the lack of categorization based on inherent characteristics continues to hinder the progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yiran Qin , Zhelun Shi , Jiwen Yu , Xijun Wang , Enshen Zhou , Lijun Li , Zhenfei Yin , Xihui Liu , Lu Sheng , Jing Shao , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Ruimao Zhang

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has made significant strides in complex tasks but struggles in multi-task settings with different embodiments. World model methods offer scalability by learning a simulation of the environment but often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ignat Georgiev , Varun Giridhar , Nicklas Hansen , Animesh Garg

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

World simulators can provide safe and scalable environments for training Physical AI systems before real-world deployment. Large video generation models are emerging as a promising basis for such simulators because they can generate diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pu Zhao , Juyi Lin , Timothy Rupprecht , Arash Akbari , Chence Yang , Rahul Chowdhury , Elaheh Motamedi , Arman Akbari , Yumei He , Chen Wang , Geng Yuan , Weiwei Chen , Yanzhi Wang

World Models (WMs) have emerged as a promising approach for post-training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies to improve robustness and generalization under environmental changes. However, most WM-based post-training methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 An Dinh Vuong , Tuan Van Vo , Abdullah Sohail , Haoran Ding , Liang Ma , Xiaodan Liang , Anqing Duan , Ivan Laptev , Ian Reid

Recent research has been increasingly focusing on developing 3D world models that simulate complex real-world scenarios. World models have found broad applications across various domains, including embodied AI, autonomous driving,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yinglin Duan , Zhengxia Zou , Tongwei Gu , Wei Jia , Zhan Zhao , Luyi Xu , Xinzhu Liu , Yenan Lin , Hao Jiang , Kang Chen , Shuang Qiu

Agent-based simulators provide granular representations of complex intelligent systems by directly modelling the interactions of the system's constituent agents. Their high-fidelity nature enables hyper-local policy evaluation and testing…

Recent advances in world models have greatly enhanced interactive environment simulation. Existing methods mainly fall into two categories: (1) static world generation models, which construct 3D environments without active agents, and (2)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Yitong Wang , Fangyun Wei , Hongyang Zhang , Bo Dai , Yan Lu

Interactive world models that simulate object dynamics are crucial for robotics, VR, and AR. However, it remains a significant challenge to learn physics-consistent dynamics models from limited real-world video data, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yu Yang , Zhilu Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Yihan Zeng , Hui Li , Wangmeng Zuo

Several families of continual learning techniques have been proposed to alleviate catastrophic interference in deep neural network training on non-stationary data. However, a comprehensive comparison and analysis of limitations remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Timm Hess , Martin Mundt , Iuliia Pliushch , Visvanathan Ramesh

Intelligent agents need a physical understanding of the world to predict the impact of their actions in the future. While learning-based models of the environment dynamics have contributed to significant improvements in sample efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Eric Heiden , David Millard , Hejia Zhang , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

World models offer a promising avenue for more faithfully capturing complex dynamics, including contacts and non-rigidity, as well as complex sensory information, such as visual perception, in situations where standard simulators struggle.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Joseph Amigo , Rooholla Khorrambakht , Nicolas Mansard , Ludovic Righetti

Data-driven simulation has become a favorable way to train and test autonomous driving algorithms. The idea of replacing the actual environment with a learned simulator has also been explored in model-based reinforcement learning in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Zhejun Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Dengxin Dai , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool