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Obtaining reliable feedback from the environment is a fundamental capability for intelligent agents to evaluate the correctness of their actions and to accumulate reusable knowledge. However, most existing approaches rely on predefined…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Hong Su

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

Driven by the rapid evolution of Vision-Action and Vision-Language-Action models, imitation learning has significantly advanced robotic manipulation capabilities. However, evaluation methodologies have lagged behind, hindering the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Mengyuan Liu , Juyi Sheng , Peiming Li , Ziyi Wang , Tianming Xu , Tiantian Xu , Hong Liu

The performance of autonomous Web GUI agents heavily relies on the quality and quantity of their training data. However, a fundamental bottleneck persists: collecting interaction trajectories from real-world websites is expensive and…

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

World models are self-supervised predictive models of how the world evolves. Humans learn world models by curiously exploring their environment, in the process acquiring compact abstractions of high bandwidth sensory inputs, the ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Kuno Kim , Megumi Sano , Julian De Freitas , Nick Haber , Daniel Yamins

Confidence estimation for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is essential for robots to perform manipulation tasks in the open world, providing crucial signals for risk-sensitive decision-making and failure anticipation. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Dehao Huang , Aoxiang Gu , Chengjie Zhang , Bolin Zou , Wenlong Dong , Zilang Cen , Yue Wang , Hong Zhang

Video Anomaly Detection (VAD) can play a key role in spotting unusual activities in video footage. VAD is difficult to use in real-world settings due to the dynamic nature of human actions, environmental variations, and domain shifts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shanle Yao , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Hamed Tabkhi

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has recently witnessed advancements with Transformer-based models. Especially, ActionFormer shows us a new perspectives for HAR in the sense that this approach gives us additional outputs which detect the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Kunpeng Zhao , Asahi Miyazaki , Tsuyoshi Okita

World models (WMs) represent the frontier of sample-efficient reinforcement learning, but their complexity leaves many promising improvements unrealized due to the significant expertise and effort required to identify and integrate them.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lior Cohen , Kaixin Wang , Bingyi Kang , Uri Gadot , Shie Mannor

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

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

Autonomous driving heavily relies on accurate and robust spatial perception. Many failures arise from inaccuracies and instability, especially in long-tail scenarios and complex interactions. However, current vision-language models are weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jianhua Han , Meng Tian , Jiangtong Zhu , Fan He , Huixin Zhang , Sitong Guo , Dechang Zhu , Hao Tang , Pei Xu , Yuze Guo , Minzhe Niu , Haojie Zhu , Qichao Dong , Xuechao Yan , Siyuan Dong , Lu Hou , Qingqiu Huang , Xiaosong Jia , Hang Xu

Pre-trained generalist policies are rapidly gaining relevance in robot learning due to their promise of fast adaptation to novel, in-domain tasks. This adaptation often relies on collecting new demonstrations for a specific task of interest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Marco Bagatella , Jonas Hübotter , Georg Martius , Andreas Krause

World models have become increasingly popular in acting as learned traffic simulators. Recent work has explored replacing traditional traffic simulators with world models for policy training. In this work, we explore the robustness of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hunter Schofield , Mohammed Elmahgiubi , Kasra Rezaee , Jinjun Shan

With the increasing availability of open-source robotic data, imitation learning has become a promising approach for both manipulation and locomotion. Diffusion models are now widely used to train large, generalized policies that predict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Shashank Hegde , Satyajeet Das , Gautam Salhotra , Gaurav S. Sukhatme

World models learn the consequences of actions in vision-based interactive systems. However, in practical scenarios such as autonomous driving, there commonly exists noncontrollable dynamics independent of the action signals, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Minting Pan , Xiangming Zhu , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

In the same way that generative models today conduct most of their training in a self-supervised fashion, how can agentic models conduct their training in a self-supervised fashion, interactively exploring, learning, and preparing to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Kathryn Wantlin , Chongyi Zheng , Benjamin Eysenbach

Multi-agent traffic simulation is central to developing and testing autonomous driving systems. Recent data-driven simulators have achieved promising results, but rely heavily on supervised learning from labeled trajectories or semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mozhgan Pourkeshavatz , Tianran Liu , Nicholas Rhinehart

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models trained via imitation learning suffer from significant performance degradation in data-scarce scenarios due to their reliance on large-scale demonstration datasets. Although reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Junjin Xiao , Yandan Yang , Xinyuan Chang , Ronghan Chen , Feng Xiong , Mu Xu , Wei-Shi Zheng , Qing Zhang