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World-Action Models (WAM) initialized from pre-trained video generation backbones have demonstrated remarkable potential for robot policy learning. However, existing approaches face two critical bottlenecks that hinder performance and…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved strong semantic generalization for embodied policy learning, yet they learn reactive observation-to-action mappings without explicitly modeling how the physical world evolves under…

State-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models excel at semantic generalization but struggle to generalize to unseen physical motions in novel environments. We introduce DreamZero, a World Action Model (WAM) built upon a pretrained…

Imitation learning has emerged as a promising approach towards building generalist robots. However, scaling imitation learning for large robot foundation models remains challenging due to its reliance on high-quality expert demonstrations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chuning Zhu , Raymond Yu , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Paarth Shah , Abhishek Gupta

Training generalist policies for robotic manipulation has shown great promise, as they enable language-conditioned, multi-task behaviors across diverse scenarios. However, evaluating these policies remains difficult because real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Jinwei Gu , Qinsheng Zhang , Hanzi Mao , Ming-Yu Liu , Florian Shkurti , Lin Yen-Chen

Pretrained video generation models provide strong priors for robot control, but existing unified world action models still struggle to decode reliable actions without substantial robot-specific training. We attribute this limitation to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Liaoyuan Fan , Zetian Xu , Chen Cao , Wenyao Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Jiayu Chen

This paper presents the World-Action Model (WAM), an action-regularized world model that jointly reasons over future visual observations and the actions that drive state transitions. Unlike conventional world models trained solely via image…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuci Han , Alper Yilmaz

Embodied action planning is a core challenge in robotics, requiring models to generate precise actions from visual observations and language instructions. While video generation world models are promising, their reliance on pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yangcheng Yu , Xin Jin , Yu Shang , Xin Zhang , Haisheng Su , Wei Wu , Yong Li

In this work, we present an approach to construct a video-based robot policy capable of reliably executing diverse tasks across different robots and environments from few video demonstrations without using any action annotations. Our method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Po-Chen Ko , Jiayuan Mao , Yilun Du , Shao-Hua Sun , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Recently, world-action models (WAM) have emerged to bridge vision-language-action (VLA) models and world models, unifying their reasoning and instruction-following capabilities and spatio-temporal world modeling. However, existing WAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yang Zhou , Xiaofeng Wang , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Guosheng Zhao , Jiangnan Shao , Jiagang Zhu , Tingdong Yu , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Steven L. Waslander

Despite tremendous progress in dexterous manipulation, current visuomotor policies remain fundamentally limited by two challenges: they struggle to generalize under perceptual or behavioral distribution shifts, and their performance is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Junbang Liang , Pavel Tokmakov , Ruoshi Liu , Sruthi Sudhakar , Paarth Shah , Rares Ambrus , Carl Vondrick

This paper introduces Action Image, a new grasp proposal representation that allows learning an end-to-end deep-grasping policy. Our model achieves $84\%$ grasp success on $172$ real world objects while being trained only in simulation on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Mohi Khansari , Daniel Kappler , Jianlan Luo , Jeff Bingham , Mrinal Kalakrishnan

Pretrained foundation models have become an important basis for end-to-end autonomous driving. In contrast to vision-language models pretrained primarily on static image-text pairs, video generative models capture temporal dynamics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chen Shi , Jinrui Xu , Shaoshuai Shi , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang , Li Jiang

A unified video and action model holds significant promise for robotics, where videos provide rich scene information for action prediction, and actions provide dynamics information for video prediction. However, effectively combining video…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Shuang Li , Yihuai Gao , Dorsa Sadigh , Shuran Song

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models generalize semantically well but often lack fine-grained modeling of world dynamics. We present MotuBrain, a unified World Action Model that jointly models video and action under a UniDiffuser formulation…

A key challenge in manipulation is learning a policy that can robustly generalize to diverse visual environments. A promising mechanism for learning robust policies is to leverage video generative models, which are pretrained on large-scale…

We propose Heterogeneous Masked Autoregression (HMA) for modeling action-video dynamics to generate high-quality data and evaluation in scaling robot learning. Building interactive video world models and policies for robotics is difficult…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Lirui Wang , Kevin Zhao , Chaoqi Liu , Xinlei Chen

World Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot control by modeling physical dynamics. Current WAMs generally follow two paradigms: the "Imagine-then-Execute" approach, which uses video prediction to infer actions…

Action recognition is a key technology in building interactive metaverses. With the rapid development of deep learning, methods in action recognition have also achieved great advancement. Researchers design and implement the backbones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zixuan Tang , Youjun Zhao , Yuhang Wen , Mengyuan Liu

We present visual action prompts, a unified action representation for action-to-video generation of complex high-DoF interactions while maintaining transferable visual dynamics across domains. Action-driven video generation faces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuang Wang , Chao Wen , Haoyu Guo , Sida Peng , Minghan Qin , Hujun Bao , Xiaowei Zhou , Ruizhen Hu
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