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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

Large Language Models (LLMs) can serve as world models to enhance agent decision-making in digital environments by simulating future states and predicting action outcomes, potentially eliminating costly trial-and-error exploration. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Kai Mei , Jiang Guo , Shuaichen Chang , Mingwen Dong , Dongkyu Lee , Xing Niu , Jiarong Jiang

We present a novel study on enhancing the capability of preserving the content in world models, focusing on a property we term World Stability. Recent diffusion-based generative models have advanced the synthesis of immersive and realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Soonwoo Kwon , Jin-Young Kim , Hyojun Go , Kyungjune Baek

A natural approach for reinforcement learning is to predict future rewards by unrolling a neural network world model, and to backpropagate through the resulting computational graph to learn a policy. However, this method often becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Michel Ma , Tianwei Ni , Clement Gehring , Pierluca D'Oro , Pierre-Luc Bacon

World models simulate future states of the world in response to different actions. They facilitate interactive content creation and provides a foundation for grounded, long-horizon reasoning. Current foundation models do not fully meet the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jiannan Xiang , Guangyi Liu , Yi Gu , Qiyue Gao , Yuting Ning , Yuheng Zha , Zeyu Feng , Tianhua Tao , Shibo Hao , Yemin Shi , Zhengzhong Liu , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

Visuomotor policies trained via behavior cloning are vulnerable to covariate shift, where small deviations from expert trajectories can compound into failure. Common strategies to mitigate this issue involve expanding the training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zhanyi Sun , Shuran Song

While video-generation-based embodied world models have gained increasing attention, their reliance on large-scale embodied interaction data remains a key bottleneck. The scarcity, difficulty of collection, and high dimensionality of…

The tremendous progress in neural image generation, coupled with the emergence of seemingly omnipotent vision-language models has finally enabled text-based interfaces for creating and editing images. Handling generic images requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Omri Avrahami , Ohad Fried , Dani Lischinski

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, prior work reports a significant performance gap between diffusion and autoregressive (AR) methods in language modeling. In this work, we show that simple masked discrete…

We introduce $\textbf{F}$uture $\textbf{LA}$tent $\textbf{RE}$presentation Alignment ($\textbf{FLARE}$), a novel framework that integrates predictive latent world modeling into robot policy learning. By aligning features from a diffusion…

A World Model is a compressed spatial and temporal representation of a real world environment that allows one to train an agent or execute planning methods. However, world models are typically trained on observations from the real world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Fabio Ferreira , Moreno Schlageter , Raghu Rajan , Andre Biedenkapp , Frank Hutter

While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made impressive strides, they predominantly employ a conventional autoregressive architecture as their backbone, leaving significant room to explore effective and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lijiang Li , Zuwei Long , Yunhang Shen , Heting Gao , Haoyu Cao , Xing Sun , Caifeng Shan , Ran He , Chaoyou Fu

We present a cross robot visuomotor learning framework that integrates diffusion policy based control with 3D semantic scene representations from D3Fields to enable category level generalization in manipulation. Its modular design supports…

World Models serve as tools for understanding the current state of the world and predicting its future dynamics, with broad application potential across numerous fields. As a key component of world knowledge, emotion significantly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Changhao Song , Yazhou Zhang , Hui Gao , Chang Yang , Peng Zhang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance on static visual understanding, yet they still struggle with dynamic spatial reasoning that requires imagining how scenes evolve under egocentric motion. Recent efforts address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Wanyue Zhang , Wenxiang Wu , Wang Xu , Jiaxin Luo , Helu Zhi , Yibin Huang , Shuo Ren , Zitao Liu , Jiajun Zhang

Accurate beam prediction is a key enabler for next-generation wireless communication systems. In this paper, we propose a multimodal large language model (LLM)-based beam prediction framework that effectively utilizes contextual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Tianhao Mao , Le Liang , Jie Yang , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Geoffrey Ye Li

Despite impressive progress in video generation, existing models remain limited to surface-level plausibility, lacking a coherent and unified understanding of the world. Prior approaches typically incorporate only a single form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Boming Tan , Xiangdong Zhang , Ning Liao , Yuqing Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Xue Yang , Qi Fan , Yanyong Zhang

Natural and expressive human motion generation is the holy grail of computer animation. It is a challenging task, due to the diversity of possible motion, human perceptual sensitivity to it, and the difficulty of accurately describing it.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Guy Tevet , Sigal Raab , Brian Gordon , Yonatan Shafir , Daniel Cohen-Or , Amit H. Bermano

Layered image generation and editing is a fundamental capability that enables layer-wise reuse, editing, and composition of generated visual content, analogous to word-level editing in natural language. Despite its importance, this remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhicong Tang , Zhao Zhang , Jingye Chen , Mohan Zhou , Yifan Pu , Yuchi Liu , Yalong Bai , Ethan Smith , Yuhui Yuan

We introduce specialized diffusion-based generative models that capture the spatiotemporal dynamics of fine-grained robotic surgical sub-stitch actions through supervised learning on annotated laparoscopic surgery footage. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mehmet Kerem Turkcan , Mattia Ballo , Filippo Filicori , Zoran Kostic