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Scalable Embodied AI faces fundamental constraints due to prohibitive costs and safety risks of real-world interaction. While Embodied World Models (EWMs) offer promise through imagined rollouts, existing approaches suffer from geometric…

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Recent progress in 3D reconstruction has made it easy to create realistic digital twins from everyday environments. However, current digital twins remain largely static and are limited to navigation and view synthesis without embodied…

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Autoregressive video world models predict future visual observations conditioned on actions. While effective over short horizons, these models often struggle with long-horizon generation, as small prediction errors accumulate over time.…

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Developing autonomous home robots controlled by natural language has long been a pursuit of humanity. While advancements in large language models (LLMs) and embodied intelligence make this goal closer, several challenges persist: the lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Dongping Li , Tielong Cai , Tianci Tang , Wenhao Chai , Katherine Rose Driggs-Campbell , Gaoang Wang

Scalable embodied intelligence is constrained by the scarcity of diverse, long-horizon robotic manipulation data. Existing video world models in this domain are limited to synthesizing short clips of simple actions and often rely on…

Video generation models have made significant progress in simulating future states, showcasing their potential as world simulators in embodied scenarios. However, existing models often lack robust understanding, limiting their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xiaowei Chi , Chun-Kai Fan , Hengyuan Zhang , Xingqun Qi , Rongyu Zhang , Anthony Chen , Chi-min Chan , Wei Xue , Qifeng Liu , Shanghang Zhang , Yike Guo

The capacity of an embodied agent to understand, predict, and interact with its environment is fundamentally contingent on an internal world model. This paper introduces a novel framework for investigating the formation and adaptation of…

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While world models have emerged as a cornerstone of embodied intelligence by enabling agents to reason about environmental dynamics through action-conditioned prediction, their evaluation remains fragmented. Current evaluation of embodied…

World models play a crucial role in decision-making within embodied environments, enabling cost-free explorations that would otherwise be expensive in the real world. To facilitate effective decision-making, world models must be equipped…

Humanoid robots, with their human-like form, are uniquely suited for interacting in environments built for people. However, enabling humanoids to reason, plan, and act in complex open-world settings remains a challenge. World models, models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Muhammad Qasim Ali , Aditya Sridhar , Shahbuland Matiana , Alex Wong , Mohammad Al-Sharman

Humanoid loco-manipulation requires executing precise manipulation tasks while maintaining dynamic stability amid base motion and impacts. Existing approaches typically formulate commands in body-centric frames, fail to inherently correct…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhanxiang Cao , Liyun Yan , Yang Zhang , Sirui Chen , Jianming Ma , Tianyue Zhan , Shengcheng Fu , Yufei Jia , Cewu Lu , Yue Gao

Video reasoning models are a core component of egocentric and embodied agents. However, standard benchmarks for assessing models provide only evaluation of the output (e.g. the answer to a question), without evaluation of intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Arsha Nagrani , Jasper Uijilings , Shyamal Buch , Tobias Weyand , Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan , Bo Hu , Ramin Mehran , David A Ross , Cordelia Schmid

Learned world models hold significant potential for robotic manipulation, as they can serve as simulator for real-world interactions. While extensive progress has been made in 2D video-based world models, these approaches often lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Chuanrui Zhang , Zhengxian Wu , Guanxing Lu , Yansong Tang , Ziwei Wang

As the application of Embodied AI Agents in avatars, wearable devices, and robotic systems continues to deepen, their core research challenges have gradually shifted from physical environment interaction to the accurate understanding of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Biyuan Liu , Daigang Xu , Lei Jiang , Wenjun Guo , Ping Chen

Various world model frameworks are being developed today based on autoregressive frameworks that rely on discrete representations of actions and observations, and these frameworks are succeeding in constructing interactive generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Kohei Hayashi , Masanori Koyama , Julian Jorge Andrade Guerreiro

Video-based world models hold significant potential for generating high-quality embodied manipulation data. However, current video generation methods struggle to achieve stable long-horizon generation: classical diffusion-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yu Shang , Lei Jin , Yiding Ma , Xin Zhang , Chen Gao , Wei Wu , Yong Li

In this paper, we investigate the problem of embodied multi-agent cooperation, where decentralized agents must cooperate given only egocentric views of the world. To effectively plan in this setting, in contrast to learning world dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Hongxin Zhang , Zeyuan Wang , Qiushi Lyu , Zheyuan Zhang , Sunli Chen , Tianmin Shu , Behzad Dariush , Kwonjoon Lee , Yilun Du , Chuang Gan

While large language models (LMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across numerous tasks, they often struggle with simple reasoning and planning in physical environments, such as understanding object permanence or planning household…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jiannan Xiang , Tianhua Tao , Yi Gu , Tianmin Shu , Zirui Wang , Zichao Yang , Zhiting Hu

World models aim to endow AI systems with the ability to represent, generate, and interact with dynamic environments in a coherent and temporally consistent manner. While recent video generation models have demonstrated impressive visual…

Humanoid robot loco-manipulation remains constrained by the semantic-physical gap. Current methods face three limitations: Low sample efficiency in reinforcement learning, poor generalization in imitation learning, and physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yutong Shen , Hangxu Liu , Kailin Pei , Ruizhe Xia , Tongtong Feng