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We propose X-WAM, a Unified 4D World Model that unifies real-time robotic action execution and high-fidelity 4D world synthesis (video + 3D reconstruction) in a single framework, addressing the critical limitations of prior unified world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jun Guo , Qiwei Li , Peiyan Li , Zilong Chen , Nan Sun , Yifei Su , Heyun Wang , Yuan Zhang , Xinghang Li , Huaping Liu

World Action Models (WAMs) enable decision-making through imagined rollouts by predicting future observations and actions. However, the reliability of these imagined futures remains under-examined: is a generated future merely visually…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bo-Kai Ruan , Teng-Fang Hsiao , Ling Lo , Hong-Han Shuai

World Action Models (WAMs) are an emerging family of policies that tie robot action generation to future-observation modeling. In this work, we focus on the joint video--action modeling paradigm, where actions and imagined future…

Diffusion models have been used for probabilistic time series forecasting and show strong potential. However, fixed noise schedules often produce intermediate states that are hard to invert and a terminal state that deviates from the near…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jintao Zhang , Zirui Liu , Mingyue Cheng , Xianquan Wang , Zhiding Liu , Qi Liu

A plausible scene evolution depends on the maneuver being considered, while a good maneuver depends on how the scene may evolve. Existing World Action Models (WAMs) largely miss this reciprocity, treating world prediction and action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hongbo Lu , Liang Yao , Chenghao He , Haoyu Wang , Xiang Gu , Xianfei Li , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Video generative models pre-trained on large-scale internet datasets have achieved remarkable success, excelling at producing realistic synthetic videos. However, they often generate clips based on static prompts (e.g., text or images),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Haoran He , Yang Zhang , Liang Lin , Zhongwen Xu , Ling Pan

Video activity recognition has become increasingly important in robots and embodied AI. Recognizing continuous video activities poses considerable challenges due to the fast expansion of streaming video, which contains multi-scale and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Hao Wu , Donglin Bai , Shiqi Jiang , Qianxi Zhang , Yifan Yang , Xin Ding , Ting Cao , Yunxin Liu , Fengyuan Xu

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…

General-purpose world models promise scalable policy evaluation, optimization, and planning, yet achieving the required level of robustness remains challenging. Unlike policy learning, which primarily focuses on optimal actions, a world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yuejiang Liu , Fan Feng , Lingjing Kong , Weifeng Lu , Jinzhou Tang , Kun Zhang , Kevin Murphy , Chelsea Finn , Yilun Du

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…

Advances in diffusion models for generative artificial intelligence have recently propagated to the time series (TS) domain, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance on various tasks. However, prior works on TS diffusion models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Seunghan Lee , Kibok Lee , Taeyoung Park

World Action Models (WAMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by jointly predicting future visual observations and future actions. However, current WAMs typically execute a fixed number of predicted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rui Wang , Yue Zhang , Jiehong Lin , Kuncheng Luo , Jianan Wang , Zhongrui Wang , Xiaojuan Qi

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

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

Recent years have witnessed great progress in deep neural networks for real-time applications. However, most existing works do not explicitly consider the general case where the device's state and the available resources fluctuate over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Lin Geng Foo , Jia Gong , Zhipeng Fan , Jun Liu

Understanding human motion from video is essential for a range of applications, including pose estimation, mesh recovery and action recognition. While state-of-the-art methods predominantly rely on transformer-based architectures, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Arnab Kumar Mondal , Stefano Alletto , Denis Tome

The performance of learned robot visuomotor policies is heavily dependent on the size and quality of the training dataset. Although large-scale robot and human datasets are increasingly available, embodiment gaps and mismatched action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiqi Wang , Mrinal Verghese , Jeff Schneider

We introduce Latent-WAM, an efficient end-to-end autonomous driving framework that achieves strong trajectory planning through spatially-aware and dynamics-informed latent world representations. Existing world-model-based planners suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Linbo Wang , Yupeng Zheng , Qiang Chen , Shiwei Li , Yichen Zhang , Zebin Xing , Qichao Zhang , Xiang Li , Deheng Qian , Pengxuan Yang , Yihang Dong , Ce Hao , Xiaoqing Ye , Junyu han , Yifeng Pan , Dongbin Zhao

A surgical world model capable of generating realistic surgical action videos with precise control over tool-tissue interactions can address fundamental challenges in surgical AI and simulation -- from data scarcity and rare event synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Sampath Rapuri , Lalithkumar Seenivasan , Dominik Schneider , Roger Soberanis-Mukul , Yufan He , Hao Ding , Jiru Xu , Chenhao Yu , Chenyan Jing , Pengfei Guo , Daguang Xu , Mathias Unberath

Deep learning holds great promise in the reconstruction of undersampled Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) data, providing new opportunities to escalate the performance of rapid MRI. In existing deep learning-based reconstruction methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Fang Liu , Lihua Chen , Richard Kijowski , Li Feng
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