Flow as Flow models robot flows as probability flows using flow matching to generate velocity fields more efficiently than prior sparse keypoint approaches.
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AutoScale is a closed-loop data engine using Graph-RAE for scene representation and Cluster-GA for importance-based retrieval to improve real-synthetic co-training for autonomous driving.
RoboWM-Bench evaluates video world models by converting their manipulation video predictions into executable actions validated in simulation, showing that visual plausibility does not guarantee physical executability.
3D-ALP achieves 0.65 success on memory-dependent 5-step robotic reach tasks versus near-zero for reactive baselines by anchoring MCTS planning to a persistent 3D camera-to-world frame.
Wh0 generates scalable egocentric human manipulation videos with world models and converts them to boost pretrained VLA models' zero-shot dexterous task success from 8.3% to 38.9% on 18 real-world tasks.
Mem-World augments world models with W-VMem, a wrist-view-centered surfel memory, to generate persistent action-conditioned video rollouts that improve policy evaluation correlation by 14.5% and raise task success from 58% to 72%.
iMaC introduces image-based action tokens in a dual-branch architecture to improve future state prediction and control in embodied world models over vector-based baselines.
ω-EVA is a three-stage latent world model framework that trains action-conditioned dynamics, a language-conditioned flow policy, and a tri-branch refiner to improve embodied action generation in simulation.
X-WAM unifies robotic action execution and 4D world synthesis by adapting video diffusion priors with a lightweight depth branch and asynchronous noise sampling, achieving 79-91% success on robot benchmarks.
Digital Cousins is a generative real-to-sim method that creates diverse high-fidelity simulation scenes from real panoramas to improve generalization in robot learning and evaluation.
A vision-language-aligned world model turns visuomotor MPC into a language-following planner that reaches 87% success on 288 unseen semantic tasks where standard VLAs drop to 22%.
VAG is a synchronized dual-stream flow-matching framework that generates aligned video-action pairs for synthetic embodied data synthesis and policy pretraining.
Video generation models can function as world simulators if efficiency gaps in spatiotemporal modeling are bridged via organized paradigms, architectures, and algorithms.
A dual-tower 4D embodied world model called RoboStereo reduces geometric hallucinations and delivers over 97% relative improvement on manipulation tasks via test-time augmentation, imitative learning, and open exploration.
PhysisForcing applies trajectory and relational alignment losses to DiT features in video models, improving physical plausibility on R-Bench, PAI-Bench, and EZS-Bench while raising closed-loop robotic success rates from 16% to 24%.
The paper proposes an L0-L7 evidential ladder for evaluating world models in embodied decision-making, prioritizing interventional action fidelity and policy optimization utility over visual plausibility.
AGRA is an Action-Grounded Representation Alignment objective that aligns intermediate video diffusion features with semantic representations to make world action model hidden states more useful for low-level robot control, improving localization, affordance, and robustness.
Survey organizing world models for robotic manipulation into representation families, a functional taxonomy, and infrastructure roles across pretraining, post-training, and inference, while reviewing 34 datasets and evaluation protocols.
WorldArena 2.0 extends embodied world model benchmarks to visuotactile perception, interactive policy training, and diverse real and simulated robotic platforms under a unified protocol.
SFI-Bench shows current multimodal LLMs struggle to integrate spatial memory with functional reasoning and external knowledge in video tasks.
STARRY uses unified diffusion to align spatial-temporal world predictions with action generation plus GASAM for geometry-aware attention, reaching 93.82%/93.30% success on 50 bimanual tasks in simulation and raising real-world success from 42.5% to 70.8%.
GE-Sim 2.0 is a video-based closed-loop simulator for robotic manipulation that adds state expert, world judge, and acceleration modules on top of prior video generation to support policy learning and evaluation.
RLDX-1 outperforms frontier VLAs such as π0.5 and GR00T N1.6 on dexterous manipulation benchmarks, reaching 86.8% success on ALLEX humanoid tasks versus around 40% for the baselines.
A comprehensive survey that organizes the literature on world models in robot learning, their roles in policy learning, planning, simulation, and video-based generation, with connections to navigation, driving, datasets, and benchmarks.
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World Models for Robotic Manipulation: A Survey
Survey organizing world models for robotic manipulation into representation families, a functional taxonomy, and infrastructure roles across pretraining, post-training, and inference, while reviewing 34 datasets and evaluation protocols.