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arxiv: 2605.15725 · v1 · pith:OCIPKZMRnew · submitted 2026-05-15 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI· cs.RO

DiLA: Disentangled Latent Action World Models

Tianqiu Zhang , Muyang Lyu , Yufan Zhang , Fang Fang , Si Wu This is my paper

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keywords latent action modelsdisentanglementvideo generationworld modelsself-supervised learningaction abstractioncontent structure separation
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Disentangling content from structure allows latent action models to learn abstract actions from video without sacrificing generation quality.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper aims to show that latent action models can learn abstract actions from unlabeled videos while preserving high-fidelity generation by introducing content-structure disentanglement. This matters because earlier methods had to choose between using pre-trained models or restricting to simple predictions like optical flow, limiting their usefulness for planning or transfer. The key mechanism is that the need to predict future frames from abstract actions naturally pushes the model to separate layout information into a structure pathway and appearance details into a content pathway. This co-evolution creates a continuous latent space where actions are semantically meaningful. If correct, it provides a single framework for both high-level action understanding and realistic video synthesis from self-supervised learning on video data.

Core claim

DiLA introduces a disentangled latent action world model where content and structure are separated in the latent space. The predictive bottleneck of learning actions between frames drives the model to encode spatial layouts in the structure pathway and visual details in the content pathway. This results in a continuous, semantically structured latent action space that supports high-quality generation without the usual compromises.

What carries the argument

Content-structure disentanglement, a mechanism where the model automatically separates spatial layout information into one latent pathway and visual appearance details into another, driven by the requirements of latent action prediction.

If this is right

  • Superior performance in generating future video frames from inferred actions.
  • Effective transfer of actions across different video scenes.
  • Improved capabilities for visual planning tasks using the abstract actions.
  • Greater interpretability of the learned action manifold.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Such disentanglement could be applied to other self-supervised learning tasks involving sequential data like audio sequences.
  • Testing on datasets with controlled variations in motion and appearance would confirm if the structure pathway indeed isolates motion independently.
  • Integration with reinforcement learning agents might allow planning at higher levels of abstraction using these latent actions.

Load-bearing premise

That the predictive pressure from learning latent actions will automatically lead to a clean separation of structure and content without needing additional loss terms or supervision.

What would settle it

Observing that the latent representations do not show clear separation between motion patterns and appearance when the model is trained on videos where backgrounds change independently of actions, indicating failure of the disentanglement.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.15725 by Fang Fang, Muyang Lyu, Si Wu, Tianqiu Zhang, Yufan Zhang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Co-evolving of latent actions and disentanglement. To resolve the "LAM Trade-off", DiLA jointly learns abstract latent actions and content-structure disentanglement. By imposing a restricted predictive bottleneck, the latent action model drives the disentanglement of spatial structures from content semantics. Conversely, this disentanglement provides structural layout inputs that facilitate the learning of… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Architecture of DiLA. Video features extracted via DINOv2 and a ST-Transformer are decoupled into two pathways. The structure pathway learns abstract latent actions to predict the next structural state sˆt+1 under an information bottleneck constraint. The content pathway processes features via Mamba to maintain historical context. A fusion decoder combines the predicted structure with content and initial-f… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Action transfer. (A) Cross-embodiment and intra-domain transfer. Left: Human-to-robot latent action transfer. Middle: Semantic transfer across diverse objects and viewpoints. Right: Intra-domain transfer (human-to-human and robot-to-robot). (B) Navigation transfer. Action transfer between virtual simulations and real-world navigation environments. The final prediction is formulated as a residual update: z0… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Content and structure disentanglement. (A) Rebinding: Structure from a source sequence is fused with content from a reference sequence. The output retains the source’s spatial dynamics and the reference’s appearance. (B) Motion Isolation: Fixing the structure embedding s results in a static sequence, confirming that content memory c mem encodes no motion information. training objective is a weighted combin… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Ablations on disentanglement learning. (A) The structure embedding s in DiLA captures motion-specific spatial layouts, whereas the ablated model (without latent action learning) retains redundant content details in s, resulting in poor separation. (B) In rebinding experiments, the ablated model generates artifacts where texture leaks from the structure sequence, confirming that the latent action learning i… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Latent action analysis. (A) UMAP visualization of latent actions corresponding to translation, scaling, and in-plane rotation, each forming a distinct continuous manifold. (B) Quantitative decoding validates the latent space as a meaningful low-dimensional manifold of continuous actions. (C) UMAP visualization of compositional actions merging different transformation types. (D) UMAP visualization of latent… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Rollouts visualization of baselines on RT-1 dataset. 18 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Latent action transfer visualization [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Rollouts visualization on OmniObject3D dataset. (A) Single-type transformations including translation (top), scaling (bottom-left), and rotation (bottom-right). (B) Composite tasks: Translation+Scaling (left) and Translation+Rotation (right) 19 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Latent action composition rollout results. 20 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_10.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Latent Action Models (LAMs) enable the learning of world models from unlabeled video by inferring abstract actions between consecutive frames. However, LAMs face a fundamental trade-off between action abstraction and generation fidelity. Existing methods typically circumvent this issue by using two-stage training with pre-trained world models or by limiting predictions to optical flow. In this paper, we introduce DiLA, a novel Disentangled Latent Action world model that aims to resolve this trade-off via content-structure disentanglement. Our key insight is that disentanglement and latent action learning are co-evolving: the predictive bottleneck inherent in latent action learning serves as a driving force for disentanglement, compelling the model to distill spatial layouts into the structure pathway while offloading visual details to a separate content pathway for generation. This synergy yields a continuous, semantically structured latent action space without compromising generative quality. DiLA achieves superior results in video generation quality, action transfer, visual planning, and manifold interpretability. These findings establish DiLA as a unified framework that simultaneously achieves high-level action abstraction and high-fidelity generation, advancing the frontier of self-supervised world model learning.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces DiLA, a Disentangled Latent Action world model that learns from unlabeled video by inferring abstract actions between frames. It claims to resolve the trade-off between action abstraction and generation fidelity through content-structure disentanglement, where the predictive bottleneck in latent action learning drives the model to route spatial layouts to a structure pathway and visual details to a content pathway. This is asserted to yield a continuous, semantically structured latent action space without compromising generative quality, with superior results reported in video generation, action transfer, visual planning, and manifold interpretability.

Significance. If the central claims hold and the disentanglement is shown to be driven by the predictive bottleneck rather than architectural choices, DiLA would offer a meaningful advance in self-supervised world model learning by providing a unified single-stage approach that achieves both high-level action abstraction and high-fidelity generation, with potential benefits for video synthesis and planning applications.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (Method): The claim that the predictive bottleneck 'compels the model to distill spatial layouts into the structure pathway while offloading visual details to a separate content pathway' is presented as an emergent property, but the manuscript provides no ablations that isolate the bottleneck's causal contribution from the effects of separate pathways, independent losses, network capacity, or initialization biases. This leaves open the possibility that observed separation arises from architectural design rather than the information bottleneck, directly affecting the 'without compromising generative quality' guarantee.
  2. [§5] §5 (Experiments): The abstract and results sections assert superior performance in generation quality, action transfer, and planning, yet the reported comparisons lack sufficient detail on baseline implementations, exact metric values, or statistical significance testing to substantiate the superiority claims over two-stage LAMs or optical-flow-limited methods.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figure 3] Figure 3: The visualization of the latent action manifold would benefit from explicit labeling of the semantic dimensions (e.g., direction, speed) to strengthen the interpretability claims.
  2. [§3.1] Notation in §3.1: The distinction between content latent z_c and structure latent z_s is introduced without a clear equation defining their joint distribution or reconstruction objective, which could be clarified for reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We are grateful to the referee for the positive assessment of the potential impact of DiLA and for the constructive suggestions to strengthen the manuscript. We address the major comments point-by-point below and will make the necessary revisions to clarify the causal role of the predictive bottleneck and enhance the experimental details.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Method): The claim that the predictive bottleneck 'compels the model to distill spatial layouts into the structure pathway while offloading visual details to a separate content pathway' is presented as an emergent property, but the manuscript provides no ablations that isolate the bottleneck's causal contribution from the effects of separate pathways, independent losses, network capacity, or initialization biases. This leaves open the possibility that observed separation arises from architectural design rather than the information bottleneck, directly affecting the 'without compromising generative quality' guarantee.

    Authors: We appreciate this insightful comment. The manuscript argues that the predictive bottleneck drives the disentanglement based on the information-theoretic principle that limited capacity forces the model to prioritize compressible spatial structures in one pathway and detailed content in another. However, we agree that explicit ablations are necessary to rule out architectural confounds. In the revision, we will include new experiments: (1) a version without the bottleneck (full latent action capacity) to show reduced disentanglement, and (2) varying bottleneck sizes. These will be added to §3.2 and the experiments section. This supports our claim that the bottleneck is crucial for the observed separation without compromising quality, as the content pathway handles details. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (Experiments): The abstract and results sections assert superior performance in generation quality, action transfer, and planning, yet the reported comparisons lack sufficient detail on baseline implementations, exact metric values, or statistical significance testing to substantiate the superiority claims over two-stage LAMs or optical-flow-limited methods.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting the need for more rigorous reporting. We will revise §5 to include: detailed descriptions of how baselines were implemented and trained, a table listing exact numerical values for all metrics (e.g., FID, PSNR, etc.), and results of statistical tests (e.g., p-values from t-tests over 5 random seeds). This will substantiate the superiority claims. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: disentanglement presented as emergent outcome of bottleneck, not definitional or fitted input

full rationale

The paper's derivation chain rests on the claim that the predictive bottleneck from latent-action prediction (inferring actions to reconstruct future frames) compels content-structure separation as a co-evolving process. This is framed as an empirical consequence of the architecture and objective rather than a self-definitional equivalence (e.g., no equation defines the structure pathway in terms of the target disentanglement). No fitted parameters are renamed as predictions, no self-citations supply load-bearing uniqueness theorems, and no ansatz is smuggled via prior work. The abstract and described results treat the separation and high-fidelity generation as jointly validated outcomes, keeping the central argument self-contained against external benchmarks such as video generation quality and action transfer.

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