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Segmentation masks let a 23-DoF hand world model learn fine joint control from 50 h of simulation and under 2.5 h of real data.

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load-bearing objection Solid systems paper: mask-space dynamics + ControlNet render gives real per-joint controllability on a 23-DoF hand with <2.5 h real data; the headline numbers rest on a thin human protocol. the 3 major comments →

arxiv 2607.04546 v1 pith:YWUJEUVK submitted 2026-07-05 cs.RO cs.AIcs.CVcs.LG

Mask2Real-WM: Segmentation Masks as a Sim-to-Real Bridge for Controllable Dexterous World Models

Riccardo O. Feingold , Davide Liconti , Chenyu Yang , Robert K. Katzschmann This is my paper
classification cs.RO cs.AIcs.CVcs.LG
keywords world modelsdexterous manipulationsim-to-realsegmentation masksaction-conditioned video generationControlNetStable Video Diffusion
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Action-conditioned world models let robots imagine what will happen if they try a sequence of moves, without further physical trial. Building them for dexterous hands is hard: the action space is high-dimensional, real data is scarce, and finger–object contacts are easy for video models to blur. This paper claims that the fix is to stop predicting pixels in one step. Instead, a dynamics model first predicts future hand-and-object segmentation masks from past masks and the full 23-DoF action sequence; a separate rendering model then paints photorealistic RGB onto those masks. Because masks have a much smaller sim-to-real gap than images, the dynamics model can be pretrained on more than 50 hours of synthetic data and only lightly fine-tuned on real demonstrations. Experiments on a pick-and-place arena show that both the mask intermediate representation and the simulation pretraining are required for the model to respond independently to every joint; monolithic pixel models capture only coarse hand trajectories.

Core claim

Mask conditioning and simulation pretraining of the dynamics model are both required for per-DoF action controllability across all 23 degrees of freedom of a dexterous hand. The full pipeline (simulation-pretrained then real-fine-tuned mask dynamics plus a real-data renderer) reaches roughly 0.95 in-distribution and 0.87 out-of-distribution controllability, while a real-only dynamics baseline and a monolithic video baseline capture broad motions but do not reliably reflect fine-grained, per-joint action effects.

What carries the argument

The two-stage factorization of Mask2Real-WM: an action-conditioned dynamics model (WM1) that predicts future segmentation masks, pretrained on simulation and fine-tuned on real data, chained to a ControlNet-augmented Stable Video Diffusion renderer (WM2) that maps those masks to photorealistic multi-view RGB.

Load-bearing premise

That a three-point human score of responses to single-joint sinusoids on only five in-distribution and five out-of-distribution samples is a stable measure of true per-DoF controllability.

What would settle it

Re-run the single-DoF sinusoid protocol with more samples and multiple independent scorers; if the full model no longer clearly outscores the real-only and monolithic baselines on independent finger joints, the claim that mask dynamics plus sim pretraining are both required collapses.

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Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. Mask2Real-WM is a two-stage action-conditioned world model for 23-DoF dexterous manipulation that factorizes future-frame prediction into (i) WM1, a video-diffusion dynamics model that predicts future segmentation masks from past masks and past/future actions, and (ii) WM2, a ControlNet-augmented Stable Video Diffusion renderer that paints photorealistic two-view RGB onto those masks. Because the sim-to-real gap is smaller in mask space, WM1 is pretrained on >50 h of IsaacLab synthetic data (MimicGen + exploratory sinusoids) and LoRA-fine-tuned on <2.5 h of real ORCA-hand demonstrations; WM2 is trained only on real data. The central experimental claim (Section 4.2, Figure 4) is that both mask conditioning and simulation pretraining are required for per-DoF action controllability across all 23 degrees of freedom, with the full model scoring ≈0.95 ID / ≈0.87 OOD versus substantially lower scores for real-only WM1 and a monolithic Ctrl-World-style baseline. Supporting analyses cover perceptual metrics under ID/OOD splits, WM2 conditioning ablations, sharpness (Laplacian variance), long-horizon rollouts, failure modes, and zero-shot transfer to objects unseen in real data.

Significance. Action-conditioned world models for high-DoF dexterous hands remain scarce because of data cost and contact complexity; a practical sim-to-real bridge that yields fine-grained action fidelity from a few hours of real data would be valuable for policy evaluation, planning, and data augmentation. The paper’s factorization is cleanly motivated, the ablations systematically vary WM1 training regime and WM2 conditioning, and the authors correctly diagnose blurry-prediction bias in pixel metrics via Laplacian sharpness (Appendix A/C). Strengths include an explicit GT-mask oracle isolating WM1 as the bottleneck (Appendix G), qualitative failure catalogs (Appendix E), and modular design notes (WM1 as lightweight dynamics checker). If the controllability results hold under a more rigorous protocol, the work would be a solid systems contribution to dexterous world models and a reusable template for mask-space midtraining.

major comments (3)
  1. Section 4.2 Protocol / Figure 4: The headline claim that mask conditioning and sim pretraining are both required for per-DoF controllability (0.68→0.95 ID, 0.51→0.87 OOD) rests almost entirely on a single independent evaluator’s 0/0.5/1 scores of single-component sinusoidal rollouts over only 5 ID + 5 OOD samples, then averaged across 23 dimensions. There is no inter-rater reliability, confidence interval, or objective proxy (e.g., predicted-mask IoU against a kinematics-driven mask, or recovered joint angles). Because real data lack isolated finger motion, any model that simply moves the correct finger more will score well under this probe; multi-joint coupling, contact-rich commands, and object-state consistency are never scored. This protocol is load-bearing for the abstract’s and Section 4.2’s central claim and needs strengthening (more samples, multiple raters or a calibrated object
  2. Section 4.2 and Appendix B vs. Section 5 Limitations: Controllability is defined purely on hand/EE response to free-space single-DoF sinusoids, yet the intended use cases (policy evaluation, planning) require faithful object-state prediction under contact and occlusion. Appendices E and G show that object vanishing/duplication in WM1 is the dominant failure mode and that WM2 is fine given GT masks. The paper should either (a) report an object-state controllability or contact-consistency metric under the same action-perturbation protocol, or (b) clearly scope the “per-DoF controllability” claim to hand kinematics and not imply readiness for policy evaluation without further object-dynamics work. As written, the gap between the scored claim and the acknowledged bottleneck is under-discussed in the main results.
  3. Section 4.3 / Figure 5 and Appendix A: On raw PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS the monolithic baseline is competitive or better on several OOD splits, which the authors attribute to blurry-prediction bias and support with Laplacian variance. That diagnosis is convincing, but the main text still leads with controllability numbers whose statistical reliability is unclear (see first major comment) while relegating the sharpness argument largely to the appendix. For the central “both required” narrative, the paper should either elevate a joint presentation of controllability + sharpness + mask-space metrics (Table 1) in the main results, or provide uncertainty estimates so readers can weigh the trade-off without relying on a single subjective score.
minor comments (6)
  1. Equation (2): The rendering term conditions on past RGB, full mask trajectory, and actions; the prose sometimes says WM2 is “mask-conditioned” without always noting residual action conditioning. Align wording with the equation and with the Figure 6 ablation labels.
  2. Figure 4: Controllability scores are reported as approximate (≈0.95, ≈0.87) without error bars or per-dimension breakdown in the main figure; Appendix B’s qualitative grid is helpful but does not replace quantitative per-DoF means ± variability.
  3. Section 3.1: Masks are described as R^{V×3×H×W} with a 3-class color vocabulary; clarify whether training uses hard RGB class colors only or soft/blurred labels beyond the stated σ=1.5 px on synthetic masks, and whether class imbalance (background dominance) is handled.
  4. Related Work: Concurrent MWM and BridgeV2W are appropriately distinguished; a short explicit comparison table (embodiment DoF, WAM vs. action-conditioned simulator, learned vs. URDF masks, sim pretraining) would help readers place the contribution.
  5. Appendix L / training: Batch sizes, GPU counts, and step counts are given; seed sensitivity and whether sim-only vs. sim+real used identical real fine-tune budgets for fair comparison could be stated once in the main experimental setup.
  6. Typos / polish: “midtraining” and “pretraining” are used interchangeably for the same sim stage; pick one term. “W AMs” spacing in the introduction is inconsistent. Acknowledgments still contain the CoRL-style placeholder paragraph.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical systems paper whose controllability and quality claims rest on held-out ablations and external baselines, not on definitions or self-fitted predictions.

full rationale

Mask2Real-WM is an engineering/systems paper that factorizes action-conditioned video prediction into a mask-space dynamics model (WM1) and a ControlNet-augmented RGB renderer (WM2), pretrains WM1 on >50 h of synthetic data, and fine-tunes on <2.5 h of real data. The central claims (mask conditioning + sim pretraining are both required for per-DoF controllability across 23 DoF; full model reaches ~0.95 ID / ~0.87 OOD) are supported by controlled ablations that change training regime or conditioning signals and by human-scored rollouts under single-DoF sinusoids plus standard perceptual metrics (PSNR/SSIM/LPIPS, Laplacian sharpness) on held-out ID/OOD splits. No equation defines a quantity in terms of the quantity it purports to predict; no free parameter is fitted to a subset of data and then re-labeled a prediction of a statistically forced related quantity; no uniqueness theorem or load-bearing premise is imported solely via overlapping-author citation; and the architecture (SVD + LoRA + ControlNet) is not a renaming of a known empirical pattern. Ordinary self-citations (own ORCA hand hardware, prior Ctrl-World baseline) are non-load-bearing. The evaluation protocol itself may be under-powered or subjective, but that is a correctness/validity concern, not circularity. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

5 free parameters · 5 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on empirical ML design choices and domain assumptions about representation gaps, not on free physical constants or new particles. Load-bearing premises are: (i) segmentation masks have a smaller sim-to-real gap than RGB so dynamics can transfer; (ii) SAM3 text-prompt masks are adequate supervision; (iii) the human controllability protocol measures the intended property; (iv) SVD+ControlNet+LoRA is a sufficient backbone. Hyperparameters (LoRA rank, steps, dropout, resolution) are free knobs but not fitted to invent the controllability claim. No new physical entities are postulated.

free parameters (5)
  • WM1 sim pretrain / real fine-tune steps and LRs = 55k@1e-4 then 45k@5e-6 (WM1); 70k@1e-4 (WM2)
    55k steps at 1e-4 then 45k at 5e-6 (and WM2 70k at 1e-4) are chosen training schedules that affect final controllability and metrics; not derived from theory.
  • LoRA rank and alpha = 16 / 16
    Rank 16, alpha 16 for real adaptation of SVD backbones; standard but hand-chosen capacity knobs.
  • Context k and horizon H, resolution = k=5, H=5, 135x240
    k=5, H=5, 135×240 chosen for memory and autoregressive chunking; affect long-horizon error accumulation.
  • Synthetic mask blur sigma = 1.5 px
    σ=1.5 px applied to sim masks to reduce domain gap; ad hoc domain-randomization choice.
  • Conditional dropout rates for CFG = 10%/10%/5%
    10% mask-only, 10% action-only, 5% both; training knobs for classifier-free guidance.
axioms (5)
  • domain assumption The sim-to-real gap is substantially smaller in 3-class segmentation mask space than in RGB, so dynamics learned in sim transfer after light real fine-tuning.
    Stated as motivation for factorization (Section 3.1–3.2, Eq. 2) and used to justify 50 h sim pretraining of WM1.
  • domain assumption Off-the-shelf SAM 3 text-prompt masks provide sufficiently accurate, low-noise intermediate supervision for real data.
    Section 3.1–3.2 and inference pipeline; wrist-view needs an auxiliary init clip, indicating imperfect automatic labeling.
  • ad hoc to paper A single independent evaluator’s 0/0.5/1 scores on sinusoidal single-DoF perturbations (5 ID + 5 OOD) average to a meaningful per-DoF controllability metric.
    Section 4.2 Protocol; central quantitative claim depends on this scoring scheme.
  • domain assumption Stable Video Diffusion with frame-wise action cross-attention and ControlNet mask injection is an adequate generative backbone for multi-view robot video at the chosen resolution.
    Architecture of WM1/WM2 (Section 3.3–3.4), following Ctrl-World and ControlNet literature.
  • domain assumption Simulation with system-identified PD/friction and ground-truth instance masks is geometrically/kinematically faithful enough for mask dynamics without photorealism.
    Section 4.1 and Appendix K; underpins the claim that sim midtraining teaches independent finger motions absent from real data.
invented entities (1)
  • Mask2Real-WM two-stage factorization (WM1 mask dynamics + WM2 ControlNet renderer) no independent evidence
    purpose: Decouple action-conditioned dynamics from appearance so sim pretraining and real rendering can specialize.
    Architectural construct of the paper, not a physical entity; evaluated empirically against monolithic baselines.

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Action-conditioned world models allow robots to predict the future consequences of candidate actions without additional physical interaction, supporting policy evaluation, planning, and data augmentation. We present Mask2Real-WM, a two-stage action-conditioned world model for dexterous manipulation that decouples pixel prediction into a dynamics model and a rendering model. The dynamics model predicts future segmentation masks from past masks and 23-DoF action sequences. The rendering model maps the predicted masks to photorealistic RGB using a ControlNet-augmented Stable Video Diffusion backbone. The smaller sim-to-real gap in segmentation space enables the dynamics model to benefit from large-scale pretraining on over 50 h of synthetic simulation data, followed by fine-tuning on fewer than 2.5 h of real demonstrations. Experiments on a dexterous pick-and-place benchmark show that mask conditioning and simulation pretraining are both required for per-DoF action controllability across all 23 degrees of freedom. In contrast, monolithic baselines capture broad hand and end-effector trajectories but do not reliably reflect fine-grained, per-joint action effects.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2607.04546 by Chenyu Yang, Davide Liconti, Riccardo O. Feingold, Robert K. Katzschmann.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Mask2Real-WM. A controllable world model that decouples dynamics from rendering: a Dynamics WM predicts future segmentation masks from past masks and past/future actions (6- DoF end-effector pose + 17-DoF hand joints) and is pretrained on >50 h of simulation data; a Rendering WM paints photorealistic RGB onto the predicted masks and is trained on <2.5 h of real demonstrations. The combined model supports l… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Method overview. Left (WM1): an action-conditioned dynamics model that denoises future segmentation masks from past masks and the past/future action sequence; pretrained on sim￾ulation. Right (WM2): a rendering model that paints photorealistic RGB onto the predicted masks via a ControlNet branch on top of a LoRA-adapted SVD backbone; trained on a small real-world dataset. At inference, WM1 and WM2 are chai… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Simulation data pipeline. (a) Structured pick-and-place demonstrations generated via MimicGen [23] in IsaacLab [24]. (b) Exploratory sinusoidal joint trajectories that sweep the full 17- DoF ORCA joint range independently of task success. (c) Per-dimension action coverage (1st–99th percentile) across all 23 DoF: simulation (>50 h) spans a far wider range than real demonstrations (<2.5 h), motivating large-… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Action controllability. Left: model responses to sinusoidal perturbation of individual action components (EE Y-axis, wrist yaw, middle-finger ABD, thumb PIP). Right: mean controlla￾bility score for ID (top) and OOD (bottom). Our full model (WM1: sim→real, WM2: real; orange) reaches ≈0.95 ID and ≈0.87 OOD; the monolithic baseline [2] (gray) falls below 0.5 on OOD. action conditioning further improves percep… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Perceptual metrics across WM1 training configurations. PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS on ID (top row) and LPIPS on three OOD splits (bottom row) for real-only WM1, sim-only WM1, and sim-then-real WM1 (ours), all paired with the same WM2 trained on real data. Sim pretraining substantially reduces OOD degradation; real fine-tuning further closes the gap while maintaining strong ID performance. A WM2 conditioning abla… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: WM2 conditioning ablation (LPIPS). LPIPS ↓ on in-distribution (n=150, left) and combined OOD (n=150, right) for three WM2 conditioning variants: actions only, masks only, and masks + actions (ours). Mask conditioning is the dominant driver of spatial quality; combining both signals achieves the best overall performance. Sharpness analysis and qualitative frame comparisons are in Appendix C. or object-ID co… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Baseline vs. the three two-stage variants, per split and metric. Per-sample-view distri￾butions of PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS (columns) on the ID and three OOD splits (rows), each split by camera view (third-person, wrist). From the W&B inference runs. The baseline is competitive on raw pixel metrics despite producing blurrier video (see sharpness analysis below). Sharpness exposes the blur (Figure 8a). The Lap… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Sharpness vs. pixel metrics. Top: variance of the image Laplacian (higher = sharper), averaged over each rollout, for the four variants on every split; black ticks mark the ground-truth level. The baseline is consistently the blurriest. Bottom: regime-averaged LPIPS vs. sharpness ratio—the baseline attains low (good) LPIPS yet the lowest sharpness, illustrating that good pixel scores can coincide with blur… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Long-horizon rollout (third-person, generated frames). Cube-manipulation rollout of 50 frames generated autoregressively (5 frames predicted per step); we show 4 frames sampled ∼16 apart to convey the motion. The baseline blurs and loses object identity over the horizon, while Mask2Real-WM stays sharp and coherent. Together, these results show that it is the sim+real training of WM1—not merely the segmenta… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Per-component action controllability (generated). For each of the 23 action dimen￾sions, a sinusoid is applied to that dimension alone. Each clip is 50 frames generated autoregres￾sively (5 frames per step); we show frames 0, 5, and 10. Rows are labelled by component. All di￾mensions are shown in the third-person view, except the thumb joints (dims 7–10) and the mcp/pip joints of the middle, ring, and pin… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Frame sharpness across conditioning variants. Laplacian variance ↑ (higher = sharper) for every one of the 50 generated frames on ID (the model predicts 5 frames per autoregressive step), averaged over samples and computed on the predicted region of the rollout videos; the dashed line is the ground-truth sharpness. The actions-only variant collapses to blurry, low-variance outputs despite competitive PSNR… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Error accumulation over the autoregressive rollout. Mean LPIPS per frame index on ID (left) and OOD No-Object (right). Error grows fastest over the first ∼10 steps and then plateaus. Error grows fastest in the first ∼10 steps and then plateaus as the rollout settles. On OOD all curves rise more steeply; the baseline retains the lowest LPIPS here, again reflecting the blurry-prediction 16 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Failure mode: object vanishing under occlusion. Third-person generated frames from a 149-frame rollout (5 frames predicted per step); 6 frames shown ∼30 apart. The cube is present early (t=0, 30), disappears while the hand occludes it (t=59–118), and reappears once the occlusion clears (t=148) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Failure mode: object duplication / spawning. Third-person generated frames from a 149-frame rollout (5 frames predicted per step); 4 frames shown ∼49 apart. WM1 predicts an incor￾rect object state—a second cube appears (t=99) and the object is re-spawned at a shifted location— illustrating that object-state prediction, not rendering, is the current bottleneck. F Generalization to Objects Unseen in Real Da… view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Unseen object: banana. Generated frames (both views, lower half) for Mask2Real-WM (top) and the baseline (bottom). 50-frame rollout (5 frames predicted per step); 4 frames shown ∼16 apart [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Unseen object: cup. Generated frames for Mask2Real-WM (top) and the baseline (bottom). 50-frame rollout (5 frames predicted per step); 4 frames shown ∼16 apart [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Unseen object: cylinder. Generated frames for Mask2Real-WM (top) and the baseline (bottom). 50-frame rollout (5 frames predicted per step); 4 frames shown ∼16 apart. G WM2 Conditioned on Ground-Truth Masks To verify that WM1’s mask prediction quality is the primary bottleneck in the pipeline, we evaluate WM2 conditioned on ground-truth segmentation masks from SAM 3 rather than on WM1’s predic￾tions ( [PI… view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: WM2 on ground-truth vs. predicted masks (ID split). PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS for WM2 given oracle SAM 3 masks, given WM1’s predicted masks (our full pipeline), and the single-stage baseline. Bars show mean over sample-views with std error bars. The oracle dominates on every metric, so the gap to the full pipeline is attributable to WM1’s mask errors, not WM2’s rendering capacity. (The oracle is evaluated on … view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: CNN adapter vs. VAE encoder for ControlNet conditioning. Top: per-frame boundary-response score (> 1 = features stronger at segmentation boundaries than in flat regions) and its mean ± std. Bottom: CNN features preserve sharp class boundaries; VAE features blur across them. The SVD VAE was trained to reconstruct natural RGB, not flat categorical masks, so it smears the sharp edges that carry the structura… view at source ↗
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: Real-world rig. Franka Panda arm with the ORCA hand in the arena, observed by a third-person and a wrist-mounted RGB camera. Simulation assets. The simulation uses the default Franka Emika Panda URDF and the ORCA hand USD. The arena geometry is reconstructed from physical measurements and exported as a USD asset. No material, lighting, or texture tuning is applied. System identification. To reduce the kin… view at source ↗
Figure 21
Figure 21. Figure 21: Wrist-view SAM 3 initialization clip. Example frames (left to right) in which the hand moves into the wrist camera’s field of view; the hand bounding box from this clip seeds the tracker for the rest of the sequence. CNN mask encoder for ControlNet. The CNN encoder consists of three convolutional blocks (Conv2d + GroupNorm + SiLU) with a strided downsampling layer followed by a transposed con￾volution to … view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: Flow-matching policy rolled out in imagination. Generated frames (both views, lower half) for Mask2Real-WM (top) and the baseline (bottom). 100-frame rollout (5 frames predicted per step); 4 frames shown ∼33 apart [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Diffusion policy rolled out in imagination. Mask2Real-WM (top) vs. baseline (bot￾tom). 100-frame rollout (5 frames predicted per step); 4 frames shown ∼33 apart [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: ACT policy rolled out in imagination. Mask2Real-WM (top) vs. baseline (bottom). 100-frame rollout (5 frames predicted per step); 4 frames shown ∼33 apart. 23 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_24.png] view at source ↗

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