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cs.AI2026

From Observation to Insight: Mechanistic World Models and the Quest for Autonomous Discovery

Ingmar Posner, Anson Lei, Bernhard Schölkopf

The paper introduces Mechanistic World Models, a framework that places reusable explanatory mechanisms at the core of AI systems to enable autonomous scientific discovery beyond me…

cs.RO2026

Imitation from Heterogeneous Demonstrations using Grounded Latent-Action World Models

Tianyou Wang, Anson Lei, Joe Watson +1

Imitation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning visuomotor policies, but its generalisation and stability are limited by the scale and quality of demonstration d…

cs.LG2026

Disentangling Dynamical Systems: Causal Representation Learning Meets Local Sparse Attention

Markus W. Baumgartner, Anson Lei, Joe Watson +1

Parametric system identification methods estimate the parameters of explicitly defined physical systems from data. Yet, they remain constrained by the need to provide an explicit f…

cs.LG2026

Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behavior Models with Learned Rewards

Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner +3

Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for…

cs.RO2026

Sim-to-Real Transfer for Muscle-Actuated Robots via Generalized Actuator Networks

Jan Schneider, Mridul Mahajan, Le Chen +4

Tendon drives paired with soft muscle actuation enable faster and safer robots while potentially accelerating skill acquisition. Still, these systems are rarely used in practice du…

cs.LG2026

Intrinsically Interpretable Attention via Sparse Post-Training

Florent Draye, Anson Lei, Hsiao-Ru Pan +2

We introduce a simple post-training method that makes transformer attention sparse without sacrificing performance. Applying a flexible sparsity regularisation under a constrained-…