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20242026
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15 papers

cs.RO2026

FACT: Failure-Aware Causal Training for World-Action Models

Quanquan Peng, Yutong Liang, Rui Yan +2

Recent world-action models (WAMs) show that co-training policies with future prediction can provide physical priors for action generation. Building on the future-prediction ability…

cs.RO2026

RoboTALES: Learning Reasoning-Guided Robot Policies via Task-Aligned Simulated Futures

Hanan Gani, Tejal Kulkarni, Madhoolika Chodavarapu +2

Pretrained video generative models are promising backbones for visuomotor control, but their imagined futures often drift from task intent and are not reliably action-conditional.…

cs.LG2026

Hallucination in World Models is Predictable and Preventable

Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong Wang

Modern generative world models render increasingly realistic action-controllable futures, yet they frequently hallucinate: rollouts remain visually fluent while drifting from the g…

cs.RO2026

Generating Robot Hands from Human Demonstrations

Sha Yi, Nicklas Hansen, Xueqian Bai +3

Robot learning has advanced rapidly in learning control, but learning the physical body of a robot remains much more difficult because jointly searching over design and control cre…

cs.LG2026

Manifold Bandits: Bayesian Curriculum Learning over the Latent Geometry of Large Language Models

Darrien McKenzie, Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong Wang

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a central approach for improving reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs), where training efficiency depends critically on how problems…

cs.AI2026

Back to Parsimonious Latents: Learning Task-Centric World Models from Visual Foundations

Minghao Fu, Fan Feng, Nicklas Hansen +1

World models enable agents to predict future dynamics conditioned on actions, making the choice of latent representation central to planning and control. Such representations are o…