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From bits to atoms: A survey of cross-layer safety in Embodied AI
Tuo Feng, Yue Zhang, Shiji Zhou +35
Embodied Artificial Intelligence (AI) introduces cyber-physical risks because digital failures and attacks can cause physical harm. This survey organizes embodied AI safety through…
Token-World: World Modeling in Vision-Language Model Token Space for Robot Manipulation
Chuyao Fu, Xiaowei Chi, Yuhan Rui +14
A common approach to world-model simulation for vision-language-action (VLA) systems is to predict future RGB observations and then re-encode them into policy inputs, introducing a…
OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World-Action Model Pretraining
Yuran Wang, Siqiao Huang, Mingleyang Li +21
World-Action Models inherit world knowledge from video-generative priors, and channel it into executable control signals through embodied experience. Existing systems, however, are…
Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation: A Survey
Yifan Ye, Yankai Fu, Yaoxu Lv +26
Multimodal foundation models learned to see and to speak by consuming the whole internet. Embodied agents admit no such shortcut, since they require data that couple observations w…
Hierarchical Denoising For Multi-Step Visual Reasoning
Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Chak-Wing Mak +9
Video models are evolving into vision foundation models, yet they still lack human-like multi-step reasoning. Streaming autoregressive diffusion models are efficient but limited in…
WAM4D: Fast 4D World Action Model via Spatial Register Tokens
Ying Li, Xiaobao Wei, Jiajun Cao +10
World action models (WAMs) have recently shown promise in jointly modeling future observations and executable robot actions. However, most existing WAMs still operate in 2D video o…
MV-WAM: Manifold-Aware World Action Model with Value Augmentation
Jintao Chen, Peidong Jia, Qingpo Wuwu +13
Achieving robust and generalizable manipulation across diverse environments remains a fundamental challenge in embodied robotics. Recent world action models achieve strong in-domai…
WAM-RL: World-Action Model Reinforcement Learning with Reconstruction Rewards and Online Video SFT
Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Yu Qi +3
Recent World-Action (WA) models demonstrate strong generalization ability and data efficiency, but they typically rely on expert trajectories for training. This reliance limits the…
SafeDojo: Safe Reinforcement Learning for VLA via Interactive World Model
Kai Tang, Peidong Jia, Zhong Chu +16
Safe control is a prerequisite for real-world embodied intelligence, for which safe reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising paradigm. However, existing safe reinforcement…
Efficient-WAM: A 1B-Parameter World-Action Model with Low-Cost Future Imagination
Jiajun Li, Tiecheng Guo, Yifan Ye +10
World-Action Models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied control by coupling future visual prediction with action generation. However, many existing WAMs rely o…
Dream-Tac: A Unified Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation
Yunfan Lou, Yifan Ye, Yankai Fu +7
World action models inherit the predictive capability of world models, enabling action generation to be guided by anticipated future observations. However, they rely primarily on v…
ProDrive: Proactive Planning for Autonomous Driving via Ego-Environment Co-Evolution
Chuyao Fu, Shengzhe Gan, Zhuoli Ouyang +5
End-to-end autonomous driving planners typically generate trajectories from current observations alone. However, real-world driving is highly dynamic, and such reactive planning ca…
Mask World Model: Predicting What Matters for Robust Robot Policy Learning
Yunfan Lou, Xiaowei Chi, Xiaojie Zhang +9
World models derived from large-scale video generative pre-training have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist robot policy learning. However, standard approaches often fo…
Key-Embedded Privacy for Decentralized AI in Biomedical Omics
Rongyu Zhang, Hongyu Dong, Gaole Dai +13
The rapid adoption of data-driven methods in biomedicine has intensified concerns over privacy, governance, and regulation, limiting raw data sharing and hindering the assembly of…
LABSHIELD: A Multimodal Benchmark for Safety-Critical Reasoning and Planning in Scientific Laboratories
Qianpu Sun, Xiaowei Chi, Yuhan Rui +5
Artificial intelligence is increasingly catalyzing scientific automation, with multimodal large language model (MLLM) agents evolving from lab assistants into self-driving lab oper…
TC-IDM: Grounding Video Generation for Executable Zero-shot Robot Motion
Weishi Mi, Yong Bao, Xiaowei Chi +7
The vision-language-action (VLA) paradigm has enabled powerful robotic control by leveraging vision-language models, but its reliance on large-scale, high-quality robot data limits…
PhysicsMind: Sim and Real Mechanics Benchmarking for Physical Reasoning and Prediction in Foundational VLMs and World Models
Chak-Wing Mak, Guanyu Zhu, Boyi Zhang +16
Modern foundational Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and video world models have advanced significantly in mathematical, common-sense, and visual reasoning, but their grasp…
Wow, wo, val! A Comprehensive Embodied World Model Evaluation Turing Test
Chun-Kai Fan, Xiaowei Chi, Xiaozhu Ju +18
As world models gain momentum in Embodied AI, an increasing number of works explore using video foundation models as predictive world models for downstream embodied tasks like 3D p…
Video2Act: A Dual-System Video Diffusion Policy with Robotic Spatio-Motional Modeling
Yueru Jia, Jiaming Liu, Shengbang Liu +7
Robust perception and dynamics modeling are fundamental to real-world robotic policy learning. Recent methods employ video diffusion models (VDMs) to enhance robotic policies, impr…
WoW: Towards a World omniscient World model Through Embodied Interaction
Xiaowei Chi, Peidong Jia, Chun-Kai Fan +33
Humans develop an understanding of intuitive physics through active interaction with the world. This approach is in stark contrast to current video models, such as Sora, which rely…
WristWorld: Generating Wrist-Views via 4D World Models for Robotic Manipulation
Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Yuming Li +5
Wrist-view observations are crucial for VLA models as they capture fine-grained hand-object interactions that directly enhance manipulation performance. Yet large-scale datasets ra…
Can World Models Benefit VLMs for World Dynamics?
Kevin Zhang, Kuangzhi Ge, Xiaowei Chi +5
Trained on internet-scale video data, generative world models are increasingly recognized as powerful world simulators that can generate consistent and plausible dynamics over stru…
BEVUDA++: Geometric-aware Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection
Rongyu Zhang, Jiaming Liu, Xiaoqi Li +5
Vision-centric Bird's Eye View (BEV) perception holds considerable promise for autonomous driving. Recent studies have prioritized efficiency or accuracy enhancements, yet the issu…
ManipDreamer3D : Synthesizing Plausible Robotic Manipulation Video with Occupancy-aware 3D Trajectory
Ying Li, Xiaobao Wei, Xiaowei Chi +7
Data scarcity continues to be a major challenge in the field of robotic manipulation. Although diffusion models provide a promising solution for generating robotic manipulation vid…