3 papers
cs.LG2026
How Should World Models Be Evaluated for Embodied Decision-Making? A Decision-Making-Centric Position
Yang Yu, Shiyuan Zhang, Yifei Sheng +2
World models have become a central abstraction in modern AI. The term now refers to several different objects: action-conditioned environment models, latent imagination models, fut…
cs.RO2026
Anticipation-VLA: Solving Long-Horizon Embodied Tasks via Anticipation-based Subgoal Generation
Zhilong Zhang, Wenyu Luo, Haonan Wang +9
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for embodied intelligence, enabling robots to perform tasks based on natural language instructions and curre…
cs.RO2026
Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models
Zhilong Zhang, Haoxiang Ren, Yihao Sun +6
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show strong generalization for robotic control, but finetuning them with reinforcement learning (RL) is constrained by the high cost and safety…