3 papers
cs.RO2026
GeniWorld: A Generalizable Interactive World Model for Robotic Manipulation via Visual Actions
Chenghao Gu, Hanyang Yu, Jingbo Zhang +7
Generalist robot policies exhibit strong capabilities, but their robustness in complex and unseen environments remains limited. Scaling robot learning and evaluation in diverse rea…
cs.CV2026
ImageWAM: Do World Action Models Really Need Video Generation, or Just Image Editing?
Yuyang Zhang, Wenyao Zhang, Zekun Qi +7
World Action Models (WAMs) commonly rely on video generation to bridge visual world modeling and robot control. However, video-based WAMs face three coupled limitations: dense mult…
cs.CV2026
MaskWAM: Unifying Mask Prompting and Prediction for World-Action Models
Hanyang Yu, Haitao Lin, Jingbo Zhang +4
World Action Models (WAMs) present a promising paradigm for robotic control via video prediction. However, current WAMs suffer from fundamental spatial bottlenecks: standard text i…