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9 papers

cs.RO2026

KineBench: Benchmarking Embodied World Models via IDM-Free Kinematic Grounding

Zeyu Liu, Zhangzhe Zhu, Yang Zhang +3

Evaluating the physical consistency of embodied world models(EWMs) is a critical open challenge. While closed-loop evaluation via simulator rollouts offers a more faithful assessme…

cs.AI2026

PRTS: A Primitive Reasoning and Tasking System via Contrastive Representations

Yang Zhang, Jiangyuan Zhao, Chenyou Fan +11

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models advance robotic control via strong visual-linguistic priors. However, existing VLAs predominantly frame pretraining as supervised behavior cloni…

cs.MA2025

Revisiting Multi-Agent World Modeling from a Diffusion-Inspired Perspective

Yang Zhang, Xinran Li, Jianing Ye +5

World models have recently attracted growing interest in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) due to their ability to improve sample efficiency for policy learning. However, a…

cs.AI2025

Towards Efficient LLM Grounding for Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration

Yang Zhang, Shixin Yang, Chenjia Bai +4

Grounding the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) for embodied tasks is challenging due to the complexity of the physical world. Especially, LLM planning for multi-ag…

cs.RO2025

Align-Then-stEer: Adapting the Vision-Language Action Models through Unified Latent Guidance

Yang Zhang, Chenwei Wang, Ouyang Lu +7

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on large, diverse datasets show remarkable potential for general-purpose robotic manipulation. However, a primary bottleneck remains…

cs.LG2025

Decentralized Transformers with Centralized Aggregation are Sample-Efficient Multi-Agent World Models

Yang Zhang, Chenjia Bai, Bin Zhao +3

Learning a world model for model-free Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents can significantly improve the sample efficiency by learning policies in imagination. However, building a wo…