DiffWAM: A Fast and Efficient Navigation World Action Model
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arXiv:2609.39763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained video foundation models encode rich semantic and spatiotemporal priors for embodied navigation, yet converting these priors into UAV motion typically requires expensive future-video synthesis and geometric reconstruction. We investigate whether the motion implicit in future visual prediction can instead be recovered directly from the predictive representations of a frozen video model. To this end, we present DiffWAM, a geometry-conditioned navigation world-action model that directly transforms multi-level predictive features into con
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.39763v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretrained video foundation models encode rich semantic and spatiotemporal priors for embodied navigation, yet converting these priors into UAV motion typically requires expensive future-video synthesis and geometric reconstruction.
- We investigate whether the motion implicit in future visual prediction can instead be recovered directly from the predictive representations of a frozen video model.
- To this end, we present DiffWAM, a geometry-conditioned navigation world-action model that directly transforms multi-level predictive features into con
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