HyperWorld: Hypergraph-Structured State Serialization Improves Learned Textual World Models
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arXiv:2609.00002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models enable language-model agents to predict environment dynamics and plan before acting. In text environments, the model must learn symbolic action effects from serialized state descriptions, but the role of serialization structure remains underexplored. We present HyperWorld, a controlled study of state serialization for learned textual world models. We compare raw observations with three symbolic serializations of the same ground-truth state: independent sentences, pairwise triples, and entity-centered hyperedge units that group multip
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.00002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models enable language-model agents to predict environment dynamics and plan before acting.
- In text environments, the model must learn symbolic action effects from serialized state descriptions, but the role of serialization structure remains underexplored.
- We present HyperWorld, a controlled study of state serialization for learned textual world models.
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