Abductive World Modeling via Causal Representation Learning
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arXiv:2609.36985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The central challenge of world modeling is to learn representations that capture how the world evolves. However, existing world models predominantly represent future states without explicitly capturing the latent causes underlying their evolution, limiting their ability to reason about why and how the world changes. To address this limitation, we propose Abductive World Modeling (AWM), a framework that learns structured causal representations by abductively inferring latent causes from predicted futures. Specifically, we realize AWM through the
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.36985v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The central challenge of world modeling is to learn representations that capture how the world evolves.
- However, existing world models predominantly represent future states without explicitly capturing the latent causes underlying their evolution, limiting their ability to reason about why and how the world changes.
- To address this limitation, we propose Abductive World Modeling (AWM), a framework that learns structured causal representations by abductively inferring latent causes from predicted futures.
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