Modeling Latent Disturbances for Robust Decision-Making in World Models
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arXiv:2610.07599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we study robust decision-making in the latent space of world models (WMs). Robust optimization is a mathematical framework where, given explicitly specified dynamics and physically meaningful disturbances, a robot can select actions that remain effective even under worst-case disturbances. However, applying this principle to the learned latent space of WMs introduces a fundamental challenge: because WMs have fully learned state spaces and dynamics inferred from high-dimensional observations, it is unclear how to define latent-spa
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- arXiv:2610.07599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we study robust decision-making in the latent space of world models (WMs).
- Robust optimization is a mathematical framework where, given explicitly specified dynamics and physically meaningful disturbances, a robot can select actions that remain effective even under worst-case disturbances.
- However, applying this principle to the learned latent space of WMs introduces a fundamental challenge: because WMs have fully learned state spaces and dynamics inferred from high-dimensional observations, it is unclear how to define latent-spa
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