Predicting Consequences and Reinforcing Navigation Policies with Latent World Models
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arXiv:2608.26190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models enable agents to reason about future outcomes and learn policies from their knowledge of state transition, but existing approaches primarily focus on reconstructing future observations or features, which introduces unnecessary complexity and limits their effectiveness for decision making. In this work, we propose a compatibility prediction Latent World Model (LWM) for robot navigation that predicts action-conditioned latent feature compatibility rather than reconstructing observations. Our key insight is that spatial proximity correl
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- arXiv:2608.26190v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models enable agents to reason about future outcomes and learn policies from their knowledge of state transition, but existing approaches primarily focus on reconstructing future observations or features, which introduces unnecessary complexity and limits their effectiveness for decision making.
- In this work, we propose a compatibility prediction Latent World Model (LWM) for robot navigation that predicts action-conditioned latent feature compatibility rather than reconstructing observations.
- Our key insight is that spatial proximity correl
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