Action-discriminative world models improve counterfactual planning for robot control

Training latent dynamics to preserve action-specific differences substantially improved model predictive control in simulation and zero-shot robot transfer.

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Nanjing University

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Qiu et al.

The authors built AD-WM, a joint-embedding world model with residual latent dynamics and two auxiliary action-recovery objectives: inverse dynamics and normalized recovery motivated by conditional mutual information.

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World models for planning should preserve action-dependent differences for counterfactual selection, not just factual prediction accuracy.

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