Training world models for policy improvement beats optimizing pixel accuracy

Across five manipulation simulators and two robot-policy backbones, the authors report higher task success from models trained to improve learning updates rather than next-frame predictions.

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Zhaolu Kang · Tailong Luo · Lei Wei · Guangyuan Dong · Sihan Liu · Yingjie He · +6 more

Hunyuan, Tencent · Peking University

Research Digest··2 min read
Kang et al.

The authors developed DRILL, a two-level training framework for vision-language-action policies, which translate visual observations and language instructions into actions.

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