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Do Robotic World Models Really Follow Actions? Diagnosing and Aligning Action-Conditioned Generation for Policy Learning

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TL;DR - WorldEcho reveals that robotic world models often fail to follow valid off-expert actions, limiting their reliability as policy-learning simulators. The proposed WorldSync training framework improves action-conditioned generation and supports more successful iterative policy improvement.

  • WorldEcho evaluates action following beyond expert demonstrations using visual integrity and SE(3) trajectory alignment.
  • Existing models handle expert actions reasonably but may ignore diverse off-expert commands or generate visually invalid rollouts.
  • WorldSync targets distributional coverage, grounding video representations in robot dynamics, and alignment of predicted intervention effects with real futures.
  • Experiments on RoboTwin and real robots show improved diagnostic metrics and higher policy success rates.

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Do Robotic World Models Really Follow Actions? Diagnosing and Aligning Action-Conditioned Generation for Policy Learning

arXiv cs.RO Sixiang Chen, Jiaming Liu, Jixian Wu, Yichen Guo, Tinghao Wang, Siyuan Qian, Hao Chen, Jiajun Cao, Jian Tang, Shanghang Zhang 2026-08-25 arXiv:2608.24885
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TL;DR - WorldEcho reveals that robotic world models often fail to follow valid off-expert actions, limiting their reliability as policy-learning simulators. The proposed WorldSync training framework improves action-conditioned generation and supports more successful iterative policy improvement.

  • WorldEcho evaluates action following beyond expert demonstrations using visual integrity and SE(3) trajectory alignment.
  • Existing models handle expert actions reasonably but may ignore diverse off-expert commands or generate visually invalid rollouts.
  • WorldSync targets distributional coverage, grounding video representations in robot dynamics, and alignment of predicted intervention effects with real futures.
  • Experiments on RoboTwin and real robots show improved diagnostic metrics and higher policy success rates.
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