E2054 - BadWAM: When World-Action Models Dream Right but Act Wrong

🤗 Upvotes: 36 | cs.LG, cs.RO

Authors:
Qi Li, Xingyi Yang, Xinchao Wang

Title:
BadWAM: When World-Action Models Dream Right but Act Wrong

Arxiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.15207v1

Abstract:
World-action models (WAMs) are emerging as a promising foundation for embodied control: rather than predicting actions alone, they learn representations that couple action generation with future world prediction. This coupling is often viewed as a source of robustness, interpretability, and safety, as a robot's action can in principle be checked against its imagined future. In this paper, we sho...