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SyncWorld: Visual Calibration Enables World Models as Zero-Shot Simulators

SyncWorld is an action-conditioned world model acting as a zero-shot robotics simulator across unseen environments via visual calibration.

Researchers propose SyncWorld, an action-conditioned world model that simulates robot action outcomes in unseen environments without additional training. It uses a visual calibration episode of paired frames and actions to establish the setup-specific Action-Visual Mapping in context. Experiments show accurate simulation of action outcomes in novel settings and that simulated rollouts enable test-time policy improvement without training.

Hugging Face daily papers · 8d agoAI research

Dynin-Robotics: Omnimodal Unified Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model

Dynin-Robotics unifies action, goal, and dynamics prediction in one omnimodal masked-diffusion VLA model, reaching 78.4% success on Franka Research 3 manipulation tasks.

Built on the Dynin-Omni masked-diffusion backbone, the model represents language, observations, goals, and actions as discrete tokens and is continually pretrained on roughly 1.33 million trajectories from 48 Open X-Embodiment datasets. The shared trajectory interface enables test-time scaling via goal prediction, action-candidate evaluation, and joint action/future-state refinement. It achieves competitive results on LIBERO and zero-shot LIBERO-Plus, 78.4% average success across four Franka Research 3 conditions, and up to 29.2x faster model-side action decoding from a block-parallel implementation.

Hugging Face daily papersupdated · 4d agofirst · 5d agoAI research 2 sources

Semigroup-JEPA: Latent Dynamics Consistency for Zero-Shot Physics Generalization

SG-JEPA world model conditions latent prediction on physical parameters, halving open-loop prediction error versus DINO-WM and boosting robotic control success.

SG-JEPA extends the LeWorldModel JEPA framework by supplying the governing physics parameter to the temporal model via action-conditioning and jointly training an encoder and predictor through autoregressive latent rollout. On out-of-distribution gravitational-field tasks it reduces open-loop prediction error by up to 2x versus DINO-WM on 2D datasets and increases 3D robotic control success rate up to 2.5x using independently trained diffusion policies. A linear feature analysis attributes most of the gain to the encoder learning features that the predictor can carry forward through rollout.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 6d agoAI research