3D Point World Models: Point Completion Enables More Accurate Dynamics Learning

Abstract:Learning predictive models of the world enables robotic control through planning, potentially allowing robots to improvise solutions on new tasks. However, large video-based dynamics models lack explicit 3D spatial structure and suffer from geometrically inconsistent long-term rollouts with compounding errors. Emerging 3D dynamics models based on partial point clouds improve geometric consistency but remain sensitive to occlusions and accumulated prediction drift. To address these challenges, we present 3D Point World Models (3DPWM) - a task-agnostic world model that operates entirely in 3D space by first completing partial point clouds and then learning action-conditioned dynamics in this completed 3D scene. By operating on completed geometry, 3DPWM enables reliable long-horizon rollouts and more accurate cost evaluation for model-based planning while supporting adaptation to new tasks. Experiments across different robotic embodiments and tabletop manipulation benchmarks demonstrate that 3DPWM achieves significantly more reliable long-horizon rollouts (100-300+ steps), supports both open-loop and closed-loop planning, and enables successful sim-to-real transfer.

Robotics (cs.RO); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)

arXiv:2607.00148 [cs.RO]

(or arXiv:2607.00148v2 [cs.RO] for this version)

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