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This research introduces the World Action Planner, a system that combines Vision-Language Model reasoning with action-conditioned world models to achieve robust generalization in robotic tasks across novel scenes. By iteratively refining plans through imagined rollouts rather than relying solely on imitation learning, it outperforms current end-to-end policy models like VLAs and WAMs. The work addresses the critical challenge of building agents capable of zero-shot adaptation to compositional tasks without retraining for every new environment.
World Action Planner: Generalizable Decision-Making with Action-Conditioned World Models
arXiv:2607.27599v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building generalizable agents for diverse applications remains a fundamental challenge. While imitation learning-based policies succeed in specific training environments, they often fail to generalize to novel scenes and tasks. In this work, we propose World Action Planner, a robot planning system that leverages the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and the physical grounding of a multi-task pose-image conditioned world model. Our system enables an agent to propose initial action plans and iteratively refine them via optimization and search, reasoning over imagined world model rollouts. We demonstrate that our approach achieves superior performance across compositional tasks, new layouts, and zero-shot generalization scenarios, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art end-to-end policy models such as VLAs and WAMs. Project website at worldactionplanner.github.io
Abstract:Building generalizable agents for diverse applications remains a fundamental challenge. While imitation learning-based policies succeed in specific training environments, they often fail to generalize to novel scenes and tasks. In this work, we propose World Action Planner, a robot planning system that leverages the reasoning capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and the physical grounding of a multi-task pose-image conditioned world model. Our system enables an agent to propose initial action plans and iteratively refine them via optimization and search, reasoning over imagined world model rollouts. We demonstrate that our approach achieves superior performance across compositional tasks, new layouts, and zero-shot generalization scenarios, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art end-to-end policy models such as VLAs and WAMs. Project website at this http URL
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2607.27599 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2607.27599v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
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