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This research introduces SANTS, a scheduler for World Action Models that dynamically determines the optimal denoising depth in video-based robot control. By stopping the diffusion process at a state-dependent point rather than fully denoising, the method significantly reduces inference latency while maintaining high success rates on both simulated and real-world robotic tasks. This advancement addresses critical efficiency bottlenecks in deploying complex vision-to-action policies without sacrificing performance.
SANTS: A State-Adaptive Scheduler for World Action Models
arXiv:2605.27947v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot manipulation by using video-based future representations to condition action generation. In pixel-space WAMs, however, the best action condition is not necessarily the fully denoised video. Controlled denoising-depth scans show that video refinement can reduce action error up to a state-dependent point, after which the gain may saturate or even reverse when late predictions become less action-relevant or physically unreliable. This suggests that action generation should use a state-dependent point along the video noise trajectory rather than a fixed terminal denoising depth. We introduce State-Adaptive Noise Trajectory Scheduler (SANTS), a lightweight scheduler for video-to-action diffusion policies. At each video decision point, SANTS reads the current video-state representation and noise level, then jointly predicts a cumulative stopping hazard and a relative noise-progression ratio. SANTS is post-trained with a path-level reward computed after the frozen action branch generates the final action chunk, so the scheduler is optimized for downstream action quality rather than intermediate video fidelity, while redundant video-state updates are explicitly penalized. Experiments show that SANTS reaches \(94.4\%\) overall success on RoboTwin 2.0 and \(73.1\%\) average success across seven real-robot tasks, while reducing latency by \(81.7\%\) and \(79.0\%\) relative to full video denoising, respectively. These results indicate that adaptive selection along the video noise trajectory can preserve the control benefits of WAM-style future reasoning while removing much of its redundant inference cost.
Abstract:World Action Models (WAMs) improve robot manipulation by using video-based future representations to condition action generation. In pixel-space WAMs, however, the best action condition is not necessarily the fully denoised video. Controlled denoising-depth scans show that video refinement can reduce action error up to a state-dependent point, after which the gain may saturate or even reverse when late predictions become less action-relevant or physically unreliable. This suggests that action generation should use a state-dependent point along the video noise trajectory rather than a fixed terminal denoising depth. We introduce State-Adaptive Noise Trajectory Scheduler (SANTS), a lightweight scheduler for video-to-action diffusion policies. At each video decision point, SANTS reads the current video-state representation and noise level, then jointly predicts a cumulative stopping hazard and a relative noise-progression ratio. SANTS is post-trained with a path-level reward computed after the frozen action branch generates the final action chunk, so the scheduler is optimized for downstream action quality rather than intermediate video fidelity, while redundant video-state updates are explicitly penalized. Experiments show that SANTS reaches \(94.4\%\) overall success on RoboTwin 2.0 and \(73.1\%\) average success across seven real-robot tasks, while reducing latency by \(81.7\%\) and \(79.0\%\) relative to full video denoising, respectively. These results indicate that adaptive selection along the video noise trajectory can preserve the control benefits of WAM-style future reasoning while removing much of its redundant inference cost.
13 pages, 5 figures, 8 tables. Project page: this https URL
Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2605.27947 [cs.RO]
(or arXiv:2605.27947v3 [cs.RO] for this version)
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