Cognitive scientists believe adaptable intelligent agents like humans perform reasoning through learned causal mental simulations of agents and environments. The problem of learning such simulations is called predictive world modeling. Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) agents leveraging world models have achieved SOTA performance in game environments. However, understanding how to apply the world modeling approach in complex real-world environments relevant to mobile robots remains an open question. In this paper, we present a framework for learning a probabilistic predictive world model for real-world road environments. We implement the model using a hierarchical VAE (HVAE) capable of predicting a diverse set of fully observed plausible worlds from accumulated sensor observations. While prior HVAE methods require complete states as ground truth for learning, we present a novel sequential training method to allow HVAEs to learn to predict complete states from partially observed states only. We experimentally demonstrate accurate spatial structure prediction of deterministic regions achieving 96.21 IoU, and close the gap to perfect prediction by 62% for stochastic regions using the best prediction. By extending HVAEs to cases where complete ground truth states do not exist, we facilitate continual learning of spatial prediction as a step towards realizing explainable and comprehensive predictive world models for real-world mobile robotics applications. Code is available at https://github.com/robin-karlsson0/predictive-world-models.
Dream to Drive with Predictive Individual World Model
School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing(北京科技大学自动化与电气工程学院);Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院自动化研究所);School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学人工智能学院)
WOLF: World Model Guided LiDAR Exploration with Predictive Frontiers
University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);East China University of Science and Technology(华东理工大学);Zhejiang University(浙江大学);Northwestern Polytechnical University(西北工业大学);TeleAI
V-JEPA Policy: Building Effective World-Action Models on Predictive Visual Latents
Tsinghua University(清华大学);Shanghai Jiao Tong University(上海交通大学);Fudan University(复旦大学);University of Science and Technology of China(中国科学技术大学);Washington University in St. Louis(圣路易斯华盛顿大学);The Institute of Artificial Intelligence, China Telecom (TeleAI)(中国电信人工智能研究院(TeleAI))
WorldSimBench: Towards Video Generation Models as World Simulators
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen(香港中文大学(深圳));Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory(上海人工智能实验室);Beihang University(北京航空航天大学);The University of Hong Kong(香港大学)