Self-Distilling Future Video Representations for World Action Models
The paper introduces FRED, a framework that trains World Action Models to produce better future video representations in a single denoising step. It uses self-distillation, predicting future representations from noise with targets extracted from ground-truth future observations, and conditions the video model on short history observations. The authors report consistent gains over competing WAMs in real-world manipulation, with larger gains on long-horizon and out-of-domain tasks under zero-shot environment generalization.
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The paper introduces FRED, a framework that trains World Action Models to produce better future video representations in a single denoising step. It uses self-distillation, predicting future representations from noise with targets extracted from ground-truth future observations, and conditions the video model on short history observations. The authors report consistent gains over competing WAMs in real-world manipulation, with larger gains on long-horizon and out-of-domain tasks under zero-shot environment generalization.
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- FRED trains WAMs to improve future video representations from noise in a single denoising step via self-distillation.
- The video model is conditioned on historical observations to provide temporal context for predicting future representations.
- On tasks demonstrated only in human videos, FRED reaches 50.0% success versus 19.4% for the best competing WAM.
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Single-step future representations make WAM action prediction cheaper than iterative video generation. Reported gains on unseen and human-demonstrated tasks suggest better transfer, which bears on building generalist robot policies.
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