CausalWAM: Learning the Causes of Actions in World Action Models
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabWorld action models (WAMs) learn latent variables used both to predict scene evolution and to generate actions, but demonstration-fitted WAMs may entangle action-relevant latents with nuisance variables. The paper proves that under a sparsity constraint, the latents used for action generation are an invertible function of the action-relevant latents alone, identified up to permutation. This holds without requiring sufficient temporal dependence or assumptions on unobserved regime evolution. The authors propose CWAM, which adds a sparse routing path to a pretrained WAM's action head while leaving the world modeling objective unchanged. Experiments on synthetic data and real-world robots are reported to validate the theory and show improved closed-loop success efficiency.
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World action models (WAMs) learn latent variables used both to predict scene evolution and to generate actions, but demonstration-fitted WAMs may entangle action-relevant latents with nuisance variables. The paper proves that under a sparsity constraint, the latents used for action generation are an invertible function of the action-relevant latents alone, identified up to permutation. This holds without requiring sufficient temporal dependence or assumptions on unobserved regime evolution. The authors propose CWAM, which adds a sparse routing path to a pretrained WAM's action head while leaving the world modeling objective unchanged. Experiments on synthetic data and real-world robots are reported to validate the theory and show improved closed-loop success efficiency.
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- Under a sparsity constraint, action-generating latents are an invertible function of action-relevant latents alone, identified up to permutation.
- The result holds without sufficient temporal dependence or assumptions on how unobserved regimes evolve.
- CWAM adds a sparse routing path to a pretrained WAM's action head, keeping the world modeling objective unchanged.
- Experiments on synthetic data and real-world robots are reported to validate the theory and show improved closed-loop success.
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Robot policies that act from entangled scene features may fail when irrelevant details change. Identifying the latents that truly cause actions could make learned world models more reliable and efficient, and the method is designed to be added to existing pretrained models.
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