ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI · Multimodal Models2 sources · Oct 15, 2026

Can World and Action Modeling Benefit Each Other under Unified Causal Training?

We introduce OneWM, a simple framework for unified causal training that treats actions as both conditions for world prediction and targets for policy learning within a shared video-action architecture.

Key points

  • World and action modeling are closely related, yet their reciprocal benefits under unified causal training remain unclear.
  • Using this framework, we investigate whether learning forward dynamics conditioned on specified actions improves action learning, and whether learning to generate actions in turn improves action-conditioned world modeling.
  • We use LIBERO, LIBERO-Plus, and RoboCasa365 as embodied testbeds to evaluate both policy learning and world modeling, complemented by real-world policy experiments.
  • In turn, action learning improves multi-view world-prediction fidelity under the same architecture.

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