ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 15, 2026

Perceive, Predict, and Plan: a Unified World Action Model for Egocentric Dexterous Manipulation

Our model integrates a compact, structured 3D action representation into a pretrained video diffusion transformer through a mixture-of-transformers architecture with shared base weights, modality-specific adaptation, and bidirectional visual-action attention.

Key points

  • Randomized modality visibility lets video and 3D actions serve as either conditioning context or prediction targets across the three modes.
  • Experiments show that unified training improves all three capabilities over single-mode training, including gains in planning quality under a vision-language model evaluation.
  • Through unified training, our model outperforms specialized baselines on 3D hand reconstruction and action-conditioned video prediction across four datasets, while producing goal-directed manipulation videos with stronger instruction adherence and action progression than video-generation baselines.

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  • [1]Perceive, Predict, and Plan: a Unified World Action Model for Egocentric Dexterous Manipulation
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 15, 05:59 PM
    Our model integrates a compact, structured 3D action representation into a pretrained video diffusion transformer through a mixture-of-transformers architecture with shared base weights, modality-specific adaptation, and bidirectional visual-action attention.
    Randomized modality visibility lets video and 3D actions serve as either conditioning context or prediction targets across the three modes.

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