Making Foresight Actionable: Repurposing Representation Alignment in World Action Models
World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising route for robot manipulation by using video generation models to model future scene evolution before producing control actions. However, our empirical observations reveal a phenomenon: generating plausible visual futures does not always guarantee the extraction of accurate actions. To diagnose this failure, we conduct action-head attention analysis and causal interventions. We find that the action decoder fails to focus on task-relevant interaction re
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Published: 10 June 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Safety & alignment · Healthcare · Agents & autonomy
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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