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EnerVerse-AC: Envisioning Embodied Environments with Action Condition

arXiv 2505.09723 ↗First posted 14 May 2025cs.RO cs.CVcited by 42

On the map: Offline RL and imitation learning from data → Robot manipulation imitation learning

Abstract (arXiv)

Robotic imitation learning has advanced from solving static tasks to addressing dynamic interaction scenarios, but testing and evaluation remain costly and challenging due to the need for real-time interaction with dynamic environments. We propose EnerVerse-AC (EVAC), an action-conditional world model that generates future visual observations based on an agent's predicted actions, enabling realistic and controllable robotic inference. Building on prior architectures, EVAC introduces a multi-level action-conditioning mechanism and ray map encoding for dynamic multi-view image generation while expanding training data with diverse failure trajectories to improve generalization. As both a data engine and evaluator, EVAC augments human-collected trajectories into diverse datasets and generates realistic, action-conditioned video observations for policy testing, eliminating the need for physical robots or complex simulations. This approach significantly reduces costs while maintaining high fidelity in robotic manipulation evaluation. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of our method. Code, checkpoints, and datasets can be found at <https://annaj2178.github.io/EnerverseAC.github.io>.

Key facts. Cited by 42 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Robot manipulation imitation learning, one of 13 directions in Offline RL and imitation learning from data. Builds on 25 of its 34 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 14 May 2025.

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  1. 2025Adversarial Data Collection: Human-Collaborative Perturbations for Efficient and Robust Robotic Imitation Learning14 Mar

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  1. 2025Ctrl-World: A Controllable Generative World Model for Robot Manipulationcited by 167
  2. 2026DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videoscited by 135
  3. 2025WorldEval: World Model as Real-World Robot Policies Evaluatorcited by 68
  4. 2025GigaWorld-0: World Models as Data Engine to Empower Embodied AIcited by 62
  5. 2026WoVR: World Models as Reliable Simulators for Post-Training VLA Policies with RLcited by 50
  6. 2026World Model for Robot Learning: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 46
  7. 2025GigaBrain-0: A World Model-Powered Vision-Language-Action Modelcited by 44
  8. 2026ABot-PhysWorld: Interactive World Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulation with Physics Alignmentcited by 29
  9. 2026Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind: Hybrid Memory for Dynamic Video World Modelscited by 26
  10. 2026GigaBrain-0.5M*: a VLA That Learns From World Model-Based Reinforcement Learningcited by 24
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  4. 2026Kinema4D: Kinematic 4D World Modeling for Spatiotemporal Embodied Simulationcited by 12
  5. 2026ProgressVLA: Progress-Guided Diffusion Policy for Vision-Language Robotic Manipulationcited by 10
  6. 2026AdaWorldPolicy: World-Model-Driven Diffusion Policy with Online Adaptive Learning for Robotic Manipulationcited by 9
  7. 2026Mem-World: Memory-Augmented Action-Conditioned World Models for Persistent Robot Manipulationcited by 8
  8. 2025LongScape: Advancing Long-Horizon Embodied World Models with Context-Aware MoEcited by 7
  9. 2025Towards High-Consistency Embodied World Model with Multi-View Trajectory Videoscited by 6
  10. 2025RoboScape-R: Unified Reward-Observation World Models for Generalizable Robotics Training via RLcited by 5
  11. 2026Video Generation Models as World Models: Efficient Paradigms, Architectures and Algorithmscited by 5
  12. 2026A Definition and Roadmap for World Modelscited by 5
  13. 2026GE-Act 2.0: Pretraining and Scaling a World-Action Model for Robotic Manipulationcited by 5
  14. 2025FreeAction: Training-Free Techniques for Enhanced Fidelity of Trajectory-to-Video Generationcited by 4
  15. 2025Real2Edit2Real: Generating Robotic Demonstrations via a 3D Control Interfacecited by 4
  16. 2026PAIWorld: A 3D-Consistent World Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulationcited by 4
  17. 2026RoboWorld: Fast and Reliable Neural Simulators for Generalist Robot Policy Evaluationcited by 4
  18. 2026Envisioning the Future, One Step at a Timecited by 2
  19. 2026From Imagined Futures to Executable Actions: Mixture of Latent Actions for Robot Manipulationcited by 2
  20. 2026iMaC: Translating Actions into Motion and Contact Images for Embodied World Modelscited by 2
  21. 2026Embody4D: A Generalist Data Engine for Embodied 4D World Modelingcited by 1
  22. 2026SyncWorld: Visual Calibration Enables World Models as Zero-Shot Simulatorscited by 1
  23. 2026World Models for Embodied Intelligence: From Plausible to Controllable to Actionablecited by 1
  24. 2026TriWorldBench: A Tri-View Consistency Perspective on Embodied World Modelscited by 1
  25. 2026XEWorld: Can Action-Conditioned World Models Generalize to Unseen Robot Embodiments?cited by 0
  26. 2026ConfAL-WM: Confidence-Guided Active Learning for Action-Conditioned World Modelscited by 0
  27. 2026RoboCoach: World Models as Active Coaches for Compositional Robot Skillscited by 0
  28. 2026SimForcing: Distilling Simulation Motion Priors into Real-Domain Robot World Modelscited by 0
  29. 2026DreamTrue: Action-Faithful Robot World Model with Counterfactual Post-Trainingcited by 0
  30. 2026WorldOracle: Benchmarking Action-Conditioned World Models against Real-World Executionscited by 0

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