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FreeAction: Training-Free Techniques for Enhanced Fidelity of Trajectory-to-Video Generation

arXiv 2509.24241 ↗First posted 29 Sep 2025cs.CV cs.ROcited by 4

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Abstract (arXiv)

Generating realistic robot videos from explicit action trajectories is a critical step toward building effective world models and robotics foundation models. We introduce two training-free, inference-time techniques that fully exploit explicit action parameters in diffusion-based robot video generation. Instead of treating action vectors as passive conditioning signals, our methods actively incorporate them to guide both the classifier-free guidance process and the initialization of Gaussian latents. First, action-scaled classifier-free guidance dynamically modulates guidance strength in proportion to action magnitude, enhancing controllability over motion intensity. Second, action-scaled noise truncation adjusts the distribution of initially sampled noise to better align with the desired motion dynamics. Experiments on real robot manipulation datasets demonstrate that these techniques significantly improve action coherence and visual quality across diverse robot environments.

Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Embodied and robot world models, one of 11 directions in World models. Builds on 21 of its 21 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 29 Sep 2025.

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  1. 2025ORV: 4D Occupancy-centric Robot Video Generation3 Jun
  2. 2024iVideoGPT: Interactive VideoGPTs are Scalable World Models24 May

Other references · 19

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  1. 2026Action-to-Action Flow Matching
  2. 2026SANTS: A State-Adaptive Scheduler for World Action Models
  3. 2025CoVAR: Co-generation of Video and Action for Robotic Manipulation via Multi-Modal Diffusion
  4. 2026DiT4DiT: Jointly Modeling Video Dynamics and Actions for Generalizable Robot Control
  5. 2026Where Should Action Generation Begin? A Learnable Source Prior for Generative Robot Policies
  6. 2024FreeTraj: Tuning-Free Trajectory Control in Video Diffusion Models
  7. 2026DeVA: Decoupled Video-Action Model with physical guidance for robot policy learning
  8. 2026SimForcing: Distilling Simulation Motion Priors into Real-Domain Robot World Models