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DexWorldModel: Causal Latent World Modeling towards Automated Learning of Embodied Tasks

arXiv 2604.16484 ↗First posted 13 Apr 2026cs.CV cs.AIcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

Deploying generative World-Action Models for manipulation is severely bottlenecked by redundant pixel-level reconstruction, O(T) memory scaling, and sequential inference latency. We introduce the Causal Latent World Model (CLWM), which employs DINOv3 features as generative targets to disentangle interaction semantics from visual noise, yielding highly robust domain generalization. To overcome memory scaling, CLWM features a Dual-State Test-Time Training (TTT) Memory that guarantees a strict O(1) footprint for long-horizon tasks. To overcome deployment latency, we propose Speculative Asynchronous Inference (SAI) to mask partial diffusion denoising behind physical execution, cutting blocking latency by about 50%. To scale robust policies, we present EmbodiChain, an online framework that establishes the Efficiency Law by injecting an infinite flow of physics-grounded trajectories during training. Extensive experiments validate that CLWM achieves state-of-the-art performance in complex dual-arm simulation and unprecedented zero-shot sim-to-real transfer on physical robots, outperforming baselines explicitly finetuned on real-world data.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Embodied and robot world models, one of 11 directions in World models. Builds on 35 of its 41 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 13 Apr 2026.

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35 of 41 references.

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  2. 2026Causal World Modeling for Robot Control29 Jan
  3. 2025Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model15 Dec
  4. 2025Unified World Models: Coupling Video and Action Diffusion for Pretraining on Large Robotic Datasets3 Apr

Other references · 31

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  8. 2024Octo: An Open-Source Generalist Robot Policycited by 1,427
  9. 2025DINOv3cited by 1,297
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  12. 2025RoboTwin 2.0: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark with Strong Domain Randomization for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulationcited by 477
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  12. 2025ATLAS: Learning to Optimally Memorize the Context at Test Timecited by 57
  13. 2026MEM: Multi-Scale Embodied Memory for Vision Language Action Modelscited by 55
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  15. 2026LDA-1B: Scaling Latent Dynamics Action Model via Universal Embodied Data Ingestioncited by 46
  16. 2023Test-Time Training on Video Streamscited by 37
  17. 2025RoboMIND 2.0: A Multimodal, Bimanual Mobile Manipulation Dataset for Generalizable Embodied Intelligencecited by 31
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  19. 2026PAct: Part-Decomposed Single-View Articulated Object Generationcited by 5

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