DIM-WAM: World-Action Modeling with Diverse Historical Event Memory
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Abstract (arXiv)
World-action models have shown promising robot-manipulation performance by jointly predicting future visual states and actions. However, existing methods mainly rely on short-term history and short-horizon future prediction, which is insufficient for long-horizon tasks whose correct execution depends on earlier observations and task progress. Such temporally dependent tasks require effective use of complementary temporal information, including recent local context, cross-stage historical events, immediate future dynamics, and global task progress. To address long-term forgetting and poor awareness of the global task state, we introduce DiM-WAM, a memory-augmented world-action model that integrates multi-scale historical context, local future dynamics, and global task progress. The memory extracts compact visual event information from real observations, updates multiple memory banks through independent similarity-based merging, and then reads the bank-identity- and time-embedded long-term context to condition video and action denoising. A progress-supervision objective further encourages memory tokens to encode not only completed historical events but also the current task stage and its implications for the remaining task. On RMBench, DiM-WAM raises average success from 28.4% with LingBot-VA to 69.8%, exceeding the explicit-memory Mem-0 baseline at 42.0%. On four real-world Franka tasks, it improves average stage success from 70.7% to 91.5% and full-task success from 52.5% to 80.0%. Project page: https://wangkai-casia.github.io/dim-wam.
Key facts. Cited by 5 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 44 of its 45 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 26 Jun 2026.
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44 of 45 references.
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