RoboWorld: Fast and Reliable Neural Simulators for Generalist Robot Policy Evaluation
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Abstract (arXiv)
Video world models are emerging as a scalable alternative for evaluating generalist robot policies, bypassing the physical constraints and engineering burdens of real-world deployment. However, evaluating policies with video world models remains challenging, as world-model errors can make generated rollouts unreliable and slow inference limits large-scale throughput. We introduce RoboWorld, an automated evaluation pipeline that pairs a fast autoregressive video world model with a task-progress-aware vision-language model scoring. To enable reliable long-horizon autoregressive world-model rollouts, we propose Step Forcing, which combines anchored and one-step self-forwarded contexts to reduce train-test mismatch while preserving action-observation dynamics. Together, these components enable RoboWorld to align strongly with real-world robot evaluation across tasks and environments, achieving Pearson's r = 0.989 and Spearman's ρ = 0.970.
Key facts. Cited by 4 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 55 of its 79 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 1 Jul 2026.
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