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DreamX-Phi 1.0: Action-Conditioned Video World Model for Robotic Manipulation

arXiv 2608.13489 ↗First posted 13 Aug 2026cs.CV cs.ROcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

We present DreamX-Phi 1.0, an action-conditioned video world model for robotic manipulation that, given an observed frame, a language instruction, and a prescribed action sequence comprising end-effector poses and gripper states, predicts the resulting future observations. Yet realism alone does not guarantee faithfulness: a convincing rollout can still move the wrong arm or lose the manipulated object. To ensure the prediction respects each arm's commanded path, we inject per-arm SE(3) transformations into attention via PRoPE-style geometric encoding, preserving arm identity and rigid-motion structure. Action control alone does not fully constrain scene geometry or the evolution of small manipulated objects. We therefore add a lightweight depth branch for scene-level geometry and use SAM3 masks with a frozen V-JEPA teacher to maintain object consistency throughout grasping. We further distill the multi-step generator into a few-step student via distribution-matching distillation for efficient deployment. At the time of writing, model achieves first place on Track~1 and second place on Track~2 of the WorldArena~2.0 Challenge. Our model and code will be publicly available.

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 32 of its 36 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 13 Aug 2026.

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32 of 36 references.

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  1. 2026Robot-Factored World Models via Robot Rendering24 Jul
  2. 2026FlowWAM: Optical Flow as a Unified Action Representation for World Action Models14 Jul
  3. 2026Unified 4D World Action Modeling from Video Priors with Asynchronous Denoising29 Apr
  4. 2026World Action Models are Zero-shot Policies17 Feb
  5. 2026Causal World Modeling for Robot Control29 Jan
  6. 2025WorldVLA: Towards Autoregressive Action World Model26 Jun
  7. 2025V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning11 Jun
  8. 2024IRASim: A Fine-Grained World Model for Robot Manipulation20 Jun
  9. 2024iVideoGPT: Interactive VideoGPTs are Scalable World Models24 May

Other references · 23

  1. 2022Flow Matching for Generative Modelingcited by 5,702
  2. 2025Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Modelscited by 2,708
  3. 2025π0.5: a Vision-Language-Action Model with Open-World Generalizationcited by 1,761
  4. 2021Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Videocited by 1,556
  5. 2023One-step Diffusion with Distribution Matching Distillationcited by 1,019
  6. 2025SAM 3: Segment Anything with Conceptscited by 906
  7. 2024DROID: A Large-Scale In-The-Wild Robot Manipulation Datasetcited by 852
  8. 2024Improved Distribution Matching Distillation for Fast Image Synthesiscited by 684
  9. 2025RoboTwin 2.0: A Scalable Data Generator and Benchmark with Strong Domain Randomization for Robust Bimanual Robotic Manipulationcited by 518
  10. 2023Learning Interactive Real-World Simulatorscited by 458
  11. 2026Cosmos Policy: Fine-Tuning Video Models for Visuomotor Control and Planningcited by 300
  12. 2025Unified Video Action Modelcited by 205
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  1. 2026Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AIcited by 165
  2. 2025Cameras as Relative Positional Encodingcited by 105
  3. 2023GTA: A Geometry-Aware Attention Mechanism for Multi-View Transformerscited by 79
  4. 2025RoboCOIN: An Open-Sourced Bimanual Robotic Data Collection for Integrated Manipulationcited by 78
  5. 2025Vid2World: Crafting Video Diffusion Models to Interactive World Modelscited by 76
  6. 2026WorldArena: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Perception and Functional Utility of Embodied World Modelscited by 76
  7. 2025InternData-A1: Pioneering High-Fidelity Synthetic Data for Pre-training Generalist Policycited by 50
  8. 2026DreamX-World 1.0: A General-Purpose Interactive World Modelcited by 40
  9. 2024AVID: Adapting Video Diffusion Models to World Modelscited by 37
  10. 2025Learning Real-World Action-Video Dynamics with Heterogeneous Masked Autoregressioncited by 23
  11. 2026WorldArena 2.0: Extending Embodied World Model Benchmarking on Modality, Functionality and Platformcited by 10

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  1. 2026Say, Dream, and Act: Learning Video World Models for Instruction-Driven Robot Manipulation
  2. 2026World Models for Robotic Manipulation: A Survey
  3. 2026τ0-WM: A Unified Video-Action World Model for Robotic Manipulation
  4. 2026RoboWM-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating World Models in Robotic Manipulation
  5. 2026GEM-4D: Geometry-Enhanced Video World Models for Robot Manipulation
  6. 2026PointWAM: 3D World Action Modeling for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
  7. 2026DreamTrajectory: Trajectory-Guided Action Generation with World Model Alignment for Mobile Manipulation
  8. 2026DELE-w0.5: Inferring Action from Future Latent State for Robotic Manipulation