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MT-WAM: Reorienting the One-Pass Predictive Representation Toward Action Generation

arXiv 2609.21474 ↗First posted 18 Sep 2026cs.CV cs.ROcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Fast-WAM shows that video-action co-training improves control without generating future video at inference, making the representation from a single video diffusion Transformer forward central to action generation. However, future-observation prediction does not explicitly prioritize the future dynamics and visual structure needed for control. We present MT-WAM, which retains the original training objectives and adds complementary supervision for future two-dimensional point trajectories and visual features. A lightweight dual-stream branch copied from the video backbone's final blocks provides target-specific processing, while a structured attention mask prevents cross-stream attention. Motion-stream tokens supply additional dynamics conditions to the action expert. Future visual-feature prediction provides supervision in a feature space that captures object and spatial structure. This supervision trains the video backbone to provide more informative visual context for action generation under changing visual conditions, without adding visual-feature-stream tokens to action conditioning. At inference, MT-WAM uses video and motion caches computed once per replan and skips future-video prediction. Without additional embodied policy pretraining, MT-WAM achieves 98.2% success on LIBERO and 73.7% on LIBERO-Plus, exceeding Fast-WAM by 23.8 percentage points on the latter. On RoboTwin 2.0 Clean2Rand, Random success increases from 6.30% to 19.40%; across four real-world tasks, average success increases from 67.0% to 77.8%.

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