Streaming-WAM: Action-Conditioned World-Action Model for Asynchronous Robot Manipulation
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Abstract (arXiv)
World action models (WAMs) that use future visual prediction at inference time incur substantial generation costs. Asynchronous execution reduces waiting by overlapping inference with robot motion, but visual predictions used for subsequent action generation must anticipate the effects of actions already scheduled for execution during inference. We introduce Streaming-WAM, which couples action-conditioned world modeling with asynchronous robot control to account for committed actions in future visual prediction. At each streaming update, the model conditions future visual prediction on the latest observation and the committed actions, which form the fixed prefix of the next action chunk. The resulting action-conditioned visual features guide generation of the remaining actions within the same joint update, so the continuation is informed by the scene changes expected during execution of the fixed prefix. On LIBERO, Streaming-WAM achieves an average success rate of 98.35% and reduces mean episode time by a factor of 2.93 relative to Fast-WAM. On the real-world Stamp Paper task, mean episode time falls from 90 s with synchronous Joint-WAM to 38 s with Streaming-WAM. These results show that Streaming-WAM supports efficient asynchronous control while maintaining high task success rates.
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- 2026GlanceWAM: Sparse Test-Time Imagination for World-Action Models25 Aug
- 2026Faster-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Deep Action Modules?3 Aug
- 2026World Action Models in Real Time: An Empirical Study of Smooth Execution via Asynchronous Deployment3 Aug
- 2026SelfWAM: A Self-Grounded Unified World Action Model for Fast Robot Control1 Aug
- 2026FBFM: A Training-Free Asynchronous Feedback Mechanism for Flow-Matching in World-Action Models Execution31 Jul
- 2026LaWAM: Latent World Action Models for Efficient Dynamics-Aware Robot Policies14 Jun
- 2026Efficient-WAM: A 1B-Parameter World-Action Model with Low-Cost Future Imagination8 Jun
- 2026AHA-WAM:Asynchronous Horizon-Adaptive World-Action Modeling with Observation-Guided Context Routing8 Jun
- 2026Light-WAM: Efficient World Action Models with State-Fusion Action Decoding6 Jun
- 2026Flash-WAM: Modality-Aware Distillation for World Action Models3 Jun
- 2026Unified 4D World Action Modeling from Video Priors with Asynchronous Denoising29 Apr
- 2026GigaWorld-Policy: An Efficient Action-Centered World--Action Model18 Mar
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- 2025Training-Time Action Conditioning for Efficient Real-Time Chunkingcited by 61
- 2025VLASH: Real-Time VLAs via Future-State-Aware Asynchronous Inferencecited by 54
- 2026Native Video-Action Pretraining for Generalizable Robot Controlcited by 30
- 2026FutureRTC: Real-Time Robot Execution with Anticipatory-Conditioned Action Chunkingcited by 8
- 2026Jetson-PI: Towards Onboard Real-Time Robot Control via Foresight-Aligned Asynchronous Inferencecited by 3
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- 2026DeltaWAM: Delta World Action Models for Bimanual Manipulation
- 2026Faster-WAM: Efficient Inference-Time Future Conditioning for Robust World Action Models
- 2026Achieve What You Imagined: Learning to Align Actions with Visual Plans
- 2026MoWAM: Explicit Future Motion Prediction for Efficient World Action Models
- 2026τ0-WM: A Unified Video-Action World Model for Robotic Manipulation
- 2026DELE-w0.5: Inferring Action from Future Latent State for Robotic Manipulation