DWM: Separating World Effects from Actions in Latent World Models

arXiv:2607.18715 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-07-21 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-07-21

Updated: 2026-09-27

Terminology

• World Model — 43× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Benchmark — 17× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent World Models — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Dynamics — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 6× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Transformer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decomposed World Model — 3× in this paper
• Ablation Studies — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Additive Decomposition — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Contrastive Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Latent Representation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transferability — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Embodied AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entanglement — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Self-Supervised Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes

Sources

• Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture
• Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models
• LeWorldModel: Stable End-to-End Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture from Pixels
• DeepMind Control Suite
• Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding
• DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning

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