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ARXIV:2605.15705 · ROBOTICS · SUBMITTED 18 MAY · 20:29 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2605.15705ROBOTICSSUBMITTED 18 MAY · 20:29 UTCFRESHNESS STALETuo An · Jindou Jia · Gen Li · Jingliang Li · Chuhao Zhou · Pengfei Liu · +5 at arXiv
A feedback-driven world model for robots that corrects prediction errors in real-time to improve decision-making under distribution shift.
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Pain A feedback-driven world model for robots that corrects prediction errors in real-time to improve decision-making under distribution shift.
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A feedback-driven world model for robots that corrects prediction errors in real-time to improve decision-making under distribution shift. However, in practice, their predictions often become unreliable once the robot encounters states outside the training…
World models aim to improve robotic decision making by predicting the consequences of actions. However, in practice, their predictions often become unreliable once the robot encounters states outside the training distribution, limiting their effectiveness…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. World models aim to improve robotic decision making by predicting the consequences of actions. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public…
Robotics moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A feedback-driven world model for robots that corrects prediction errors in real-time to improve decision-making under distribution shift.
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10.48550/arXiv.2605.15705A feedback-driven world model for robots that corrects prediction errors in real-time to improve decision-making under distribution shift.
Abstract
World models aim to improve robotic decision making by predicting the consequences of actions. However, in practice, their predictions often become unreliable once the robot encounters states outside the training distribution, limiting their effectiveness at deployment. We observe that execution itself provides a natural but underutilized signal: after each action, the robot directly observes the true next state, revealing the mismatch between predicted and actual outcomes. Building on this insight, we propose feedback world model, a new paradigm that closes the loop between prediction and observation at inference time. Instead of treating the world model as a static open-loop predictor, our method maintains a lightweight feedback state that is updated online to iteratively correct future predictions, compensating for model errors using real-time observations without additional training data or parameter updates. We show that this process can be interpreted as a latent-space observer and admits convergence guarantees under mild conditions. We further introduce action-aware guidance to better translate corrected predictions into control by emphasizing action-controllable components while suppressing irrelevant variations. Experiments on LIBERO-Plus, Robomimic, and real-world manipulation tasks demonstrate that our method substantially improves both prediction accuracy and policy performance under distribution shift. In particular, it reduces world model prediction error by up to 76.4% and improves out-of-distribution (OOD) success rate by 30%. These results show that incorporating real-time feedback at inference time provides a simple yet powerful alternative to static world modeling.
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A feedback-driven world model for robots that corrects prediction errors in real-time to improve decision-making under distribution shift. However, in practice, their predictions often become unreliable once the robot encounters states outside the training distribution, limiting...
METHOD
World models aim to improve robotic decision making by predicting the consequences of actions. However, in practice, their predictions often become unreliable once the robot encounters states outside the training distribution, limiting their effectiveness at deployment.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. World models aim to improve robotic decision making by predicting the consequences of actions. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.
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Robotics moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A feedback-driven world model for robots that corrects prediction errors in real-time to improve decision-making under distribution shift. However, in practice, their predictions often become unreliable once the robot encounters states outside the training distribution, limiting their effectiveness at deployment.
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World models aim to improve robotic decision making by predicting the consequences of actions. However, in practice, their predictions often become unreliable once the robot encounters states outside the training distribution, limiting their effectiveness at deployment.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. World models aim to improve robotic decision making by predicting the consequences of actions. Code availability is flagged in the production record; the public repository link still needs proof alignment.
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Robotics moved forward this cycle; last verified May 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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