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DreamX-Phi 1.0: Action-Conditioned Video World Model for Robotic Manipulation research paper by Alibaba (Qwen), 2026

Alibaba (Qwen) · Aug 13, 2026 · Multimodal and robotics · 2 citations · 61 upvotes · unverified

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DreamX-Phi 1.0 is an action-conditioned video world model for robotic manipulation that uses geometric attention encoding, depth estimation, object masks with a frozen teacher, and distillation to generate faithful future observations.

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About this paper
Authors
DreamX Team, Rui Chen, Xiangxiang Chu and 7 more
arXiv
2608.13489 · PDF
Citations
2, 0 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
61 · Hugging Face
Code
github.com/AMAP-ML/DreamX-Phi
Lab
Alibaba (Qwen) · on Companies · on Quarterly

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