World Action Modeling with Progressive Visual Planning research paper by Meta, 2026
Meta · Multimodal and robotics · Oct 1, 2026 · 1 citations · 98 upvotes · unverified
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ProWAM improves robotic control by predicting sparse visual sub-goals to guide action generation, avoiding the need for dense video generation.
By Fei Zhang, Zhaochong An, Duncan Frost and 5 more · arXiv 2610.02508 · PDF
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ProWAM improves robotic control by predicting sparse visual sub-goals to guide action generation, avoiding the need for dense video generation.
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