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World Action Models are Zero-shot Policies

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Seonghyeon Ye; Yunhao Ge; Kaiyuan Zheng; Shenyuan Gao; Sihyun Yu; George Kurian; Suneel Indupuru; You Liang Tan; Chuning Zhu; Jiannan Xiang; Ayaan Malik; Kyungmin Lee; William Liang; Nadun Ranawaka; Jiasheng Gu; Yinzhen Xu; Guanzhi Wang; Fengyuan Hu; Avnish Narayan; Johan Bjorck; Jing Wang; Gwanghyun Kim; Dantong Niu; Ruijie Zheng; Yuqi Xie; Jimmy Wu; Qi Wang; Ryan Julian; Danfei Xu; Yilun Du; Yevgen Chebotar; Scott Reed; Jan Kautz; Yuke Zhu; Linxi "Jim" Fan; Joel Jang

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Major category: WAMs
Quadrant: Q2 · One Model × IDM
Architecture: One Model
Prediction paradigm: IDM
Subcategories: Visual planning & IDM Efficient inference & real-time control Generalization & action alignment
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@inproceedings{
dreamzero,
title={World Action Models are Zero-shot Policies},
author={Seonghyeon Ye and Yunhao Ge and Kaiyuan Zheng and Shenyuan Gao and Sihyun Yu and George Kurian and Suneel Indupuru and You Liang Tan and Chuning Zhu and Jiannan Xiang and Ayaan Naveed Malik and Kyungmin Lee and William Liang and Nadun Ranawaka Arachchige and Jiasheng Gu and Yinzhen Xu and Guanzhi Wang and Fengyuan Hu and Avnish Narayan and Johan Bjorck and Jing Wang and Gwanghyun Kim and Dantong Niu and Ruijie Zheng and Yuqi Xie and Jimmy Wu and Qi Wang and Danfei Xu and Yilun Du and Ryan Julian and Yevgen Chebotar and Scott Reed and Jan Kautz and Yuke Zhu and Linxi Fan and Joel Jang},
booktitle={ICLR Workshop},
year={2026},
}

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