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  1. Time-to-Goal: Learned Temporal Metrics for Long-Horizon Planning with JEPA World Models

    Nov 4, 2026Ruilong Yu, Fei YeWorld Model-Based PlanningLong-Horizon Planning

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  2. Closed-Loop Adaptive Sampling on a Generative Ocean Model

    Nov 4, 2026Shayesteh Hafezi, Alan PapaliaAdaptive SamplingLatent-Space Planning

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

  3. Control Barrier Functions for Safety-Aware Latent-Space Motion Planning

    Nov 1, 2026Chandrakiran Ravula, Siddhanth RameshSafe Motion PlanningLatent-Space Planning

    Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, India

  4. When More Planning Hurts: Learned Planners for World Models

    Oct 27, 2026Josef ChenWorld Model-Based PlanningLatent-Space Planning

    Independent Researcher

  5. Adapt for Planning, Not just Prediction: Optimistic Test-Time World Model Adaptation

    Oct 26, 2026Akshay Mete, Dileep Kalathil, P. R. KumarTest-Time AdaptationWorld Model-Based Planning

    ECE Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.

  6. A Transformer-based Approach for Real-time Multi-agent Path Planning with Varying Initial/Final Conditions

    Oct 21, 2026Qian Zhang, Shanqing Liu, Jerome Darbon +1Decentralized Multi-Agent Motion PlanningMulti-Agent Planning

    Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.

  7. Slot-JEPA: Object-Structured Prediction Interfaces for Latent World Models

    Oct 20, 2026Peisong Wen, Qianqian Xu, Minye Lei +3Goal-Conditioned PlanningJoint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

    School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence +2

  8. Knowing When to Stop Thinking: A Dissection of Expected Free Energy as a Test-Time Compute Controller for Latent World-Model Planning

    Oct 20, 2026Tong Zhang, Zhiyuan Shi, Yun Peng +1Expected Free EnergyInference-Time Compute Allocation

    Fudan University · Peking University

  9. Learning Goal-Conditioned Subgoals through Frozen Hierarchical World Models

    Oct 19, 2026Xiang Kaibo, Liu QingfengHierarchical World ModelsWorld Model-Based Planning

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hosei University

  10. Latent Projection for Latent Planning

    Oct 19, 2026Yoo Sung Jang, Michael RyooLatent-Space PlanningWorld Model-Based Planning

    Stony Brook University

  11. Vector-Quantized World Model: Latent Feedback Motion Planning for Robot Manipulation

    Oct 19, 2026Xuezhou Xu, Chung-Pang Wang, Zhenzhen Li +1Long-Horizon Robotic ManipulationWorld Model-Based Planning

    New York University, New York, NY, USA. · NVIDIA.

  12. Latent World Models Should Plan with Distances Along the Latent Manifold

    Oct 18, 2026Zunzhi You, Linwei Tao, Siyu Xu +2Latent World ModelsLatent-Space Planning

    The University of Sydney · Machine Learning Research, Apple

  13. Action-Aligned Latent Planning for Versatile Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Oct 17, 2026Yutang Lin, Guanya Shi, C. Karen LiuHumanoid Loco-ManipulationLatent-Space Planning

    Amazon FAR · Carnegie Mellon University · Stanford University

  14. Beyond Action Prediction: Learning Search-Free Planning in Latent Space

    Oct 16, 2026Guanchen Du, Jinhao Du, Yanpeng Sun +3Latent-Space PlanningModel-Based Planning

    Nanjing University of Science and Technology · University of Oxford · Singapore University of Technology and Design +1

  15. Order-Consistent Latent Geometry for Reliable Short-Horizon Planning in World Models

    Oct 13, 2026Junlin Wu, Wen Fan, Dandan ZhangLatent Space GeometryLatent-Space Planning

    Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  16. Sampling-based Kinodynamic Planning with World Models

    Oct 9, 2026Yitian Gao, Hanlan Yang, Zachary KingstonLatent-Space PlanningMotion Planning

    Department of Computer Science, Purdue University

  17. LiteNWM: Efficient Latent World Models for Onboard Visual Navigation in the Wild

    Oct 8, 2026Linkai Liu, Yuntian Zhang, Zhenshan Bing +5Robot NavigationLatent World Models

    Nanjing University · Imperial College London · Sony AI +1

  18. H-JEPA: End-to-End Learning of Hierarchical World Models for Visual Planning

    Oct 5, 2026Wancong Zhang, Basile Terver, Michael Rabbat +2World Models for RoboticsWorld Models

    NYU · Advanced Machine Intelligence · INRIA Paris +1

  19. How Long, Not How Close: A Learned Temporal Metric for Planning in Latent World Models

    Oct 4, 2026Lama Moukheiber, Haotian Xue, Yongxin ChenWorld Model-Based PlanningLong-Horizon Planning

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  20. Learning Commute-Time-Preserving World Models for Planning

    Oct 1, 2026Michael Hauri, Peter Buttaroni, Fabian A. Mikulasch +1Spectral Graph EmbeddingRepresentation Learning

    Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland · Faculty of Science, University of Basel, Switzerland

  21. Anisotropic Representations Improve Planning in JEPA World Models

    Sep 29, 2026Mingu Kang, Yoori Oh, Sookyung Kim +1Representation LearningWorld Model-Based Planning

    Seoul National University · Ewha Womans University

  22. Control-Geometry Straightening for Sampling-Based Latent Planning

    Sep 28, 2026Ziang Fu, Ning NingRepresentation LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Texas A&M University

  23. LRC-JEPA: Disentangling Dynamics and Residual Context for Efficient World Models

    Sep 28, 2026Luzhe Huang, Lei Chu, Jingyi Liang +1Disentangled Representation LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Independent researcher

  24. Metro-WM: Long-Horizon Latent Planning with Realisable Sub-Goals

    Sep 25, 2026Royson Lee, Fady Rezk, Titouan Parcollet +2Long-Horizon PlanningGoal-Conditioned Planning

    Samsung AI, Cambridge, UK · University of Edinburgh, UK

  25. LePlanner: An Iterative Amortized Controller For World Models

    Sep 12, 2026Saksham Bansal, Om Naphade, Chayan Aggarwal +1World Model-Based PlanningModel-Based Planning

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee · Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee · Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee +1

  26. Toward Physically Grounded JEPA World Models for Goal-Conditioned Robotic Planning

    Sep 3, 2026Muyuan Liu, Yue Huang, Zheng Liang +1World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    GENISOM AI, Beijing, China

  27. Hydra: A Navigation World Action Model with Discrete Latent Planning and Continuous Flow-Matching Execution

    Aug 29, 2026Mohammad Nazeri, Alexandyr Card, Samira Huber +6Kinodynamic Motion PlanningWorld Models for Robotics

    George Mason University · Kiel University · Ludwig Maximilian University Munich +1

  28. LeFlow: Generative Latent Flow Planning for World Models

    Aug 25, 2026Hsiang-Wei Huang, Jianxu Shangguan, Junbin Lu +1Latent-Space PlanningWorld Model-Based Planning

    University of Washington, United States

  29. Traj-LeWM: Path-Aware World-Model Planning via Latent Trajectory Cost

    Aug 14, 2026Xiaodi Huang, Ziyi Ding, Jingtian Wan +6World Model-Based PlanningWorld Model Learning

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School +4

  30. The Objective Is the Bottleneck: Latent World Models Encode What Their Planners Cannot Use

    Aug 13, 2026Joyjeet SinghWorld Model-Based PlanningModel-Based Planning

    Independent researcher