Overview

Next-action prediction asks what a person, process, or embodied or language-model agent will do next, supporting anticipation, assistance, monitoring, and planning. Methods range from temporal video transformers using gaze, affordance, trajectory, and object-interaction cues to event-log n-grams and neural sequence models, symbolic state models, and agents with retrieval or learned memory. Evaluation spans egocentric action benchmarks such as Ego4D and EPIC-Kitchens, process logs, interaction tasks, and robot settings, with measures of action accuracy, prediction horizon, robustness, and timing. Key challenges include using causal temporal history rather than static cues, adapting across people, tasks, and viewpoints, and determining when complex models outperform simple frequency baselines; long-horizon and personalized prediction remain difficult.

Latest papers

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34 papers8 papers in the last four weeks, against 2 the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. AdaPolicy: Action-Driven Anticipatory Robot Policies via Next-Chunk Prediction

    Oct 25, 2026Fan Yang, Yuting Su, Chen Zhao +2Robot Policy LearningNext-Action Prediction

  2. Co-Evolving Acting and Forecasting for Language Agents

    Oct 14, 2026Haofei Yu, Yixing Chen, Yining Zhao +6RL for LLM AgentsAgentic RL

  3. Sensor-Language-Action Models

    Oct 6, 2026Yuekai Xu, Zitao Shuai, Yuzhe YangNext-Action Prediction

  4. EMBER-Bench: Benchmarking Cross-Event Causal Memory in Long-Horizon Embodied Tasks

    Oct 4, 2026Aoyang Cai, Boning Zhao, Shaoxuan Xie +5Next-Action PredictionEmbodied QA

  5. NextMe-800: Anticipating Personal Behavior from Months of Egocentric Video

    Oct 1, 2026Zhaoxu Meng, Yiming Sun, Mingyuan Gao +5Next-Action PredictionEgocentric Video Understanding

  6. RoboChrono: A Real Robot Benchmark for Streaming Task Understanding

    Sep 29, 2026Yuzhou Wu, Longteng Fan, Zimeng Li +22Next-Action PredictionRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

  7. CE4^4L: Continual Ego, Exo, and Ego-Exo Learning

    Sep 20, 2026Hongwei Yan, Kanglei Zhou, Yuchen Liu +3Temporal Action SegmentationNext-Action Prediction

  8. Automata from Agent Traces: Failure and Next-Step Prediction

    Aug 24, 2026Seonglae Cho, Franklin Cardenoso Fernandez, Umar Mohammed +4AI Agent MonitoringAI Agent Auditing

  9. G3Ego: Gaze-Guided Graphs for Egocentric Action Understanding

    Aug 20, 2026Marko Haralović, Akash Ramakrishnan, Estefania Talavera MartinezEgocentric Video UnderstandingVideo Action Recognition

  10. Speculate with Memory: Lossless Acceleration for LLM Agents

    Jul 14, 2026Yu Li, Qinyuan Ye, Prafulla Kumar Choubey +2Next-Action PredictionLLM Agent Memory

  11. Pelican-VLA 0.5: Attending Before Acting Benefits Generalization

    Jul 7, 2026Zeyuan Ding, Wenhai Liu, Yang Xu +6Next-Action PredictionGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

  12. SAGE: Synchronized Action-Gaze Recognition and Anticipation for Human Behavior Understanding

    Jul 4, 2026Chenyi Kuang, Nakul AgarwalGaze EstimationNext-Action Prediction

  13. PraMem: Practice-derived Experiential Memory for Long-horizon Behavior Prediction

    Jul 3, 2026Zhuoqun Li, Boxi Cao, Jiawei Chen +11Memory-Augmented Language ModelsNext-Action Prediction

  14. David vs. Goliath in Next Activity Prediction: Argmax vs. LSTM, Transformer, and LLM

    Jun 14, 2026Hans Weytjens, Ingo WeberLLM EvaluationPredictive Process Monitoring

  15. A Benchmark and Framework for Evaluating Next Action Predictions in Spreadsheets

    Jun 11, 2026Tejas Agrawal, Vu Le, Sumit Gulwani +1Next-Action PredictionAutomated Evaluation

  16. GeoSem-WAM: Geometry- and Semantic-Aware World Action Models

    Jun 2, 2026Fulong Ma, Daojie Peng, Wenjun Yue +4World Models for RoboticsNext-Action Prediction

  17. How You Move Tells What You'll Do: Trajectory-Conditioned Egocentric Prediction

    May 19, 2026Sejoon Jun, Hai Nguyen-Truong, Luigi Seminara +1Next-Action PredictionEgocentric Video Understanding

  18. EgoInteract: Synthetic Egocentric Videos Generation for Interaction Understanding and Anticipation

    May 18, 2026Rosario Leonardi, Francesco Ragusa, Daniele Materia +4Temporal Action SegmentationNext-Action Prediction

  19. Predicting Decisions of AI Agents from Limited Interaction through Text-Tabular Modeling

    May 12, 2026Eilam Shapira, Moshe Tennenholtz, Roi ReichartNext-Action PredictionLLM Agents

  20. Promoting Simple Agents: Ensemble Methods for Event-Log Prediction

    Apr 23, 2026Benedikt Bollig, Matthias Függer, Thomas Nowak +1Next-Action PredictionEnsemble Learning

  21. Neuro-Symbolic Manipulation Understanding with Enriched Semantic Event Chains

    Apr 22, 2026Fatemeh ZiaeetabarNext-Action PredictionVideo Action Recognition

  22. ActionNex: A Virtual Outage Manager for Cloud Computing

    Apr 3, 2026Zhenfeng Lin, Haoji Hu, Ming Hao +11AI-Assisted Decision MakingNext-Action Prediction

  23. Chameleons do not Forget: Prompt-Based Online Continual Learning for Next Activity Prediction

    Apr 1, 2026Marwan Hassani, Tamara Verbeek, Sjoerd van StratenNext-Action PredictionPredictive Process Monitoring

  24. Gaze-Regularized VLMs for Ego-Centric Behavior Understanding

    Mar 24, 2026Anupam Pani, Yanchao YangVision-Language ModelsEgocentric Video Understanding

  25. EgoIntent: A Pre-Outcome Micro-Step Benchmark for Understanding What, Why, and Next

    Mar 12, 2026Ye Pan, Chi Kit Wong, Yuanhuiyi Lyu +8Egocentric Video UnderstandingIntent Classification

  26. Test-time Ego-Exo-centric Adaptation for Action Anticipation via Multi-Label Prototype Growing and Dual-Clue Consistency

    Mar 10, 2026Zhaofeng Shi, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang +4Test-Time AdaptationNext-Action Prediction