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Slots, Transitions, Loops: Learning Composable World Models for ARC
Jun 10, 2026Gege Gao, Bernhard Schölkopf, Andreas GeigerWorld Model Learning Visual Reasoning
University of Tübingen · ETH Zürich
MLP Splatting: Object-Centric Neural Fields
Jun 2, 2026Shinjeong Kim, Yuzhou Cheng, Xin Kong +2Open-Vocabulary 3D Segmentation 3D Scene Editing
Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Physical Object Understanding with a Physically Controllable World Model
May 30, 2026Rahul Venkatesh, Klemen Kotar, Lilian Naing Chen +9Physical Reasoning World Model Learning
Stanford University · OpenAI · Noetik Inc. +1
Internalizing Temporal Consistency in Video Object-Centric Learning without Explicit Regularization
May 29, 2026Rongzhen Zhao, Zhiyuan Li, Juho Kannala +1Disentangled Representation Learning Object-Centric Representation Learning
Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University, Finland · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland · Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, Finland
Cycle Consistency in Video Object-Centric Learning
May 28, 2026Rongzhen Zhao, Zhiyuan Li, Ruonan Wei +2Self-Supervised Learning Object-Centric Representation Learning
Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland · School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland +1
WorldString: Actionable World Representation
May 18, 2026Kunqi Xu, Jitao Li, Jianglong Ye +4World Model Learning Object-Centric Representation Learning
Tsinghua University - IEI Lab · CalTech · UC San Diego +1
Slot-MPC: Goal-Conditioned Model Predictive Control with Object-Centric Representations
May 14, 2026Jonathan Spieler, Angel Villar-Corrales, Sven BehnkeWorld Models for Robotics World Model-Based Planning
Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Computer Science Institute VI - Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Center for Robotics and the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, University of Bonn, Germany
EvObj: Learning Evolving Object-centric Representations for 3D Instance Segmentation without Scene Supervision
May 13, 2026Jiahao Chen, Zihui Zhang, Yafei Yang +4Synthetic-to-Real Domain Adaptation Object-Centric Representation Learning
Shenzhen Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · vLAR Group, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
What-Where Transformer: A Slot-Centric Visual Backbone for Concurrent Representation and Localization
May 12, 2026Ryota Yoshihashi, Masahiro Kada, Satoshi Ikehata +2Visual Attention Vision Transformer
Institute of Science Tokyo · 2DENSO IT Laboratory · 3National Institute of Informatics
Unlocking Compositional Generalization in Continual Few-Shot Learning
May 12, 2026Phu-Quy Nguyen-Lam, Phu-Hoa Pham, Dao Sy Duy Minh +3Object-Centric Representation Learning Few-Shot Learning
Faculty of Information Technology, University of Science, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. · Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom.
InfoGeo: Information-Theoretic Object-Centric Learning for Cross-View Generalizable UAV Geo-Localization
May 8, 2026Hongyang Zhang, Maonan Wang, Ziyao Wang +2Multi-View Consistency Cross-View Geo-Localization
School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Guangdong 518172, China · Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China · Shanghai AI Laboratory, Shanghai 200032, China
OA-WAM: Object-Addressable World Action Model for Robust Robot Manipulation
May 7, 2026Yushan Liu, Peibo Sun, Shoujie Li +7World Models for Robotics Action-Conditioned World Models
Tsinghua University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanyang Technological University
Weakly Supervised Concept Learning for Object-centric Visual Reasoning
May 5, 2026Sparsh Tiwari, Bettina Finzel, Gesina SchwalbeVisual Reasoning Object-Centric Representation Learning
University of Lübeck, Germany · University of Bamberg, Germany · University of Ulm, Germany
Rethinking Temporal Consistency in Video Object-Centric Learning: From Prediction to Correspondence
May 5, 2026Zhiyuan Li, Rongzhen Zhao, Wenyan Yang +3Object-Centric Representation Learning
Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University, Finland · Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland
SIMON: Saliency-aware Integrative Multi-view Object-centric Neural Decoding
May 1, 2026YuSheng Lin, Ji-Hwa Tsai, Chun-Shu WeiEEG-Based Visual Decoding Multi-View Learning
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
GenMatter: Perceiving Physical Objects with Generative Matter Models
Apr 24, 2026Eric Li, Arijit Dasgupta, Yoni Friedman +5Video Object Segmentation Object-Centric Representation Learning
1MIT CSAIL · 2MIT BCS
Unsupervised Learning of Inter-Object Relationships via Group Homomorphism
Apr 22, 2026Kyotaro Ushida, Takayuki Komatsu, Yoshiyuki Ohmura +1Disentangled Representation Learning Representation Learning
Mechano-Informatics Department, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
Deep Sprite-based Image Models: An Analysis
Apr 21, 2026Zeynep Sonat Baltacı, Romain Loiseau, Mathieu AubryClustering Object-Centric Representation Learning
LIGM, CNRS, Univ Gustave Eiffel, ENPC, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
OFlow: Injecting Object-Aware Temporal Flow Matching for Robust Robotic Manipulation
Apr 20, 2026Kuanning Wang, Ke Fan, Chenhao Qiu +5VLM Robustness Flow Matching
Fudan University Shanghai, China · University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA · KAUST Saudi Arabia
Scene-Agnostic Object-Centric Representation Learning for 3D Gaussian Splatting
Apr 10, 2026Tsuheng Hsu, Guiyu Liu, Juho Kannala +13D Gaussian Splatting Unsupervised Representation Learning
Aalto University · University of Oulu
Human-like Object Grouping in Self-supervised Vision Transformers
Mar 14, 2026Hossein Adeli, Seoyoung Ahn, Andrew Luo +3Object-Centric Representation Learning Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York · Department of Social Science and AI, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul · University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong +2
COMiT: Learning Structured Visual Tokens through Sequential Communication
Feb 24, 2026Aram Davtyan, Yusuf Sahin, Yasaman Haghighi +4Image Tokenization Visual Tokenization
Computer Vision Group, University of Bern, Switzerland · VITA Lab, EPFL, Switzerland
Modeling The Object Representations Underlying Human Physical Reasoning
Feb 12, 2026Andrey Gizdov, Andrea Procopio, Lorenzo Caputi +4Physical Reasoning Computational Cognitive Modeling
Harvard University · Weizmann Institute of Science · Bocconi University
Spotlighting Task-Relevant Features: Object-Centric Representations for Better Generalization in Robotic Manipulation
Jan 29, 2026Alexandre Chapin, Bruno Machado, Emmanuel Dellandréa +1Visual Representation Learning Generalization in Robotic Manipulation
LIRIS, imagine
STORM: Slot-based Task-aware Object-centric Representation for robotic Manipulation
Jan 28, 2026Alexandre Chapin, Emmanuel Dellandréa, Liming ChenVision Foundation Model Adaptation Generalization in Robotic Manipulation
LIRIS · Ecole Centrale de Lyon, LIRIS, 69130, Ecully, France
SlotVLA: Towards Modeling of Object-Relation Representations in Robotic Manipulation
Nov 10, 2025Taisei Hanyu, Nhat Chung, Huy Le +10Representation Learning Object-Centric Representation Learning
University of Arkansas, USA · FPT Software AI Center, Vietnam · University of Stuttgart, Germany +5
Slot2Text: Object-Centric Visual Tokenization for Efficient and Spatially Traceable Surgical MLLMs
Date pendingGuiqiu Liao, Matjaz Jogan, Daniel A. HashimotoImage Tokenization Healthcare
GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania · PCASO Laboratory, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania · Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania
What Moves? Localized Motion Representations for Compositional Scene Control
Date pendingFrank Fundel, Malek Ben Alaya, Thomas Ressler-Antal +2Representation Learning Object-Centric Representation Learning

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Slots, Transitions, Loops: Learning Composable World Models for ARC

Gege Gao, Bernhard Schölkopf, Andreas Geiger

University of Tübingen · ETH Zürich

World Model Learning Visual Reasoning Object-Centric World Models Object-Centric Representation Learning In-Context Learning

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ARC tests in-context rule induction: given a few input-output demonstrations, a model must infer the hidden rule and apply it to a new query. While many approaches express ARC rules through language, code, or symbolic programs, ARC itself is visual-symbolic: rules appear as grid transitions over objects, colors, shapes, and spatial relations. We introduce Loop-OWM, an object-centric world-modeling architecture that learns these rules as composable transitions over structured states. It combines color-prototype slots, demonstration-conditioned task summaries, and a looped transition model with dense propagation and slot-conditioned correction. On both ARC-1 and ARC-2, Loop-OWM outperforms non-looped and looped baselines with comparable or fewer parameters. These results suggest that ARC rules can be learned not only as language descriptions or searched programs, but also as transitions over visual-symbolic world states.

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