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Yan Wang

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Preprint Oct 2026

Language2Drive: Do Vision-Language-Action Models Really Follow the Instructions in Autonomous Driving?

Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models increasingly use natural-language instructions to condition autonomous driving behavior. Yet existing closed-loop benchmarks primarily measure route completion, safety, and rule compliance, leaving a fundamental question unresolved: does language actually determine which feasi...

Zi-Han You, Ze-Hua Fan, Wenqi Lyu et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Sep 2026

TacDyn-WAM: Learning Implicit Tactile Dynamics in a Heterogeneous Visuo-Tactile World Action Model

World action models improve robotic manipulation by conditioning actions on predicted futures, yet existing tactile variants largely inherit video-generation pipelines that reconstruct future tactile observations through iterative denoising. Such prediction can become unreliable under deployment drift: small changes in...

En-Yi Wang, Ming-Xin Wang, Quan Shi et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Sep 2026

World4Scorer: Outcome-Grounded World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

Autonomous driving requires choosing a safe and efficient plan as surrounding traffic evolves. Generate-and-select planners propose multiple trajectories and score them for execution, and they have outperformed representative direct-prediction baselines on NAVSIM. Their scorer must compare plans that were never execute...

Jie-Yuan Pei, Mei-Yi Lu, Sining Ang et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

4D-WAM: Infusing Spatiotemporal Awareness into World Action Models through Trajectory Fields

4D-WAM is proposed, a model-agnostic training strategy that injects spatiotemporal knowledge from 3D trajectory fields into WAMs through representation alignment, enabling WAMs to learn trajectory-level spatiotemporal representations.

Lishan Yang, Wen-Xuan Song, Xi Wang et al. · 5 citations · ⚡1
Preprint Aug 2026

StageWAM: Joint-Embedding Stage Prediction for World-Action Models in Robot Manipulation

StageWAM is introduced, which augments a Motus-based World Action Model with Stage-JEPA, a goal-conditioned Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) predictor, which uses a frozen V-JEPA2 encoder to extract the current-state representation and predicts the latent target of the next inferred stage.

Xiao Liu, Yuguang Yang, Xi Wang et al. · 2 citations · ⚡1
Preprint Aug 2026

Adaptive-WAM: Quality-Guided Early-Exit Planning from Intermediate Video-Diffusion Features

Adaptive-WAM is introduced, a quality-aware multi-exit planner built on a Wan2.2-5B backbone that avoids the iterative classifier-free denoising loop and VAE decoding required for future-video synthesis, while dynamically allocating backbone depth according to trajectory quality.

Sining Ang, Yuguang Yang, Yan Wang · 2 citations
Jul 2026

ST-WAM: Semantic-Temporal World Action Model for Robust Manipulation under Visual Distribution Shifts

Semantic-Temporal WAM (ST-WAM) is proposed to improve action robustness by using DINOv3 as a shared semantic representation for future prediction and history retrieval while retaining fine-grained VAE dynamics, demonstrating that semantic-temporal modeling effectively complements pixel-generative dynamics for robust ma...

Mingxin Wang, Bin Hu, Bin Qian et al. · 5 citations · ⚡1
Preprint Aug 2026

JEPA-WAM: Learning Vision-Language-Action Policies with Joint-Embedding World Modeling

JEPA-WAM, a latent WAM built in a pretrained V-JEPA space, which couples latent transition prediction with continuous action generation through a shared predictor, predicts a spatially structured joint current-future target that captures task-shared visual temporal structure between current and future observations, whi...

Yi-Han Lin, Jia-Wei He, Shi-Feng Bao et al. · 12 citations · ⚡1

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