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Parsa Mastouri Kashani, Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Stefan Wermter

The authors propose using a vision-language-action model’s visual representation both to select robot actions and to predict their consequences in a learned world model. They would adapt π₀-FAST and OpenVLA, train probes and the predictor, then refine the policy with reinforcement learning inside imagined rollouts. The concept paper reports no implementation, experiments, deployment, or measured efficiency gain.

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