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Xiaoyang Guo

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AnyWorld: Factorized Egocentric World Models for Cross-Embodiment Generalization

Collecting contact-rich robot experiences at scale remains a major bottleneck for generalizable manipulation. Beyond data quantity, robot learning also requires diverse experiences across embodiments, viewpoints, and scenes. Human egocentric videos provide abundant physical interactions, but each video captures only a narrow slice of experience under a single body, camera trajectory, and environment. We propose AnyWorld, a cross-embodiment world modeling framework that expands a single human interaction into diverse robot-native rollouts without paired human-robot demonstrations. Our model factorizes an interaction into action, camera, and embodiment: action controls capture the motion structure, camera controls specify viewpoint evolution, and the target embodiment context defines the acting body and its interaction geometry. This formulation enables independent recomposition of embodiment, viewpoint, and scene factors, allowing a single model to generate many robot-domain experiences while preserving the underlying dynamics and object interactions. We train the model with large-scale human interaction pretraining followed by mixed-embodiment fine-tuning. Experiments show that our model supports controllable recomposition across embodiments, viewpoints, and scenes, and we further demonstrate that the generated data can improve manipulation performance on the RoboCasa GR1 tabletop benchmark and a real IRON humanoid robot. Beyond aggregate gains, we test whether unpaired human experience can be recomposed into robot-native video-action pairs that target a policy gap. Controlled IRON interventions correct a spurious completion prior and establish language-grounded spatial target selection; an action-only counterfactual intervention fails to learn the latter reliably, showing that both action calibration and visual recomposition are necessary.

cs.RO

Token-Budget Distillation: Transferring Full-Token Semantics to Compressed Video Vision-Language Models

Adapting video vision-language models (VLMs) is computationally expensive because video inputs produce a large number of visual tokens, making both fine-tuning and inference costly. Although visual token compression can reduce this overhead, direct adaptation on compressed inputs often causes semantic drift and noticeable performance degradation. We present Token-Budget Distillation (TBD), a parameter-efficient fine-tuning framework for adapting video VLMs under a fixed token budget. TBD freezes the pretrained backbone, updates only LoRA adapters, and integrates FlashVID-based visual token compression into the video pathway. To preserve full-token semantics under compression, TBD employs a dual-path teacher-student design, where a full-token teacher provides stable supervision and a compressed student is optimized with task loss, answer-region KL distillation, GT-anchored margin distillation, and reliability-aware KD control. This design enables the student to recover the semantic behavior of the full-token model while remaining efficient under aggressive token reduction. We evaluate TBD on three video VLM backbones, including LLaVA-Video, LLaVA-OneVision, and Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct, across four video understanding benchmarks. TBD consistently outperforms compression-only baselines under both moderate and aggressive compression. On LLaVA-Video at retention ratio R = 10 percent, TBD preserves 97.0 percent of the Vanilla model's average accuracy; on LLaVA-OneVision at R = 10 percent, it achieves an average score of 58.4 and matches 100.0 percent relative accuracy.

cs.CV