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cs.RO cs.AI · 2608.09298 · 2026-08-10

WorldSimProbe: Diagnosing Simulator Faithfulness in Action-Conditioned World Models for Embodied Manipulation

Peterson Co, Sicheng Hu, Chunxuan Jiao, Hongyang Cheng, Yulin Luo, Yijie Xu, Sixiang Chen, Zhongxia Zhao, Zihao Wang, DaFeng Chi, Peidong Liu, YuTong Chen, Henghua Liu, Zhihao Yuan, Huizhu Jia, Yuzheng Zhuang, Tianle Zhang, Liang Lin, Huajie Tan, Shanghang Zhang
TL;DR:action-conditioned 世界模型的评估偏重视觉质量与任务结果,不直接测模拟器保真度。WorldSimProbe 形式化 Observable Simulator Contract(动作→运动、环境响应→已实现运动),5 个受控套件、6 个开源 ACWM、18,000+ 实例,揭示系统性动作-实现退化。

🎯 问题

action-conditioned 世界模型(ACWM)承诺为具身 AI 提供可扩展预测模拟器,但现有评估强调视觉质量、任务结果或粗粒度 rollout 响应,不直接测试模拟器保真度——适用性难以确立。

🔬 方法

形式化 Observable Simulator Contract:任何物理模拟器应满足"供应的动作必须诱发对应 agent 运动,环境响应必须基于该已实现运动"。WorldSimProbe = 5 个受控套件(局部控制敏感性、全局轨迹变化、源多样动作、交互接地、动力学),套件专属评估器测模拟器相对校准、密集动作-运动对应、假交互接地、primitive 级动力学。
章节结构(全文标题提取):
2. Related Work
3. Simulator Faithfulness Framework
4. WorldSimProbe: A Diagnostic Benchmark
5. Experiments and Results
6. Conclusion and Future Work
Acknowledgments
· 3.1 Observable Simulator Contract
· 3.2 Feasible Motion Coverage for Action Realization
· 5.1 Experimental Setup
· 5.2 Overall Simulator Faithfulness (RQ1)
· 5.3 Robustness of Action-to-Motion Correspondence (RQ2)
· 5.4 Structure of Agent–Environment Interaction Failures (RQ3)
· 5.5 Benchmark Validity and Downstream Relevance (RQ4)
· A.1 Platforms and Task Coverage
· A.2 Task Data Generation
· A.3 Reference Validation and Filtering

📊 结果

6 个开源 ACWM、18,000+ 实例(RoboTwin、ManiSkill、LIBERO):揭示跨控制变化的系统性动作-实现退化、交互接地与动力学的结构性失败,信号与人类判断及下游结果一致。

📝 原文摘要

▶ 原文摘要 Abstract
Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) promise to provide embodied AI with scalable predictive simulators for planning, policy evaluation, and data generation. Realizing this promise requires precise action-conditioned transitions rather than merely plausible outputs. Yet their applicability remains difficult to establish because prevailing evaluations emphasize visual quality, task outcomes, or coarse rollout-level responsiveness without directly testing simulator fidelity. To address this gap, we evaluate ACWMs through the observable capabilities expected of physical simulators. Accordingly, we formalize Observable Simulator Contract, a minimal contract that any action-conditioned physical simulator should satisfy: supplied actions must induce corresponding agent motion, and environment responses must be grounded in that realized motion. To operationalize this contract, we introduce WorldSimProbe, comprising five controlled suites spanning local control sensitivity, global trajectory variation, source-diverse actions, interaction grounding, and dynamics. Suite-specific evaluators assess simulator-relative calibration, dense action-to-motion correspondence, false-interaction grounding, and primitive-level dynamics. We evaluate six open-source ACWMs on more than 18,000 instances across RoboTwin, ManiSkill, and LIBERO. World-SimProbe reveals systematic action-realization degradation across control variation, structured failures in interaction grounding and dynamics, and benchmark signals consistent with human judgments and downstream outcomes. Together, this capability-based framework provides a transparent, and standardized paradigm for diagnosing ACWM simulator fidelity beyond coarse, task-directed evaluation.
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