Waterloo Robot Learning Reading Group - World Models (Week 2)
Meetup to discuss state-of-the-art research on robot learning (humanoids, foundation models, RL, sim2real, etc.), similar to the Toronto ML/Systems Reading Group and Vector Institute's Machine Learning Lunches- list of topics & articles below - all are welcome! 🎉
Pizza sponsored by Palatial!
Previous week: https://luma.com/9i3ogts7
Topic - World Models
*Watch this recap (X thread, video) Sri by if you know nothing about world models.
6:00pm - Bardes, et al., 2024. Revisiting Feature Prediction for Learning Visual Representations from Video
AlphaXiv annotation link (post your questions / comments there before reading group!)
6:20pm - Assran, et al., 2025, V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning
AlphaXiv annotation link (post your questions / comments there before reading group!)
Additional Reading List:
Wu, et al., 2022. DayDreamer: World Models for Physical Robot Learning.
Bar, et al. 2024.Navigation World Models.
Richens, et al., 2024. Robust agents learn causal world models.
ByteDance Seed, 2025. GR-3 Technical Report.
Goff, et. al, 2025. Learning to Drive from a World Model.
Zhou, et al., 2025. DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning.
Sobal, et al., 2025. Learning from Reward-Free Offline Data: A Case for Planning with Latent Dynamics Models.
NIVIDA, 2025. Cosmos-Drive-Dreams: Scalable Synthetic Driving Data Generation with World Foundation Models.
NVIDIA, 2025. Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI.
NVIDIA, 2025. Cosmos-Reason1: From Physical Common Sense To Embodied Reasoning
Hu, et al., 2025. Video Prediction Policy: A Generalist Robot Policy with Predictive Visual Representations.
Wayve, 2025. GAIA-2: A Controllable Multi-View Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving.
Kong, et al., 2025. 3D and 4D World Modeling: A Survey
Guo, et al., 2025. MineWorld: a Real-Time and Open-Source Interactive World Model on Minecraft.
Hafner, et al., 2025. Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models.
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