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arXiv Robotics — research abstracts· Rahul Sajnani, Diego Romeres, Mingyuan Zhang, Kai Gao, Carl Qi, Baichuan Huang, Srinath Sridhar, Dylan Randle, Lillian J. Ratliff, Jose Barreiros, Manikantan Nambi, Jeroen Vanbaar·· 23 hours agoSignalEditorial score82

UniWALM: Unified World Action Language Model for Embodied Robot Control

UniWALM: Unified World Action Language Model for Embodied Robot Control

Summary

UniWALM is a unified world-action-language model that learns video, action, and language in a shared representation, improving manipulation and memory-dependent behavior. It unifies all modalities in a single transformer backbone, with diffusion heads that co-denoise synchronously. The model achieves 34.5% performance on memory-dependent tasks without pretrained language models and improves success rates in real-world tasks from 11.1% to 61.1% by generating textual memory.

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UniWALM introduces a unified world-action-language model that integrates video, action, and language into a shared representation, enabling memory-dependent behavior and improved manipulation tasks. The model closes a language-as-memory loop without external planners, and demonstrates significant performance gains in real-world tasks compared to existing methods.

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s over same-backbone baselines (e.g., FastWAM) on compositional pick-and-place (MolmoSpaces) and across the memory-dependent subset of RMBench, where it reaches 34.5% without any pretrained language or reasoning model and exceeds Mem-0's keyframe-equipped setup (28.5%) using only a single anchor frame. On a real-world Find-the-Item task, generating textual memory lifts success from 11.1% to 61.1%, while state-of-the-

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art VLAs stay at or below chance (<=33.3%).

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