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GlanceWAM: Sparse Test-Time Imagination for World-Action Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Video generative models provide rich physical priors for robot learning, yet existing world-action models (WAMs) face a fundamental trade-off: synchronous video generation at control rate is latency-prohibitive, while abandoning test-time visual imagination sacrifices task success. We show that visual imagination achieves both real-time inference and superior success rates when generated asynchronously off the critical path and consumed directly in latent space. We introduce GlanceWAM, which decouples imagination from control within a single video DiT: an asynchronous proposer glances ahead on

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