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Christian Oefinger

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arxivcs.ROcs.AIcs.LGcs.SE2026-07-08

Validate the Dream Before You Trust Its Verdict: Admissibility for World-Model Simulators

Christian Oefinger, Finn Rasmus Schäfer, Korbinian Moller, Mattia Piccinini, Johannes Betz

Across robotics, World Models (WMs) are increasingly used to evaluate action policies by simulating the consequences of actions in an imagined world, and returning a success or safety verdict. Yet a verdict is only as trustworthy as the WM that produced it, and the WM itself need…

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arxivcs.RO2026-07-07

Imagined Rollouts are Kinematic, Not Dynamic: A Diagnosis of Long-Horizon World-Model Failure

Finn Rasmus Schäfer, Korbinian Moller, Yuan Gao, Christian Oefinger, Sebastian Schmidt, Johannes Betz

Long-horizon failure in world models is conventionally attributed to compounding error, a generic framing that does not distinguish what kind of error compounds. We propose a kinematic-vs-dynamic reframing: world models tend to imagine kinematically rather than dynamically. We op…

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