Sathya Kamesh Bhethanabhotla

Mind the Gap: Promises and Pitfalls of Hierarchical Planning in LeWorldModel

Niccolò Caselli, Francesco Massafra, Samuele Punzo, Salvatore Lo Sardo, Ippokratis Pantelidis, Sathya Kamesh Bhethanabhotla

We investigate whether temporal hierarchy can improve LeWorldModel on long-horizon goal-conditioned control. We introduce Hi-LeWM, an extension that freezes the pretrained low-level LeWM and adds high-level planning over latent subgoals. We evaluate Hi-LeWM on PushT and Cube acro…Read more