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Sebastian Schmidt

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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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