AI RESEARCH

Latent Geometry Beyond Search: Amortizing Planning in World Models

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2605.08732v1 Announce Type: cross Modern vision-based world models can represent observations as compact yet expressive latent manifolds, but fast goal-oriented planning in these spaces remains challenging. This raises a central question: when does a learned representation simplify control, rather than merely enabling prediction? We study this question in a pretrained LeWorldModel, whose latent geometry is regularized for smoothness and uniformity.