INTACT is an end-to-end JEPA world model that learns an isomorphic intent-to-action interface, enabling search-free direct control for goal-conditioned robot tasks with high success rates after just one epoch of training.

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Why it is worth attention

It eliminates the broad numerical search typically required by latent world models at deployment, achieving direct zero-search control with 95.33% macro success rate across four visual domains and a shared-encoder version reaching 89.39%, all without a separate policy-training stage or frozen encoder.

Who it is for

  • Robot learning researchers
  • World model practitioners
  • Reinforcement learning engineers
  • Control theorists

Use cases

  • Direct goal-conditioned robot control without action search
  • Multi-task visual control with a single shared encoder
  • Real-time planning with optional local refinement
  • End-to-end world model training from reward-free trajectories

Strengths

  • Zero-search direct control achieving 95.33% macro success rate across four tasks in one epoch
  • Guarded verification uses 23.44x fewer sequences than CEM 300x30 while reaching 96.86% macro SR
  • Shared-encoder variant attains 89.39% Direct macro SR, outperforming the CEM-based baseline (66.17%)
  • Isomorphic design couples local and goal intents through a shared predictor without matching endpoints or requiring linear dynamics

Considerations

  • Training and evaluation code, as well as model checkpoints, are not yet publicly released (planned for future)
  • Results are reported on only four visual control domains (PushT, Cube, Reacher, TwoRoom) under the LeWM protocol
  • The approach requires a specific JEPA backbone and may need adaptation for very high-dimensional action spaces or non-visual observations

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INTACT: Isomorphic Intent-to-Action Learning for Search-Free World Models

Train a world model to answer the control query it will receive at deployment. End-to-end JEPA world modeling for goal-conditioned robot control without broad action search.

Junhan Sun1
 ·  Hao Zhao2,4,†
 ·  Guofeng Zhang1,3,†


1State Key Laboratory of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University
2Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University
3InSpatio  ·  4RoboParty Lab
†Corresponding authors














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TL;DR

Forward latent world models learn what an action will do. At deployment, they usually recover the action for a desired change through broad numerical search. INTACT jointly learns the missing intent-to-action interface, so its conditional mean acts directly as a search-free controller while sampling is reserved for diversity or optional local verification. It needs no frozen encoder, extra policy-training stage, or globally linear latent dynamics.

1 epochend-to-end task-specific training
95.33%Direct four-task macro SR
0candidate sequences for Direct
2.9-5.5 msplanner-side Direct latency


96.86%Guarded A macro SR
384local verification sequences
23.44x fewerthan CEM 300x30
89.39%shared-encoder E5 Direct macro

Abstract

INTACT is an end-to-end JEPA that converts action-labelled, reward-free trajectories into a deployable intent-to-action interface. It is isomorphic in two explicit senses: the local and goal intent calls use an identical four-slot backbone-input graph with shared parameters, and both supported intent families acquire action-law semantics through that same predictor. Asymmetric gradients ground physical successors and keep future goals fixed as deployment anchors. The resulting representation preserves action-effective information from RGB observations while maintaining the world structure needed by forward prediction.

Method

Each action-labelled transition provides two state-conditioned intent families:

$$ m_t^{\mathrm{local}} = z_{t+1}-z_t, \qquad m_t^{\mathrm{goal}} = \mathrm{sg}(z_g)-z_t. $$

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Description

INTACT: Isomorphic Intent-to-Action Learning for Search-Free World Models.

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