Trajectory World Models for Heterogeneous Environments
This addresses the problem of scalable world model transfer for complex control environments, representing a novel advancement rather than incremental.
The paper tackles the challenge of building pre-trained world models for heterogeneous environments with diverse sensors and actuators, introducing UniTraj dataset and TrajWorld architecture, which achieve state-of-the-art results in transition prediction and off-policy evaluation.
Heterogeneity in sensors and actuators across environments poses a significant challenge to building large-scale pre-trained world models on top of this low-dimensional sensor information. In this work, we explore pre-training world models for heterogeneous environments by addressing key transfer barriers in both data diversity and model flexibility. We introduce UniTraj, a unified dataset comprising over one million trajectories from 80 environments, designed to scale data while preserving critical diversity. Additionally, we propose TrajWorld, a novel architecture capable of flexibly handling varying sensor and actuator information and capturing environment dynamics in-context. Pre-training TrajWorld on UniTraj yields substantial gains in transition prediction, achieves a new state-of-the-art for off-policy evaluation, and also delivers superior online performance of model predictive control. To the best of our knowledge, this work, for the first time, demonstrates the transfer benefits of world models across heterogeneous and complex control environments. Code and data are available at https://github.com/thuml/TrajWorld.