Predicting the Future with Simple World Models

World models can represent potentially high-dimensional pixel observations in compact latent spaces, making it tractable to model the dynamics of the environment. However, the latent dynamics inferred by these models may still be highly complex. Abstracting the dynamics of the environment with simple models can have several benefits. If the latent dynamics are simple, the model may generalize better to novel transitions, and discover useful latent representations of environment states. We propose a regularization scheme that simplifies the world model's …

benefits cs.lg dynamics environment future making pixel simple spaces the environment tractable world world models