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Which failure modes of text world models did arXiv 2604.13824 actually measure (over-optimistic simulation, time-outs, room-connectivity errors), and how large were they?

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S1 measures one failure mode quantitatively: the "too easy simulator" in which a world model lets a weak agent succeed that fails in the real environment (TextWorld, Qwen3-0.6B: 85/200 false positives with the supervised model, 19/200 after BehR; Qwen3-1.7B: 69 and 34). It also reports, descriptively, that 82-97% of WebShop world-model episodes hit the 50-step cap because the model does not reproduce purchase completion, and one worked TextWorld trajectory in which broken room connectivity traps the agent. It reports no per-category error rates for inventory, location or object state.

S1 measures one failure mode quantitatively: the "too easy simulator" in which a world model lets a weak agent succeed that fails in the real environment (TextWorld, Qwen3-0.6B: 85/200 false positives with the supervised model, 19/200 after BehR; Qwen3-1.7B: 69 and 34). It also reports, descriptively, that 82-97% of WebShop world-model episodes hit the 50-step cap because the model does not reproduce purchase completion, and one worked TextWorld trajectory in which broken room connectivity traps the agent. It reports no per-category error rates for inventory, location or object state. Curator qualifications: 'Too easy simulator' failure measured: TextWorld weak-agent false successes 85/200 to 19/200 (Qwen3-0.6B) after BehR; 82-97% of WebShop world-model episodes hit the 50-step cap. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  • [sourced_fact] S1 measures one failure mode quantitatively: the "too easy simulator" in which a world model lets a weak agent succeed that fails in the real environment (TextWorld, Qwen3-0.6B: 85/200 false positives with the supervised model, 19/200 after BehR; Qwen3-1.7B: 69 and 34). It also reports, descriptively, that 82-97% of WebShop world-model episodes hit the 50-step cap because the model does not reproduce purchase completion, and one worked TextWorld trajectory in which broken room connectivity traps the agent. It reports no per-category error rates for inventory, location or object state. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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