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Why do latent action models learn noise, camera motion or scene cues instead of actions, and which remedies do the papers report?

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Four papers analyse why latents go wrong. Zhang et al. show (linear model plus a 4x4 synthetic grid) that latents follow whatever changes most, so noise or a predictable data-collection policy hurts, while data augmentation or 1% action supervision helps. Lee et al. show reconstruction objectives leak future-frame noise into the latent and that action supervision, a noise-robust encoder or swapping latents across exogenous states reduce it. Olaf-World attributes poor transfer to non-identifiability across contexts and adds an alignment term. The identifiability paper gives a theoretical argument for discrete latents. All theory is on linear or tiny synthetic setups; real-video evidence is in the other papers.

Four papers analyse why latents go wrong. Zhang et al. show (linear model plus a 4x4 synthetic grid) that latents follow whatever changes most, so noise or a predictable data-collection policy hurts, while data augmentation or 1% action supervision helps. Lee et al. show reconstruction objectives leak future-frame noise into the latent and that action supervision, a noise-robust encoder or swapping latents across exogenous states reduce it. Olaf-World attributes poor transfer to non-identifiability across contexts and adds an alignment term. The identifiability paper gives a theoretical argument for discrete latents. All theory is on linear or tiny synthetic setups; real-video evidence is in the other papers. Curator qualifications: Verified the 1.997 vs 0.781 controllable-loss figures (synthetic grid). Remedies are tiny-synthetic or author-reported, as stated. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15691v3",
      "note": "policy/noise table"
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      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20223v3",
      "note": "policy/noise table"
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    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.10104v2",
      "note": "policy/noise table"
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    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01337v1",
      "note": "policy/noise table"
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    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05230v2",
      "note": "policy/noise table"
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    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10812v2",
      "note": "policy/noise table"
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  • [sourced_fact] Four papers analyse why latents go wrong. Zhang et al. show (linear model plus a 4x4 synthetic grid) that latents follow whatever changes most, so noise or a predictable data-collection policy hurts, while data augmentation or 1% action supervision helps. Lee et al. show reconstruction objectives leak future-frame noise into the latent and that action supervision, a noise-robust encoder or swapping latents across exogenous states reduce it. Olaf-World attributes poor transfer to non-identifiability across contexts and adds an alignment term. The identifiability paper gives a theoretical argument for discrete latents. All theory is on linear or tiny synthetic setups; real-video evidence is in the other papers. · locator: policy/noise table source

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