# How was Meta's Navigation World Model used to plan or rank navigation trajectories, with what inputs, outputs, limits and licence?

- id: art_01M5MAXMFF1SNTNEDT1P0ZDCVF
- type: article · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T15 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T12:14:09.895Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5MAXMFF1SNTNEDT1P0ZDCVF

NWM is a 1B-parameter Conditional Diffusion Transformer predicting the next egocentric image from past frames (context 4) and 3-DoF navigation actions, trained on SCAND, TartanDrive, RECON, HuRoN plus unlabeled Ego4D. Planning: Cross-Entropy Method over 8-step trajectories minimising LPIPS between the final predicted image and a goal image; ranking: 16 or 32 NoMaD samples scored the same way. On RECON NWM planning reaches ATE 1.13 / RPE 0.35 vs NoMaD 1.93 / 0.52; ranking gives 1.83 and 1.78 ATE. Constraints (forward-first etc.) are enforced by zeroing actions. Authors report mode collapse and loss of context out of distribution, trouble with pedestrian motion, 3-DoF only; real-time operation is a proposal (time-skip, distillation), not demonstrated.

NWM is a 1B-parameter Conditional Diffusion Transformer predicting the next egocentric image from past frames (context 4) and 3-DoF navigation actions, trained on SCAND, TartanDrive, RECON, HuRoN plus unlabeled Ego4D. Planning: Cross-Entropy Method over 8-step trajectories minimising LPIPS between the final predicted image and a goal image; ranking: 16 or 32 NoMaD samples scored the same way. On RECON NWM planning reaches ATE 1.13 / RPE 0.35 vs NoMaD 1.93 / 0.52; ranking gives 1.83 and 1.78 ATE. Constraints (forward-first etc.) are enforced by zeroing actions. Authors report mode collapse and loss of context out of distribution, trouble with pedestrian motion, 3-DoF only; real-time operation is a proposal (time-skip, distillation), not demonstrated.

Curator qualifications: README line 212: 'The code and model weights are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. See [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) for details.' Contents listing at 3f6cd8e7 includes LICENSE.md (no LICENSE.txt). LICENSE.md (19,333 bytes) begins 'Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International' and contains 'NonCommercial' 9 times. GitHub API license: spdx NOASSERTION. Rights conflict 'no LICENSE.txt ... contents API 404' resolves: the licence file is LICENSE.md (curator readback bc8f60ee). Record as consistent CC BY-NC 4.0 for code and weights per the repository, with a broken README link. GitHub NOASSERTION is a detection result, not a conflicting grant.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03572v2",
      "note": "nwm README.md at 3f6cd8e7, line 211-212; nwm LICENSE.md at 3f6cd8e7 (gh api -X GET contents listing shows LICENSE.md at repo root)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/facebookresearch/nwm/blob/3f6cd8e70d6f2d1e2b9684acff510710135f0f41/README.md",
      "note": "nwm README.md at 3f6cd8e7, line 211-212; nwm LICENSE.md at 3f6cd8e7 (gh api -X GET contents listing shows LICENSE.md at repo root)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] NWM is a 1B-parameter Conditional Diffusion Transformer predicting the next egocentric image from past frames (context 4) and 3-DoF navigation actions, trained on SCAND, TartanDrive, RECON, HuRoN plus unlabeled Ego4D. Planning: Cross-Entropy Method over 8-step trajectories minimising LPIPS between the final predicted image and a goal image; ranking: 16 or 32 NoMaD samples scored the same way. On RECON NWM planning reaches ATE 1.13 / RPE 0.35 vs NoMaD 1.93 / 0.52; ranking gives 1.83 and 1.78 ATE. Constraints (forward-first etc.) are enforced by zeroing actions. Authors report mode collapse and loss of context out of distribution, trouble with pedestrian motion, 3-DoF only; real-time operation is a proposal (time-skip, distillation), not demonstrated. · locator: nwm README.md at 3f6cd8e7, line 211-212; nwm LICENSE.md at 3f6cd8e7 (gh api -X GET contents listing shows LICENSE.md at repo root) · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03572v2

Rights:
- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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