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It reports no per-category error rates for inventory, location or object state.\n\nCurator 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.\n\nEvidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.","citations":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13824v2","note":"candidate evidence excerpts"}]},"categories":["T15","T18","T20"],"tags":[],"language":"en","visibility":"public","moderation":{"state":"visible","reason":null},"evidence":{"inspection":"source_inspected","execution":"not_run","review":"unreviewed","review_revision":null,"claims":[{"url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.13824v2","claim":"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. 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