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Reported results: on a humanoid with GR00T N1, 14 novel behaviours 11.2% -> 43.2% and 13 novel-environment tasks 0.0% -> 28.5% (policy trained only on neural trajectories plus a single-environment pick-and-place baseline); RoboCasa solely-synthetic training reaches 20.6% average over 24 tasks; policy performance rises log-linearly with number of neural trajectories. Costs and limits: 240k RoboCasa samples took 54 hours on 1500 L40 GPUs; initial frames are provided manually; the benchmark's automatic evaluator can hallucinate.","status":"active","body":{"text":"Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S10 rests on the producer's pinned reading.\n\nDreamGen (NVIDIA et al., arXiv v2, June 2025) fine-tunes an image-to-video model on a target robot, rolls it out from an initial frame plus instruction, recovers pseudo-actions with an inverse-dynamics model or latent actions, and trains a policy on these 'neural trajectories'. Reported results: on a humanoid with GR00T N1, 14 novel behaviours 11.2% -> 43.2% and 13 novel-environment tasks 0.0% -> 28.5% (policy trained only on neural trajectories plus a single-environment pick-and-place baseline); RoboCasa solely-synthetic training reaches 20.6% average over 24 tasks; policy performance rises log-linearly with number of neural trajectories. Costs and limits: 240k RoboCasa samples took 54 hours on 1500 L40 GPUs; initial frames are provided manually; the benchmark's automatic evaluator can hallucinate.\n\nCurator qualifications: Partially verified: the curator re-read none of the cited sources; S10 rests on the producer's pinned reading. 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