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Embody4D: A Generalist 4D World Model for Embodied AI

Peiyan Tu, Hanxin Zhu, Jingwen Sun, Shaojie Ren, Cong Wang, Jiayi Luo, Xiaoqian Cheng, Zhibo Chen

Year
2026
Access
Open access

Abstract

World models have made significant progress in modeling dynamic environments; however, most embodied world models are still restricted to 2D representations, lacking the comprehensive multi-view information essential for embodied spatial reasoning. Bridging this gap is non-trivial, primarily due to challenges from severe scarcity of paired multi-view data, the difficulty of maintaining spatiotemporal consistency in generated 3D geometries, and the tendency to hallucinate manipulation details. To address these challenges, we propose Embody4D, a dedicated video-to-video world model for embodied scenarios, capable of synthesizing arbitrary novel views from a monocular video. First, to tackle data scarcity, we introduce a 3D-aware compositional synthesis pipeline to curate a heterogeneous dataset compositing cross-embodiment robotic arms with diverse backgrounds, guaranteeing broad generalization. Second, to enforce geometric stability, we devise an adaptive noise injection strategy; by leveraging confidence disparities across image regions, this method selectively regularizes the diffusion process to ensure strict spatiotemporal consistency. Finally, to guarantee manipulation fidelity, we incorporate an interaction-aware attention mechanism that explicitly attends to the robotic interaction regions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Embody4D achieves state-of-the-art performance, serving as a robust world model that synthesizes high-fidelity, view-consistent videos to empower downstream robotic planning and learning.

Keywords

cs.CV

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