Acting through Registers
Abstract
World Action Models (WAMs) use generative visual representations to condition robot actions, yet how these representations organize action-relevant information remains poorly understood. We identify persistent high-norm spatial outliers in WAM representations and find that their action relevance persists even after normalization and K/V projection attenuate their extreme magnitude. Motivated by this observation, we introduce RegisterWAM, which adds learnable non-spatial registers to the world model and uses them directly for action conditioning. Registers alone do not fully eliminate spatial outliers; pairing them with observation flow-matching (FM) loss supervision suppresses spatial outliers while concentrating high-norm responses in registers. Beyond this reorganization, observation FM loss supervision also improves action learning without registers, motivating an additional noised-observation FM objective that learns current-scene recovery from corrupted inputs. The resulting model achieves 81.64% success on LIBERO-Plus without additional embodied pretraining data or foundation models, reaches 93.0% average success on RoboTwin 2.0, and improves real-world manipulation performance. Code and models will be made public.
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