Astra: General Interactive World Model with Autoregressive Denoising

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Main Authors: Zhu, Yixuan, Feng, Jiaqi, Zheng, Wenzhao, Gao, Yuan, Tao, Xin, Wan, Pengfei, Zhou, Jie, Lu, Jiwen
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author Zhu, Yixuan
Feng, Jiaqi
Zheng, Wenzhao
Gao, Yuan
Tao, Xin
Wan, Pengfei
Zhou, Jie
Lu, Jiwen
author_facet Zhu, Yixuan
Feng, Jiaqi
Zheng, Wenzhao
Gao, Yuan
Tao, Xin
Wan, Pengfei
Zhou, Jie
Lu, Jiwen
contents Recent advances in diffusion transformers have empowered video generation models to generate high-quality video clips from texts or images. However, world models with the ability to predict long-horizon futures from past observations and actions remain underexplored, especially for general-purpose scenarios and various forms of actions. To bridge this gap, we introduce Astra, an interactive general world model that generates real-world futures for diverse scenarios (e.g., autonomous driving, robot grasping) with precise action interactions (e.g., camera motion, robot action). We propose an autoregressive denoising architecture and use temporal causal attention to aggregate past observations and support streaming outputs. We use a noise-augmented history memory to avoid over-reliance on past frames to balance responsiveness with temporal coherence. For precise action control, we introduce an action-aware adapter that directly injects action signals into the denoising process. We further develop a mixture of action experts that dynamically route heterogeneous action modalities, enhancing versatility across diverse real-world tasks such as exploration, manipulation, and camera control. Astra achieves interactive, consistent, and general long-term video prediction and supports various forms of interactions. Experiments across multiple datasets demonstrate the improvements of Astra in fidelity, long-range prediction, and action alignment over existing state-of-the-art world models.
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spellingShingle Astra: General Interactive World Model with Autoregressive Denoising
Zhu, Yixuan
Feng, Jiaqi
Zheng, Wenzhao
Gao, Yuan
Tao, Xin
Wan, Pengfei
Zhou, Jie
Lu, Jiwen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Recent advances in diffusion transformers have empowered video generation models to generate high-quality video clips from texts or images. However, world models with the ability to predict long-horizon futures from past observations and actions remain underexplored, especially for general-purpose scenarios and various forms of actions. To bridge this gap, we introduce Astra, an interactive general world model that generates real-world futures for diverse scenarios (e.g., autonomous driving, robot grasping) with precise action interactions (e.g., camera motion, robot action). We propose an autoregressive denoising architecture and use temporal causal attention to aggregate past observations and support streaming outputs. We use a noise-augmented history memory to avoid over-reliance on past frames to balance responsiveness with temporal coherence. For precise action control, we introduce an action-aware adapter that directly injects action signals into the denoising process. We further develop a mixture of action experts that dynamically route heterogeneous action modalities, enhancing versatility across diverse real-world tasks such as exploration, manipulation, and camera control. Astra achieves interactive, consistent, and general long-term video prediction and supports various forms of interactions. Experiments across multiple datasets demonstrate the improvements of Astra in fidelity, long-range prediction, and action alignment over existing state-of-the-art world models.
title Astra: General Interactive World Model with Autoregressive Denoising
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08931