CKT-WAM: Parameter-Efficient Context Knowledge Transfer Between World Action Models

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Main Authors: Jiang, Yuhua, Guo, Yijun, Yang, Hongbing, Lei, Guojun, Chen, Nuo, Zhang, Yinuo, Yan, Shaoqiang, Lin, Bo, Gao, Feifei, Qi, Biqing
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author Jiang, Yuhua
Guo, Yijun
Yang, Hongbing
Lei, Guojun
Chen, Nuo
Zhang, Yinuo
Yan, Shaoqiang
Lin, Bo
Gao, Feifei
Qi, Biqing
author_facet Jiang, Yuhua
Guo, Yijun
Yang, Hongbing
Lei, Guojun
Chen, Nuo
Zhang, Yinuo
Yan, Shaoqiang
Lin, Bo
Gao, Feifei
Qi, Biqing
contents World action models (WAMs) provide a powerful generative framework for embodied control, yet transferring knowledge across heterogeneous WAMs remains challenging due to mismatched latent interfaces, high adaptation cost, and the rigidity of conventional distillation objectives. We propose \textbf{CKT-WAM}, a parameter-efficient \textbf{C}ontext \textbf{K}nowledge \textbf{T}ransfer framework that transfers teacher WAM's knowledge into a student WAM through a compact context in the text embedding space, rather than output imitation or dense hidden-state matching. Specifically, CKT-WAM extracts intermediate teacher hidden states, reduces the number of tokens via compressors' learnable-query cross attention (LQCA), and transforms them through an always-on generalized adapter, a lightweight router, and sparsely activated specialized adapters. The resulting context is then appended to the student's conditioning textual embeddings, thereby injecting the transferred knowledge into the student with minimal architectural modification. Experiments show that CKT-WAM consistently improves zero-shot generalization and achieves the best overall performance on LIBERO-Plus, reaching 86.1\% total success rate with only 1.17\% trainable parameters, while approaching full fine-tuning performance. Beyond simulation, CKT-WAM also demonstrates strong real-world long-horizon manipulation ability, achieving the best average success rate of 83.3\% across four multi-step and long-horizon tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/YuhuaJiang2002/CKT-WAM.
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spellingShingle CKT-WAM: Parameter-Efficient Context Knowledge Transfer Between World Action Models
Jiang, Yuhua
Guo, Yijun
Yang, Hongbing
Lei, Guojun
Chen, Nuo
Zhang, Yinuo
Yan, Shaoqiang
Lin, Bo
Gao, Feifei
Qi, Biqing
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World action models (WAMs) provide a powerful generative framework for embodied control, yet transferring knowledge across heterogeneous WAMs remains challenging due to mismatched latent interfaces, high adaptation cost, and the rigidity of conventional distillation objectives. We propose \textbf{CKT-WAM}, a parameter-efficient \textbf{C}ontext \textbf{K}nowledge \textbf{T}ransfer framework that transfers teacher WAM's knowledge into a student WAM through a compact context in the text embedding space, rather than output imitation or dense hidden-state matching. Specifically, CKT-WAM extracts intermediate teacher hidden states, reduces the number of tokens via compressors' learnable-query cross attention (LQCA), and transforms them through an always-on generalized adapter, a lightweight router, and sparsely activated specialized adapters. The resulting context is then appended to the student's conditioning textual embeddings, thereby injecting the transferred knowledge into the student with minimal architectural modification. Experiments show that CKT-WAM consistently improves zero-shot generalization and achieves the best overall performance on LIBERO-Plus, reaching 86.1\% total success rate with only 1.17\% trainable parameters, while approaching full fine-tuning performance. Beyond simulation, CKT-WAM also demonstrates strong real-world long-horizon manipulation ability, achieving the best average success rate of 83.3\% across four multi-step and long-horizon tasks. Code is available at https://github.com/YuhuaJiang2002/CKT-WAM.
title CKT-WAM: Parameter-Efficient Context Knowledge Transfer Between World Action Models
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06247