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The Intervention Gap in Latent World Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 30, 2026 · UTC

Planning-time intervention fidelity is a distinct, measurable property of a learned world model: whether the model's own open-loop transitions move task variables the way matched environment interventions do. In the settings we test, it is neither revealed by reward fit nor ensured by task-anchored training. Across released TD-MPC2 checkpoint sizes, episode return falls as an operator-error diagnostic on task observables grows, while reward-prediction error stays small and nearly flat, and a self-supervised world model trained without task signal preserves the same operator substantially bette

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