The vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action model (WAM) communities debate whether control policies should inherit pretrained knowledge from vision-language models or from visual generators. The
Just Action Model decouples backbone initialization, future observation objectives, and inference machinery to improve robot control with foresight training and reduced computation.
The vision-language-action (VLA) and world-action model (WAM) communities debate whether control policies should inherit pretrained knowledge from vision-language models or from visual generators. The debate, however, bundles three separable choices: backbone initialization, the objective applied to future observations, and whether the machinery for that future loss is kept at inference. A gap between a VLA and a WAM therefore cannot simply be attributed to any one of them. We show that decoupling these choices yields a common framework for both families, which we term Just Action Model (JAM): a pretrained visual backbone with an action expert, trained with an action loss and a foresight…
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