一种基于损失条件的状态执行方法,用于世界模型
When Should a World Model Move? Loss-Conditioned State Execution
这是关于世界模型状态执行的一个新方法,通过损失条件来决定是否更新状态,比单纯基于预测信息的方法更有效。
我们提出了一种模型无关的方法,用于决定是否执行世界模型的固定可行提议或保留当前状态。该方法通过构建损失特定的可行提议并评估其在独立校准单元上的组内有界损失增益来执行提议,仅当组内同时具有正的置信下界时才执行。在公开的预测和动作条件动力学基准测试中,该方法在28,684个M4月度序列的离群数据上执行提议的比例为14.0%,有界损失为0.588,相比持续策略的0.599和总是执行提议的0.621,表现更好。
When Should a World Model Move? Loss-Conditioned State Execution
We introduce loss-conditioned state execution, a model-agnostic method that decides whether to execute a world model's fixed feasible proposal or retain the current state. Predictive informativeness alone, however, does not establish whether an update will reduce downstream loss. Occurrence ranking can approach perfection while persistence remains the unique absolute-loss Bayes action. Two transition laws can also share occurrence information and conditional variance yet require opposite absolute-loss decisions. We formalize state movability as the existence of a loss-reducing feasible correction and distinguish it from the benefit of a particular proposal. Our method constructs a loss-specific feasible proposal from a predictive distribution and evaluates its groupwise bounded-loss gain over persistence on independent calibration units. The proposal is executed only in groups with a positive simultaneous lower confidence bound. For fixed proposals and groups with bounded unit losses, we prove that every accepted group has lower expected loss than persistence with high probability when calibration units are i.i.d. draws from the target population. Experiments on public forecasting and action-conditioned dynamics benchmarks show supported updates and a trade-off between certification and coverage. On 28,684 held-out M4 Monthly series, the method executes the proposal for 14.0% of series and achieves bounded loss 0.588, compared with 0.599 for persistence and 0.621 for always executing the proposal. The paired 95% bootstrap intervals for both comparisons lie below zero. In constrained forecasting of six unhealthy-inventory types from JD$\mbox{.}$com, a leading e-retailer in China, strong occurrence-ranking signal coexists with a loss-based preference for persistence, illustrating why event predictability and state execution must be evaluated separately.