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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · August 17, 2026
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This is an unpublished computational preprint proposing SCALE, a lightweight regularization method to improve the geometric properties of learned embeddings for world-model-based planning. The authors report improvements over the baseline LeWorldModel variant across five tasks and multiple planning solvers, but the work lacks peer review, lacks comparison to established planning methods beyond two variants, and offers no evidence of clinical or real-world relevance.
Computational method comparison study. Five synthetic planning tasks (not specified in detail in the abstract); no human or clinical population studied.. Intervention: SCALE: a single lightweight training-time regularizer that induces state-calibrated latent geometry without modifying the learned encoder of LeWorldModel.. Compared with: LeWorldModel (LeWM) with SIGReg, and a latent-to-state regression control; indirect comparison to DINO-WM cited for geometric properties..
SCALE improves every task–solver average over LeWM across five tasks, three planning solvers, and five compute budgets DINO-WM's leading principal components retain substantially more state information than LeWM's, affecting state influence on candidate selection Latent-to-state regression control matches or exceeds SCALE's full-embedding decodability but leaves latent–state distance alignment essentially unchanged and yields less consistent planning gains
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A single-author computational study proposing a method improvement with empirical validation across five tasks, but no peer review, no comparison to established baselines beyond two variants, and no clinically relevant outcomes.
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Joint-embedding predictive world models plan by scoring predicted terminal embeddings against a goal embedding using a cost defined on the representation itself. Two prominent strategies for obtaining non-collapsed representations are to inherit a pretrained feature space, as in DINO-WM, and to learn an embedding end to end with anti-collapse regularization, as in LeWorldModel (LeWM) with SIGReg. These strategies show complementary strengths across tasks. Although task-relevant state is decodable from the full embeddings of both models, DINO-WM's leading principal components usually retain substantially more state information than LeWM's. Because Euclidean planning costs are dominated by high-variance directions, this difference affects how strongly state can influence candidate selection. We propose SCALE (State-CAlibrated Latent Embeddings) to give the end-to-end LeWM representation the favorable geometric property observed in DINO-WM. SCALE induces this property by correlating sampled pairwise latent distances with distances in a standardized task-relevant state space, without replacing LeWM's learned encoder. Across five tasks, three planning solvers, and five compute budgets, SCALE improves every task--solver average over LeWM. A latent-to-state regression control matches or exceeds SCALE's full-embedding decodability yet leaves latent--state distance alignment essentially unchanged and yields less consistent planning gains. SCALE adds a single lightweight training-time regularizer and no planning-time overhead. These results show that planning depends not only on whether task-relevant information is present, but also on whether it shapes the geometry consumed by the planner.
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