World models have emerged as one of the biggest directions in physical AI. At the same time, RL fine-tuning is unlocking capabilities in frontier models beyond what pretraining can achieve on its own
Can we get the best of both worlds?
We propose Q-Learning with World Models (QWM)
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Pretraining has worked remarkably well across domains
We show this doesn’t hold for Q-functions in online RL from a pretrained policy — and propose IPE, a more effective way to learn Q-functions for online RL fine-tuning
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