# GigaWorld-1: A Roadmap to Build World Models for Robot Policy Evaluation

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Published: 2026-07-08T03:41:06+00:00
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🤗 Upvotes: 32 | cs.RO Authors: GigaWorld Team, Angyuan Ma, Boyuan Wang, Bohan Li, Chaojun Ni, Guo Li, Guan Huang, Guosheng Zhao, Hao Li, Hengtao Li, Jingyu Liu, Jiwen Lu, Qiuping Deng, Tingdong Yu, Xuancheng Xu, Xinyu Zhou, Xiuwei Xu, Xinze Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, Xiaoyu Tian, Yang Wang, Yifan Chang, Yukun Zhou, Yun Ye, Zhenyu Wu, Zhanqian Wu, Zheng Zhu Title: GigaWorld-1: A Roadmap to Build World Models for Robot Policy Evaluation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.02642v1 Abstract: Evaluating embodied robot foundation models remains a critical bottleneck; unlike large language models efficiently assessed via digital benchmarks, robotic policies require slow, costly real-world rollouts limited by hardware and human supervision, which has driven interest in world models as surrogate policy evaluators, yet the key properties that make a world model reliable for policy assessment remain poorly understood. This work presents a systematic study of world models for robotic policy evaluation and introduces WMBench, a benchmark constructed from real-robot teleoperation data and matched policy rollouts covering diverse manipulation tasks to enable controlled comparisons across model families, action encodings, rollout horizons, and evaluation metrics. Using WMBench, we analyze 7 video world models, 4 action representation schemes, and over 324,000 simulated policy rollouts paired with real robot executions, further enriching our analysis with large-scale community submissions from the CVPR 2026 GigaBrain Challenge, curated synthetic trajectories, and a training videos spanning more than 12,000 hours. Our experiments deliver three core insights: evaluator quality is dominated by long-horizon, action-faithful rollout consistency rather than short-term visual realism; pretraining gain…

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