SSAD 2026 talk maps the zoo of state representation designs for world models
abursuc · x · 2026-09-17
In a #ssad2026 talk, @abursuc surveyed different ways to craft state representations for world models — focusing on semantics, geometry, task relevance/predictability, or rich features from DINO distillation. He then broke down where methods diverge: what the tokenizer encodes, from frozen visual autoencoders and frozen representation encoders to joint encoder + predictor setups with no decoder.
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