Abstract
Building embodied agents that can perceive, reason, and act across diverse 3D worlds is a central research direction toward artificial general intelligence. Yet most existing work remains confined to specific tasks in a single scene and transfers poorly to new environments, leaving general embodied agents for open-world settings under-explored. We refer to such agents as Embodied World Agents (EWAs), whose defining property is the ability to understand diverse visual environments and execute general actions in open-world conditions. To advance EWA research, we study open-world embodied navigation-planning and release EmbodiedWorld-200K, a large-scale dataset of over 200K samples spanning diverse scenes. Each example is equipped with multi-level annotations, ranging from low-level camera-motion trajectories to high-level semantic instructions. The dataset also provides unified evaluation splits and task-specific metrics, supporting offline pretraining and fair evaluation of EWAs. Beyond offline supervision, a defining characteristic of an EWA is its interaction with the environment; training solely on offline data is therefore insufficient, especially for generalizing to scenes not covered in the training distribution. Building dedicated real interactive environments, however, is often prohibitively expensive. To address this, we propose a novel training scheme that employs a video world model as a low-cost environment proxy and performs interactive reinforcement-learning (RL) post-training of the EWA within it. Empirically, pretraining on EmbodiedWorld-200K substantially improves the open-world embodied planning ability of the EWA, and further RL post-training inside a world model yields clear gains on out-of-distribution scenes. The dataset, baseline checkpoints, and training and evaluation code are available at this https URL.
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.25959
