Multi-scale Mixture of World Models for Embodied Agents in Evolving Environments
2607.00457

Authors

Jinwoo Jang,Daniel J. Rho,Sihyung Yoon,Hyunsuk Cho,Honguk Woo

Abstract

Embodied agents operating in the real world require multi-scale reasoning and knowledge adaptation as conditions change. We identify two challenges in applying Mixture of Experts (MoE) to this setting: routing lacks an explicit notion of scale, preventing targeted updates at specific scales, and a uniform update policy cannot accommodate the different rates at which knowledge at each scale becomes outdated.

We present MuSix, a framework that addresses both challenges through scale-aware world model mixture and evolution. A two-stage routing mechanism grounds scale selection in experiential distance, a measure of situational novelty inspired by Construal Level Theory: a meta-router first maps this quantity to a weight over continuous scale space, then per-scale base routers select world models within the identified scale.

For adaptation, scale-dependent forgetting rates allow low-scale knowledge to refresh rapidly while high-scale abstractions persist, and gated inter-scale transfer maintains coherence across the hierarchy. Experiments on EmbodiedBench and HAZARD show that MuSix improves over state-of-the-art baselines on multi-scale reasoning and dynamic adaptation.

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