Semantic Belief-State World Model for 3D Human Motion Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03517v1
• Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:06:26 GMT
• Title: Semantic Belief-State World Model for 3D Human Motion Prediction
• Authors: Sarim Chaudhry,
• Abstract summary: We propose a Semantic Belief-State World Model that reframes human motion prediction as latent dynamical simulation on the human body manifold.<n>Inspired by belief-state world models developed for model-based reinforcement learning, SBWM adapts latent transitions and rollout-centric training to the domain of human motion.
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• Abstract: Human motion prediction has traditionally been framed as a sequence regression problem where models extrapolate future joint coordinates from observed pose histories. While effective over short horizons this approach does not separate observation reconstruction with dynamics modeling and offers no explicit representation of the latent causes governing motion. As a result, existing methods exhibit compounding drift, mean-pose collapse, and poorly calibrated uncertainty when rolled forward beyond the training regime. Here we propose a Semantic Belief-State World Model (SBWM) that reframes human motion prediction as latent dynamical simulation on the human body manifold. Rather than predicting poses directly, SBWM maintains a recurrent probabilistic belief state whose evolution is learned independently of pose reconstruction and explicitly aligned with the SMPL-X anatomical parameterization. This alignment imposes a structural information bottleneck that prevents the latent state from encoding static geometry or sensor noise, forcing it to capture motion dynamics, intent, and control-relevant structure. Inspired by belief-state world models developed for model-based reinforcement learning, SBWM adapts stochastic latent transitions and rollout-centric training to the domain of human motion. In contrast to RSSM-based, transformer, and diffusion approaches optimized for reconstruction fidelity, SBWM prioritizes stable forward simulation. We demonstrate coherent long-horizon rollouts, and competitive accuracy at substantially lower computational cost. These results suggest that treating the human body as part of the world models state space rather than its output fundamentally changes how motion is simulated, and predicted.

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