Certified World Models as Sensing Clocks: Drift-Aware Deadlines for Active Perception

arXiv:2607.01537v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Certified world models estimate how long their predictions remain valid. We turn this validity horizon into an operational sensing clock: a rule for when an agent should stop coasting and re-sense. Starting from an audited equivariant world model, we derive a deadline for no-sensing intervals and show that deployable deadlines in learned world models must be drift-aware: on-manifold Lyapunov rates alone overestimate coasting validity, while calibra...