Textual Belief States for World Models: Identifiable Representation Learning Under Strict Mediation

arXiv:2606.27681v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models in partially observed environments rely on latent representations that summarize interaction history, but in many modern LLM-based architectures predictive performance fails to reflect representation quality due to history bypass, rendering the latent state unidentifiable. Strict latent state mediation, requiring predictions to depend only on the latent state and action, is a classical principle that resolves this, but enforcing it in ...