Identifiable World Models from Pretrained Diffusion Representations

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arXiv:2610.07028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion-based world models can generate and predict trajectories in high-dimensional dynamical systems, but predictive accuracy does not imply that their latent coordinates recover the underlying state variables or causal interactions. We ask whether a frozen pretrained diffusion model can be equipped with identifiable coordinates without retraining its generative backbone. We show that auxiliary-variable nonlinear ICA guarantees can be transferr