modeling

Definition

The act of formulating a problem as a learnable distribution or function — language modeling means predicting the next token, sequence modeling means capturing dependencies over time, reward modeling means learning a scoring function from preferences. The word points at the problem formulation, not the resulting artifact. When a title says "X modeling," read it as "we set X up as a prediction problem."

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: PointWAM — Forecasting the Scene and the Hands as 3D Point Trajectories to Teach Robot Hands from Human VideoPointWAM: 3D World Action Modeling for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation
• Paper Explained: RewardVerse — A Video Reward Model That Writes the Rubric Before It Scores (RGPO)RewardVerse: Rubric-Guided Policy Optimization for Video Reward Modeling
• Paper Walkthrough: MaP-WAM — Turning a Robot's Memory into Plans So the Executor Stays the Same Size as History GrowsMemory as Plans: World-Action Modeling with Memory-Grounded Planning