The World-Model Stack
Perception Backbones · pixels → features & detections
YOLO
DINOv2
V-JEPA 2
SAM
VLMs
any callable(image) → [Detection]
The Encoder & Standardized State
Trio Retina
one model-agnostic WorldState — symbolic events + latent state s = Enc(o)
one standardized state stream
World Models · dynamics & control · state → prediction → action
latent dynamics models
p(sₜ₊₁ | sₜ, a)
forecasting
model-based RL & planning · latent rollouts · policy · agents / digital twins
Swap any encoder above or any dynamics model below — Retina is the invariant state in the middle.