ICML2026
TaskLoom: Weaving Knowledge Across Tasks in World Models
Qingzhang Zeng, Peixi Peng, hang li, Luntong Li, Yonghong Tian
摘要
World models have significantly improved the sample efficiency of model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) by enabling policy learning in imagination, thereby reducing the need for direct interaction with the real environment. However, most existing world model methods are trained independently for each task or perform multi-task learning using offline datasets, failing to fully exploit the latent relationships among tasks in online interactive scenarios. To address this limitation, we propose TaskLoom, a knowledge-sharing world model architecture for online RL. TaskLoom adopts a grouped two-stage training paradigm: first, the tasks are divided into several groups based on the similarity of world model gradients, and fine-grained knowledge is shared among tasks within each group; second, coarse-grained knowledge is exchanged across groups, enabling hierarchical knowledge transfer and reuse. Experimental results show that TaskLoom outperforms baseline methods on widely used benchmarks such as Proprio Control, Visual Control and Meta-World, validating the effectiveness of the proposed knowledge-sharing mechanism for both low-dimensional state and high-dimensional visual inputs.