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Realistic simulation is critical for applications ranging from robotics to animation. Learned simulators have emerged as a possibility to capture real world physics directly from video data, but very often require privileged information…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Mikel Zhobro , Andreas René Geist , Georg Martius

We investigate using reinforcement learning agents as generative models of images (extending arXiv:1804.01118). A generative agent controls a simulated painting environment, and is trained with rewards provided by a discriminator network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 John F. J. Mellor , Eunbyung Park , Yaroslav Ganin , Igor Babuschkin , Tejas Kulkarni , Dan Rosenbaum , Andy Ballard , Theophane Weber , Oriol Vinyals , S. M. Ali Eslami

Training agents to act in embodied environments typically requires vast training data or access to accurate simulation, neither of which exists for many cases in the real world. Instead, world models are emerging as an alternative…

We introduce a method to generate videos of dynamic virtual objects plausibly interacting via collisions with a still image's environment. Given a starting trajectory, physically simulated with the estimated geometry of a single, static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Carlo Innamorati , Bryan Russell , Danny M. Kaufman , and Niloy J. Mitra

A world model enables an intelligent agent to imagine, predict, and reason about how the world evolves in response to its actions, and accordingly to plan and strategize. While recent video generation models produce realistic visual…

Video generation models have emerged as high-fidelity models of the physical world, capable of synthesizing high-quality videos capturing fine-grained interactions between agents and their environments conditioned on multi-modal user…

Constructing simulation scenes that are both visually and physically realistic is a problem of practical interest in domains ranging from robotics to computer vision. This problem has become even more relevant as researchers wielding large…

Simulation plays a key role in scaling robot learning and validating policies, but constructing simulations remains a labor-intensive process. This paper introduces ReGen, a generative simulation framework that automates simulation design…

Data-driven simulators promise high data-efficiency for driving policy learning. When used for modelling interactions, this data-efficiency becomes a bottleneck: Small underlying datasets often lack interesting and challenging edge cases…

With recent and rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), understanding the foundation of purposeful behaviour in autonomous agents is crucial for developing safe and efficient systems. While artificial neural networks have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Aswin Paul , Moein Khajehnejad , Forough Habibollahi , Brett J. Kagan , Adeel Razi

Realistic and interactive surgical simulation has the potential to facilitate crucial applications, such as medical professional training and autonomous surgical agent training. In the natural visual domain, world models have enabled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Saurabh Koju , Saurav Bastola , Prashant Shrestha , Sanskar Amgain , Yash Raj Shrestha , Rudra P. K. Poudel , Binod Bhattarai

Camera control has been actively studied in text or image conditioned video generation tasks. However, altering camera trajectories of a given video remains under-explored, despite its importance in the field of video creation. It is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jianhong Bai , Menghan Xia , Xiao Fu , Xintao Wang , Lianrui Mu , Jinwen Cao , Zuozhu Liu , Haoji Hu , Xiang Bai , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang

People are facing a flood of data today. Data are being collected at unprecedented scale in many areas, such as networking, image processing, virtualization, scientific computation, and algorithms. The huge data nowadays are called Big…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-05-05 Jianjun Yang , Ju Shen

This paper explores the potential of generative AI in creating adaptive educational simulations. By leveraging a system of multiple AI agents, simulations can provide personalized learning experiences, offering students the opportunity to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Ethan Mollick , Lilach Mollick , Natalie Bach , LJ Ciccarelli , Ben Przystanski , Daniel Ravipinto

Generative model-based imitation learning methods have recently achieved strong results in learning high-complexity motor skills from human demonstrations. However, imitation learning of interactive policies that coordinate with humans in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Max M. Sun , Todd Murphey

World models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for building interactive simulation environments, with recent video-based approaches demonstrating impressive progress in generating visually plausible dynamics. However, because these models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hongyu Wang , Jingquan Wang , Bocheng Zou , Radu Serban , Dan Negrut

Training generalist policies for robotic manipulation has shown great promise, as they enable language-conditioned, multi-task behaviors across diverse scenarios. However, evaluating these policies remains difficult because real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Jinwei Gu , Qinsheng Zhang , Hanzi Mao , Ming-Yu Liu , Florian Shkurti , Lin Yen-Chen

Progress toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) faces significant bottlenecks, particularly in rigorously evaluating complex interactive systems and acquiring the vast interaction data needed for training adaptive agents. This paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Krisztian Balog , ChengXiang Zhai

Student simulation presents a transformative approach to enhance learning outcomes, advance educational research, and ultimately shape the future of effective pedagogy. We explore the feasibility of using large language models (LLMs), a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Songlin Xu , Xinyu Zhang

We introduce AgentWorld, an interactive simulation platform for developing household mobile manipulation capabilities. Our platform combines automated scene construction that encompasses layout generation, semantic asset placement, visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yizheng Zhang , Zhenjun Yu , Jiaxin Lai , Cewu Lu , Lei Han