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Training agents that can coordinate zero-shot with humans is a key mission in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Current algorithms focus on training simulated human partner policies which are then used to train a Cooperator agent.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yancheng Liang , Daphne Chen , Abhishek Gupta , Simon S. Du , Natasha Jaques

Unifying diverse image generation tasks within a single framework remains a fundamental challenge in visual generation. While large language models (LLMs) achieve unification through task-agnostic data and generation, existing visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yijing Lin , Mengqi Huang , Shuhan Zhuang , Zhendong Mao

We present UniModel, a unified generative model that jointly supports visual understanding and visual generation within a single pixel-to-pixel diffusion framework. Our goal is to achieve unification along three axes: the model, the tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chi Zhang , Jiepeng Wang , Youming Wang , Yuanzhi Liang , Xiaoyan Yang , Zuoxin Li , Haibin Huang , Xuelong Li

Recent advances in video generation models have sparked interest in world models capable of simulating realistic environments. While navigation has been well-explored, physically meaningful interactions that mimic real-world forces remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Nate Gillman , Charles Herrmann , Michael Freeman , Daksh Aggarwal , Evan Luo , Deqing Sun , Chen Sun

Interacting with human agents in complex scenarios presents a significant challenge for robotic navigation, particularly in environments that necessitate both collision avoidance and collaborative interaction, such as indoor spaces. Unlike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Lingfeng Sun , Yixiao Wang , Pin-Yun Hung , Changhao Wang , Xiang Zhang , Zhuo Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Video world models have achieved remarkable success in simulating environmental dynamics in response to actions by users or agents. They are modeled as action-conditioned video generation models that take historical frames and current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Haoyu Wu , Jiwen Yu , Yingtian Zou , Xihui Liu

Data-driven simulation has become a favorable way to train and test autonomous driving algorithms. The idea of replacing the actual environment with a learned simulator has also been explored in model-based reinforcement learning in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Zhejun Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Dengxin Dai , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

Pretrained video generation models provide strong priors for robot control, but existing unified world action models still struggle to decode reliable actions without substantial robot-specific training. We attribute this limitation to a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Liaoyuan Fan , Zetian Xu , Chen Cao , Wenyao Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Jiayu Chen

Agents built on vision-language models increasingly face tasks that demand anticipating future states rather than relying on short-horizon reasoning. Generative world models offer a promising remedy: agents could use them as external…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Cheng Qian , Emre Can Acikgoz , Bingxuan Li , Xiusi Chen , Yuji Zhang , Bingxiang He , Qinyu Luo , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Gokhan Tur , Yunzhu Li , Heng Ji

This paper proposes a neural network-based user simulator that can provide a multimodal interactive environment for training Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents in collaborative tasks involving multiple modes of communication. The simulator…

World models, which are predictive representations of how environments evolve under actions, have become a central component of robot learning. They support policy learning, planning, simulation, evaluation, data generation, and have…

Mobile Graphical User Interface (GUI) World Models (WMs) offer a promising path for improving mobile GUI agent performance at train- and inference-time. However, current approaches face a critical trade-off: text-based WMs sacrifice visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Woosung Koh , Sungjun Han , Segyu Lee , Se-Young Yun , Jamin Shin

Traditional agent-based urban mobility simulations often rely on rigid rulebased systems that struggle to capture the complexity, adaptability, and behavioral diversity inherent in human travel decision making. Inspired by recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Qi Liu , Can Li , Wanjing Ma

Beyond their origin in modeling many-body quantum systems, tensor networks have emerged as a promising class of models for solving machine learning problems, notably in unsupervised generative learning. While possessing many desirable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Alex Meiburg , Jing Chen , Jacob Miller , Raphaëlle Tihon , Guillaume Rabusseau , Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz

Educational simulations have long been recognized as powerful tools for enhancing learning outcomes, yet their creation has traditionally required substantial resources and technical expertise. This paper introduces MicroSims a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Valerie Lockhart , Dan McCreary , Troy A. Peterson

Using Reinforcement Learning (RL) in simulation to construct policies useful in real life is challenging. This is often attributed to the sequential decision making aspect: inaccuracies in simulation accumulate over multiple steps, hence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Rika Antonova , Silvia Cruciani

World models allow autonomous agents to plan and explore by predicting the visual outcomes of different actions. However, for robot manipulation, it is challenging to accurately model the fine-grained robot-object interaction within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Fangqi Zhu , Hongtao Wu , Song Guo , Yuxiao Liu , Chilam Cheang , Tao Kong

Web agents require massive trajectories to generalize, yet real-world training is constrained by network latency, rate limits, and safety risks. We introduce \textbf{WebWorld} series, the first open-web simulator trained at scale. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zikai Xiao , Jianhong Tu , Chuhang Zou , Yuxin Zuo , Zhi Li , Peng Wang , Bowen Yu , Fei Huang , Junyang Lin , Zuozhu Liu

User simulators are essential for training reinforcement learning (RL) based dialog models. The performance of the simulator directly impacts the RL policy. However, building a good user simulator that models real user behaviors is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Weiyan Shi , Kun Qian , Xuewei Wang , Zhou Yu

Modeling the 3D world from sensor data for simulation is a scalable way of developing testing and validation environments for robotic learning problems such as autonomous driving. However, manually creating or re-creating real-world-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Bokui Shen , Xinchen Yan , Charles R. Qi , Mahyar Najibi , Boyang Deng , Leonidas Guibas , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov