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General world models represent a crucial pathway toward achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), serving as the cornerstone for various applications ranging from virtual environments to decision-making systems. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zheng Zhu , Xiaofeng Wang , Wangbo Zhao , Chen Min , Bohan Li , Nianchen Deng , Min Dou , Yuqi Wang , Botian Shi , Kai Wang , Chi Zhang , Yang You , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Dawei Zhao , Liang Xiao , Jian Zhao , Jiwen Lu , Guan Huang

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…

In the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous driving, the capability to accurately predict future events and assess their implications is paramount for both safety and efficiency, critically aiding the decision-making process. World…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Zhenning Li , Jia Hu , Runze Yuan , Yunjian Li , Guohui Zhang , Chengzhong Xu

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to operate in complex, dynamic, and uncertain environments, performing tasks such as manipulation, navigation, and decision-making. Achieving these capabilities requires agents to understand the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Peng-Fei Zhang , Ying Cheng , Xiaofan Sun , Shijie Wang , Fengling Li , Lei Zhu , Heng Tao Shen

Planning with world models offers a powerful paradigm for robotic control. Conventional approaches train a model to predict future frames conditioned on current frames and actions, which can then be used for planning. However, the objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jacob Berg , Chuning Zhu , Yanda Bao , Ishan Durugkar , Abhishek Gupta

World models have garnered substantial interest in the AI community. These are internal representations that simulate aspects of the external world, track entities and states, capture causal relationships, and enable prediction of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Tarun Gupta , Danish Pruthi

Embodied AI requires agents that perceive, act, and anticipate how actions reshape future world states. World models serve as internal simulators that capture environment dynamics, enabling forward and counterfactual rollouts to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xinqing Li , Xin He , Le Zhang , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Yun Liu

A world model is an AI system that simulates how an environment evolves under actions, enabling planning through imagined futures rather than reactive perception. Current world models, however, suffer from visual conflation: the mistaken…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhikang Chen , Tingting Zhu

Recent breakthroughs in autonomous driving have been propelled by advances in robust world modeling, fundamentally transforming how vehicles interpret dynamic scenes and execute safe decision-making. World models have emerged as a linchpin…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

The rapid progress in embodied artificial intelligence has highlighted the necessity for more advanced and integrated models that can perceive, interpret, and predict environmental dynamics. In this context, World Models (WMs) have been…

World Model, the supposed algorithmic surrogate of the real-world environment which biological agents experience with and act upon, has been an emerging topic in recent years because of the rising needs to develop virtual agents with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Eric Xing , Mingkai Deng , Jinyu Hou , Zhiting Hu

A world model is essential for an agent to predict the future and plan in domains such as autonomous driving and robotics. To achieve this, recent advancements have focused on video generation, which has gained significant attention due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Youngjoon Jeong , Junha Chun , Soonwoo Cha , Taesup Kim

World models have emerged as a critical frontier in AI research, aiming to enhance large models by infusing them with physical dynamics and world knowledge. The core objective is to enable agents to understand, predict, and interact with…

World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and model-based reinforcement learning. However, current world model research is often dominated by three partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Sen Cui , Jingheng Ma

We propose a set of precise criteria for saying a neural net learns and uses a "world model." The goal is to give an operational meaning to terms that are often used informally, in order to provide a common language for experimental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Kenneth Li , Fernanda Viégas , Martin Wattenberg

With the proliferation of the Large Language Model (LLM), the concept of World Models (WM) has recently attracted a great deal of attention in the AI research community, especially in the context of AI agents. It is arguably evolving into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zifan Zeng , Chongzhe Zhang , Feng Liu , Joseph Sifakis , Qunli Zhang , Shiming Liu , Peng Wang

World models and video generation are pivotal technologies in the domain of autonomous driving, each playing a critical role in enhancing the robustness and reliability of autonomous systems. World models, which simulate the dynamics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ao Fu , Yi Zhou , Tao Zhou , Yi Yang , Bojun Gao , Qun Li , Guobin Wu , Ling Shao

World model emerges as a key module in decision making, where MuZero and Dreamer achieve remarkable successes in complex tasks. Recent work leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) as general world simulators to simulate the dynamics of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Chang Yang , Xinrun Wang , Junzhe Jiang , Qinggang Zhang , Xiao Huang

World models are emerging as a transformative paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling agents to construct internal representations of their environments for predictive reasoning, planning, and decision-making. By learning latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Changyuan Zhao , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Gaosheng Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Geng Sun , Shiwen Mao , Dong In Kim

Creating autonomous robots that can actively explore the environment, acquire knowledge and learn skills continuously is the ultimate achievement envisioned in cognitive and developmental robotics. Their learning processes should be based…

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