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World models that forecast environmental changes from actions are vital for autonomous driving models with strong generalization. The prevailing driving world model mainly build on video prediction model. Although these models can produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jingcheng Ni , Yuxin Guo , Yichen Liu , Rui Chen , Lewei Lu , Zehuan Wu

Advanced end-to-end autonomous driving systems predict other vehicles' motions and plan ego vehicle's trajectory. The world model that can foresee the outcome of the trajectory has been used to evaluate the autonomous driving system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jian Zhu , Zhengyu Jia , Tian Gao , Jiaxin Deng , Shidi Li , Lang Zhang , Fu Liu , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

Autonomous driving systems depend on on models that can reason about high-level scene contexts and accurately predict the dynamics of their surrounding environment. Vision- Language Models (VLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Stefan Englmeier , Katharina Winter , Fabian B. Flohr

Safe L2/L3 driving automation requires anticipating human-in-the-loop reactions during shared-control transitions. While most driving world models forecast the external environment, in-cabin intelligence remains strictly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haozhuang Chi , Daosheng Qiu , Hao Su , Haochen Liu , Zirui Li , Haoruo Zhang , Chen Lv

This paper introduces the concept of Language-Guided World Models (LWMs) -- probabilistic models that can simulate environments by reading texts. Agents equipped with these models provide humans with more extensive and efficient control,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Alex Zhang , Khanh Nguyen , Jens Tuyls , Albert Lin , Karthik Narasimhan

The ability to simulate the effects of future actions on the world is a crucial ability of intelligent embodied agents, enabling agents to anticipate the effects of their actions and make plans accordingly. While a large body of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Yuncong Yang , Lei Han , Peihao Chen , Dit-Yan Yeung , Chuang Gan

World models derived from large-scale video generative pre-training have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist robot policy learning. However, standard approaches often focus on high-fidelity RGB video prediction, this can result…

We propose improving the cross-target and cross-scene generalization of visual navigation through learning an agent that is guided by conceiving the next observations it expects to see. This is achieved by learning a variational Bayesian…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Qiaoyun Wu , Dinesh Manocha , Jun Wang , Kai Xu

In autonomous driving tasks, trajectory prediction in complex traffic environments requires adherence to real-world context conditions and behavior multimodalities. Existing methods predominantly rely on prior assumptions or generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Yiming Xu , Hao Cheng , Monika Sester

Embodied navigation in open, dynamic environments demands accurate foresight of how the world will evolve and how actions will unfold over time. We propose AstraNav-World, an end-to-end world model that jointly reasons about future visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jintao Chen , Junjun Hu , Haochen Bai , Minghua Luo , Xinda Xue , Botao Ren , Chengyu Bai , Shichao Xie , Ziyi Chen , Fei Liu , Zedong Chu , Xiaolong Wu , Mu Xu , Shanghang Zhang

This paper presents DriVerse, a generative model for simulating navigation-driven driving scenes from a single image and a future trajectory. Previous autonomous driving world models either directly feed the trajectory or discrete control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xiaofan Li , Chenming Wu , Zhao Yang , Zhihao Xu , Dingkang Liang , Yumeng Zhang , Ji Wan , Jun Wang

Predictive manipulation has recently gained considerable attention in the Embodied AI community due to its potential to improve robot policy performance by leveraging predicted states. However, generating accurate future visual states of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yuhang Huang , Jiazhao Zhang , Shilong Zou , Xinwang Liu , Ruizhen Hu , Kai Xu

Navigation is a fundamental capability in embodied AI, representing the intelligence required to perceive and interact within physical environments following language instructions. Despite significant progress in large Vision-Language…

Achieving reliable and efficient planning in complex driving environments requires a model that can reason over the scene's geometry, appearance, and dynamics. We present UniDWM, a unified driving world model that advances autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Shuai Liu , Siheng Ren , Xiaoyao Zhu , Quanmin Liang , Zefeng Li , Qiang Li , Xin Hu , Kai Huang

Navigating unfamiliar environments presents significant challenges for household robots, requiring the ability to recognize and reason about novel decoration and layout. Existing reinforcement learning methods cannot be directly transferred…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yiran Qin , Ao Sun , Yuze Hong , Benyou Wang , Ruimao Zhang

Visual Navigation Models (VNMs) promise generalizable, robot navigation by learning from large-scale visual demonstrations. Despite growing real-world deployment, existing evaluations rely almost exclusively on success rate, whether the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Maeva Guerrier , Karthik Soma , Jana Pavlasek , Giovanni Beltrame

World models aim to learn action-controlled future prediction and have proven essential for the development of intelligent agents. However, most existing world models rely heavily on substantial action-labeled data and costly training,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shenyuan Gao , Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Jun Zhang , Chuang Gan

People navigating in unfamiliar buildings take advantage of myriad visual, spatial and semantic cues to efficiently achieve their navigation goals. Towards equipping computational agents with similar capabilities, we introduce Pathdreamer,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Jing Yu Koh , Honglak Lee , Yinfei Yang , Jason Baldridge , Peter Anderson

Nonprehensile manipulation is crucial for handling objects that are too thin, large, or otherwise ungraspable in unstructured environments. While conventional planning-based approaches struggle with complex contact modeling, learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jiangran Lyu , Ziming Li , Xuesong Shi , Chaoyi Xu , Yizhou Wang , He Wang

End-to-end autonomous driving systems increasingly rely on vision-centric world models to understand and predict their environment. However, a common ineffectiveness in these models is the full reconstruction of future scenes, which expends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jianbiao Mei , Yu Yang , Xuemeng Yang , Licheng Wen , Jiajun Lv , Botian Shi , Yong Liu