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Object-centric world models (OCWM) aim to decompose visual scenes into object-level representations, providing structured abstractions that could improve compositional generalization and data efficiency in reinforcement learning. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Stefano Ferraro , Akihiro Nakano , Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo

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

The landscape of video generation is shifting, from a focus on generating visually appealing clips to building virtual environments that support interaction and maintain physical plausibility. These developments point toward the emergence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jingtong Yue , Ziqi Huang , Zhaoxi Chen , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Ziwei Liu

Autonomous driving in dense, dynamic environments requires decision-making systems that can exploit both spatial structure and long-horizon temporal dependencies while remaining robust to uncertainty. This work presents a novel framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zhihao Zhang , Chengyang Peng , Minghao Zhu , Ekim Yurtsever , Keith A. Redmill

Leveraging future observation modeling to facilitate action generation presents a promising avenue for enhancing the capabilities of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, existing approaches struggle to strike a balance between…

World model-based searching and planning are widely recognized as a promising path toward human-level physical intelligence. However, current driving world models primarily rely on video diffusion models, which specialize in visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yuntao Chen , Yuqi Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

We propose the use of latent space generative world models to address the covariate shift problem in autonomous driving. A world model is a neural network capable of predicting an agent's next state given past states and actions. By…

The field of autonomous driving is experiencing a surge of interest in world models, which aim to predict potential future scenarios based on historical observations. In this paper, we introduce DFIT-OccWorld, an efficient 3D occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Haiming Zhang , Ying Xue , Xu Yan , Jiacheng Zhang , Weichao Qiu , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Leading approaches in machine vision employ different architectures for different tasks, trained on costly task-specific labeled datasets. This complexity has held back progress in areas, such as robotics, where robust task-general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Daniel M. Bear , Kevin Feigelis , Honglin Chen , Wanhee Lee , Rahul Venkatesh , Klemen Kotar , Alex Durango , Daniel L. K. Yamins

Visual images usually contain the informative context of the environment, thereby helping to predict agents' behaviors. However, they hardly impose the dynamic effects on agents' actual behaviors due to the respectively fixed semantics. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Beihao Xia , Conghao Wong , Heng Li , Shiming Chen , Qinmu Peng , Xinge You

Recent work on visual world models shows significant promise in latent state dynamics obtained from pre-trained image backbones. However, most of the current approaches are sensitive to training quality, requiring near-complete coverage of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Eric Jing , Abdeslam Boularias

Robotic learning for navigation in unfamiliar environments needs to provide policies for both task-oriented navigation (i.e., reaching a goal that the robot has located), and task-agnostic exploration (i.e., searching for a goal in a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ajay Sridhar , Dhruv Shah , Catherine Glossop , Sergey Levine

World models envision potential future states based on various ego actions. They embed extensive knowledge about the driving environment, facilitating safe and scalable autonomous driving. Most existing methods primarily focus on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Yu Yang , Jianbiao Mei , Yukai Ma , Siliang Du , Wenqing Chen , Yijie Qian , Yuxiang Feng , Yong Liu

A natural approach for reinforcement learning is to predict future rewards by unrolling a neural network world model, and to backpropagate through the resulting computational graph to learn a policy. However, this method often becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Michel Ma , Tianwei Ni , Clement Gehring , Pierluca D'Oro , Pierre-Luc Bacon

World models learn to predict future states of an environment, enabling planning and mental simulation. Current approaches default to Transformer-based predictors operating in learned latent spaces. This comes at a cost: O(N^2) computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Fabien Polly

Learned world models hold significant potential for robotic manipulation, as they can serve as simulator for real-world interactions. While extensive progress has been made in 2D video-based world models, these approaches often lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Chuanrui Zhang , Zhengxian Wu , Guanxing Lu , Yansong Tang , Ziwei Wang

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

In this paper, we propose a novel Deep Reinforcement Learning approach to address the mapless navigation problem, in which the locomotion actions of a humanoid robot are taken online based on the knowledge encoded in learned models.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Andre Brandenburger , Diego Rodriguez , Sven Behnke

World Models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning compact, predictive representations of environment dynamics, enabling agents to reason, plan, and generalize beyond direct experience. Despite recent interest in World Models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Lucas Maes , Quentin Le Lidec , Dan Haramati , Nassim Massaudi , Damien Scieur , Yann LeCun , Randall Balestriero

Learning predictive models from interaction with the world allows an agent, such as a robot, to learn about how the world works, and then use this learned model to plan coordinated sequences of actions to bring about desired outcomes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Karl Schmeckpeper , Annie Xie , Oleh Rybkin , Stephen Tian , Kostas Daniilidis , Sergey Levine , Chelsea Finn