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Predicting the dynamics of interacting objects is essential for both humans and intelligent systems. However, existing approaches are limited to simplified, toy settings and lack generalizability to complex, real-world environments. Recent…

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We tackle the problem of learning complex, general behaviors directly in the real world. We propose an approach for robots to efficiently learn manipulation skills using only a handful of real-world interaction trajectories from many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Russell Mendonca , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

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

A World Model is a compressed spatial and temporal representation of a real world environment that allows one to train an agent or execute planning methods. However, world models are typically trained on observations from the real world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Fabio Ferreira , Moreno Schlageter , Raghu Rajan , Andre Biedenkapp , Frank Hutter

Recent advancements in predictive models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in predicting the future state of objects and scenes. However, the lack of categorization based on inherent characteristics continues to hinder the progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yiran Qin , Zhelun Shi , Jiwen Yu , Xijun Wang , Enshen Zhou , Lijun Li , Zhenfei Yin , Xihui Liu , Lu Sheng , Jing Shao , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Ruimao Zhang

Action-conditioned video models offer a promising path to building general-purpose robot simulators that can improve directly from data. Yet, despite training on large-scale robot datasets, current state-of-the-art video models still…

Training robots in simulation requires diverse 3D scenes that reflect the specific challenges of downstream tasks. However, scenes that satisfy strict task requirements, such as high-clutter environments with plausible spatial arrangement,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Nicholas Pfaff , Hongkai Dai , Sergey Zakharov , Shun Iwase , Russ Tedrake

Verifying closed-loop vision-based control systems remains a fundamental challenge due to the high dimensionality of images and the difficulty of modeling visual environments. While generative models are increasingly used as camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yuang Geng , Zhuoyang Zhou , Zhongzheng Zhang , Siyuan Pan , Hoang-Dung Tran , Ivan Ruchkin

Despite recent progress, video diffusion models still struggle to synthesize realistic videos involving highly dynamic motions or requiring fine-grained motion controllability. A central limitation lies in the scarcity of such examples in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Wonjoon Jin , Jiyun Won , Janghyeok Han , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Seung-Hwan Baek , Sunghyun Cho

World models aim to endow AI systems with the ability to represent, generate, and interact with dynamic environments in a coherent and temporally consistent manner. While recent video generation models have demonstrated impressive visual…

Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the development of ``world models'' capable of simulating potential futures for robotics and planning. However, specifying precise goals for these models remains a challenge; text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nate Gillman , Yinghua Zhou , Zitian Tang , Evan Luo , Arjan Chakravarthy , Daksh Aggarwal , Michael Freeman , Charles Herrmann , Chen Sun

We introduce Diffusion World Model (DWM), a conditional diffusion model capable of predicting multistep future states and rewards concurrently. As opposed to traditional one-step dynamics models, DWM offers long-horizon predictions in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Zihan Ding , Amy Zhang , Yuandong Tian , Qinqing Zheng

Recent advancements in video generation have substantially improved visual quality and temporal coherence, making these models increasingly appealing for applications such as autonomous driving, particularly in the context of driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Chun-Peng Chang , Chen-Yu Wang , Julian Schmidt , Holger Caesar , Alain Pagani

Large-scale video generative models can synthesize diverse and realistic visual content for dynamic world creation, but they often lack element-wise controllability, hindering their use in editing scenes and training embodied AI agents. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sicheng Mo , Ziyang Leng , Leon Liu , Weizhen Wang , Honglin He , Bolei Zhou

This study seeks to automate camera movement control for filming existing subjects into attractive videos, contrasting with the creation of non-existent content by directly generating the pixels. We select drone videos as our test case due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yunzhong Hou , Liang Zheng , Philip Torr

We introduce specialized diffusion-based generative models that capture the spatiotemporal dynamics of fine-grained robotic surgical sub-stitch actions through supervised learning on annotated laparoscopic surgery footage. The proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Mehmet Kerem Turkcan , Mattia Ballo , Filippo Filicori , Zoran Kostic

Recent successes in autoregressive (AR) generation models, such as the GPT series in natural language processing, have motivated efforts to replicate this success in visual tasks. Some works attempt to extend this approach to autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xiaotao Hu , Wei Yin , Mingkai Jia , Junyuan Deng , Xiaoyang Guo , Qian Zhang , Xiaoxiao Long , Ping Tan

This paper presents a unified multimodal pre-trained model called N\"UWA that can generate new or manipulate existing visual data (i.e., images and videos) for various visual synthesis tasks. To cover language, image, and video at the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Chenfei Wu , Jian Liang , Lei Ji , Fan Yang , Yuejian Fang , Daxin Jiang , Nan Duan

Driving World Models (DWMs) have been developing rapidly with the advances of generative models. However, existing DWMs lack 3D scene understanding capabilities and can only generate content conditioned on input data, without the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tianchen Deng , Xuefeng Chen , Yi Chen , Qu Chen , Yuyao Xu , Lijin Yang , Le Xu , Yu Zhang , Bo Zhang , Wuxiong Huang , Hesheng Wang

Reliable anticipation of traffic accidents is essential for advancing autonomous driving systems. However, this objective is limited by two fundamental challenges: the scarcity of diverse, high-quality training data and the frequent absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Xingcheng Liu , Jiaxun Zhang , Zhenning Li