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Generating visual instructions in a given context is essential for developing interactive world simulators. While prior works address this problem through either text-guided image manipulation or video prediction, these tasks are typically…

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Recent video generation models have achieved remarkable progress and are now deployed in film, social media production, and advertising. Beyond their creative potential, such models also hold promise as world simulators for robotics and…

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World models empower model-based agents to interactively explore, reason, and plan within imagined environments for real-world decision-making. However, the high demand for interactivity poses challenges in harnessing recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jialong Wu , Shaofeng Yin , Ningya Feng , Xu He , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Mingsheng Long

Recent progress in generative models has stimulated significant innovations in many fields, such as image generation and chatbots. Despite their success, these models often produce sketchy and misleading solutions for complex multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zeyang Liu , Xinrui Yang , Shiguang Sun , Long Qian , Lipeng Wan , Xingyu Chen , Xuguang Lan

World models, especially in autonomous driving, are trending and drawing extensive attention due to their capacity for comprehending driving environments. The established world model holds immense potential for the generation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Xinze Chen , Jiagang Zhu , Jiwen Lu

Generative video modeling has emerged as a compelling tool to zero-shot reason about plausible physical interactions for open-world manipulation. Yet, it remains a challenge to translate such human-led motions into the low-level actions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Karthik Dharmarajan , Wenlong Huang , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei , Ruohan Zhang

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

Recent generative video world models aim to simulate visual environment evolution, allowing an observer to interactively explore the scene via camera control. However, they implicitly assume that the world only evolves within the observer's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zicheng Duan , Jiatong Xia , Zeyu Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Gengze Zhou , Chenhui Gou , Yefei He , Feng Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

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…

Efficient skill acquisition, representation, and on-line adaptation to different scenarios has become of fundamental importance for assistive robotic applications. In the past decade, dynamical systems (DS) have arisen as a flexible and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Matteo Saveriano , Dongheui Lee

Large-scale video generative models have shown emerging capabilities as zero-shot visual planners, yet video-generated plans often violate temporal consistency and physical constraints, leading to failures when mapped to executable actions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Christos Ziakas , Amir Bar , Alessandra Russo

World models learn to predict the temporal evolution of visual observations given a control signal, potentially enabling agents to reason about environments through forward simulation. Because of the focus on forward simulation, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yiqing Shen , Aiza Maksutova , Chenjia Li , Mathias Unberath

We present Stable Video Diffusion - a latent video diffusion model for high-resolution, state-of-the-art text-to-video and image-to-video generation. Recently, latent diffusion models trained for 2D image synthesis have been turned into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Andreas Blattmann , Tim Dockhorn , Sumith Kulal , Daniel Mendelevitch , Maciej Kilian , Dominik Lorenz , Yam Levi , Zion English , Vikram Voleti , Adam Letts , Varun Jampani , Robin Rombach

Large-scale video generation models have demonstrated emergent physical coherence, positioning them as potential world models. However, a gap remains between contemporary "stateless" video architectures and classic state-centric world model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Luozhou Wang , Zhifei Chen , Yihua Du , Dongyu Yan , Wenhang Ge , Guibao Shen , Xinli Xu , Leyi Wu , Man Chen , Tianshuo Xu , Peiran Ren , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Ying-Cong Chen

Generative video modeling has made significant strides, yet ensuring structural and temporal consistency over long sequences remains a challenge. Current methods predominantly rely on RGB signals, leading to accumulated errors in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhiheng Liu , Xueqing Deng , Shoufa Chen , Angtian Wang , Qiushan Guo , Mingfei Han , Zeyue Xue , Mengzhao Chen , Ping Luo , Linjie Yang

World models can foresee the outcomes of different actions, which is of paramount importance for autonomous driving. Nevertheless, existing driving world models still have limitations in generalization to unseen environments, prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Shenyuan Gao , Jiazhi Yang , Li Chen , Kashyap Chitta , Yihang Qiu , Andreas Geiger , Jun Zhang , Hongyang Li

We introduce PhysWorld, a framework that enables robot learning from video generation through physical world modeling. Recent video generation models can synthesize photorealistic visual demonstrations from language commands and images,…

Recent advances in robot foundation models trained on large-scale human teleoperation data have enabled robots to perform increasingly complex real-world tasks. However, scaling these systems remains difficult because collecting…

Novel-view synthesis techniques achieve impressive results for static scenes but struggle when faced with the inconsistencies inherent to casual capture settings: varying illumination, scene motion, and other unintended effects that are…

We present DINO-world, a powerful generalist video world model trained to predict future frames in the latent space of DINOv2. By leveraging a pre-trained image encoder and training a future predictor on a large-scale uncurated video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Federico Baldassarre , Marc Szafraniec , Basile Terver , Vasil Khalidov , Francisco Massa , Yann LeCun , Patrick Labatut , Maximilian Seitzer , Piotr Bojanowski