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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

We introduce ThreeDWorld (TDW), a platform for interactive multi-modal physical simulation. TDW enables simulation of high-fidelity sensory data and physical interactions between mobile agents and objects in rich 3D environments. Unique…

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

World models for deformable objects should recover not only geometry and appearance, but also underlying physical dynamics, interaction grounding, and material behavior. Learning such a model from real videos is challenging because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Can Li , Zhoujian Li , Ren Li , Jie Gu , Lei Lei , Jingmin Chen , Lei Sun

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

Text-based games provide a framework for developing natural language understanding and commonsense knowledge about the world in reinforcement learning based agents. Existing text-based environments often rely on fictional situations and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Abhinav Joshi , Areeb Ahmad , Umang Pandey , Ashutosh Modi

Agents capable of reasoning and planning in the real world require the ability of predicting the consequences of their actions. While world models possess this capability, they most often require action labels, that can be complex to obtain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Quentin Garrido , Tushar Nagarajan , Basile Terver , Nicolas Ballas , Yann LeCun , Michael Rabbat

World models that support controllable and editable spatiotemporal environments are valuable for robotics, enabling scalable training data, repro ducible evaluation, and flexible task design. While recent text-to-video models generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Xuehai He , Shijie Zhou , Thivyanth Venkateswaran , Kaizhi Zheng , Ziyu Wan , Achuta Kadambi , Xin Eric Wang

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

Language agents increasingly require persistent worlds in which they can act, remember, and learn. Existing approaches sit at two extremes: conventional web frameworks provide reliable but fixed contexts backed by databases, while fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jichen Feng , Yifan Zhang , Chenggong Zhang , Yifu Lu , Shilong Liu , Mengdi Wang

Evaluating robotics policies across thousands of environments and thousands of tasks is infeasible with existing approaches. This motivates the need for a new methodology for scalable robotics policy evaluation. In this paper, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yaxuan Li , Zhongyi Zhou , Yefei Chen , Yaokai Xue , Yichen Zhu

A generative recurrent neural network is quickly trained in an unsupervised manner to model popular reinforcement learning environments through compressed spatio-temporal representations. The world model's extracted features are fed into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-07 David Ha , Jürgen Schmidhuber

While LLM/VLM-powered AI agents have advanced rapidly in math, coding, and computer use, their applications in complex physical and social environments remain challenging. Building agents that can survive and thrive in the real world (for…

Multi-agent traffic simulation is central to developing and testing autonomous driving systems. Recent data-driven simulators have achieved promising results, but rely heavily on supervised learning from labeled trajectories or semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mozhgan Pourkeshavatz , Tianran Liu , Nicholas Rhinehart

Large Language Models (LLMs) have the capacity of performing complex scheduling in a multi-agent system and can coordinate these agents into completing sophisticated tasks that require extensive collaboration. However, despite the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Ran Gong , Qiuyuan Huang , Xiaojian Ma , Hoi Vo , Zane Durante , Yusuke Noda , Zilong Zheng , Song-Chun Zhu , Demetri Terzopoulos , Li Fei-Fei , Jianfeng Gao

Despite remarkable progress in driving world models, their potential for autonomous systems remains largely untapped: the world models are mostly learned for world simulation and decoupled from trajectory planning. While recent efforts aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhida Zhao , Talas Fu , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

This paper presents ShareVerse, a video generation framework enabling multi-agent shared world modeling, addressing the gap in existing works that lack support for unified shared world construction with multi-agent interaction. ShareVerse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jiayi Zhu , Jianing Zhang , Yiying Yang , Wei Cheng , Xiaoyun Yuan

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

Recent progress in 3D reconstruction has made it easy to create realistic digital twins from everyday environments. However, current digital twins remain largely static and are limited to navigation and view synthesis without embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Byungjun Kim , Taeksoo Kim , Junyoung Lee , Hanbyul Joo

World models serve as core simulators for fields such as agentic AI, embodied AI, and gaming, capable of generating long, physically realistic, and interactive high-quality videos. Moreover, scaling these models could unlock emergent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Inferix Team , Tianyu Feng , Yizeng Han , Jiahao He , Yuanyu He , Xi Lin , Teng Liu , Hanfeng Lu , Jiasheng Tang , Wei Wang , Zhiyuan Wang , Jichao Wu , Mingyang Yang , Yinghao Yu , Zeyu Zhang , Bohan Zhuang