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Diffusion-based world models have shown strong potential for unified world simulation, but the iterative denoising remains too costly for interactive use and long-horizon rollouts. While feature caching can accelerate inference without…

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Cities, as the essential environment of human life, encompass diverse physical elements such as buildings, roads and vegetation, which continuously interact with dynamic entities like people and vehicles. Crafting realistic, interactive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yu Shang , Yuming Lin , Yu Zheng , Hangyu Fan , Jingtao Ding , Jie Feng , Jiansheng Chen , Li Tian , Yong Li

People interact with the real-world largely dependent on visual signal, which are ubiquitous and illustrate detailed demonstrations. In this paper, we explore utilizing visual signals as a new interface for models to interact with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Wentao Zhang , Junliang Guo , Tianyu He , Li Zhao , Linli Xu , Jiang Bian

A world model enables an intelligent agent to imagine, predict, and reason about how the world evolves in response to its actions, and accordingly to plan and strategize. While recent video generation models produce realistic visual…

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

Embodied action planning is a core challenge in robotics, requiring models to generate precise actions from visual observations and language instructions. While video generation world models are promising, their reliance on pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yangcheng Yu , Xin Jin , Yu Shang , Xin Zhang , Haisheng Su , Wei Wu , Yong Li

Agents operating in complex software environments benefit from reasoning about the consequences of their actions, as even a single incorrect user interface (UI) operation can derail long, artifact-preserving workflows. This challenge is…

We propose Infinite-World, a robust interactive world model capable of maintaining coherent visual memory over 1000+ frames in complex real-world environments. While existing world models can be efficiently optimized on synthetic data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ruiqi Wu , Xuanhua He , Meng Cheng , Tianyu Yang , Yong Zhang , Zhuoliang Kang , Xunliang Cai , Xiaoming Wei , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

World-Action Models (WAM) initialized from pre-trained video generation backbones have demonstrated remarkable potential for robot policy learning. However, existing approaches face two critical bottlenecks that hinder performance and…

We develop a probabilistic graphical model (PGM) for artificially intelligent (AI) agents to infer human beliefs during a simulated urban search and rescue (USAR) scenario executed in a Minecraft environment with a team of three players.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Paulo Soares , Adarsh Pyarelal , Kobus Barnard

Virtual cell modeling aims to predict cellular responses to perturbations. Existing virtual cell models rely heavily on large-scale single-cell datasets, learning explicit mappings between gene expression and perturbations. Although recent…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-02 Zhijian Wei , Runze Ma , Zichen Wang , Zhongmin Li , Shuotong Song , Shuangjia Zheng

Building world models with spatial consistency and real-time interactivity remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Current video generation paradigms often struggle with a lack of spatial persistence and insufficient visual…

Learning world models offers a promising avenue for goal-conditioned reinforcement learning with sparse rewards. By allowing agents to plan actions or exploratory goals without direct interaction with the environment, world models enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yuanlin Duan , Wensen Mao , He Zhu

We propose Token Turing Machines (TTM), a sequential, autoregressive Transformer model with memory for real-world sequential visual understanding. Our model is inspired by the seminal Neural Turing Machine, and has an external memory…

In order for artificial agents to successfully perform tasks in changing environments, they must be able to both detect and adapt to novelty. However, visual novelty detection research often only evaluates on repurposed datasets such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Patrick Feeney , Sarah Schneider , Panagiotis Lymperopoulos , Li-Ping Liu , Matthias Scheutz , Michael C. Hughes

We present MineNPC-Task, a user-authored benchmark and evaluation harness for testing memory-aware, mixed-initiative LLM agents in open-world Minecraft. Rather than relying on synthetic prompts, tasks are elicited through formative and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Tamil Sudaravan Mohan Doss , Michael Xu , Sudha Rao , Andrew D. Wilson , Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel

Generative video models, a leading approach to world modeling, face fundamental limitations. They often violate physical and logical rules, lack interactivity, and operate as opaque black boxes ill-suited for building structured, queryable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Felix O'Mahony , Roberto Cipolla , Ayush Tewari

We present a novel study on enhancing the capability of preserving the content in world models, focusing on a property we term World Stability. Recent diffusion-based generative models have advanced the synthesis of immersive and realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Soonwoo Kwon , Jin-Young Kim , Hyojun Go , Kyungjune Baek

Autonomous vehicles operating in complex real-world environments require accurate predictions of interactive behaviors between traffic participants. This paper tackles the interaction prediction problem by formulating it with hierarchical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Zhiyu Huang , Haochen Liu , Chen Lv

World models enable agents to plan by imagining future states, but existing approaches operate from a single viewpoint, typically egocentric, even when other perspectives would make planning easier; navigation, for instance, benefits from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rishabh Sharma , Gijs Hogervorst , Wayne E. Mackey , David J. Heeger , Stefano Martiniani