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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

World models derived from large-scale video generative pre-training have emerged as a promising paradigm for generalist robot policy learning. However, standard approaches often focus on high-fidelity RGB video prediction, this can result…

We study the task of embodied visual active learning, where an agent is set to explore a 3d environment with the goal to acquire visual scene understanding by actively selecting views for which to request annotation. While accurate on some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 David Nilsson , Aleksis Pirinen , Erik Gärtner , Cristian Sminchisescu

Emerging world models autoregressively generate video frames in response to actions, such as camera movements and text prompts, among other control signals. Due to limited temporal context window sizes, these models often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tong Wu , Shuai Yang , Ryan Po , Yinghao Xu , Ziwei Liu , Dahua Lin , Gordon Wetzstein

We propose a general way to integrate procedural knowledge of a domain into deep learning models. We apply it to the case of video prediction, building on top of object-centric deep models and show that this leads to a better performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Patrick Takenaka , Johannes Maucher , Marco F. Huber

To solve tasks in complex environments, robots need to learn from experience. Deep reinforcement learning is a common approach to robot learning but requires a large amount of trial and error to learn, limiting its deployment in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Philipp Wu , Alejandro Escontrela , Danijar Hafner , Ken Goldberg , Pieter Abbeel

Video world models can generate realistic futures from a single instruction, but they often fail to preserve consistent point-level motion over time. As a result, the generated videos appear plausible, yet lack the physical grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Kaichen Zhou , Yuzhen Chen , Fangneng Zhan , Hang Hua , Grace Chen , Xinhai Chang , Ao Qu , Yilun Du , Zhuang Liu , Paul Pu Liang , Mengyu Wang

The ability to predict future states of the environment is a central pillar of intelligence. At its core, effective prediction requires an internal model of the world and an understanding of the rules by which the world changes. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-21 William Lotter , Gabriel Kreiman , David Cox

World models, which predict future transitions from past observation and action sequences, have shown great promise for improving data efficiency in sequential decision-making. However, existing world models often require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siqiao Huang , Jialong Wu , Qixing Zhou , Shangchen Miao , Mingsheng Long

With the rapid development of deep learning, video deraining has experienced significant progress. However, existing video deraining pipelines cannot achieve satisfying performance for scenes with rain layers of complex spatio-temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Yueyi Zhang , Jin Wang , Wenming Weng , Xiaoyan Sun , Zhiwei Xiong

Learning to control robots directly based on images is a primary challenge in robotics. However, many existing reinforcement learning approaches require iteratively obtaining millions of robot samples to learn a policy, which can take…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-02 AJ Piergiovanni , Alan Wu , Michael S. Ryoo

Tool use is essential for enabling robots to perform complex real-world tasks, but learning such skills requires extensive datasets. While teleoperation is widely used, it is slow, delay-sensitive, and poorly suited for dynamic tasks. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Haonan Chen , Cheng Zhu , Shuijing Liu , Yunzhu Li , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

Generative models have achieved success in producing apparently coherent 2D videos, but remain challenging in the physical world due to lack of 4D spatiotemporal scale. Typically, existing 4D generative models directly embed macro scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haonan Wang , Hanyu Zhou , Tao Gu , Luxin Yan

Recent implicit neural rendering methods have demonstrated that it is possible to learn accurate view synthesis for complex scenes by predicting their volumetric density and color supervised solely by a set of RGB images. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Julian Ost , Fahim Mannan , Nils Thuerey , Julian Knodt , Felix Heide

General visual representations learned from web-scale datasets for robotics have achieved great success in recent years, enabling data-efficient robot learning on manipulation tasks; yet these pre-trained representations are mostly on 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Chengkai Hou , Yanjie Ze , Yankai Fu , Zeyu Gao , Songbo Hu , Yue Yu , Shanghang Zhang , Huazhe Xu

Humans excel at forecasting the future dynamics of a scene given just a single image. Video generation models that can mimic this ability are an essential component for intelligent systems. Recent approaches have improved temporal coherence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Melonie de Almeida , Daniela Ivanova , Tong Shi , John H. Williamson , Paul Henderson

This paper presents TCE: Temporally Coherent Embeddings for self-supervised video representation learning. The proposed method exploits inherent structure of unlabeled video data to explicitly enforce temporal coherency in the embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Joshua Knights , Ben Harwood , Daniel Ward , Anthony Vanderkop , Olivia Mackenzie-Ross , Peyman Moghadam

World models improve a learning agent's ability to efficiently operate in interactive and situated environments. This work focuses on the task of building world models of text-based game environments. Text-based games, or interactive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Mark O. Riedl

We explore building generative neural network models of popular reinforcement learning environments. Our world model can be trained quickly in an unsupervised manner to learn a compressed spatial and temporal representation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 David Ha , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Recent breakthroughs in Go play and strategic games have witnessed the great potential of reinforcement learning in intelligently scheduling in uncertain environment, but some bottlenecks are also encountered when we generalize this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Xingxing Liang , Qi Wang , Yanghe Feng , Zhong Liu , Jincai Huang