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Agent-based modeling is a paradigm of modeling dynamic systems of interacting agents that are individually governed by specified behavioral rules. Training a model of such agents to produce an emergent behavior by specification of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Karan K. Budhraja , Hang Gao , Tim Oates

Achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires agents that learn and interact adaptively, with interactive world models providing scalable environments for perception, reasoning, and action. Yet current research still lacks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jianjie Fang , Yingshan Lei , Qin Wan , Ziyou Wang , Yuchao Huang , Yongyan Xu , Baining Zhao , Weichen Zhang , Chen Gao , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li

It has been a long-standing dream to design artificial agents that explore their environment efficiently via intrinsic motivation, similar to how children perform curious free play. Despite recent advances in intrinsically motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Cansu Sancaktar , Sebastian Blaes , Georg Martius

User simulation is an emerging interdisciplinary topic with multiple critical applications in the era of Generative AI. It involves creating an intelligent agent that mimics the actions of a human user interacting with an AI system,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Krisztian Balog , ChengXiang Zhai

We introduce Language World Models, a class of language-conditional generative model which interpret natural language messages by predicting latent codes of future observations. This provides a visual grounding of the message, similar to an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Alexander I. Cowen-Rivers , Jason Naradowsky

Continual learning is often motivated by the idea, known as the big world hypothesis, that "the world is bigger" than the agent. Recent problem formulations capture this idea by explicitly constraining an agent relative to the environment.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Alex Lewandowski , Adtiya A. Ramesh , Edan Meyer , Dale Schuurmans , Marlos C. Machado

A world model matters to an agent only through the state it constructs. That state must preserve some information, discard other information, and support some future function: prediction, control, planning, memory, grounding, or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Keon Woo Kim

Real-world artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly required to operate autonomously in dynamic, uncertain, and continuously changing environments. However, most existing AI models rely on predefined objectives, static training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hong Su

The article provides an overview of approaches to modeling the human psyche in the perspective of building an artificial one. Based on the review, a concept of cognitive architecture is proposed, where the psyche is considered as an…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-11 Anton Kolonin , Vladimir Kryukov

In model-based learning, the agent learns behaviors by simulating trajectories based on world model predictions. Standard world models typically learn a stationary transition function that maps states and actions to next states, when an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Qinshi Zhang , Weipeng Deng , Zhihan Jiang , Jiaming Qu , Qianren Li , Weitao Xu , Ray LC

Agent-based models have emerged as a promising paradigm for addressing ever increasing complexity of information systems. In its initial days in the 1990s when object-oriented modeling was at its peak, an agent was treated as a special kind…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Srinath Srinivasa , Jayati Deshmukh

Long-horizon embodied planning is challenging because the world does not only change through an agent's actions: exogenous processes (e.g., water heating, dominoes cascading) unfold concurrently with the agent's actions. We propose a…

This paper offers a roadmap for the development of scalable aligned artificial intelligence (AI) from first principle descriptions of natural intelligence. In brief, a possible path toward scalable aligned AI rests upon enabling artificial…

Despite the recent progress in deep learning and reinforcement learning, transfer and generalization of skills learned on specific tasks is very limited compared to human (or animal) intelligence. The lifelong, incremental building of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Louis Annabi

The paper provides an introduction to agent-based modelling and simulation of social processes. Reader is introduced to the worldview underlying agent-based models, some basic terminology, basic properties of agent-based models, as well as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Armano Srbljinovic , Ognjen Skunca

The Artificial Intelligence field is flooded with optimisation methods. In this paper, we change the focus to developing modelling methods with the aim of getting us closer to Artificial General Intelligence. To do so, we propose a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Alfredo Ibias , Guillem Ramirez-Miranda , Enric Guinovart , Eduard Alarcon

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

Cognitive scientists believe adaptable intelligent agents like humans perform reasoning through learned causal mental simulations of agents and environments. The problem of learning such simulations is called predictive world modeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Robin Karlsson , Alexander Carballo , Keisuke Fujii , Kento Ohtani , Kazuya Takeda

As machine learning (ML) systems have advanced, they have acquired more power over humans' lives, and questions about what values are embedded in them have become more complex and fraught. It is conceivable that in the coming decades,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Sky Croeser , Peter Eckersley

In the era of deep learning, data is the critical determining factor in the performance of neural network models. Generating large datasets suffers from various difficulties such as scalability, cost efficiency and photorealism. To avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Chahat Deep Singh , Riya Kumari , Cornelia Fermüller , Nitin J. Sanket , Yiannis Aloimonos