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Semantic occupancy has emerged as a powerful representation in world models for its ability to capture rich spatial semantics. However, most existing occupancy world models rely on static and fixed embeddings or grids, which inherently…

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World models have emerged as a critical frontier in AI research, aiming to enhance large models by infusing them with physical dynamics and world knowledge. The core objective is to enable agents to understand, predict, and interact with…

World models have made significant progress in modeling dynamic environments; however, most embodied world models are still restricted to 2D representations, lacking the comprehensive multi-view information essential for embodied spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peiyan Tu , Hanxin Zhu , Jingwen Sun , Shaojie Ren , Cong Wang , Jiayi Luo , Xiaoqian Cheng , Zhibo Chen

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…

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Generative world models are reshaping embodied AI, enabling agents to synthesize realistic 4D driving environments that look convincing but often fail physically or behaviorally. Despite rapid progress, the field still lacks a unified way…

World building forms the foundation of any task that requires narrative intelligence. In this work, we focus on procedurally generating interactive fiction worlds---text-based worlds that players "see" and "talk to" using natural language.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Wesley Cheung , Dan Tu , William Broniec , Mark O. Riedl

Previous works leveraging video models for image-to-3D scene generation tend to suffer from geometric distortions and blurry content. In this paper, we renovate the pipeline of image-to-3D scene generation by unlocking the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuhao Wan , Lijuan Liu , Jingzhi Zhou , Zihan Zhou , Xuying Zhang , Dongbo Zhang , Shaohui Jiao , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

World modeling is a crucial task for enabling intelligent agents to effectively interact with humans and operate in dynamic environments. In this work, we propose MineWorld, a real-time interactive world model on Minecraft, an open-ended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Junliang Guo , Yang Ye , Tianyu He , Haoyu Wu , Yushu Jiang , Tim Pearce , Jiang Bian

3D scene generation seeks to synthesize spatially structured, semantically meaningful, and photorealistic environments for applications such as immersive media, robotics, autonomous driving, and embodied AI. Early methods based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Beichen Wen , Haozhe Xie , Zhaoxi Chen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu

Programming a robotic is a complex task, as it demands the user to have a good command of specific programming languages and awareness of the robot's physical constraints. We propose a framework that simplifies robot deployment by allowing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Cathy Mengying Fang , Krzysztof Zieliński , Pattie Maes , Joe Paradiso , Bruce Blumberg , Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard

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…

We tackle the problem of learning complex, general behaviors directly in the real world. We propose an approach for robots to efficiently learn manipulation skills using only a handful of real-world interaction trajectories from many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Russell Mendonca , Shikhar Bahl , Deepak Pathak

Large language model (LLM) agents trained using reinforcement learning has achieved superhuman performance in low-cost environments like games, mathematics, and coding. However, these successes have not translated to complex domains where…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sherry Yang

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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LLM/VLM-based digital agents have advanced rapidly thanks to scalable sandboxes for coding, web navigation, and computer use, which provide rich interactive training grounds. In contrast, embodied agents still lack abundant, diverse, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Haoqiang Kang , Xiaokang Ye , Yuhan Liu , Siddhant Hitesh Mantri , Lingjun Mao , James Fleming , Drishti Regmi , Lianhui Qin

While generative models have excelled at creating static 3D content, the pursuit of systems that understand how objects move and respond to interactions remains a fundamental challenge. Current methods for articulated motion lie at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tianshan Zhang , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Envisioning physically plausible outcomes from a single image requires a deep understanding of the world's dynamics. To address this, we introduce PhysGen3D, a novel framework that transforms a single image into an amodal, camera-centric,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Boyuan Chen , Hanxiao Jiang , Shaowei Liu , Saurabh Gupta , Yunzhu Li , Hao Zhao , Shenlong Wang

World models are a powerful paradigm in AI and robotics, enabling agents to reason about the future by predicting visual observations or compact latent states. The 1X World Model Challenge introduces an open-source benchmark of real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Riccardo Mereu , Aidan Scannell , Yuxin Hou , Yi Zhao , Aditya Jitta , Antonio Dominguez , Luigi Acerbi , Amos Storkey , Paul Chang

Learning robust and generalizable world models is crucial for enabling efficient and scalable robotic control in real-world environments. In this work, we introduce a novel framework for learning world models that accurately capture…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Chenhao Li , Andreas Krause , Marco Hutter

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,…

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