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Recent advancements in predictive models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in predicting the future state of objects and scenes. However, the lack of categorization based on inherent characteristics continues to hinder the progress…

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Despite increasingly realistic image quality, recent 3D image generative models often operate on 3D volumes of fixed extent with limited camera motions. We investigate the task of unconditionally synthesizing unbounded nature scenes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Lucy Chai , Richard Tucker , Zhengqi Li , Phillip Isola , Noah Snavely

The landscape of video generation is shifting, from a focus on generating visually appealing clips to building virtual environments that support interaction and maintain physical plausibility. These developments point toward the emergence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jingtong Yue , Ziqi Huang , Zhaoxi Chen , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Ziwei Liu

In model-based reinforcement learning, generative and temporal models of environments can be leveraged to boost agent performance, either by tuning the agent's representations during training or via use as part of an explicit planning…

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

The field of robotics has made significant strides toward developing generalist robot manipulation policies. However, evaluating these policies in real-world scenarios remains time-consuming and challenging, particularly as the number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yaxuan Li , Yichen Zhu , Junjie Wen , Chaomin Shen , Yi Xu

World models predict state transitions in response to actions and are increasingly developed across diverse modalities. However, standard training objectives such as maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) often misalign with task-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jialong Wu , Shaofeng Yin , Ningya Feng , Mingsheng Long

Recently, video-based world models that learn to simulate the dynamics have gained increasing attention in robot learning. However, current approaches primarily emphasize visual generative quality while overlooking physical fidelity,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Baorui Peng , Wenyao Zhang , Liang Xu , Zekun Qi , Jiazhao Zhang , Hongsi Liu , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin

In this age of information, images are a critical medium for storing and transmitting information. With the rapid growth of image data amount, visual compression and visual data perception are two important research topics attracting a lot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yuefeng Zhang , Chuanmin Jia , Jiannhui Chang , Siwei Ma

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

Current world models lack a unified and controlled setting for systematic evaluation, making it difficult to assess whether they truly capture the underlying rules that govern environment dynamics. In this work, we address this open…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xinyi Li , Zaishuo Xia , Weyl Lu , Chenjie Hao , Yubei Chen

Scaling generative inverse and forward rendering to real-world scenarios is bottlenecked by the limited realism and temporal coherence of existing synthetic datasets. To bridge this persistent domain gap, we introduce a large-scale, dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zheng-Hui Huang , Zhixiang Wang , Jiaming Tan , Ruihan Yu , Yidan Zhang , Bo Zheng , Yu-Lun Liu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Kaipeng Zhang

World models enable robots to conduct counterfactual reasoning in physical environments by predicting future world states. While conventional approaches often prioritize pixel-level reconstruction of future scenes, such detailed rendering…

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Generative adversarial networks achieve great performance in photorealistic image synthesis in various domains, including human images. However, they usually employ latent vectors that encode the sampled outputs globally. This does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Kripasindhu Sarkar , Lingjie Liu , Vladislav Golyanik , Christian Theobalt

Action-conditioned video models offer a promising path to building general-purpose robot simulators that can improve directly from data. Yet, despite training on large-scale robot datasets, current state-of-the-art video models still…

Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yang Zhou , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Hongsheng Li , Steven L. Waslander

Human video generation is a dynamic and rapidly evolving task that aims to synthesize 2D human body video sequences with generative models given control conditions such as text, audio, and pose. With the potential for wide-ranging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Wentao Lei , Jinting Wang , Fengji Ma , Guanjie Huang , Li Liu

Generative video modeling has made significant strides, yet ensuring structural and temporal consistency over long sequences remains a challenge. Current methods predominantly rely on RGB signals, leading to accumulated errors in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhiheng Liu , Xueqing Deng , Shoufa Chen , Angtian Wang , Qiushan Guo , Mingfei Han , Zeyue Xue , Mengzhao Chen , Ping Luo , Linjie Yang

The integration of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with World Models has gained increasing attention. One representative approach treats learned World Models as generative simulators, enabling policy optimization entirely within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiaxuan Gao , Yongjian Guo , Zhong Guan , Wen Huang , Wanlun Ma , Xi Xiao , Junwu Xiong , Sheng Wen

We present LingBot-World, an open-sourced world simulator stemming from video generation. Positioned as a top-tier world model, LingBot-World offers the following features. (1) It maintains high fidelity and robust dynamics in a broad…