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Learned world models hold significant potential for robotic manipulation, as they can serve as simulator for real-world interactions. While extensive progress has been made in 2D video-based world models, these approaches often lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Chuanrui Zhang , Zhengxian Wu , Guanxing Lu , Yansong Tang , Ziwei Wang

The remarkable recent advances in object-centric generative world models raise a few questions. First, while many of the recent achievements are indispensable for making a general and versatile world model, it is quite unclear how these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhixuan Lin , Yi-Fu Wu , Skand Peri , Bofeng Fu , Jindong Jiang , Sungjin Ahn

GUI agents are beginning to operate the web, mobile, and desktop as interactive worlds, where successful control depends on carrying forward visual, procedural, and task-level evidence beyond the fleeting present screen. Yet most agents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guibin Zhang , Yaohui Ling , Fanci Meng , Kun Wang , Shuicheng Yan

The robustness of visual navigation policies trained through imitation often hinges on the augmentation of the training image-action pairs. Traditionally, this has been done by collecting data from multiple cameras, by using standard data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Dhruv Sharma , Alihusein Kuwajerwala , Florian Shkurti

Safe L2/L3 driving automation requires anticipating human-in-the-loop reactions during shared-control transitions. While most driving world models forecast the external environment, in-cabin intelligence remains strictly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haozhuang Chi , Daosheng Qiu , Hao Su , Haochen Liu , Zirui Li , Haoruo Zhang , Chen Lv

Object-goal navigation is a crucial engineering task for the community of embodied navigation; it involves navigating to an instance of a specified object category within unseen environments. Although extensive investigations have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Leyuan Sun , Asako Kanezaki , Guillaume Caron , Yusuke Yoshiyasu

Advanced end-to-end autonomous driving systems predict other vehicles' motions and plan ego vehicle's trajectory. The world model that can foresee the outcome of the trajectory has been used to evaluate the autonomous driving system.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jian Zhu , Zhengyu Jia , Tian Gao , Jiaxin Deng , Shidi Li , Lang Zhang , Fu Liu , Peng Jia , Xianpeng Lang

End-to-end (E2E) autonomous driving has recently attracted increasing interest in unifying Vision-Language-Action (VLA) with World Models to enhance decision-making and forward-looking imagination. However, existing methods fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Feiyang jia , Lin Liu , Ziying Song , Caiyan Jia , Hangjun Ye , Xiaoshuai Hao , Long Chen

Human mobility prediction is vital for urban planning, transportation optimization, and personalized services. However, the inherent randomness, non-uniform time intervals, and complex patterns of human mobility, compounded by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Chonghua Han , Yuan Yuan , Yukun Liu , Jingtao Ding , Jie Feng , Yong Li

Training robot policies within a learned world model is trending due to the inefficiency of real-world interactions. The established image-based world models and policies have shown prior success, but lack robust geometric information that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Guanxing Lu , Baoxiong Jia , Puhao Li , Yixin Chen , Ziwei Wang , Yansong Tang , Siyuan Huang

We present UniFuture, a unified 4D Driving World Model designed to simulate the dynamic evolution of the 3D physical world. Unlike existing driving world models that focus solely on 2D pixel-level video generation (lacking geometry) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Dingkang Liang , Dingyuan Zhang , Xin Zhou , Sifan Tu , Tianrui Feng , Xiaofan Li , Yumeng Zhang , Mingyang Du , Xiao Tan , Xiang Bai

Vision-language model (VLM) shows promise for high-level planning in smart manufacturing, yet their deployment in dynamic workcells faces two critical challenges: (1) stateless operation, they cannot persistently track out-of-view states,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Guoqin Tang , Qingxuan Jia , Gang Chen , Tong Li , Zeyuan Huang , Zihang Lv , Ning Ji

While a general embodied agent must function as a unified system, current methods are built on isolated models for understanding, world modeling, and control. This fragmentation prevents unifying multimodal generative capabilities and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Hongzhe Bi , Hengkai Tan , Shenghao Xie , Zeyuan Wang , Shuhe Huang , Haitian Liu , Ruowen Zhao , Yao Feng , Chendong Xiang , Yinze Rong , Hongyan Zhao , Hanyu Liu , Zhizhong Su , Lei Ma , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Machines are a long way from robustly solving open-world perception-control tasks, such as first-person view (FPV) aerial navigation. While recent advances in end-to-end Machine Learning, especially Imitation and Reinforcement Learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Rogerio Bonatti , Ratnesh Madaan , Vibhav Vineet , Sebastian Scherer , Ashish Kapoor

Model-based control is a popular paradigm for robot navigation because it can leverage a known dynamics model to efficiently plan robust robot trajectories. However, it is challenging to use model-based methods in settings where the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Somil Bansal , Varun Tolani , Saurabh Gupta , Jitendra Malik , Claire Tomlin

It is still a challenging topic to make reactive driving behaviors in complex urban environments as road users' intentions are unknown. Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) offers great potential to learn a reactive policy by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Yinfeng Gao , Qichao Zhang , Da-wei Ding , Dongbin Zhao

Objective-oriented navigation(ObjNav) enables robot to navigate to target object directly and autonomously in an unknown environment. Effective perception in navigation in unknown environment is critical for autonomous robots. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Zecheng Yin , Hao Zhao , Zhen Li

World models have gained significant attention as a promising approach for autonomous driving. By emulating human-like perception and decision-making processes, these models can predict and adapt to dynamic environments. Existing methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Huiqian Li , Wei Pan , Haodong Zhang , Jin Huang , Zhihua Zhong

This paper presents a learning-augmented trajectory planning framework for cooperative unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) handover missions. While centralized trajectory optimization ensures dynamic feasibility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jingshan Chen , Bochen Yu , Henrik Ebel , Peter Eberhard

Learning predictive world models from visual observations is a core problem in embodied AI, with applications to model-based reinforcement learning and robotic planning. Existing latent world models typically generate future states with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qixin Xiao , Maani Ghaffari