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We introduce Diffusion World Model (DWM), a conditional diffusion model capable of predicting multistep future states and rewards concurrently. As opposed to traditional one-step dynamics models, DWM offers long-horizon predictions in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Zihan Ding , Amy Zhang , Yuandong Tian , Qinqing Zheng

Video fundamentally intertwines two crucial axes: the dynamic content of a scene and the camera motion through which it is observed. However, existing generation models often entangle these factors, limiting independent control. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yukun Wang , Ruihuang Li , Jiale Tao , Shiyuan Yang , Liyi Chen , Zhantao Yang , Handz , Yulan Guo , Shuai Shao , Qinglin Lu

A plausible scene evolution depends on the maneuver being considered, while a good maneuver depends on how the scene may evolve. Existing World Action Models (WAMs) largely miss this reciprocity, treating world prediction and action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hongbo Lu , Liang Yao , Chenghao He , Haoyu Wang , Xiang Gu , Xianfei Li , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Notable breakthroughs in unified understanding and generation modeling have led to remarkable advancements in image understanding, reasoning, production and editing, yet current foundational models predominantly focus on processing images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Zhiyu Tan , Hao Yang , Luozheng Qin , Jia Gong , Mengping Yang , Hao Li

World models that forecast environmental changes from actions are vital for autonomous driving models with strong generalization. The prevailing driving world model mainly build on video prediction model. Although these models can produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jingcheng Ni , Yuxin Guo , Yichen Liu , Rui Chen , Lewei Lu , Zehuan Wu

Humans can flexibly interpret and compose different goal specifications, such as language instructions, spatial coordinates, or visual references, when navigating to a destination. In contrast, most existing robotic navigation policies are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Noriaki Hirose , Catherine Glossop , Dhruv Shah , Sergey Levine

The creation of diverse and realistic driving scenarios has become essential to enhance perception and planning capabilities of the autonomous driving system. However, generating long-duration, surround-view consistent driving videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Rui Chen , Zehuan Wu , Yichen Liu , Yuxin Guo , Jingcheng Ni , Haifeng Xia , Siyu Xia

Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) have shown strong promise for video prediction and decision-making. However, existing benchmarks are largely restricted to egocentric navigation or narrow, task-specific robotics datasets, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haotian Xue , Yipu Chen , Liqian Ma , Zelin Zhao , Lama Moukheiber , Yuchen Zhu , Yongxin Chen

Object-centric world models (OCWM) aim to decompose visual scenes into object-level representations, providing structured abstractions that could improve compositional generalization and data efficiency in reinforcement learning. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Stefano Ferraro , Akihiro Nakano , Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo

Understanding the evolution of 3D scenes is important for effective autonomous driving. While conventional methods mode scene development with the motion of individual instances, world models emerge as a generative framework to describe the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Lening Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yilong Ren , Han Jiang , Zhiyong Cui , Haiyang Yu , Jiwen Lu

Physics-aware driving world model is essential for drive planning, out-of-distribution data synthesis, and closed-loop evaluation. However, existing methods often rely on a single diffusion model to directly map driving actions to videos,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhenya Yang , Zhe Liu , Yuxiang Lu , Liping Hou , Chenxuan Miao , Siyi Peng , Bailan Feng , Xiang Bai , Hengshuang Zhao

Omnidirectional images (ODIs), with their 360{\deg} field of view, provide unparalleled spatial awareness for immersive applications like augmented reality and embodied AI. However, the capability of existing multi-modal large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Xinshen Zhang , Zhen Ye , Xu Zheng

The deployment of humanoid robots for dexterous manipulation in unstructured environments remains challenging due to perceptual limitations that constrain the effective workspace. In scenarios where physical constraints prevent the robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Pei Qu , Zheng Li , Yufei Jia , Ziyun Liu , Liang Zhu , Haoang Li , Jinni Zhou , Jun Ma

We explore the potential of large-scale generative video models for autonomous driving, introducing an open-source auto-regressive video model (VaViM) and its companion video-action model (VaVAM) to investigate how video pre-training…

Occupancy World Models (OWMs) aim to predict future scenes via 3D voxelized representations of the environment to support intelligent motion planning. Existing approaches typically generate full future occupancy states from VAE-style latent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Haoran Xu , Peixi Peng , Guang Tan , Yiqian Chang , Yisen Zhao , Yonghong Tian

Verifying closed-loop vision-based control systems remains a fundamental challenge due to the high dimensionality of images and the difficulty of modeling visual environments. While generative models are increasingly used as camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yuang Geng , Zhuoyang Zhou , Zhongzheng Zhang , Siyuan Pan , Hoang-Dung Tran , Ivan Ruchkin

End-to-end autonomous driving systems increasingly rely on vision-centric world models to understand and predict their environment. However, a common ineffectiveness in these models is the full reconstruction of future scenes, which expends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jianbiao Mei , Yu Yang , Xuemeng Yang , Licheng Wen , Jiajun Lv , Botian Shi , Yong Liu

Recent progress in 3D reconstruction has made it easy to create realistic digital twins from everyday environments. However, current digital twins remain largely static and are limited to navigation and view synthesis without embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Byungjun Kim , Taeksoo Kim , Junyoung Lee , Hanbyul Joo

Despite remarkable progress in driving world models, their potential for autonomous systems remains largely untapped: the world models are mostly learned for world simulation and decoupled from trajectory planning. While recent efforts aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhida Zhao , Talas Fu , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

We present InfiniCube, a scalable method for generating unbounded dynamic 3D driving scenes with high fidelity and controllability. Previous methods for scene generation either suffer from limited scales or lack geometric and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yifan Lu , Xuanchi Ren , Jiawei Yang , Tianchang Shen , Zhangjie Wu , Jun Gao , Yue Wang , Siheng Chen , Mike Chen , Sanja Fidler , Jiahui Huang