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We introduce Kimi K2.5, an open-source multimodal agentic model designed to advance general agentic intelligence. K2.5 emphasizes the joint optimization of text and vision so that two modalities enhance each other. This includes a series of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Kimi Team , Tongtong Bai , Yifan Bai , Yiping Bao , S. H. Cai , Yuan Cao , Y. Charles , H. S. Che , Cheng Chen , Guanduo Chen , Huarong Chen , Jia Chen , Jiahao Chen , Jianlong Chen , Jun Chen , Kefan Chen , Liang Chen , Ruijue Chen , Xinhao Chen , Yanru Chen , Yanxu Chen , Yicun Chen , Yimin Chen , Yingjiang Chen , Yuankun Chen , Yujie Chen , Yutian Chen , Zhirong Chen , Ziwei Chen , Dazhi Cheng , Minghan Chu , Jialei Cui , Jiaqi Deng , Muxi Diao , Hao Ding , Mengfan Dong , Mengnan Dong , Yuxin Dong , Yuhao Dong , Angang Du , Chenzhuang Du , Dikang Du , Lingxiao Du , Yulun Du , Yu Fan , Shengjun Fang , Qiulin Feng , Yichen Feng , Garimugai Fu , Kelin Fu , Hongcheng Gao , Tong Gao , Yuyao Ge , Shangyi Geng , Chengyang Gong , Xiaochen Gong , Zhuoma Gongque , Qizheng Gu , Xinran Gu , Yicheng Gu , Longyu Guan , Yuanying Guo , Xiaoru Hao , Weiran He , Wenyang He , Yunjia He , Chao Hong , Hao Hu , Jiaxi Hu , Yangyang Hu , Zhenxing Hu , Ke Huang , Ruiyuan Huang , Weixiao Huang , Zhiqi Huang , Tao Jiang , Zhejun Jiang , Xinyi Jin , Yu Jing , Guokun Lai , Aidi Li , C. Li , Cheng Li , Fang Li , Guanghe Li , Guanyu Li , Haitao Li , Haoyang Li , Jia Li , Jingwei Li , Junxiong Li , Lincan Li , Mo Li , Weihong Li , Wentao Li , Xinhang Li , Xinhao Li , Yang Li , Yanhao Li , Yiwei Li , Yuxiao Li , Zhaowei Li , Zheming Li , Weilong Liao , Jiawei Lin , Xiaohan Lin , Zhishan Lin , Zichao Lin , Cheng Liu , Chenyu Liu , Hongzhang Liu , Liang Liu , Shaowei Liu , Shudong Liu , Shuran Liu , Tianwei Liu , Tianyu Liu , Weizhou Liu , Xiangyan Liu , Yangyang Liu , Yanming Liu , Yibo Liu , Yuanxin Liu , Yue Liu , Zhengying Liu , Zhongnuo Liu , Enzhe Lu , Haoyu Lu , Zhiyuan Lu , Junyu Luo , Tongxu Luo , Yashuo Luo , Long Ma , Yingwei Ma , Shaoguang Mao , Yuan Mei , Xin Men , Fanqing Meng , Zhiyong Meng , Yibo Miao , Minqing Ni , Kun Ouyang , Siyuan Pan , Bo Pang , Yuchao Qian , Ruoyu Qin , Zeyu Qin , Jiezhong Qiu , Bowen Qu , Zeyu Shang , Youbo Shao , Tianxiao Shen , Zhennan Shen , Juanfeng Shi , Lidong Shi , Shengyuan Shi , Feifan Song , Pengwei Song , Tianhui Song , Xiaoxi Song , Hongjin Su , Jianlin Su , Zhaochen Su , Lin Sui , Jinsong Sun , Junyao Sun , Tongyu Sun , Flood Sung , Yunpeng Tai , Chuning Tang , Heyi Tang , Xiaojuan Tang , Zhengyang Tang , Jiawen Tao , Shiyuan Teng , Chaoran Tian , Pengfei Tian , Ao Wang , Bowen Wang , Chensi Wang , Chuang Wang , Congcong Wang , Dingkun Wang , Dinglu Wang , Dongliang Wang , Feng Wang , Hailong Wang , Haiming Wang , Hengzhi Wang , Huaqing Wang , Hui Wang , Jiahao Wang , Jinhong Wang , Jiuzheng Wang , Kaixin Wang , Linian Wang , Qibin Wang , Shengjie Wang , Shuyi Wang , Si Wang , Wei Wang , Xiaochen Wang , Xinyuan Wang , Yao Wang , Yejie Wang , Yipu Wang , Yiqin Wang , Yucheng Wang , Yuzhi Wang , Zhaoji Wang , Zhaowei Wang , Zhengtao Wang , Zhexu Wang , Zihan Wang , Zizhe Wang , Chu Wei , Ming Wei , Chuan Wen , Zichen Wen , Chengjie Wu , Haoning Wu , Junyan Wu , Rucong Wu , Wenhao Wu , Yuefeng Wu , Yuhao Wu , Yuxin Wu , Zijian Wu , Chenjun Xiao , Jin Xie , Xiaotong Xie , Yuchong Xie , Yifei Xin , Bowei Xing , Boyu Xu , Jianfan Xu , Jing Xu , Jinjing Xu , L. H. Xu , Lin Xu , Suting Xu , Weixin Xu , Xinbo Xu , Xinran Xu , Yangchuan Xu , Yichang Xu , Yuemeng Xu , Zelai Xu , Ziyao Xu , Junjie Yan , Yuzi Yan , Guangyao Yang , Hao Yang , Junwei Yang , Kai Yang , Ningyuan Yang , Ruihan Yang , Xiaofei Yang , Xinlong Yang , Ying Yang , Yi Yang , Yi Yang , Zhen Yang , Zhilin Yang , Zonghan Yang , Haotian Yao , Dan Ye , Wenjie Ye , Zhuorui Ye , Bohong Yin , Chengzhen Yu , Longhui Yu , Tao Yu , Tianxiang Yu , Enming Yuan , Mengjie Yuan , Xiaokun Yuan , Yang Yue , Weihao Zeng , Dunyuan Zha , Haobing Zhan , Dehao Zhang , Hao Zhang , Jin Zhang , Puqi Zhang , Qiao Zhang , Rui Zhang , Xiaobin Zhang , Y. Zhang , Yadong Zhang , Yangkun Zhang , Yichi Zhang , Yizhi Zhang , Yongting Zhang , Yu Zhang , Yushun Zhang , Yutao Zhang , Yutong Zhang , Zheng Zhang , Chenguang Zhao , Feifan Zhao , Jinxiang Zhao , Shuai Zhao , Xiangyu Zhao , Yikai Zhao , Zijia Zhao , Huabin Zheng , Ruihan Zheng , Shaojie Zheng , Tengyang Zheng , Junfeng Zhong , Longguang Zhong , Weiming Zhong , M. Zhou , Runjie Zhou , Xinyu Zhou , Zaida Zhou , Jinguo Zhu , Liya Zhu , Xinhao Zhu , Yuxuan Zhu , Zhen Zhu , Jingze Zhuang , Weiyu Zhuang , Ying Zou , Xinxing Zu

Embodied AI requires agents that perceive, act, and anticipate how actions reshape future world states. World models serve as internal simulators that capture environment dynamics, enabling forward and counterfactual rollouts to support…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xinqing Li , Xin He , Le Zhang , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Yun Liu

Embodied AI research is undergoing a shift toward vision-centric perceptual paradigms. While massively parallel simulators have catalyzed breakthroughs in proprioception-based locomotion, their potential remains largely untapped for…

What if a video generation model could not only imagine a plausible future, but the correct one, accurately reflecting how the world changes with each action? We address this question by presenting the Egocentric World Model (EgoWM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

Generative world models (WMs) can now simulate worlds with striking visual realism, which naturally raises the question of whether they can endow embodied agents with predictive perception for decision making. Progress on this question has…

We present DINO-world, a powerful generalist video world model trained to predict future frames in the latent space of DINOv2. By leveraging a pre-trained image encoder and training a future predictor on a large-scale uncurated video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Federico Baldassarre , Marc Szafraniec , Basile Terver , Vasil Khalidov , Francisco Massa , Yann LeCun , Patrick Labatut , Maximilian Seitzer , Piotr Bojanowski

Recent rapid advancements in text-to-video (T2V) generation, such as SoRA and Kling, have shown great potential for building world simulators. However, current T2V models struggle to grasp abstract physical principles and generate videos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jing Wang , Ao Ma , Ke Cao , Jun Zheng , Zhanjie Zhang , Jiasong Feng , Shanyuan Liu , Yuhang Ma , Bo Cheng , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin , Xiaodan Liang

Embodied world models have emerged as a promising paradigm in robotics, most of which leverage large-scale Internet videos or pretrained video generation models to enrich visual and motion priors. However, they still face key challenges: a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yixiang Chen , Peiyan Li , Jiabing Yang , Keji He , Xiangnan Wu , Yuan Xu , Kai Wang , Jing Liu , Nianfeng Liu , Yan Huang , Liang Wang

Video generative models pre-trained on large-scale internet datasets have achieved remarkable success, excelling at producing realistic synthetic videos. However, they often generate clips based on static prompts (e.g., text or images),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Haoran He , Yang Zhang , Liang Lin , Zhongwen Xu , Ling Pan

Predicting future motion trajectories is a critical capability across domains such as robotics, autonomous systems, and human activity forecasting, enabling safer and more intelligent decision-making. This paper proposes a novel, efficient,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Zesen Zhong , Duomin Zhang , Yijia Li

World models enable agents to predict future dynamics conditioned on actions, making the choice of latent representation central to planning and control. Such representations are often either learned directly from pixels with limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Minghao Fu , Fan Feng , Nicklas Hansen , Biwei Huang

World models allow autonomous agents to plan and explore by predicting the visual outcomes of different actions. However, for robot manipulation, it is challenging to accurately model the fine-grained robot-object interaction within the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Fangqi Zhu , Hongtao Wu , Song Guo , Yuxiao Liu , Chilam Cheang , Tao Kong

Successful and effective communication between humans and AI relies on a shared experience of the world. By training solely on written text, current language models (LMs) miss the grounded experience of humans in the real-world -- their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Ruibo Liu , Jason Wei , Shixiang Shane Gu , Te-Yen Wu , Soroush Vosoughi , Claire Cui , Denny Zhou , Andrew M. Dai

Moving beyond the traditional paradigm of adapting internet-pretrained models to physical tasks, we present DM0, an Embodied-Native Vision-Language-Action (VLA) framework designed for Physical AI. Unlike approaches that treat physical…

World Models (WMs) have emerged as a promising approach for post-training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies to improve robustness and generalization under environmental changes. However, most WM-based post-training methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 An Dinh Vuong , Tuan Van Vo , Abdullah Sohail , Haoran Ding , Liang Ma , Xiaodan Liang , Anqing Duan , Ivan Laptev , Ian Reid

Recent advances in generative video modeling, driven by large-scale datasets and powerful architectures, have yielded remarkable visual realism. However, emerging evidence suggests that simply scaling data and model size does not endow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ying Shen , Jerry Xiong , Tianjiao Yu , Ismini Lourentzou

World models empower model-based agents to interactively explore, reason, and plan within imagined environments for real-world decision-making. However, the high demand for interactivity poses challenges in harnessing recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jialong Wu , Shaofeng Yin , Ningya Feng , Xu He , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Mingsheng Long

Video-based world models offer a powerful paradigm for embodied simulation and planning, yet state-of-the-art models often generate physically implausible manipulations - such as object penetration and anti-gravity motion - due to training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yuzhi Chen , Ronghan Chen , Dongjie Huo , Yandan Yang , Dekang Qi , Haoyun Liu , Tong Lin , Shuang Zeng , Junjin Xiao , Xinyuan Chang , Feng Xiong , Xing Wei , Zhiheng Ma , Mu Xu

We introduce InternVideo2, a new family of video foundation models (ViFM) that achieve the state-of-the-art results in video recognition, video-text tasks, and video-centric dialogue. Our core design is a progressive training approach that…

For robots to robustly understand and interact with the physical world, it is highly beneficial to have a comprehensive representation - modelling geometry, physics, and visual observations - that informs perception, planning, and control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jad Abou-Chakra , Krishan Rana , Feras Dayoub , Niko Sünderhauf