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World models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for building interactive simulation environments, with recent video-based approaches demonstrating impressive progress in generating visually plausible dynamics. However, because these models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hongyu Wang , Jingquan Wang , Bocheng Zou , Radu Serban , Dan Negrut

A world model is an AI system that simulates how an environment evolves under actions, enabling planning through imagined futures rather than reactive perception. Current world models, however, suffer from visual conflation: the mistaken…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhikang Chen , Tingting Zhu

Large-scale video generation models have demonstrated emergent physical coherence, positioning them as potential world models. However, a gap remains between contemporary "stateless" video architectures and classic state-centric world model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Luozhou Wang , Zhifei Chen , Yihua Du , Dongyu Yan , Wenhang Ge , Guibao Shen , Xinli Xu , Leyi Wu , Man Chen , Tianshuo Xu , Peiran Ren , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Ying-Cong Chen

The rapid evolution of video generation has enabled models to simulate complex physical dynamics and long-horizon causalities, positioning them as potential world simulators. However, a critical gap still remains between the theoretical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Muyang He , Hanzhong Guo , Junxiong Lin , Yizhou Yu

Recent visual generation models have made major progress in photorealism, typography, instruction following, and interactive editing, yet they still struggle with spatial reasoning, persistent state, long-horizon consistency, and causal…

The ability to simulate the effects of future actions on the world is a crucial ability of intelligent embodied agents, enabling agents to anticipate the effects of their actions and make plans accordingly. While a large body of existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Yuncong Yang , Lei Han , Peihao Chen , Dit-Yan Yeung , Chuang Gan

Generative models trained on internet data have revolutionized how text, image, and video content can be created. Perhaps the next milestone for generative models is to simulate realistic experience in response to actions taken by humans,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sherry Yang , Yilun Du , Kamyar Ghasemipour , Jonathan Tompson , Leslie Kaelbling , Dale Schuurmans , Pieter Abbeel

Generative video models, a leading approach to world modeling, face fundamental limitations. They often violate physical and logical rules, lack interactivity, and operate as opaque black boxes ill-suited for building structured, queryable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Felix O'Mahony , Roberto Cipolla , Ayush Tewari

Video generation models have emerged as high-fidelity models of the physical world, capable of synthesizing high-quality videos capturing fine-grained interactions between agents and their environments conditioned on multi-modal user…

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…

Recent breakthroughs in autonomous driving have been propelled by advances in robust world modeling, fundamentally transforming how vehicles interpret dynamic scenes and execute safe decision-making. World models have emerged as a linchpin…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

Recent research has been increasingly focusing on developing 3D world models that simulate complex real-world scenarios. World models have found broad applications across various domains, including embodied AI, autonomous driving,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yinglin Duan , Zhengxia Zou , Tongwei Gu , Wei Jia , Zhan Zhao , Luyi Xu , Xinzhu Liu , Yenan Lin , Hao Jiang , Kang Chen , Shuang Qiu

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 models, which are predictive representations of how environments evolve under actions, have become a central component of robot learning. They support policy learning, planning, simulation, evaluation, data generation, and have…

Action-conditioned video prediction models (often referred to as world models) have shown strong potential for robotics applications, but existing approaches are often slow and struggle to capture physically consistent interactions over…

World models are emerging as a transformative paradigm in artificial intelligence, enabling agents to construct internal representations of their environments for predictive reasoning, planning, and decision-making. By learning latent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Changyuan Zhao , Ruichen Zhang , Jiacheng Wang , Gaosheng Zhao , Dusit Niyato , Geng Sun , Shiwen Mao , Dong In Kim

Recent generative video world models aim to simulate visual environment evolution, allowing an observer to interactively explore the scene via camera control. However, they implicitly assume that the world only evolves within the observer's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zicheng Duan , Jiatong Xia , Zeyu Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Gengze Zhou , Chenhui Gou , Yefei He , Feng Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yiran Qin , Zhelun Shi , Jiwen Yu , Xijun Wang , Enshen Zhou , Lijun Li , Zhenfei Yin , Xihui Liu , Lu Sheng , Jing Shao , Lei Bai , Wanli Ouyang , Ruimao Zhang

Both text and video data are abundant on the internet and support large-scale self-supervised learning through next token or frame prediction. However, they have not been equally leveraged: language models have had significant real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Sherry Yang , Jacob Walker , Jack Parker-Holder , Yilun Du , Jake Bruce , Andre Barreto , Pieter Abbeel , Dale Schuurmans

World models, which predict future transitions from past observation and action sequences, have shown great promise for improving data efficiency in sequential decision-making. However, existing world models often require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siqiao Huang , Jialong Wu , Qixing Zhou , Shangchen Miao , Mingsheng Long
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