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Agents capable of reasoning and planning in the real world require the ability of predicting the consequences of their actions. While world models possess this capability, they most often require action labels, that can be complex to obtain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Quentin Garrido , Tushar Nagarajan , Basile Terver , Nicolas Ballas , Yann LeCun , Michael Rabbat

Recent advancements in video generation have witnessed significant progress, especially with the rapid advancement of diffusion models. Despite this, their deficiencies in physical cognition have gradually received widespread attention -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Minghui Lin , Xiang Wang , Yishan Wang , Shu Wang , Fengqi Dai , Pengxiang Ding , Cunxiang Wang , Zhengrong Zuo , Nong Sang , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

Emerging world models autoregressively generate video frames in response to actions, such as camera movements and text prompts, among other control signals. Due to limited temporal context window sizes, these models often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tong Wu , Shuai Yang , Ryan Po , Yinghao Xu , Ziwei Liu , Dahua Lin , Gordon Wetzstein

Understanding and replicating the real world is a critical challenge in Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) research. To achieve this, many existing approaches, such as world models, aim to capture the fundamental principles governing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuqi Hu , Longguang Wang , Xian Liu , Ling-Hao Chen , Yuwei Guo , Yukai Shi , Ce Liu , Anyi Rao , Zeyu Wang , Hui Xiong

World models play a crucial role in understanding and predicting the dynamics of the world, which is essential for video generation. However, existing world models are confined to specific scenarios such as gaming or driving, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Boyuan Wang , Xinze Chen , Jiwen Lu

Given the remarkable ability of 2D foundation image models to generate high-fidelity outputs, we investigate a fundamental question: do 2D foundation image models inherently possess 3D world model capabilities? To answer this, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Ziya Erkoç , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Recent progress in generative models has stimulated significant innovations in many fields, such as image generation and chatbots. Despite their success, these models often produce sketchy and misleading solutions for complex multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Zeyang Liu , Xinrui Yang , Shiguang Sun , Long Qian , Lipeng Wan , Xingyu Chen , Xuguang Lan

World models aim to endow AI systems with the ability to represent, generate, and interact with dynamic environments in a coherent and temporally consistent manner. While recent video generation models have demonstrated impressive visual…

Simulation is a crucial component of any robotic system. In order to simulate correctly, we need to write complex rules of the environment: how dynamic agents behave, and how the actions of each of the agents affect the behavior of others.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Seung Wook Kim , Yuhao Zhou , Jonah Philion , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

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

Digital human generation has been studied for decades and supports a wide range of real-world applications. However, most existing systems are passively animated, relying on privileged state or scripted control, which limits scalability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Hang Ye , Xiaoxuan Ma , Fan Lu , Wayne Wu , Kwan-Yee Lin , Yizhou Wang

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

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly advanced the field of computer vision by enabling machines to create and interpret visual data with unprecedented sophistication. This transformation builds upon a foundation of generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Daochang Liu , Junyu Zhang , Anh-Dung Dinh , Eunbyung Park , Shichao Zhang , Ajmal Mian , Mubarak Shah , Chang Xu

Large-scale video generative models can synthesize diverse and realistic visual content for dynamic world creation, but they often lack element-wise controllability, hindering their use in editing scenes and training embodied AI agents. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sicheng Mo , Ziyang Leng , Leon Liu , Weizhen Wang , Honglin He , Bolei Zhou

Predicting the dynamics of interacting objects is essential for both humans and intelligent systems. However, existing approaches are limited to simplified, toy settings and lack generalizability to complex, real-world environments. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Rick Akkerman , Haiwen Feng , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas , Victoria Fernández Abrevaya

Automating immersive VR scene creation remains a primary research challenge. Existing methods typically rely on complex geometry with post-simplification, resulting in inefficient pipelines or limited realism. In this paper, we introduce…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jinyan Yuan , Bangbang Yang , Keke Wang , Panwang Pan , Lin Ma , Xuehai Zhang , Xiao Liu , Zhaopeng Cui , Yuewen Ma

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

World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and model-based reinforcement learning. However, current world model research is often dominated by three partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Sen Cui , Jingheng Ma

Multi-modal AI systems will likely become a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. A promising approach to making these systems more interactive is to embody them as agents within physical and virtual environments. At present, systems…

Trained on internet-scale video data, generative world models are increasingly recognized as powerful world simulators that can generate consistent and plausible dynamics over structure, motion, and physics. This raises a natural question:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kevin Zhang , Kuangzhi Ge , Xiaowei Chi , Renrui Zhang , Shaojun Shi , Zhen Dong , Sirui Han , Shanghang Zhang