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Humans develop an understanding of intuitive physics through active interaction with the world. This approach is in stark contrast to current video models, such as Sora, which rely on passive observation and therefore struggle with grasping…

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Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Liaoyuan Fan , Zetian Xu , Chen Cao , Wenyao Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Jiayu Chen

The pursuit of artificial general intelligence (AGI) has placed embodied intelligence at the forefront of robotics research. Embodied intelligence focuses on agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting within the physical world.…

Interactive world models continually generate video by responding to a user's actions, enabling open-ended generation capabilities. However, existing models typically lack a 3D representation of the environment, meaning 3D consistency must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Samuel Garcin , Thomas Walker , Steven McDonagh , Tim Pearce , Hakan Bilen , Tianyu He , Kaixin Wang , Jiang Bian

Immersive rooms are increasingly popular augmented reality systems that support multi-agent interactions within a virtual world. However, despite extensive content creation and technological developments, insights about perceptually-driven…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jerry M. Huang , Stefan T. Radev

We investigate whether video generative models can exhibit visuospatial intelligence, a capability central to human cognition, using only visual data. To this end, we present Video4Spatial, a framework showing that video diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Zeqi Xiao , Yiwei Zhao , Lingxiao Li , Yushi Lan , Ning Yu , Rahul Garg , Roshni Cooper , Mohammad H. Taghavi , Xingang Pan

We present a video generation model that accurately reproduces object motion, changes in camera viewpoint, and new content that arises over time. Existing video generation methods often fail to produce new content as a function of time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Tim Brooks , Janne Hellsten , Miika Aittala , Ting-Chun Wang , Timo Aila , Jaakko Lehtinen , Ming-Yu Liu , Alexei A. Efros , Tero Karras

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…

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) has revolutionized video generation, enabling systems ranging from proprietary pioneers like OpenAI's Sora, Google's Veo3, and Bytedance's Seedance to powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Teng Hu , Jiangning Zhang , Hongrui Huang , Ran Yi , Zihan Su , Jieyu Weng , Zhucun Xue , Lizhuang Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Dacheng Tao

High-quality 3D world models are pivotal for embodied intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), underpinning applications such as AR/VR content creation and robotic navigation. Despite the established strong imaginative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Yixiang Dai , Fan Jiang , Chiyu Wang , Mu Xu , Yonggang Qi

This paper describes our research on AI agents embodied in visual, virtual or physical forms, enabling them to interact with both users and their environments. These agents, which include virtual avatars, wearable devices, and robots, are…

Despite impressive progress in video generation, existing models remain limited to surface-level plausibility, lacking a coherent and unified understanding of the world. Prior approaches typically incorporate only a single form of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Boming Tan , Xiangdong Zhang , Ning Liao , Yuqing Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Xue Yang , Qi Fan , Yanyong Zhang

World models have garnered increasing attention in the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI), serving as computational frameworks for learning representations of the external world and forecasting future states. While early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ningwei Xie , Zizi Tian , Lei Yang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Meng Guo , Jie Li

World models for interactive video generation have largely focused on single-agent settings, where future observations are generated from a single control signal. However, many generated environments require multi-agent interaction:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Fangfu Liu , Kai He , Tianchang Shen , Tianshi Cao , Sanja Fidler , Yueqi Duan , Jun Gao , Igor Gilitschenski , Zian Wang , Xuanchi Ren

Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the development of ``world models'' capable of simulating potential futures for robotics and planning. However, specifying precise goals for these models remains a challenge; text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nate Gillman , Yinghua Zhou , Zitian Tang , Evan Luo , Arjan Chakravarthy , Daksh Aggarwal , Michael Freeman , Charles Herrmann , Chen Sun

Yume aims to use images, text, or videos to create an interactive, realistic, and dynamic world, which allows exploration and control using peripheral devices or neural signals. In this report, we present a preview version of \method, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xiaofeng Mao , Shaoheng Lin , Zhen Li , Chuanhao Li , Wenshuo Peng , Tong He , Jiangmiao Pang , Mingmin Chi , Yu Qiao , Kaipeng Zhang

Mobile Graphical User Interface (GUI) World Models (WMs) offer a promising path for improving mobile GUI agent performance at train- and inference-time. However, current approaches face a critical trade-off: text-based WMs sacrifice visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Woosung Koh , Sungjun Han , Segyu Lee , Se-Young Yun , Jamin Shin

World models have become crucial for autonomous driving, as they learn how scenarios evolve over time to address the long-tail challenges of the real world. However, current approaches relegate world models to limited roles: they operate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tianze Xia , Yongkang Li , Lijun Zhou , Jingfeng Yao , Kaixin Xiong , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Kun Ma , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

World models aim to learn action-controlled future prediction and have proven essential for the development of intelligent agents. However, most existing world models rely heavily on substantial action-labeled data and costly training,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shenyuan Gao , Siyuan Zhou , Yilun Du , Jun Zhang , Chuang Gan

Generating realistic robotic manipulation videos is an important step toward unifying perception, planning, and action in embodied agents. While existing video diffusion models require large domain-specific datasets and struggle to…

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