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Diffusion Models (DMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in content generation without requiring adversarial training. These models are trained using a two-step process. First, a forward - diffusion - process gradually adds…

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Digital twins (DTs) are promising for wireless deployment, optimization, and data generation, but building a propagation-faithful twin from sparse real measurements remains difficult. This paper proposes a wireless environment digital twin…

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We live in a world of exploding complexity driven by technical evolution as well as highly volatile socio-economic environments. Managing complexity is a key issue in everyday decision making such as providing safe, sustainable, and…

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Humans understand the world through the integration of multiple sensory modalities, enabling them to perceive, reason about, and imagine dynamic physical processes. Inspired by this capability, multimodal foundation models (MFMs) have…

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Generating visual instructions in a given context is essential for developing interactive world simulators. While prior works address this problem through either text-guided image manipulation or video prediction, these tasks are typically…

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Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful frameworks for generating high-quality images. While recent studies have explored their application to time series forecasting, these approaches face significant challenges in cross-modal…

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Recent research showcases the considerable potential of conditional diffusion models for generating consistent stories. However, current methods, which predominantly generate stories in an autoregressive and excessively caption-dependent…

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In this paper, we introduce a novel approach for autonomous driving trajectory generation by harnessing the complementary strengths of diffusion probabilistic models (a.k.a., diffusion models) and transformers. Our proposed framework,…

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Interactive decision-making is essential in applications such as autonomous driving, where the agent must infer the behavior of nearby human drivers while planning in real-time. Traditional predict-then-act frameworks are often insufficient…

Generative text-to-image (TTI) models produce high-quality images from short textual descriptions and are widely used in academic and creative domains. Like humans, TTI models have a worldview, a conception of the world learned from their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Zoe De Simone , Angie Boggust , Arvind Satyanarayan , Ashia Wilson

Large Language Models have shown remarkable efficacy in generating streaming data such as text and audio, thanks to their temporally uni-directional attention mechanism, which models correlations between the current token and previous…

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Humans naturally build mental models of object interactions and dynamics, allowing them to imagine how their surroundings will change if they take a certain action. While generative models today have shown impressive results on…

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World Action Models (WAMs) have recently emerged as a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by jointly predicting future visual observations and future actions. However, current WAMs typically execute a fixed number of predicted…

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Embodied navigation in open, dynamic environments demands accurate foresight of how the world will evolve and how actions will unfold over time. We propose AstraNav-World, an end-to-end world model that jointly reasons about future visual…

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Due to lack of fully publicly available text-to-video models, current video editing methods tend to build on pre-trained text-to-image generation models, however, they still face grand challenges in dealing with the local editing of video…

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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

Diffusion-based image-to-video (I2V) models increasingly exhibit world-model-like properties by implicitly capturing temporal dynamics. However, existing studies have mainly focused on visual quality and controllability, and the robustness…

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World models have been recently proposed as sandbox environments in which AI agents can be trained and evaluated before deployment. While realistic world models often have high computational demands, this can often be alleviated by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Alexander Boyd , Franz Nowak , David Hyland , Manuel Baltieri , Fernando E. Rosas

We present a novel study on enhancing the capability of preserving the content in world models, focusing on a property we term World Stability. Recent diffusion-based generative models have advanced the synthesis of immersive and realistic…

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