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Video world models have achieved remarkable success in simulating environmental dynamics in response to actions by users or agents. They are modeled as action-conditioned video generation models that take historical frames and current…

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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

We address the problem of generating long-horizon videos for robotic manipulation tasks. Text-to-video diffusion models have made significant progress in photorealism, language understanding, and motion generation but struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Liudi Yang , Yang Bai , George Eskandar , Fengyi Shen , Mohammad Altillawi , Dong Chen , Soumajit Majumder , Ziyuan Liu , Gitta Kutyniok , Abhinav Valada

Recent progress in 3D reconstruction has made it easy to create realistic digital twins from everyday environments. However, current digital twins remain largely static and are limited to navigation and view synthesis without embodied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Byungjun Kim , Taeksoo Kim , Junyoung Lee , Hanbyul Joo

This work presents WorldCompass, a novel Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training framework for the long-horizon, interactive video-based world models, enabling them to explore the world more accurately and consistently based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zehan Wang , Tengfei Wang , Haiyu Zhang , Xuhui Zuo , Junta Wu , Haoyuan Wang , Wenqiang Sun , Zhenwei Wang , Chenjie Cao , Hengshuang Zhao , Chunchao Guo , Zhou Zhao

Video world models have attracted significant attention for their ability to produce high-fidelity future visual observations conditioned on past observations and navigation actions. Temporally- and spatially-consistent, long-term world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yuta Oshima , Yusuke Iwasawa , Masahiro Suzuki , Yutaka Matsuo , Hiroki Furuta

Robotic world models are a promising paradigm for forecasting future environment states, yet their inference speed and the physical plausibility of generated trajectories remain critical bottlenecks, limiting their real-world applications.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sibo Li , Qianyue Hao , Yu Shang , Yong Li

Recently, video-based world models that learn to simulate the dynamics have gained increasing attention in robot learning. However, current approaches primarily emphasize visual generative quality while overlooking physical fidelity,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Baorui Peng , Wenyao Zhang , Liang Xu , Zekun Qi , Jiazhao Zhang , Hongsi Liu , Wenjun Zeng , Xin Jin

Unsupervised pre-training methods utilizing large and diverse datasets have achieved tremendous success across a range of domains. Recent work has investigated such unsupervised pre-training methods for model-based reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Jialong Wu , Haoyu Ma , Chaoyi Deng , Mingsheng Long

Video-based world models have recently garnered increasing attention for their ability to synthesize diverse and dynamic visual environments. In this paper, we focus on shared world modeling, where a model generates multiple videos from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fan Wu , Jiacheng Wei , Ruibo Li , Yi Xu , Junyou Li , Deheng Ye , Guosheng Lin

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

Embodied world models aim to predict and interact with the physical world through visual observations and actions. However, existing models struggle to accurately translate low-level actions (e.g., joint positions) into precise robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Taiyi Su , Jian Zhu , Yaxuan Li , Chong Ma , Jianjun Zhang , Zitai Huang , Hanli Wang , Yi Xu

Learning predictive world models from visual observations is a core problem in embodied AI, with applications to model-based reinforcement learning and robotic planning. Existing latent world models typically generate future states with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Qixin Xiao , Maani Ghaffari

Modeling scenes using video generation models has garnered growing research interest in recent years. However, most existing approaches rely on perspective video models that synthesize only limited observations of a scene, leading to issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yuheng Liu , Xin Lin , Xinke Li , Baihan Yang , Chen Wang , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Hao Tan , Kai Zhang , Xiaohui Xie , Zifan Shi , Yiwei Hu

Interactive video generation has significant potential for scene simulation and video creation. However, existing methods often struggle with maintaining scene consistency during long video generation under dynamic camera control due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xinhang Gao , Junlin Guan , Shuhan Luo , Wenzhuo Li , Guanghuan Tan , Jiacheng Wang

Video-based world models hold significant potential for generating high-quality embodied manipulation data. However, current video generation methods struggle to achieve stable long-horizon generation: classical diffusion-based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yu Shang , Lei Jin , Yiding Ma , Xin Zhang , Chen Gao , Wei Wu , Yong Li

Recent video-based world models have made pixel-space environments interactive at the camera level: users can navigate viewpoints while the model generates coherent visual continuations. Yet their action spaces remain incomplete: users can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bohai Gu , Taiyi Wu , Yueyang Yuan , Jian Liu , Xiaocheng Lu , Dazhao Du , Jie Zhang , Jinxiang Lai , Shuai Yang , Xiaotong Zhao , Alan Zhao , Song Guo

Humans possess a remarkable ability to mentally explore and replay 3D environments they have previously experienced. Inspired by this mental process, we present EvoWorld: a world model that bridges panoramic video generation with evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jiahao Wang , Luoxin Ye , TaiMing Lu , Junfei Xiao , Jiahan Zhang , Yuxiang Guo , Xijun Liu , Rama Chellappa , Cheng Peng , Alan Yuille , Jieneng Chen

World simulation has gained increasing popularity due to its ability to model virtual environments and predict the consequences of actions. However, the limited temporal context window often leads to failures in maintaining long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Zeqi Xiao , Yushi Lan , Yifan Zhou , Wenqi Ouyang , Shuai Yang , Yanhong Zeng , Xingang Pan

World modeling is a crucial task for enabling intelligent agents to effectively interact with humans and operate in dynamic environments. In this work, we propose MineWorld, a real-time interactive world model on Minecraft, an open-ended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Junliang Guo , Yang Ye , Tianyu He , Haoyu Wu , Yushu Jiang , Tim Pearce , Jiang Bian