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We introduce $\textit{InteractiveVideo}$, a user-centric framework for video generation. Different from traditional generative approaches that operate based on user-provided images or text, our framework is designed for dynamic interaction,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yiyuan Zhang , Yuhao Kang , Zhixin Zhang , Xiaohan Ding , Sanyuan Zhao , Xiangyu Yue

Creating scenes for captured motions that achieve realistic human-scene interaction is crucial for 3D animation in movies or video games. As character motion is often captured in a blue-screened studio without real furniture or objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jianan Li , Tao Huang , Qingxu Zhu , Tien-Tsin Wong

Human-Scene Interaction (HSI) seeks to generate realistic human behaviors within complex environments, yet it faces significant challenges in handling long-horizon, high-level tasks and generalizing to unseen scenes. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Lingzhou Mu , Qiang Wang , Fan Jiang , Mengchao Wang , Yaqi Fan , Mu Xu , Kai Zhang

Post-training GUI agents in interactive environments is critical for developing generalization and long-horizon planning capabilities. However, training on real-world applications is hindered by high latency, poor reproducibility, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuan Cao , Dezhi Ran , Mengzhou Wu , Yuzhe Guo , Xin Chen , Ang Li , Gang Cao , Gong Zhi , Hao Yu , Linyi Li , Wei Yang , Tao Xie

The production of animation is a resource intensive process in game companies. Therefore, techniques to synthesize animations have been developed. However, these procedural techniques offer limited adaptability by animation artists. In…

The next generation of autonomous agents must not only learn efficiently but also act reliably and adapt their behavior in open worlds. Standard approaches typically assume fixed tasks and environments with little or no novelty, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Florent Delgrange

There is a high demand for high-quality Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in video games. Hand-crafting their behavior is a labor intensive and error prone engineering process with limited controls exposed to the game designers. We propose to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Igor Borovikov , Jesse Harder , Michael Sadovsky , Ahmad Beirami

We explore building generative neural network models of popular reinforcement learning environments. Our world model can be trained quickly in an unsupervised manner to learn a compressed spatial and temporal representation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 David Ha , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Due to the statistical complexity of video, the high degree of inherent stochasticity, and the sheer amount of data, generating natural video remains a challenging task. State-of-the-art video generation models often attempt to address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Dirk Weissenborn , Oscar Täckström , Jakob Uszkoreit

This paper presents ShareVerse, a video generation framework enabling multi-agent shared world modeling, addressing the gap in existing works that lack support for unified shared world construction with multi-agent interaction. ShareVerse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jiayi Zhu , Jianing Zhang , Yiying Yang , Wei Cheng , Xiaoyun Yuan

Recently, there have been a lot of researches to synthesize / edit the motion of a single avatar in the virtual environment. However, there has not been so much work of simulating continuous interactions of multiple avatars such as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Hubert P. H. Shum , Taku Komura

We capitalize on large amounts of unlabeled video in order to learn a model of scene dynamics for both video recognition tasks (e.g. action classification) and video generation tasks (e.g. future prediction). We propose a generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Carl Vondrick , Hamed Pirsiavash , Antonio Torralba

While language models have become more capable of producing compelling language, we find there are still gaps in maintaining consistency, especially when describing events in a dynamically changing world. We study the setting of generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Alexander Gurung , Mojtaba Komeili , Arthur Szlam , Jason Weston , Jack Urbanek

Large Language Models (LLMs) motivate generative agent simulation (e.g., AI Town) to create a ``dynamic world'', holding immense value across entertainment and research. However, for non-experts, especially those without programming skills,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jianwen Sun , Yukang Feng , Kaining Ying , Chuanhao Li , Zizhen Li , Fanrui Zhang , Jiaxin Ai , Yifan Chang , Yu Dai , Yifei Huang , Kaipeng Zhang

Simulation has become a key tool for training and evaluating home robots at scale, yet existing environments fail to capture the diversity and physical complexity of real indoor spaces. Current scene synthesis methods produce sparsely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nicholas Pfaff , Thomas Cohn , Sergey Zakharov , Rick Cory , Russ Tedrake

Character animation in real-world scenarios necessitates a variety of constraints, such as trajectories, key-frames, interactions, etc. Existing methodologies typically treat single or a finite set of these constraint(s) as separate control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Hanchao Liu , Xiaohang Zhan , Shaoli Huang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Ying Shan

Movement is how people interact with and affect their environment. For realistic character animation, it is necessary to synthesize such interactions between virtual characters and their surroundings. Despite recent progress in character…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Mohamed Hassan , Yunrong Guo , Tingwu Wang , Michael Black , Sanja Fidler , Xue Bin Peng

Recent advances in large language model (LLM) have empowered autonomous agents to perform multi-turn interactions with tools and environments. However, scaling such agent training is limited by the lack of diverse and reliable environments.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhaoyang Wang , Canwen Xu , Boyi Liu , Yite Wang , Siwei Han , Zhewei Yao , Huaxiu Yao , Yuxiong He

In this work, we present Conditional Adversarial Latent Models (CALM), an approach for generating diverse and directable behaviors for user-controlled interactive virtual characters. Using imitation learning, CALM learns a representation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Chen Tessler , Yoni Kasten , Yunrong Guo , Shie Mannor , Gal Chechik , Xue Bin Peng

Dynamical systems theory and reinforcement learning view world evolution as latent-state dynamics driven by actions, with visual observations providing partial information about the state. Recent video world models attempt to learn this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zhen Li , Zian Meng , Shuwei Shi , Wenshuo Peng , Yuwei Wu , Bo Zheng , Chuanhao Li , Kaipeng Zhang