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Humans and animals excel in combining information from multiple sensory modalities, controlling their complex bodies, adapting to growth, failures, or using tools. These capabilities are also highly desirable in robots. They are displayed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Matej Hoffmann

Embodied cognition argues that intelligence arises from sensorimotor interaction rather than passive observation. It raises an intriguing question: do modern vision-language models (VLMs), trained largely in a disembodied manner, exhibit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Qineng Wang , Wenlong Huang , Yu Zhou , Hang Yin , Tianwei Bao , Jianwen Lyu , Weiyu Liu , Ruohan Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Li Fei-Fei , Manling Li

We introduce the WorldScore benchmark, the first unified benchmark for world generation. We decompose world generation into a sequence of next-scene generation tasks with explicit camera trajectory-based layout specifications, enabling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Haoyi Duan , Hong-Xing Yu , Sirui Chen , Li Fei-Fei , Jiajun Wu

Vision systems to see and reason about the compositional nature of visual scenes are fundamental to understanding our world. The complex relations between objects and their locations, ambiguities, and variations in the real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Muhammad Awais , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Hisham Cholakkal , Mubarak Shah , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Visual mathematical reasoning, as a fundamental visual reasoning ability, has received widespread attention from the Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) community. Existing benchmarks, such as MathVista and MathVerse, focus more on the…

What if a video generation model could not only imagine a plausible future, but the correct one, accurately reflecting how the world changes with each action? We address this question by presenting the Egocentric World Model (EgoWM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

This paper addresses the topic of robustness under sensing noise, ambiguous instructions, and human-robot interaction. We take a radically different tack to the issue of reliable embodied AI: instead of focusing on formal verification…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kenneth Kwok , Basura Fernando , Qianli Xu , Vigneshwaran Subbaraju , Dongkyu Choi , Boon Kiat Quek

The ability to predict future outcomes given control actions is fundamental for physical reasoning. However, such predictive models, often called world models, remains challenging to learn and are typically developed for task-specific…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Gaoyue Zhou , Hengkai Pan , Yann LeCun , Lerrel Pinto

Humans possess an extraordinary ability to create and utilize tools, allowing them to overcome physical limitations and explore new frontiers. With the advent of foundation models, AI systems have the potential to be equally adept in tool…

Leveraging massive knowledge from large language models (LLMs), recent machine learning models show notable successes in general-purpose task solving in diverse domains such as computer vision and robotics. However, several significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Jiangyong Huang , Silong Yong , Xiaojian Ma , Xiongkun Linghu , Puhao Li , Yan Wang , Qing Li , Song-Chun Zhu , Baoxiong Jia , Siyuan Huang

World Models help Artificial Intelligence (AI) predict outcomes, reason about its environment, and guide decision-making. While widely used in reinforcement learning, they lack the structured, adaptive representations that even young…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Javier Del Ser , Jesus L. Lobo , Heimo Müller , Andreas Holzinger

Model-based reinforcement learning promises strong sample efficiency but often underperforms in practice due to compounding model error, unimodal world models that average over multi-modal dynamics, and overconfident predictions that bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mehran Aghabozorgi , Alireza Moazeni , Yanshu Zhang , Ke Li

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

The rapid advancement of native multi-modal models and omni-models, exemplified by GPT-4o, Gemini, and o3, with their capability to process and generate content across modalities such as text and images, marks a significant milestone in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Meng-Hao Guo , Xuanyu Chu , Qianrui Yang , Zhe-Han Mo , Yiqing Shen , Pei-lin Li , Xinjie Lin , Jinnian Zhang , Xin-Sheng Chen , Yi Zhang , Kiyohiro Nakayama , Zhengyang Geng , Houwen Peng , Han Hu , Shi-Min Hu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance on static visual understanding, yet they still struggle with dynamic spatial reasoning that requires imagining how scenes evolve under egocentric motion. Recent efforts address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Wanyue Zhang , Wenxiang Wu , Wang Xu , Jiaxin Luo , Helu Zhi , Yibin Huang , Shuo Ren , Zitao Liu , Jiajun Zhang

A core capability towards general embodied intelligence lies in localizing task-relevant objects from an egocentric perspective, formulated as Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG). Despite recent progress, existing STVG studies remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Qi'ao Xu , Tianwen Qian , Yuqian Fu , Kailing Li , Yang Jiao , Jiacheng Zhang , Xiaoling Wang , Liang He

This paper presents Large Wireless Model (LWM) -- the world's first foundation model for wireless channels. Designed as a task-agnostic model, LWM generates universal, rich, contextualized channel embeddings (features) that potentially…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sadjad Alikhani , Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

World models have become indispensable tools for embodied intelligence, serving as powerful simulators capable of generating realistic robotic videos while addressing critical data scarcity challenges. However, current embodied world models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yu Shang , Xin Zhang , Yinzhou Tang , Lei Jin , Chen Gao , Wei Wu , Yong Li

As AI becomes increasingly embedded in daily life, ascertaining whether an agent is human is critical. We systematically benchmark AI's ability to imitate humans in three language tasks (image captioning, word association, conversation) and…

Co-design is essential for grounding embodied artificial intelligence (AI) systems in real-world contexts, especially high-stakes domains such as healthcare. While prior work has explored multidisciplinary collaboration, iterative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yuanchen Bai , Ruixiang Han , Niti Parikh , Wendy Ju , Angelique Taylor