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Recent video diffusion foundation models have achieved remarkable progress in high-quality video generation, yet turning them into real-time interactive video world models remains challenging. Interactive world models require controllable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Min Zhao , Hongzhou Zhu , Bokai Yan , Zihan Zhou , Yimin Chen , Wenqiang Sun , Kaiwen Zheng , Guande He , Xiao Yang , Chongxuan Li , Fan Bao , Jun Zhu

The integration of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with World Models has gained increasing attention. One representative approach treats learned World Models as generative simulators, enabling policy optimization entirely within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiaxuan Gao , Yongjian Guo , Zhong Guan , Wen Huang , Wanlun Ma , Xi Xiao , Junwu Xiong , Sheng Wen

Cities, as the essential environment of human life, encompass diverse physical elements such as buildings, roads and vegetation, which continuously interact with dynamic entities like people and vehicles. Crafting realistic, interactive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yu Shang , Yuming Lin , Yu Zheng , Hangyu Fan , Jingtao Ding , Jie Feng , Jiansheng Chen , Li Tian , Yong Li

Language model intelligence is revolutionizing the way we program materials simulations. However, the diversity of simulation scenarios renders it challenging to precisely transform human language into a tailored simulator. Here, using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Han Liu , Liantang Li

The rapid development of large language and multimodal models has sparked significant interest in using proprietary models, such as GPT-4o, to develop autonomous agents capable of handling real-world scenarios like web navigation. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hongliang He , Wenlin Yao , Kaixin Ma , Wenhao Yu , Hongming Zhang , Tianqing Fang , Zhenzhong Lan , Dong Yu

Several text-to-video diffusion models have demonstrated commendable capabilities in synthesizing high-quality video content. However, it remains a formidable challenge pertaining to maintaining temporal consistency and ensuring action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Deshun Yang , Luhui Hu , Yu Tian , Zihao Li , Chris Kelly , Bang Yang , Cindy Yang , Yuexian Zou

This work introduces World-GAN, the first method to perform data-driven Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning in Minecraft from a single example. Based on a 3D Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) architecture, we are able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Maren Awiszus , Frederik Schubert , Bodo Rosenhahn

World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and model-based reinforcement learning. However, current world model research is often dominated by three partially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Sen Cui , Jingheng Ma

To generate accurate videos, algorithms have to understand the spatial and temporal dependencies in the world. Current algorithms enable accurate predictions over short horizons but tend to suffer from temporal inconsistencies. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Wilson Yan , Danijar Hafner , Stephen James , Pieter Abbeel

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

Recent advances in interactive video generation have shown promising results, yet existing approaches struggle with scene-consistent memory capabilities in long video generation due to limited use of historical context. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jiwen Yu , Jianhong Bai , Yiran Qin , Quande Liu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Xihui Liu

The field of 4D world modeling - aiming to jointly capture spatial geometry and temporal dynamics - has witnessed remarkable progress in recent years, driven by advances in large-scale generative models and multimodal learning. However, the…

Video generative models pre-trained on large-scale internet datasets have achieved remarkable success, excelling at producing realistic synthetic videos. However, they often generate clips based on static prompts (e.g., text or images),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Haoran He , Yang Zhang , Liang Lin , Zhongwen Xu , Ling Pan

A world model is an AI system that simulates how an environment evolves under actions, enabling planning through imagined futures rather than reactive perception. Current world models, however, suffer from visual conflation: the mistaken…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhikang Chen , Tingting Zhu

A World Model is a compressed spatial and temporal representation of a real world environment that allows one to train an agent or execute planning methods. However, world models are typically trained on observations from the real world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Fabio Ferreira , Moreno Schlageter , Raghu Rajan , Andre Biedenkapp , Frank Hutter

World models, which are predictive representations of how environments evolve under actions, have become a central component of robot learning. They support policy learning, planning, simulation, evaluation, data generation, and have…

We propose Token Turing Machines (TTM), a sequential, autoregressive Transformer model with memory for real-world sequential visual understanding. Our model is inspired by the seminal Neural Turing Machine, and has an external memory…

Generalist robot policies can now perform a wide range of manipulation skills, but evaluating and improving their ability with unfamiliar objects and instructions remains a significant challenge. Rigorous evaluation requires a large number…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yanjiang Guo , Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Jianyu Chen , Chelsea Finn

Scaling generative inverse and forward rendering to real-world scenarios is bottlenecked by the limited realism and temporal coherence of existing synthetic datasets. To bridge this persistent domain gap, we introduce a large-scale, dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zheng-Hui Huang , Zhixiang Wang , Jiaming Tan , Ruihan Yu , Yidan Zhang , Bo Zheng , Yu-Lun Liu , Yung-Yu Chuang , Kaipeng Zhang

Recent advances in diffusion transformers have empowered video generation models to generate high-quality video clips from texts or images. However, world models with the ability to predict long-horizon futures from past observations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yixuan Zhu , Jiaqi Feng , Wenzhao Zheng , Yuan Gao , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu