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Recent advances in video large language models have demonstrated strong capabilities in understanding short clips. However, scaling them to hours- or days-long videos remains highly challenging due to limited context capacity and the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Woongyeong Yeo , Kangsan Kim , Jaehong Yoon , Sung Ju Hwang

World models play a crucial role in understanding and predicting the dynamics of the world, which is essential for video generation. However, existing world models are confined to specific scenarios such as gaming or driving, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Xiaofeng Wang , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Boyuan Wang , Xinze Chen , Jiwen Lu

Training robotic policies directly in the real world is expensive and unscalable. Although generative simulation enables large-scale data synthesis, current approaches often fail to generate logically coherent long-horizon tasks and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Xiang Liu , Sen Cui , Guocai Yao , Zhong Cao , Jingheng Ma , Min Zhang , Changshui Zhang

With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), Multi-agent Systems (MAS) have achieved significant progress in various application scenarios. However, substantial challenges remain in designing versatile, robust, and efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Weige Cai , Tong Zhu , Jinyi Niu , Ruiqi Hu , Lingyao Li , Tenglong Wang , Xiaowu Dai , Weining Shen , Liwen Zhang

Recently, large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-4, stand out remarkable conversational abilities, enabling them to engage in dynamic and contextually relevant dialogues across a wide range of topics. However, given a long conversation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qingyue Wang , Yanhe Fu , Yanan Cao , Shuai Wang , Zhiliang Tian , Liang Ding

Generating temporally coherent high fidelity video is an important milestone in generative modeling research. We make progress towards this milestone by proposing a diffusion model for video generation that shows very promising initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans , Alexey Gritsenko , William Chan , Mohammad Norouzi , David J. Fleet

An ideal traffic simulator replicates the realistic long-term point-to-point trip that a self-driving system experiences during deployment. Prior models and benchmarks focus on closed-loop motion simulation for initial agents in a scene.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xiuyu Yang , Shuhan Tan , Philipp Krähenbühl

Human writers often begin their stories with an overarching mental scene, where they envision the interactions between characters and their environment. Inspired by this creative process, we propose a novel approach to long-form story…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zehao Chen , Rong Pan , Haoran Li

Modeling and synthesizing complex hand-object interactions remains a significant challenge, even for state-of-the-art physics engines. Conventional simulation-based approaches rely on explicitly defined rigid object models and pre-scripted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zisu Li , Hengye Lyu , Jiaxin Shi , Yufeng Zeng , Mingming Fan , Hanwang Zhang , Chen Liang

Text-to-video generation enhances content creation but is highly computationally intensive: The computational cost of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) scales quadratically in the number of pixels. This makes minute-length video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hongjie Wang , Chih-Yao Ma , Yen-Cheng Liu , Ji Hou , Tao Xu , Jialiang Wang , Felix Juefei-Xu , Yaqiao Luo , Peizhao Zhang , Tingbo Hou , Peter Vajda , Niraj K. Jha , Xiaoliang Dai

Interactive world models that simulate object dynamics are crucial for robotics, VR, and AR. However, it remains a significant challenge to learn physics-consistent dynamics models from limited real-world video data, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yu Yang , Zhilu Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Yihan Zeng , Hui Li , Wangmeng Zuo

Enabling long-context understanding remains a key challenge in scaling existing sequence models -- a crucial component in developing generally intelligent models that can process and operate over long temporal horizons that potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Hao Liu , Wilson Yan , Matei Zaharia , Pieter Abbeel

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled social simulation through multi-agent systems. Prior efforts focus on agent societies created from scratch, assigning agents with newly defined personas. However, simulating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Yiting Ran , Xintao Wang , Tian Qiu , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Deqing Yang

Language agents increasingly require persistent worlds in which they can act, remember, and learn. Existing approaches sit at two extremes: conventional web frameworks provide reliable but fixed contexts backed by databases, while fully…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jichen Feng , Yifan Zhang , Chenggong Zhang , Yifu Lu , Shilong Liu , Mengdi Wang

Autoregressive (AR) diffusion enables streaming, interactive long-video generation by producing frames causally, yet maintaining coherence over minute-scale horizons remains challenging due to accumulated errors, motion drift, and content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yifei Yu , Xiaoshan Wu , Xinting Hu , Tao Hu , Yangtian Sun , Xiaoyang Lyu , Bo Wang , Lin Ma , Yuewen Ma , Zhongrui Wang , Xiaojuan Qi

Recent breakthroughs in autonomous driving have been propelled by advances in robust world modeling, fundamentally transforming how vehicles interpret dynamic scenes and execute safe decision-making. World models have emerged as a linchpin…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

Mobile Graphical User Interface (GUI) World Models (WMs) offer a promising path for improving mobile GUI agent performance at train- and inference-time. However, current approaches face a critical trade-off: text-based WMs sacrifice visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Woosung Koh , Sungjun Han , Segyu Lee , Se-Young Yun , Jamin Shin

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

As embodied intelligence emerges as a core frontier in artificial intelligence research, simulation platforms must evolve beyond low-level physical interactions to capture complex, human-centered social behaviors. We introduce FreeAskWorld,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yuhang Peng , Yizhou Pan , Xinning He , Jihaoyu Yang , Xinyu Yin , Han Wang , Xiaoji Zheng , Chao Gao , Jiangtao Gong

Current video generation models cannot simulate physical consequences of 3D actions like forces and robotic manipulations, as they lack structural understanding of how actions affect 3D scenes. We present RealWonder, the first real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Wei Liu , Ziyu Chen , Zizhang Li , Yue Wang , Hong-Xing Yu , Jiajun Wu