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Unifying diverse image generation tasks within a single framework remains a fundamental challenge in visual generation. While large language models (LLMs) achieve unification through task-agnostic data and generation, existing visual…

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Video generation models, as one form of world models, have emerged as one of the most exciting frontiers in AI, promising agents the ability to imagine the future by modeling the temporal evolution of complex scenes. In autonomous driving,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yang Zhou , Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Zhuofan Zong , Hongsheng Li , Steven L. Waslander

World Generation Models are emerging as a cornerstone of next-generation multimodal intelligence systems. Unlike traditional 2D visual generation, World Models aim to construct realistic, dynamic, and physically consistent 3D/4D worlds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yiting Lu , Wei Luo , Peiyan Tu , Haoran Li , Hanxin Zhu , Zihao Yu , Xingrui Wang , Xinyi Chen , Xinge Peng , Xin Li , Zhibo Chen

World models enable agents to plan by imagining future states, but existing approaches operate from a single viewpoint, typically egocentric, even when other perspectives would make planning easier; navigation, for instance, benefits from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rishabh Sharma , Gijs Hogervorst , Wayne E. Mackey , David J. Heeger , Stefano Martiniani

Producing long, coherent video sequences with stable 3D structure remains a major challenge, particularly in streaming scenarios. Motivated by this, we introduce Endless World, a real-time framework for infinite, 3D-consistent video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ke Zhang , Yiqun Mei , Jiacong Xu , Vishal M. Patel

Unified multimodal models often struggle with complex synthesis tasks that demand deep reasoning, and typically treat text-to-image generation and image editing as isolated capabilities rather than interconnected reasoning steps. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Dianyi Wang , Chaofan Ma , Feng Han , Size Wu , Wei Song , Yibin Wang , Zhixiong Zhang , Tianhang Wang , Siyuan Wang , Zhongyu Wei , Jiaqi Wang

Video stylization, an important downstream task of video generation models, has not yet been thoroughly explored. Its input style conditions typically include text, style image, and stylized first frame. Each condition has a characteristic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Mengtian Li , Jinshu Chen , Songtao Zhao , Wanquan Feng , Pengqi Tu , Qian He

World models are a powerful paradigm in AI and robotics, enabling agents to reason about the future by predicting visual observations or compact latent states. The 1X World Model Challenge introduces an open-source benchmark of real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Riccardo Mereu , Aidan Scannell , Yuxin Hou , Yi Zhao , Aditya Jitta , Antonio Dominguez , Luigi Acerbi , Amos Storkey , Paul Chang

Maintaining spatial world consistency over long horizons remains a central challenge for camera-controllable video generation. Existing memory-based approaches often condition generation on globally reconstructed 3D scenes by rendering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zun Wang , Han Lin , Jaehong Yoon , Jaemin Cho , Yue Zhang , Mohit Bansal

World models have emerged as a critical frontier in AI research, aiming to enhance large models by infusing them with physical dynamics and world knowledge. The core objective is to enable agents to understand, predict, and interact with…

We introduce UniReal, a unified framework designed to address various image generation and editing tasks. Existing solutions often vary by tasks, yet share fundamental principles: preserving consistency between inputs and outputs while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xi Chen , Zhifei Zhang , He Zhang , Yuqian Zhou , Soo Ye Kim , Qing Liu , Yijun Li , Jianming Zhang , Nanxuan Zhao , Yilin Wang , Hui Ding , Zhe Lin , Hengshuang Zhao

Video generation models have rapidly progressed, positioning themselves as video world models capable of supporting decision-making applications like robotics and autonomous driving. However, current benchmarks fail to rigorously evaluate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dacheng Li , Yunhao Fang , Yukang Chen , Shuo Yang , Shiyi Cao , Justin Wong , Michael Luo , Xiaolong Wang , Hongxu Yin , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Ion Stoica , Song Han , Yao Lu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Haoyu Wu , Jiwen Yu , Yingtian Zou , Xihui Liu

In this paper, we explore the overlooked challenge of stability and temporal consistency in interactive video generation, which synthesizes dynamic and controllable video worlds through interactive behaviors such as camera movements and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Ying Yang , Zhengyao Lv , Tianlin Pan , Haofan Wang , Binxin Yang , Hubery Yin , Chen Li , Ziwei Liu , Chenyang Si

World models enable planning in imagined future predicted space, offering a promising framework for embodied navigation. However, existing navigation world models often lack action-conditioned consistency, so visually plausible predictions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Han Yan , Zishang Xiang , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Foundational world models must be both interactive and preserve spatiotemporal coherence for effective future planning with action choices. However, present models for long video generation have limited inherent world modeling capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Taiye Chen , Xun Hu , Zihan Ding , Chi Jin

The landscape of video generation is shifting, from a focus on generating visually appealing clips to building virtual environments that support interaction and maintain physical plausibility. These developments point toward the emergence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jingtong Yue , Ziqi Huang , Zhaoxi Chen , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Ziwei Liu

We present a novel study on enhancing the capability of preserving the content in world models, focusing on a property we term World Stability. Recent diffusion-based generative models have advanced the synthesis of immersive and realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Soonwoo Kwon , Jin-Young Kim , Hyojun Go , Kyungjune Baek

Reliable anticipation of traffic accidents is essential for advancing autonomous driving systems. However, this objective is limited by two fundamental challenges: the scarcity of diverse, high-quality training data and the frequent absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yanchen Guan , Haicheng Liao , Chengyue Wang , Xingcheng Liu , Jiaxun Zhang , Zhenning Li

Trained on internet-scale video data, generative world models are increasingly recognized as powerful world simulators that can generate consistent and plausible dynamics over structure, motion, and physics. This raises a natural question:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Kevin Zhang , Kuangzhi Ge , Xiaowei Chi , Renrui Zhang , Shaojun Shi , Zhen Dong , Sirui Han , Shanghang Zhang