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We propose FlashWorld, a generative model that produces 3D scenes from a single image or text prompt in seconds, 10~100$\times$ faster than previous works while possessing superior rendering quality. Our approach shifts from the…

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Generative world models are reshaping embodied AI, enabling agents to synthesize realistic 4D driving environments that look convincing but often fail physically or behaviorally. Despite rapid progress, the field still lacks a unified way…

The field of advanced text-to-image generation is witnessing the emergence of unified frameworks that integrate powerful text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, with Diffusion Transformer backbones. Although there have been efforts to control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Liang Chen , Shuai Bai , Wenhao Chai , Weichu Xie , Haozhe Zhao , Leon Vinci , Junyang Lin , Baobao Chang

State-of-the-art video generative models produce promising visual content yet often violate basic physics principles, limiting their utility. While some attribute this deficiency to insufficient physics understanding from pre-training, we…

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

World models, which predict future transitions from past observation and action sequences, have shown great promise for improving data efficiency in sequential decision-making. However, existing world models often require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siqiao Huang , Jialong Wu , Qixing Zhou , Shangchen Miao , Mingsheng Long

Today's driving world models can generate remarkably realistic dash-cam videos, yet no single model excels universally. Some generate photorealistic textures but violate basic physics; others maintain geometric consistency but fail when…

World models aim to understand, remember, and predict dynamic visual environments, yet a unified benchmark for evaluating their fundamental abilities remains lacking. To address this gap, we introduce MIND, the first open-domain closed-loop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yixuan Ye , Xuanyu Lu , Yuxin Jiang , Yuchao Gu , Rui Zhao , Qiwei Liang , Jiachun Pan , Fengda Zhang , Weijia Wu , Alex Jinpeng Wang

The synthesis of spatiotemporally coherent 4D content presents fundamental challenges in computer vision, requiring simultaneous modeling of high-fidelity spatial representations and physically plausible temporal dynamics. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xiaoyan Liu , Kangrui Li , Yuehao Song , Jiaxin Liu

Diffusion-based world models have shown strong potential for unified world simulation, but the iterative denoising remains too costly for interactive use and long-horizon rollouts. While feature caching can accelerate inference without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Weilun Feng , Guoxin Fan , Haotong Qin , Chuanguang Yang , Mingqiang Wu , Yuqi Li , Xiangqi Li , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Dingrui Wang , Longlong Liao , Michele Magno , Yongjun Xu

End-to-end autonomous driving aims to generate safe and plausible planning policies from raw sensor input. Driving world models have shown great potential in learning rich representations by predicting the future evolution of a driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingtai Gui , Meijie Zhang , Tianyi Yan , Wencheng Han , Jiahao Gong , Feiyang Tan , Cheng-zhong Xu , Jianbing Shen

Understanding 3D scenes requires flexible combinations of visual reasoning tasks, including depth estimation, novel view synthesis, and object manipulation, all of which are essential for perception and interaction. Existing approaches have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wanhee Lee , Klemen Kotar , Rahul Mysore Venkatesh , Jared Watrous , Honglin Chen , Khai Loong Aw , Daniel L. K. Yamins

We propose X-WAM, a Unified 4D World Model that unifies real-time robotic action execution and high-fidelity 4D world synthesis (video + 3D reconstruction) in a single framework, addressing the critical limitations of prior unified world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jun Guo , Qiwei Li , Peiyan Li , Zilong Chen , Nan Sun , Yifei Su , Heyun Wang , Yuan Zhang , Xinghang Li , Huaping Liu

We introduce DreamGen, a simple yet highly effective 4-stage pipeline for training robot policies that generalize across behaviors and environments through neural trajectories - synthetic robot data generated from video world models.…

Robotic world models are a promising paradigm for forecasting future environment states, yet their inference speed and the physical plausibility of generated trajectories remain critical bottlenecks, limiting their real-world applications.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sibo Li , Qianyue Hao , Yu Shang , Yong Li

Interactive world models continually generate video by responding to a user's actions, enabling open-ended generation capabilities. However, existing models typically lack a 3D representation of the environment, meaning 3D consistency must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Samuel Garcin , Thomas Walker , Steven McDonagh , Tim Pearce , Hakan Bilen , Tianyu He , Kaixin Wang , Jiang Bian

Unified video modeling that combines generation and understanding capabilities is increasingly important but faces two key challenges: maintaining semantic faithfulness during flow-based generation due to text-visual token imbalance and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jiabin Luo , Junhui Lin , Zeyu Zhang , Biao Wu , Meng Fang , Ling Chen , Hao Tang

Recent advancements in diffusion models have set new benchmarks in image and video generation, enabling realistic visual synthesis across single- and multi-frame contexts. However, these models still struggle with efficiently and explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Qihang Zhang , Shuangfei Zhai , Miguel Angel Bautista , Kevin Miao , Alexander Toshev , Joshua Susskind , Jiatao Gu

We present UniModel, a unified generative model that jointly supports visual understanding and visual generation within a single pixel-to-pixel diffusion framework. Our goal is to achieve unification along three axes: the model, the tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Chi Zhang , Jiepeng Wang , Youming Wang , Yuanzhi Liang , Xiaoyan Yang , Zuoxin Li , Haibin Huang , Xuelong Li

Recent generative video world models aim to simulate visual environment evolution, allowing an observer to interactively explore the scene via camera control. However, they implicitly assume that the world only evolves within the observer's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zicheng Duan , Jiatong Xia , Zeyu Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Gengze Zhou , Chenhui Gou , Yefei He , Feng Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Lingqiao Liu