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World simulation has gained increasing popularity due to its ability to model virtual environments and predict the consequences of actions. However, the limited temporal context window often leads to failures in maintaining long-term…

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Emerging world models autoregressively generate video frames in response to actions, such as camera movements and text prompts, among other control signals. Due to limited temporal context window sizes, these models often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Tong Wu , Shuai Yang , Ryan Po , Yinghao Xu , Ziwei Liu , Dahua Lin , Gordon Wetzstein

Training robot policies within a learned world model is trending due to the inefficiency of real-world interactions. The established image-based world models and policies have shown prior success, but lack robust geometric information that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Guanxing Lu , Baoxiong Jia , Puhao Li , Yixin Chen , Ziwei Wang , Yansong Tang , Siyuan Huang

Imitation learning has emerged as a promising approach towards building generalist robots. However, scaling imitation learning for large robot foundation models remains challenging due to its reliance on high-quality expert demonstrations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Chuning Zhu , Raymond Yu , Siyuan Feng , Benjamin Burchfiel , Paarth Shah , Abhishek Gupta

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

Several families of continual learning techniques have been proposed to alleviate catastrophic interference in deep neural network training on non-stationary data. However, a comprehensive comparison and analysis of limitations remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Timm Hess , Martin Mundt , Iuliia Pliushch , Visvanathan Ramesh

With the rapid advancement of autonomous driving technology, a lack of data has become a major obstacle to enhancing perception model accuracy. Researchers are now exploring controllable data generation using world models to diversify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Xinqing Li , Ruiqi Song , Qingyu Xie , Ye Wu , Nanxin Zeng , Yunfeng Ai

Pretrained foundation models have become an important basis for end-to-end autonomous driving. In contrast to vision-language models pretrained primarily on static image-text pairs, video generative models capture temporal dynamics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chen Shi , Jinrui Xu , Shaoshuai Shi , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang , Li Jiang

This report presents a unified technical system addressing the two core capabilities of world models for autonomous driving: world representation and world generation. For world representation, we propose WorldRec, a feed-forward…

Generative video modeling has made significant strides, yet ensuring structural and temporal consistency over long sequences remains a challenge. Current methods predominantly rely on RGB signals, leading to accumulated errors in object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhiheng Liu , Xueqing Deng , Shoufa Chen , Angtian Wang , Qiushan Guo , Mingfei Han , Zeyue Xue , Mengzhao Chen , Ping Luo , Linjie Yang

The remarkable recent advances in object-centric generative world models raise a few questions. First, while many of the recent achievements are indispensable for making a general and versatile world model, it is quite unclear how these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zhixuan Lin , Yi-Fu Wu , Skand Peri , Bofeng Fu , Jindong Jiang , Sungjin Ahn

Autoregressive video world models predict future visual observations conditioned on actions. While effective over short horizons, these models often struggle with long-horizon generation, as small prediction errors accumulate over time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Junchao Huang , Ziyang Ye , Xinting Hu , Tianyu He , Guiyu Zhang , Shaoshuai Shi , Jiang Bian , Li Jiang

We introduce SANA-WM, an efficient 2.6B-parameter open-source world model natively trained for one-minute generation, synthesizing high-fidelity, 720p, minute-scale videos with precise camera control. SANA-WM achieves visual quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Haoyi Zhu , Haozhe Liu , Yuyang Zhao , Tian Ye , Junsong Chen , Jincheng Yu , Tong He , Song Han , Enze Xie

The rapid evolution of video generation has enabled models to simulate complex physical dynamics and long-horizon causalities, positioning them as potential world simulators. However, a critical gap still remains between the theoretical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-06 Muyang He , Hanzhong Guo , Junxiong Lin , Yizhou Yu

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

Embodied action planning is a core challenge in robotics, requiring models to generate precise actions from visual observations and language instructions. While video generation world models are promising, their reliance on pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yangcheng Yu , Xin Jin , Yu Shang , Xin Zhang , Haisheng Su , Wei Wu , Yong Li

Humanoid robots, with their human-like form, are uniquely suited for interacting in environments built for people. However, enabling humanoids to reason, plan, and act in complex open-world settings remains a challenge. World models, models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Muhammad Qasim Ali , Aditya Sridhar , Shahbuland Matiana , Alex Wong , Mohammad Al-Sharman

Human motion prediction has traditionally been framed as a sequence regression problem where models extrapolate future joint coordinates from observed pose histories. While effective over short horizons this approach does not separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Sarim Chaudhry

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

World models are becoming central to robotic planning and control as they enable prediction of future state transitions. Existing approaches often emphasize video generation or natural-language prediction, which are difficult to ground in…