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Building an efficient and physically consistent world model from limited observations is a long standing challenge in vision and robotics. Many existing world modeling pipelines are based on implicit generative models, which are hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Wenhao Hu , Xuexiang Wen , Xi Li , Gaoang Wang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown strong performance on static visual understanding, yet they still struggle with dynamic spatial reasoning that requires imagining how scenes evolve under egocentric motion. Recent efforts address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Wanyue Zhang , Wenxiang Wu , Wang Xu , Jiaxin Luo , Helu Zhi , Yibin Huang , Shuo Ren , Zitao Liu , Jiajun Zhang

We present StereoWorld, a camera-conditioned stereo world model that jointly learns appearance and binocular geometry for end-to-end stereo video generation.Unlike monocular RGB or RGBD approaches, StereoWorld operates exclusively within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yang-Tian Sun , Zehuan Huang , Yifan Niu , Lin Ma , Yan-Pei Cao , Yuewen Ma , Xiaojuan Qi

World models simulate future states of the world in response to different actions. They facilitate interactive content creation and provides a foundation for grounded, long-horizon reasoning. Current foundation models do not fully meet the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jiannan Xiang , Guangyi Liu , Yi Gu , Qiyue Gao , Yuting Ning , Yuheng Zha , Zeyu Feng , Tianhua Tao , Shibo Hao , Yemin Shi , Zhengzhong Liu , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

A world model enables an intelligent agent to imagine, predict, and reason about how the world evolves in response to its actions, and accordingly to plan and strategize. While recent video generation models produce realistic visual…

Recent advances in large language model (LLM) have empowered autonomous agents to perform multi-turn interactions with tools and environments. However, scaling such agent training is limited by the lack of diverse and reliable environments.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhaoyang Wang , Canwen Xu , Boyi Liu , Yite Wang , Siwei Han , Zhewei Yao , Huaxiu Yao , Yuxiong He

Despite a widespread success in various applications, large language models (LLMs) often stumble when tackling basic physical reasoning or executing robotics tasks, due to a lack of direct experience with the physical nuances of the real…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Haolan Liu , Jishen Zhao

What if a video generation model could not only imagine a plausible future, but the correct one, accurately reflecting how the world changes with each action? We address this question by presenting the Egocentric World Model (EgoWM), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Anurag Bagchi , Zhipeng Bao , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Yu-Xiong Wang , Pavel Tokmakov , Martial Hebert

Building world models with spatial consistency and real-time interactivity remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Current video generation paradigms often struggle with a lack of spatial persistence and insufficient visual…

Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning have showcased its potential in tackling complex tasks. However, experiments on visual control tasks have revealed that state-of-the-art reinforcement learning models struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Rudra P. K. Poudel , Harit Pandya , Chao Zhang , Roberto Cipolla

World models and video generation are pivotal technologies in the domain of autonomous driving, each playing a critical role in enhancing the robustness and reliability of autonomous systems. World models, which simulate the dynamics of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Ao Fu , Yi Zhou , Tao Zhou , Yi Yang , Bojun Gao , Qun Li , Guobin Wu , Ling Shao

World generation is a fundamental capability for applications like video games, simulation, and robotics. However, existing approaches face three main obstacles: controllability, scalability, and efficiency. End-to-end scene generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Han-Hung Lee , Cheng-Yu Yang , Yu-Lun Liu , Angel X. Chang

Large-scale video generative models can synthesize diverse and realistic visual content for dynamic world creation, but they often lack element-wise controllability, hindering their use in editing scenes and training embodied AI agents. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sicheng Mo , Ziyang Leng , Leon Liu , Weizhen Wang , Honglin He , Bolei Zhou

We introduce Diffusion World Model (DWM), a conditional diffusion model capable of predicting multistep future states and rewards concurrently. As opposed to traditional one-step dynamics models, DWM offers long-horizon predictions in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Zihan Ding , Amy Zhang , Yuandong Tian , Qinqing Zheng

Training generalist policies for robotic manipulation has shown great promise, as they enable language-conditioned, multi-task behaviors across diverse scenarios. However, evaluating these policies remains difficult because real-world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Jinwei Gu , Qinsheng Zhang , Hanzi Mao , Ming-Yu Liu , Florian Shkurti , Lin Yen-Chen

We present LingBot-World, an open-sourced world simulator stemming from video generation. Positioned as a top-tier world model, LingBot-World offers the following features. (1) It maintains high fidelity and robust dynamics in a broad…

We demonstrate the Patterns of Life Simulation to create realistic simulations of human mobility in a city. This simulation has recently been used to generate massive amounts of trajectory and check-in data. Our demonstration focuses on…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hossein Amiri , Will Kohn , Shiyang Ruan , Joon-Seok Kim , Hamdi Kavak , Andrew Crooks , Dieter Pfoser , Carola Wenk , Andreas Zufle

Despite remarkable progress in driving world models, their potential for autonomous systems remains largely untapped: the world models are mostly learned for world simulation and decoupled from trajectory planning. While recent efforts aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhida Zhao , Talas Fu , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

Yume aims to use images, text, or videos to create an interactive, realistic, and dynamic world, which allows exploration and control using peripheral devices or neural signals. In this report, we present a preview version of \method, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xiaofeng Mao , Shaoheng Lin , Zhen Li , Chuanhao Li , Wenshuo Peng , Tong He , Jiangmiao Pang , Mingmin Chi , Yu Qiao , Kaipeng Zhang

Recent advances in creative AI have enabled the synthesis of high-fidelity images and videos conditioned on language instructions. Building on these developments, text-to-video diffusion models have evolved into embodied world models (EWMs)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hu Yue , Siyuan Huang , Yue Liao , Shengcong Chen , Pengfei Zhou , Liliang Chen , Maoqing Yao , Guanghui Ren