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This technical report summarizes the second-place solution for the Predictive World Model Challenge held at the CVPR-2024 Workshop on Foundation Models for Autonomous Systems. We introduce D$^2$-World, a novel World model that effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Haiming Zhang , Xu Yan , Ying Xue , Zixuan Guo , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li , Bingbing Liu

Recent approaches have demonstrated the promise of using diffusion models to generate interactive and explorable worlds. However, most of these methods face critical challenges such as excessively large parameter sizes, reliance on lengthy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Xiaofeng Mao , Zhen Li , Chuanhao Li , Xiaojie Xu , Kaining Ying , Tong He , Jiangmiao Pang , Yu Qiao , Kaipeng Zhang

World models have emerged as promising neural simulators for autonomous driving, with the potential to supplement scarce real-world data and enable closed-loop evaluations. However, current research primarily evaluates these models based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Hidehisa Arai , Keishi Ishihara , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yu Yamaguchi

We propose the use of latent space generative world models to address the covariate shift problem in autonomous driving. A world model is a neural network capable of predicting an agent's next state given past states and actions. By…

World-Action Models (WAM) initialized from pre-trained video generation backbones have demonstrated remarkable potential for robot policy learning. However, existing approaches face two critical bottlenecks that hinder performance and…

Autonomous driving requires reasoning about interactions with surrounding traffic. A prevailing approach is large-scale imitation learning on expert driving datasets, aimed at generalizing across diverse real-world scenarios. For online…

Being able to simulate the outcomes of actions in varied environments will revolutionize the development of generalist agents at scale. However, modeling these world dynamics, especially for dexterous robotics tasks, poses significant…

The field of autonomous driving is experiencing a surge of interest in world models, which aim to predict potential future scenarios based on historical observations. In this paper, we introduce DFIT-OccWorld, an efficient 3D occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Haiming Zhang , Ying Xue , Xu Yan , Jiacheng Zhang , Weichao Qiu , Dongfeng Bai , Bingbing Liu , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Future trajectories of neighboring traffic agents have a significant influence on the path planning and decision-making of autonomous vehicles. While trajectory forecasting is a well-studied field, research mainly focuses on snapshot-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Alexander Prutsch , David Schinagl , Horst Possegger

We propose to build realistic virtual worlds, called 360RVW, for large urban environments directly from 360{\deg} videos. We provide an interface for interactive exploration, where users can freely navigate via their own avatars. 360{\deg}…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mizuki Takenawa , Naoki Sugimoto , Leslie Wöhler , Satoshi Ikehata , Kiyoharu Aizawa

A natural approach for reinforcement learning is to predict future rewards by unrolling a neural network world model, and to backpropagate through the resulting computational graph to learn a policy. However, this method often becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Michel Ma , Tianwei Ni , Clement Gehring , Pierluca D'Oro , Pierre-Luc Bacon

Autonomous driving systems require High-Definition (HD) semantic maps to navigate around urban roads. Existing solutions approach the semantic mapping problem by offline manual annotation, which suffers from serious scalability issues.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yicheng Liu , Tianyuan Yuan , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

Autonomous-driving simulators typically trade physical fidelity for scalable parallelism. Physics-based platforms such as CARLA and MetaDrive provide articulated vehicle dynamics and contact, but their non-vectorized interfaces make batched…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yicheng Zhu , Yang Chen , Tao Li , Zilin Bian

Trajectory prediction and planning are essential for autonomous vehicles to navigate safely and efficiently in dynamic environments. Traditional approaches often treat them separately, limiting the ability for interactive planning. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Anjian Li , Sangjae Bae , David Isele , Ryne Beeson , Faizan M. Tariq

Cities, as the essential environment of human life, encompass diverse physical elements such as buildings, roads and vegetation, which continuously interact with dynamic entities like people and vehicles. Crafting realistic, interactive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yu Shang , Yuming Lin , Yu Zheng , Hangyu Fan , Jingtao Ding , Jie Feng , Jiansheng Chen , Li Tian , Yong Li

We introduce GE-Sim 2.0 (Genie Envisioner World Simulator 2.0), a closed-loop video world simulator for robotic manipulation. Building on the action-conditioned video generation framework of Genie Envisioner, GE-Sim 2.0 is re-trained on…

This paper presents ShareVerse, a video generation framework enabling multi-agent shared world modeling, addressing the gap in existing works that lack support for unified shared world construction with multi-agent interaction. ShareVerse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jiayi Zhu , Jianing Zhang , Yiying Yang , Wei Cheng , Xiaoyun Yuan

Pretrained video diffusion models provide powerful spatiotemporal generative priors, making them a natural foundation for robotic world models. While recent world-action models jointly optimize future videos and actions, they predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhaoyang Yang , Yurun Jin , Lizhe Qi , Cong Huang , Kai Chen

Closed-loop driving simulation requires real-time interaction beyond short offline clips, pushing current driving world models toward autoregressive (AR) rollout. Existing AR distillation approaches typically rely on frame sinks or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Conglang Zhang , Yifan Zhan , Qingjie Wang , Zhanpeng Ouyang , Yu Li , Zihao Yang , Xiaoyang Guo , Weiqiang Ren , Qian Zhang , Zhen Dong , Yinqiang Zheng , Wei Yin , Zhengqing Chen

Autonomous driving requires a comprehensive understanding of the surrounding environment for reliable trajectory planning. Previous works rely on dense rasterized scene representation (e.g., agent occupancy and semantic map) to perform…