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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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Understanding and reasoning about dynamics governed by physical laws through visual observation, akin to human capabilities in the real world, poses significant challenges. Currently, object-centric dynamic simulation methods, which emulate…

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This paper presents a novel method for introducing time into discrete and continuous spatial representations used in mobile robotics, by modelling long-term, pseudo-periodic variations caused by human activities. Unlike previous approaches,…

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Training intelligent agents that can drive autonomously in various urban and highway scenarios has been a hot topic in the robotics society within the last decades. However, the diversity of driving environments in terms of road topology…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Behrad Toghi , Rodolfo Valiente , Ramtin Pedarsani , Yaser P. Fallah

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…

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Safe L2/L3 driving automation requires anticipating human-in-the-loop reactions during shared-control transitions. While most driving world models forecast the external environment, in-cabin intelligence remains strictly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haozhuang Chi , Daosheng Qiu , Hao Su , Haochen Liu , Zirui Li , Haoruo Zhang , Chen Lv

Recent deep generative models are able to provide photo-realistic images as well as visual or textual content embeddings useful to address various tasks of computer vision and natural language processing. Their usefulness is nevertheless…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Antoine Plumerault , Hervé Le Borgne , Céline Hudelot

Autonomous driving promises transformative improvements to transportation, but building systems capable of safely navigating the unstructured complexity of real-world scenarios remains challenging. A critical problem lies in effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Anthony Hu , Lloyd Russell , Hudson Yeo , Zak Murez , George Fedoseev , Alex Kendall , Jamie Shotton , Gianluca Corrado

Humans navigate in their environment by learning a mental model of the world through passive observation and active interaction. Their world model allows them to anticipate what might happen next and act accordingly with respect to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Anthony Hu

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit a critical modal disconnect: they possess vast semantic knowledge but lack the procedural grounding to respect the immutable laws of the physical world. Consequently, while these agents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Baochang Ren , Yunzhi Yao , Rui Sun , Shuofei Qiao , Ningyu Zhang , Huajun Chen

Recently, world models have been incorporated into the autonomous driving systems to improve the planning reliability. Existing approaches typically predict future states through appearance generation or deterministic regression, which…

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have emerged as powerful embodied agents. One of the core abilities is autonomous navigation in large-scale three-dimensional environments. Existing navigation policies, however, are typically optimized for…

World models (WMs) demonstrate strong capabilities in prediction, generation, and planning tasks. Existing WMs primarily focus on unstructured data and cannot leverage the ubiquitous structured data, often represented as graphs, in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Tao Feng , Yexin Wu , Guanyu Lin , Jiaxuan You

We focus on the task of future frame prediction in video governed by underlying physical dynamics. We work with models which are object-centric, i.e., explicitly work with object representations, and propagate a loss in the latent space.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Rushil Gupta , Vishal Sharma , Yash Jain , Yitao Liang , Guy Van den Broeck , Parag Singla

Multimodal Large Models (MLMs) are becoming a significant research focus, combining powerful large language models with multimodal learning to perform complex tasks across different data modalities. This review explores the latest…

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Agents built on vision-language models increasingly face tasks that demand anticipating future states rather than relying on short-horizon reasoning. Generative world models offer a promising remedy: agents could use them as external…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Cheng Qian , Emre Can Acikgoz , Bingxuan Li , Xiusi Chen , Yuji Zhang , Bingxiang He , Qinyu Luo , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Gokhan Tur , Yunzhu Li , Heng Ji

End-to-end autonomous driving seeks to solve the perception, decision, and control problems in an integrated way, which can be easier to generalize at scale and be more adapting to new scenarios. However, high costs and risks make it very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Sidney Bender , Tim Joseph , Marius Zoellner

Physical world knowledge resides mainly in videos. Equipping Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with such knowledge is fundamental for safe and generalizable planning. Predictive world modeling enables VLA to internalize physical dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Baolu Li , Jingyu Qian , Rui Guo , Yilun Chen , Hanpeng Liu , Yuan Lin , Junhong Zhou , Ruixin Liu , Willow Yang , Yutong Zheng , Zhenli Zhang , Tenglong , Gu , Zhuangzhuang Ding , Pengkun Zheng , Yu Zhang , Xianming Liu

Autonomous agents operating in dynamic and safety-critical environments require decision-making frameworks that are both computationally efficient and physically grounded. However, many existing approaches rely on end-to-end learning, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zhaowen Fan , Rongchao Zhang

With the proliferation of the Large Language Model (LLM), the concept of World Models (WM) has recently attracted a great deal of attention in the AI research community, especially in the context of AI agents. It is arguably evolving into…

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