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End-to-end autonomous driving systems increasingly rely on vision-centric world models to understand and predict their environment. However, a common ineffectiveness in these models is the full reconstruction of future scenes, which expends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jianbiao Mei , Yu Yang , Xuemeng Yang , Licheng Wen , Jiajun Lv , Botian Shi , Yong Liu

World models - learned internal simulators of environment dynamics - are rapidly becoming foundational to autonomous decision-making in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and agentic AI. By predicting future states in compressed latent spaces,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Manoj Parmar

Wireless networks are undergoing a paradigm shift toward massive connectivity with energy-efficient operation, driving the integration of satellite-terrestrial architectures with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT).…

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World models are widely explored in embodied intelligence, yet they typically predict distinct evolutions of the world and the ego within a single stream, where the world captures persistent instruction-agnostic scene regularities and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zuyao Lin , Jianhui Zhang , Peidong Jia , Xiaoguang Zhao , Shanghang Zhang , Xingyu Chen

Deploying generative World-Action Models for manipulation is severely bottlenecked by redundant pixel-level reconstruction, $\mathcal{O}(T)$ memory scaling, and sequential inference latency. We introduce the Causal Latent World Model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yueci Deng , Guiliang Liu , Kui Jia

World models learned from high-dimensional visual observations allow agents to make decisions and plan directly in latent space, avoiding pixel-level reconstruction. However, recent latent predictive architectures (JEPAs), including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Leonardo F. Toso , Davit Shadunts , Yunyang Lu , Nihal Sharma , Donglin Zhan , Nam H. Nguyen , James Anderson

A plausible scene evolution depends on the maneuver being considered, while a good maneuver depends on how the scene may evolve. Existing World Action Models (WAMs) largely miss this reciprocity, treating world prediction and action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hongbo Lu , Liang Yao , Chenghao He , Haoyu Wang , Xiang Gu , Xianfei Li , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

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

World modelling is essential for understanding and predicting the dynamics of complex systems by learning both spatial and temporal dependencies. However, current frameworks, such as Transformers and selective state-space models like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Li Nanbo , Firas Laakom , Yucheng Xu , Wenyi Wang , Jürgen Schmidhuber

World models enable robots to conduct counterfactual reasoning in physical environments by predicting future world states. While conventional approaches often prioritize pixel-level reconstruction of future scenes, such detailed rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Zhiwei Zhang , Hui Zhang , Kaihong Huang , Chenghao Shi , Huimin Lu

Many animals possess a remarkable capacity to rapidly construct flexible cognitive maps of their environments. These maps are crucial for ethologically relevant behaviors such as navigation, exploration, and planning. Existing computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zizhan He , Maxime Daigle , Pouya Bashivan

Large language model (LLM) agents demonstrate strong performance in short-text contexts but often underperform in extended dialogues due to inefficient memory management. Existing approaches face a fundamental trade-off between efficiency…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Xiaochen Zhao , Kaikai Wang , Xiaowen Zhang , Chen Yao , Aili Wang

We argue that sixth-generation (6G) intelligence is not fluent token prediction but the capacity to imagine and choose -- to simulate future scenarios, weigh trade-offs, and act with calibrated uncertainty. We reframe open radio access…

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GUI agents are beginning to operate the web, mobile, and desktop as interactive worlds, where successful control depends on carrying forward visual, procedural, and task-level evidence beyond the fleeting present screen. Yet most agents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Guibin Zhang , Yaohui Ling , Fanci Meng , Kun Wang , Shuicheng Yan

We propose an extension of Hybrid I/O Automata (HIOAs) to model agent systems and their implicit communication through perturbation of the environment, like localization of objects or radio signals diffusion and detection. The new object,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-27 Marta Capiluppi , Roberto Segala

In this paper, we propose World Model Policy Gradient (WMPG), an approach to reduce the variance of policy gradient estimates using learned world models (WM's). In WMPG, a WM is trained online and used to imagine trajectories. The imagined…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-30 Michal Nauman , Floris Den Hengst

The success of large language models (LLMs) across diverse NLP tasks has elevated the importance of reasoning chain optimization as a critical step in aligning model behavior with task objectives. Existing reasoning chain tuning methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu , Ying Nian Wu

In model-based learning, the agent learns behaviors by simulating trajectories based on world model predictions. Standard world models typically learn a stationary transition function that maps states and actions to next states, when an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Qinshi Zhang , Weipeng Deng , Zhihan Jiang , Jiaming Qu , Qianren Li , Weitao Xu , Ray LC

Planning with world models offers a powerful paradigm for robotic control. Conventional approaches train a model to predict future frames conditioned on current frames and actions, which can then be used for planning. However, the objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Jacob Berg , Chuning Zhu , Yanda Bao , Ishan Durugkar , Abhishek Gupta

World Action Models (WAMs) enhance Vision-Language-Action policies by jointly predicting scene evolution and robot actions, but existing methods usually represent the predicted world as holistic images, video tokens, or global latents.…