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Interactive world models that simulate object dynamics are crucial for robotics, VR, and AR. However, it remains a significant challenge to learn physics-consistent dynamics models from limited real-world video data, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yu Yang , Zhilu Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Yihan Zeng , Hui Li , Wangmeng Zuo

Large Language Models (LLMs) present a promising frontier in robotic task planning by leveraging extensive human knowledge. Nevertheless, the current literature often overlooks the critical aspects of robots' adaptability and error…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Sthithpragya Gupta , Kunpeng Yao , Loïc Niederhauser , Aude Billard

A key challenge for an agent learning to interact with the world is to reason about physical properties of objects and to foresee their dynamics under the effect of applied forces. In order to scale learning through interaction to many…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Iman Nematollahi , Oier Mees , Lukas Hermann , Wolfram Burgard

Exploring open-vocabulary video action recognition is a promising venture, which aims to recognize previously unseen actions within any arbitrary set of categories. Existing methods typically adapt pretrained image-text models to the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Chengyou Jia , Minnan Luo , Xiaojun Chang , Zhuohang Dang , Mingfei Han , Mengmeng Wang , Guang Dai , Sizhe Dang , Jingdong Wang

Learning predictive models from high-dimensional sensory observations is fundamental for cyber-physical systems, yet the latent representations learned by standard world models lack physical interpretability. This limits their reliability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhenjiang Mao , Mrinall Eashaan Umasudhan , Ivan Ruchkin

Recent breakthroughs in autonomous driving have been propelled by advances in robust world modeling, fundamentally transforming how vehicles interpret dynamic scenes and execute safe decision-making. World models have emerged as a linchpin…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

In autonomous driving, predicting future events in advance and evaluating the foreseeable risks empowers autonomous vehicles to better plan their actions, enhancing safety and efficiency on the road. To this end, we propose Drive-WM, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yuqi Wang , Jiawei He , Lue Fan , Hongxin Li , Yuntao Chen , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Current language-guided robotic manipulation systems often require low-level action-labeled datasets for imitation learning. While object-centric flow prediction methods mitigate this issue, they remain limited to scenarios involving rigid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yixiang Chen , Peiyan Li , Yan Huang , Jiabing Yang , Kehan Chen , Liang Wang

One of the most basic skills a robot should possess is predicting the effect of physical interactions with objects in the environment. This enables optimal action selection to reach a certain goal state. Traditionally, dynamics are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Alina Kloss , Stefan Schaal , Jeannette Bohg

We propose an action-conditioned dynamics model that predicts scene changes caused by object and agent interactions in a viewpoint-invariant 3D neural scene representation space, inferred from RGB-D videos. In this 3D feature space, objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung , Zhou Xian , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shamit Lal , Katerina Fragkiadaki

We propose X-WAM, a Unified 4D World Model that unifies real-time robotic action execution and high-fidelity 4D world synthesis (video + 3D reconstruction) in a single framework, addressing the critical limitations of prior unified world…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jun Guo , Qiwei Li , Peiyan Li , Zilong Chen , Nan Sun , Yifei Su , Heyun Wang , Yuan Zhang , Xinghang Li , Huaping Liu

Building models that generalize across physical systems without retraining remains a central challenge in computational science. Here we introduce In-Context Modeling (ICM), a retrain-free paradigm that infers physical relationships…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Lingfeng Li , Zhuoyuan Li , Shun Li , Kaixin Zhan , Huajian Gao , Changqing Chen , Liu Yang

This work highlights that video world modeling, alongside vision-language pre-training, establishes a fresh and independent foundation for robot learning. Intuitively, video world models provide the ability to imagine the near future by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lin Li , Qihang Zhang , Yiming Luo , Shuai Yang , Ruilin Wang , Fei Han , Mingrui Yu , Zelin Gao , Nan Xue , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu

Physical awareness, especially in a large and dynamic environment, is shaped by sensing decisions that determine observability across space, time, and scale, while observations impact the quality of sensing decisions. This loopy information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Elaheh Vaezpour , Amirhosein Javadi , Tara Javidi

Interactive artificial intelligence in the motion control field is an interesting topic, especially when universal knowledge is adaptive to multiple tasks and universal environments. Despite there being increasing efforts in the field of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Luo Ji , Runji Lin

Amodal segmentation is a challenging task that aims to predict the complete geometric shape of objects, including their occluded regions. Although existing methods primarily focus on amodal segmentation within the training domain, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Bo Zhang , Zhuotao Tian , Xin Tao , Songlin Tang , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong general-purpose reasoning but remain limited in physics-grounded anomaly detection, where causal understanding of dynamics is essential. Existing VLMs, trained predominantly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yao Gu , Xiaohao Xu , Yingna Wu

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

World models of embodied agents predict future observations conditioned on an action taken by the agent. For complex embodiments, action spaces are high-dimensional and difficult to specify: for example, precisely controlling a human agent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Alex N. Wang , Trevor Darrell , Pavel Izmailov , Yutong Bai , Amir Bar

Achieving human-like reasoning in deep learning models for complex tasks in unknown environments remains a critical challenge in embodied intelligence. While advanced vision-language models (VLMs) excel in static scene understanding, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jinzhou Tang , Jusheng zhang , Sidi Liu , Waikit Xiu , Qinhan Lv , Xiying Li