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World Model, the supposed algorithmic surrogate of the real-world environment which biological agents experience with and act upon, has been an emerging topic in recent years because of the rising needs to develop virtual agents with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Eric Xing , Mingkai Deng , Jinyu Hou , Zhiting Hu

Predicting the future motion of road participants is a critical task in autonomous driving. In this work, we address the challenge of low-quality generation of low-probability modes in multi-agent joint prediction. To tackle this issue, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Fangze Lin , Ying He , Fei Yu , Hong Zhang

Deploying learned control policies in real-world environments poses a fundamental challenge. When system dynamics change unexpectedly, performance degrades until models are retrained on new data. We introduce Reflexive World Models (RWM), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Carlos Stein Brito , Daniel McNamee

World models learn the consequences of actions in vision-based interactive systems. However, in practical scenarios such as autonomous driving, there commonly exists noncontrollable dynamics independent of the action signals, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Minting Pan , Xiangming Zhu , Yunbo Wang , Xiaokang Yang

Scaling Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on large-scale data offers a promising path to achieving a more generalized driving intelligence. However, VLA models are limited by a ``supervision deficit'': the vast model capacity is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yingyan Li , Shuyao Shang , Weisong Liu , Bing Zhan , Haochen Wang , Yuqi Wang , Yuntao Chen , Xiaoman Wang , Yasong An , Chufeng Tang , Lu Hou , Lue Fan , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Designing adaptive mechanisms to align individual and collective interests remains a central challenge in artificial social intelligence. Existing methods often struggle with modeling heterogeneous agents possessing persistent latent traits…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Yizhe Huang , Chengdong Ma , Zhixun Chen , Long Ma , Yali Du , Song-Chun Zhu , Yaodong Yang , Xue Feng

As AI systems move from generating text to accomplishing goals through sustained interaction, the ability to model environment dynamics becomes a central bottleneck. Agents that manipulate objects, navigate software, coordinate with others,…

Recent generative video world models aim to simulate visual environment evolution, allowing an observer to interactively explore the scene via camera control. However, they implicitly assume that the world only evolves within the observer's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Zicheng Duan , Jiatong Xia , Zeyu Zhang , Wenbo Zhang , Gengze Zhou , Chenhui Gou , Yefei He , Feng Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Lingqiao Liu

The emerging field of action prediction plays a vital role in various computer vision applications such as autonomous driving, activity analysis and human-computer interaction. Despite significant advancements, accurately predicting future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Izzeddin Teeti , Rongali Sai Bhargav , Vivek Singh , Andrew Bradley , Biplab Banerjee , Fabio Cuzzolin

Data-driven simulation has become a favorable way to train and test autonomous driving algorithms. The idea of replacing the actual environment with a learned simulator has also been explored in model-based reinforcement learning in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Zhejun Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Dengxin Dai , Fisher Yu , Luc Van Gool

Vision-centric autonomous driving has recently raised wide attention due to its lower cost. Pre-training is essential for extracting a universal representation. However, current vision-centric pre-training typically relies on either 2D or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Chen Min , Dawei Zhao , Liang Xiao , Jian Zhao , Xinli Xu , Zheng Zhu , Lei Jin , Jianshu Li , Yulan Guo , Junliang Xing , Liping Jing , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is the problem of planning conflict-free paths from the designated start locations to goal positions for multiple agents. It underlies a variety of real-world tasks, including multi-robot coordination,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhanjiang Yang , Yang Shen , Yueming Li , Meng Li , Lijun Sun

Learned world models hold significant potential for robotic manipulation, as they can serve as simulator for real-world interactions. While extensive progress has been made in 2D video-based world models, these approaches often lack…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Chuanrui Zhang , Zhengxian Wu , Guanxing Lu , Yansong Tang , Ziwei Wang

Ophthalmic decision-making depends on subtle lesion-scale cues interpreted across multimodal imaging and over time, yet most medical foundation models remain static and degrade under modality and acquisition shifts. Here we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ziyu Gao , Xinyuan Wu , Xiaolan Chen , Zhuoran Liu , Ruoyu Chen , Bowen Liu , Bingjie Yan , Zhenhan Wang , Kai Jin , Jiancheng Yang , Yih Chung Tham , Mingguang He , Danli Shi

World Models (WMs) have emerged as a promising approach for post-training Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies to improve robustness and generalization under environmental changes. However, most WM-based post-training methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 An Dinh Vuong , Tuan Van Vo , Abdullah Sohail , Haoran Ding , Liang Ma , Xiaodan Liang , Anqing Duan , Ivan Laptev , Ian Reid

Humans' internal states play a key role in human-machine interaction, leading to the rise of human state estimation as a prominent field. Compared to swift state changes such as surprise and irritation, modeling gradual states like trust…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Minxue Niu , Zhaobo Zheng , Kumar Akash , Teruhisa Misu

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

We propose DOME, a diffusion-based world model that predicts future occupancy frames based on past occupancy observations. The ability of this world model to capture the evolution of the environment is crucial for planning in autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Songen Gu , Wei Yin , Bu Jin , Xiaoyang Guo , Junming Wang , Haodong Li , Qian Zhang , Xiaoxiao Long

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

Reinforcement learning from large-scale offline datasets provides us with the ability to learn policies without potentially unsafe or impractical exploration. Significant progress has been made in the past few years in dealing with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Philip J. Ball , Cong Lu , Jack Parker-Holder , Stephen Roberts