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Building embodied AI systems that can follow arbitrary language instructions in any 3D environment is a key challenge for creating general AI. Accomplishing this goal requires learning to ground language in perception and embodied actions,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 SIMA Team , Maria Abi Raad , Arun Ahuja , Catarina Barros , Frederic Besse , Andrew Bolt , Adrian Bolton , Bethanie Brownfield , Gavin Buttimore , Max Cant , Sarah Chakera , Stephanie C. Y. Chan , Jeff Clune , Adrian Collister , Vikki Copeman , Alex Cullum , Ishita Dasgupta , Dario de Cesare , Julia Di Trapani , Yani Donchev , Emma Dunleavy , Martin Engelcke , Ryan Faulkner , Frankie Garcia , Charles Gbadamosi , Zhitao Gong , Lucy Gonzales , Kshitij Gupta , Karol Gregor , Arne Olav Hallingstad , Tim Harley , Sam Haves , Felix Hill , Ed Hirst , Drew A. Hudson , Jony Hudson , Steph Hughes-Fitt , Danilo J. Rezende , Mimi Jasarevic , Laura Kampis , Rosemary Ke , Thomas Keck , Junkyung Kim , Oscar Knagg , Kavya Kopparapu , Rory Lawton , Andrew Lampinen , Shane Legg , Alexander Lerchner , Marjorie Limont , Yulan Liu , Maria Loks-Thompson , Joseph Marino , Kathryn Martin Cussons , Loic Matthey , Siobhan Mcloughlin , Piermaria Mendolicchio , Hamza Merzic , Anna Mitenkova , Alexandre Moufarek , Valeria Oliveira , Yanko Oliveira , Hannah Openshaw , Renke Pan , Aneesh Pappu , Alex Platonov , Ollie Purkiss , David Reichert , John Reid , Pierre Harvey Richemond , Tyson Roberts , Giles Ruscoe , Jaume Sanchez Elias , Tasha Sandars , Daniel P. Sawyer , Tim Scholtes , Guy Simmons , Daniel Slater , Hubert Soyer , Heiko Strathmann , Peter Stys , Allison C. Tam , Denis Teplyashin , Tayfun Terzi , Davide Vercelli , Bojan Vujatovic , Marcus Wainwright , Jane X. Wang , Zhengdong Wang , Daan Wierstra , Duncan Williams , Nathaniel Wong , Sarah York , Nick Young

Video world models have achieved strong visual realism, but this does not ensure that their dynamics are truly governed by actions. In this work, we argue that action faithfulness should be understood through the compositional structure of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zijie Wang , Wei Zhang , Weiming Zhang , Fanqi Zhang , Xiao Tan , Yipeng Qin , Guanbin Li

Generating realistic robotic manipulation videos is an important step toward unifying perception, planning, and action in embodied agents. While existing video diffusion models require large domain-specific datasets and struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ye Pang

We present Playable Environments - a new representation for interactive video generation and manipulation in space and time. With a single image at inference time, our novel framework allows the user to move objects in 3D while generating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Willi Menapace , Stéphane Lathuilière , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Christian Theobalt , Sergey Tulyakov , Vladislav Golyanik , Elisa Ricci

The ability to construct mental models of the world is a central aspect of understanding. Similarly, visual understanding can be viewed as the ability to construct a representative model of the system depicted in an image. This work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Sagi Eppel

Agent-based modelling is a valuable approach for systems whose behaviour is driven by the interactions between distinct entities. They have shown particular promise as a means of modelling crowds of people in streets, public transport…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Nick Malleson , Kevin Minors , Le-Minh Kieu , Jonathan A. Ward , Andrew A. West , Alison Heppenstall

Indoor scene synthesis underpins embodied AI, robotic manipulation, and simulation-based policy evaluation, where a useful scene must specify not only what the environment looks like, but also how its objects are structured. Existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Puyi Wang , Yuhao Wang , Linjie Li , Zhengyuan Yang , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Yangguang Li , Yu Cheng

Intelligent agents such as robots are increasingly deployed in real-world, safety-critical settings. It is vital that these agents are able to explain the reasoning behind their decisions to human counterparts; however, their behavior is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Xijia Zhang , Yue Guo , Simon Stepputtis , Katia Sycara , Joseph Campbell

Image generation models have evolved from text-conditioned pixel synthesis toward multimodal agents endowed with visual comprehension and tool invocation capabilities. Yet, existing agents remain at the mercy of underlying black-box image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junyan Ye , Jun He , Zilong Huang , Dongzhi Jiang , Xuan Yang , Rui Chen , Weijia Li

Multi-agent social interaction has clearly benefited from Large Language Models. However, current simulation systems still face challenges such as difficulties in scaling to diverse scenarios and poor reusability due to a lack of modular…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-09 Gang Li , Jie Lin , Yining Tang , Ziteng Wang , Yirui Huang , Junyu Zhang , Shuang Luo , Chao Wu , Yike Guo

The role of simulation in autonomous driving is becoming increasingly important due to the need for rapid prototyping and extensive testing. The use of physics-based simulation involves multiple benefits and advantages at a reasonable cost…

Recent 3D world modeling systems based on generative scene synthesis, such as Marble, can create coherent and explorable 3D environments, yet their outputs are typically static monolithic assets with limited editability and physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jichen Hu , Jiawei Guo , Jiazhong Cen , Chen Yang , Sikuang Li , Wei Shen

Various world model frameworks are being developed today based on autoregressive frameworks that rely on discrete representations of actions and observations, and these frameworks are succeeding in constructing interactive generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Kohei Hayashi , Masanori Koyama , Julian Jorge Andrade Guerreiro

World models, which are predictive representations of how environments evolve under actions, have become a central component of robot learning. They support policy learning, planning, simulation, evaluation, data generation, and have…

While recent generative models advance pixel-space video synthesis, they remain limited in producing professional educational videos, which demand disciplinary knowledge, precise visual structures, and coherent transitions, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yanzhe Chen , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Mike Zheng Shou

Cooperative multi-agent planning requires agents to make joint decisions with partial information and limited communication. Coordination at the trajectory level often fails, as small deviations in timing or movement cascade into conflicts.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Narjes Nourzad , Hanqing Yang , Shiyu Chen , Carlee Joe-Wong

Autonomous agents that execute human tasks by controlling computers can enhance human productivity and application accessibility. However, progress in this field will be driven by realistic and reproducible benchmarks. We present…

Spatial reasoning in partially observable environments has often been approached through passive predictive models, yet theories of embodied cognition suggest that genuinely useful representations arise only when perception is tightly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Li Jin , Liu Jia

Advanced agentic intelligence is a prerequisite for deploying Large Language Models in practical, real-world applications. Diverse real-world APIs demand precise, robust function-calling intelligence, which needs agents to develop these…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as agents, expected to decompose goals, invoke tools, and verify results in dynamic environments. Realizing these capabilities requires access to agentic data-structured interaction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Abhigya Verma , Seganrasan Subramanian , Nandhakumar Kandasamy , Naman Gupta