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Recent advancements in video generation have enabled the development of ``world models'' capable of simulating potential futures for robotics and planning. However, specifying precise goals for these models remains a challenge; text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Nate Gillman , Yinghua Zhou , Zitian Tang , Evan Luo , Arjan Chakravarthy , Daksh Aggarwal , Michael Freeman , Charles Herrmann , Chen Sun

Video prediction aims to generate realistic future frames by learning dynamic visual patterns. One fundamental challenge is to deal with future uncertainty: How should a model behave when there are multiple correct, equally probable future?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Yunseok Jang , Gunhee Kim , Yale Song

Action-conditioned world models are increasingly used as scalable simulators for robot learning, yet current evaluations provide limited evidence that their predictions are reliable under the actions they condition on. Existing benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tianzhuo Yang , Zihan Shen , Zirui Mi , Zhaoyi Zhang , Jiayi Zhou , Jiaming Ji , Juntao Dai , Jiawei Chen , Boyuan Chen , Yaodong Yang

This paper studies the problem of action model learning with full observability. Following the learning by search paradigm by Mitchell, we develop a theory for action model learning based on version spaces that interprets the task as search…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Diego Aineto , Enrico Scala

World models, which predict future transitions from past observation and action sequences, have shown great promise for improving data efficiency in sequential decision-making. However, existing world models often require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siqiao Huang , Jialong Wu , Qixing Zhou , Shangchen Miao , Mingsheng Long

Action recognition is a fundamental ability for social species. Yet, its underlying computations are not well understood. Classical psychophysical studies using simplified stimuli have shown that humans can perceive body motion even under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Prerana Kumar , Martin A. Giese

Despite increasing attention paid to the need for fast, scalable methods to analyze next-generation neuroscience data, comparatively little attention has been paid to the development of similar methods for behavioral analysis. Just as the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-02 Shariq Iqbal , John Pearson

Long-term video generation and prediction remain challenging tasks in computer vision, particularly in partially observable scenarios where cameras are mounted on moving platforms. The interaction between observed image frames and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Meenakshi Sarkar , Debasish Ghose

Generalist robot policies can now perform a wide range of manipulation skills, but evaluating and improving their ability with unfamiliar objects and instructions remains a significant challenge. Rigorous evaluation requires a large number…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yanjiang Guo , Lucy Xiaoyang Shi , Jianyu Chen , Chelsea Finn

World action models (WAMs) have emerged as a promising direction for robot policy learning, as they can leverage powerful video backbones to model the future states. However, existing approaches often rely on separate action modules, or use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Haoyu Zhen , Zixian Gao , Qiao Sun , Yilin Zhao , Yuncong Yang , Yilun Du , Pengsheng Guo , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Yi-Ling Qiao , Chuang Gan

Group behavior has received much attention as a test case of self-organization. There has been much written in recent years to investigate interactions within groups of agents. These agents can be animals moving in an interactive way, such…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-14 Max D. Steel

Recent advances in robot foundation models trained on large-scale human teleoperation data have enabled robots to perform increasingly complex real-world tasks. However, scaling these systems remains difficult because collecting…

Recent advances in diffusion transformers have empowered video generation models to generate high-quality video clips from texts or images. However, world models with the ability to predict long-horizon futures from past observations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yixuan Zhu , Jiaqi Feng , Wenzhao Zheng , Yuan Gao , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Modeling mixed-traffic motion and interactions is crucial to assess safety, efficiency, and feasibility of future urban areas. The lack of traffic regulations, diverse transport modes, and the dynamic nature of mixed-traffic zones like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Fatema T. Johora , Dongfang Yang , Jörg P. Müller , Ümit Özgüner

The construction of World Models capable of learning, simulating, and reasoning about objective physical laws constitutes a foundational challenge in the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence. Recent advancements represented by video…

Generative Recommendation (GR) models treat a user's interaction history as a sequence to be autoregressively predicted. When both items and actions (e.g., watch time, purchase, comment) are modeled, the layout-the ordering and visibility…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaokai Wei , Jiajun Wu , Daiyao Yi , Reza Shirkavand , Michelle Gong

We introduce World Consistency Score (WCS), a novel unified evaluation metric for generative video models that emphasizes internal world consistency of the generated videos. WCS integrates four interpretable sub-components - object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Akshat Rakheja , Aarsh Ashdhir , Aryan Bhattacharjee , Vanshika Sharma

World models enable agents to plan by imagining future states, but existing approaches operate from a single viewpoint, typically egocentric, even when other perspectives would make planning easier; navigation, for instance, benefits from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rishabh Sharma , Gijs Hogervorst , Wayne E. Mackey , David J. Heeger , Stefano Martiniani

Learning latent actions from action-free video has emerged as a powerful paradigm for scaling up controllable world model learning. Latent actions provide a natural interface for users to iteratively generate and manipulate videos. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zizhao Wang , Chang Shi , Jiaheng Hu , Kevin Rohling , Roberto Martín-Martín , Amy Zhang , Peter Stone

Group Activity Recognition (GAR) is well studied on the video modality for surveillance and indoor team sports (e.g., volleyball, basketball). Yet, other modalities such as agent positions and trajectories over time, i.e. tracking, remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Drishya Karki , Merey Ramazanova , Anthony Cioppa , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem