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Closed-loop evaluation of autonomous-driving policies requires interactive simulation beyond log replay. However, existing generative world models often degrade in closed loop due to (i) history-free initialization that mismatches policy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chaokang Jiang , Desen Zhou , Jiuming Liu , Kevin Li Sun

Recent advances in interactive video generations have demonstrated diffusion model's potential as world models by capturing complex physical dynamics and interactive behaviors. However, existing interactive world models depend on…

Video generation models have made significant progress in simulating future states, showcasing their potential as world simulators in embodied scenarios. However, existing models often lack robust understanding, limiting their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xiaowei Chi , Chun-Kai Fan , Hengyuan Zhang , Xingqun Qi , Rongyu Zhang , Anthony Chen , Chi-min Chan , Wei Xue , Qifeng Liu , Shanghang Zhang , Yike Guo

Sim-to-real transfer remains a critical bottleneck for deploying dexterous manipulation policies learned in simulation to real-world robots. Existing approaches rely on manually designed domain randomization or task-specific adaptation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zijian Zeng , Fei Ding , Huiming Yang , Xianwei Li , Yuhao Liao

Camera sensor simulation serves as a critical role for autonomous driving (AD), e.g. evaluating vision-based AD algorithms. While existing approaches have leveraged generative models for controllable image/video generation, they remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wenchao Sun , Xuewu Lin , Keyu Chen , Zixiang Pei , Yining Shi , Chuang Zhang , Sifa Zheng

Evaluating robot control policies is difficult: real-world testing is costly, and handcrafted simulators require manual effort to improve in realism and generality. We propose a world-model-based policy evaluation environment (WorldGym), an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Julian Quevedo , Ansh Kumar Sharma , Yixiang Sun , Varad Suryavanshi , Percy Liang , Sherry Yang

This work presents a new iteration of the Human Navigation Simulator (HuNavSim), a novel open-source tool for the simulation of different human-agent navigation behaviors in scenarios with mobile robots. The tool, programmed under the ROS 2…

We introduce Latent-WAM, an efficient end-to-end autonomous driving framework that achieves strong trajectory planning through spatially-aware and dynamics-informed latent world representations. Existing world-model-based planners suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Linbo Wang , Yupeng Zheng , Qiang Chen , Shiwei Li , Yichen Zhang , Zebin Xing , Qichao Zhang , Xiang Li , Deheng Qian , Pengxuan Yang , Yihang Dong , Ce Hao , Xiaoqing Ye , Junyu han , Yifeng Pan , Dongbin Zhao

Learning the dynamics of a physical system wherein an autonomous agent operates is an important task. Often these systems present apparent geometric structures. For instance, the trajectories of a robotic manipulator can be broken down into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Philippe Hansen-Estruch , Wenling Shang , Lerrel Pinto , Pieter Abbeel , Stas Tiomkin

We introduce EnerVerse, a generative robotics foundation model that constructs and interprets embodied spaces. EnerVerse employs a chunk-wise autoregressive video diffusion framework to predict future embodied spaces from instructions,…

Simulation has the potential to transform the development of robust algorithms for mobile agents deployed in safety-critical scenarios. However, the poor photorealism and lack of diverse sensor modalities of existing simulation engines…

Simulation provides a safe and efficient way to generate useful data for learning complex robotic tasks. However, matching simulation and real-world dynamics can be quite challenging, especially for systems that have a large number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Visak Kumar , Sehoon Ha , C. Karen Liu

As the foundation of closed-loop training and evaluation in autonomous driving, traffic simulation still faces two fundamental challenges: covariate shift introduced by open-loop imitation learning and limited capacity to reflect the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Keyu Chen , Wenchao Sun , Hao Cheng , Zheng Fu , Sifa Zheng

While generative video models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, their capacity to internalize and reason over implicit world rules remains a critical yet under-explored frontier. To bridge this gap, we present RISE-Video, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Mingxin Liu , Shuran Ma , Shibei Meng , Xiangyu Zhao , Zicheng Zhang , Shaofeng Zhang , Zhihang Zhong , Peixian Chen , Haoyu Cao , Xing Sun , Haodong Duan , Xue Yang

Simulation is a crucial component of any robotic system. In order to simulate correctly, we need to write complex rules of the environment: how dynamic agents behave, and how the actions of each of the agents affect the behavior of others.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Seung Wook Kim , Yuhao Zhou , Jonah Philion , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Realistic simulators are critical for training and verifying robotics systems. While most of the contemporary simulators are hand-crafted, a scaleable way to build simulators is to use machine learning to learn how the environment behaves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Seung Wook Kim , Jonah Philion , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

As embodied intelligence emerges as a core frontier in artificial intelligence research, simulation platforms must evolve beyond low-level physical interactions to capture complex, human-centered social behaviors. We introduce FreeAskWorld,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yuhang Peng , Yizhou Pan , Xinning He , Jihaoyu Yang , Xinyu Yin , Han Wang , Xiaoji Zheng , Chao Gao , Jiangtao Gong

We present the first unified, modular, open-source 3DGS-based simulation framework for Real2Sim2Real robot learning. It features a holistic Real2Sim pipeline that synthesizes hyper-realistic geometry and appearance of complex real-world…

Pretrained foundation models have become an important basis for end-to-end autonomous driving. In contrast to vision-language models pretrained primarily on static image-text pairs, video generative models capture temporal dynamics and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chen Shi , Jinrui Xu , Shaoshuai Shi , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang , Li Jiang

In this paper, we propose an evolutionary predatorprey robot system which can be generally implemented from simulation to the real world. We design the closed-loop robot system with camera and infrared sensors as inputs of controller. Both…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Jiunhan Chen , Zhenyu Gao