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  1. Completion Aware Guidance for World Action Models

    Oct 1, 2026Seungyeon Kim, Junhoo Lee, Baekseung Kim +2Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    Seoul National University · KAIST

  2. Sparse-WAM: Accelerating World Action Models via Action-Guided Sparse Imagination

    Sep 30, 2026Xinling Xie, Haodong Wang, Jiazhi Mi +8Faster-WamWorld Models

    NJU · HKUST · HIT +1

  3. In-Distribution Imagination for Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 29, 2026Mintae Kim, Koushil SreenathModel-Based Reinforcement LearningImagination

    Hybrid Robotics, BAIR, UC Berkeley

  4. Lucid Dreaming for World Models: Learning to Doubt Imagination and Decide by Trust

    Sep 29, 2026Ziqi Wen, Ting Xu, Lianyu Wang +5Latent World ModelsWorld Models

    Centre for Innovation and Precision Eye Health, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore · Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119228, Singapore · Bioengineering Program, Biomedical Sciences Division (BioMed), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia +3

  5. A Polyphonic Conception of AI Understanding

    Sep 28, 2026Matthieu Queloz, Pierre BeckmannTrustworthy Artificial IntelligenceLarge Language Model Reliability

    University of Bern, Department of Philosophy · École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) · Idiap Research Institute +1

  6. MM-ABC: Towards Generalist Mobile Manipulation via Seeing, Coordinating and Imagining

    Sep 28, 2026Qiwei Liang, Guangyu Chen, Shaolong Zhu +6Heterogeneous Robot TeamsImagination

    Xspark AI · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Tsinghua University +1

  7. When World Models Lie: Adaptive Safety Analysis Under Wrong Imaginations

    Sep 28, 2026John Cao, Somil BansalSafety FiltersLatent World Models

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University

  8. SLIP-VLA: Single-Step Latent Imagination for Policy Learning in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 27, 2026Tianfu Li, Haoxuan Xu, Wenbo Chen +7Action PredictionImagination

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. · Nanyang Technological University. +1

  9. MA-JEPA: Joint-Embedding World Models for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 27, 2026Brandon Gary Kaplowitz, Osaze James Obahor, Christian Schroeder de WittMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningWorld Models

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

  10. Beyond Conservatism: Recoverability-Conditioned Exploration for Model-Based Imitation Learning

    Sep 27, 2026Xuanlin Chen, Ziyue Wang, Xunlan Zhou +3Imitation LearningImitation

    School of Intelligent Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China · National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China

  11. Rolling-WAM: World Action Models with Rolling Imagination

    Sep 24, 2026Yinghua Zhou, Junjie Ye, Yiqi Zhao +8World ModelsImagination

    University of Southern California · Brown University · Fudan University +1

  12. Imagine-RL: Residual-Confidence-Guided Cross-Attention for World-Model-Augmented VLA Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 21, 2026Kejia Hu, Wentong Zhai, Bo Zhao +1Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsImagination

    Department of Electric Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology · University Of Science and Technology Beijing · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1

  13. HapticWAM: Distilling Imagined Touch into a World-Action Model without Inference-Time Tactile Sensing

    Sep 20, 2026Mikhail Sannikov, Ilya Mikhalchuk, Konstantin Gubernatorov +3Tactile World ModelTactile

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia

  14. Imagine then Verify: Affordance-Targeted Active Perception for Task-Oriented Grasping in Cluttered Scenes

    Sep 20, 2026Jingzhi Cui, Xuefeng Liu, Feng Han +3Viewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionRobotic Grasping

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing, China

  15. Imagine-TAMP: Imagination-Guided Task and Motion Planning in Partial Observability

    Sep 17, 2026Antareep Singha, Shivaram Kumar, Yoonwoo Kim +1Motion PlanningImagination

    Nanyang Technological University · The University of Texas at Austin

  16. TADreamer: Zero-Shot Language-Guided 3D Navigation for Terrestrial-Aerial Bimodal Robots via Video Imagination

    Sep 17, 2026Xiangyu Li, Tiancheng Lai, Xijie Huang +7Object Goal NavigationAerial Robots

    State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Huzhou Institute of Zhejiang University, Huzhou 313000, China · Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China

  17. Planning or Improvisation? Stress-Testing the Poetry Planning Site on Open Models and Open Cross-Layer Transcoders

    Sep 16, 2026Éric JacopinPoetryPrompt-Injection Detectors

    Cosmic AI, France

  18. Spook the Machine: Gamified Exploration of Human Imagination of Machine Fear

    Sep 14, 2026Levin Brinkmann, Hiromu Yakura, Sonia Nicoletti +9FearsArtificial Intelligence Systems

    Max Planck Institute for Human Development · Max Planck Institute for Software Systems · Tallinn University +1

  19. Concentrate After Imagination: Text-Conditioned Evidence Grounding for Partially Relevant Video Retrieval

    Sep 8, 2026Shuaiqi Cheng, Siyu You, Yanbi Wu +3Visual EvidenceImagination

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · 3The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  20. WISE: World-model-guided Imagination Scheduling for Efficient Post-training of Vision-Language-Action Models

    Sep 3, 2026Chenhao Zhang, Hanyu Zhao, Hang Cheng +2Efficient World-Action ModelImagination

    1Tsinghua University · 2Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

  21. Latent Action as Intention Enables Efficient Future Imagination for World Action Models

    Aug 25, 2026Xiang Li, Yupeng Zheng, Songen Gu +11Efficient World-Action ModelLatent Actions

    1CollegeAI, THU · 2AIR, THU · 4TARS Robotics +6

  22. GlanceWAM: Sparse Test-Time Imagination for World-Action Models

    Aug 25, 2026Linhan Wang, Zijian An, Mingyuan Zhang +8Recent World-Action ModelsImagination

    Virginia Tech · Drexel University · Northeastern University +1

  23. Imaginative Generative AI: Crossing the Entropy Wall into Worlds Beyond Imitation

    Aug 10, 2026Farzan Farnia, Hossein Goli, Amin GohariImaginationImitation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  24. LUCID: Latent-Skill Unified Control via Imagined Dynamics for Long-Horizon Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Aug 7, 2026Cheng Guo, Mingzhe Ni, Angelo Cangelosi +1Humanoid Loco-ManipulationHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK · Human-Robot Interfaces and Interaction Laboratory, Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy

  25. The Personalization Mirage: How LLMs Fabricate User Profiles, and Why Self-Monitoring Misleads

    Aug 5, 2026Yushi Sun, Yanjie Zhang, Rui ShengProfilePersonalization

    LIGHTSPEED, Shenzhen, China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · Tencent LIGHTSPEED

  26. Koopman Dreamer: Spectrally Constrained Latent Dynamics for Stable World-Model Imagination

    Jul 22, 2026Jiaqi Li, Xinglong Zhang, Haibin Xie +3Latent DynamicsDream

    College of Intelligence Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

  27. Predictive Training with Latent Imagination for Visual Quadruped Navigation

    Jul 20, 2026Yancheng Zhu, Wanli Ma, Chen Han +3Legged RobotsObstacle Avoidance

    Anker Spatial Perception Lab

  28. How to Build Marcus's Algebraic Mind: From Minsky's Emotion-Machine Viewpoint

    Jul 18, 2026Hiroyuki Chuma, Kanji Otsuka, Yoichi SatoCognitive ScienceReasoning Traces

    Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (Professor Emeritus) · Meisei University (Professor Emeritus) · Shuhari System

  29. RxBrain: Embodied Cognition Foundation Model with Joint Language-Visual Reasoning and Imagination

    Jul 15, 2026Haotian Liang, Mingkang Chen, Yufei Huang +27Embodied Artificial IntelligenceImagination

    Tencent Robotics X Team · Futian Laboratory · Tencent Hy Team

  30. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts

    Jul 8, 2026Arianna Pera, Mauro Martino, Nima Dehmamy +3Cross-Cultural VariationSketches

    IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark · MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA · Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA +1

  31. Imagined Rollouts are Kinematic, Not Dynamic: A Diagnosis of Long-Horizon World-Model Failure

    Jul 7, 2026Finn Rasmus Schäfer, Korbinian Moller, Yuan Gao +3Long-Horizon InferenceWorld Models

    Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab Technical University of Munich, Garching b. München, Germany · Data Analytics and Machine Learning Group Technical University of Munich, Garching b. München, Germany

  32. Learning Task-Sufficient World Models by Synergizing Agentic Exploration and Structured Modeling

    Jul 5, 2026Fan Feng, Yujia Zheng, Minghao Fu +5World ModelsIntermediate Latent States

    1UCSD · 2MBZUAI · 3CMU +1

  33. EEG-Based Imagined Speech Decoding Using a Hybrid CNN-SNN Architecture

    Jul 4, 2026Fatima Shalhoub, Mariam Al Mawla, Kabalan Chaccour +2Electroencephalography DecodingBrain-Computer Interface

    TICKET Lab., Antonine University, Hadat-Baabda, Lebanon · Doctoral School of Science, Technology, and Engineering, University of Granada, Granada, Spain · University of Technology Belfort-Montb´eliard, SINERGIES, F-90000 Belfort, France +3

  34. MentalThink: Shaping Thoughts in Mental SVG World

    Jul 3, 2026Kangheng Lin, Jisheng Yin, Dingming Li +11ThinkImagination

    State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · StepFun

  35. Imagining the Sense of Touch: Touch-Informed Manipulation via Imagined Tactile Representations

    Jul 2, 2026Zhiyuan Zhang, Adeesh Desai, Jyun-Chi Hu +7TactileContact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation

    Department of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

  36. Domain Adaptation with Adaptive Imagination for Visual Reinforcement Learning under Limited Target Data

    Jun 29, 2026Hyunwoo Park, Sang-Hyun LeeSim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningDomain Adaptation

    Department of Mobility Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

  37. Attacking the Trusted Imagination: Oracle-Level Integrity Attacks on Imagine-then-Act World Models

    Jun 22, 2026Linghan Chen, Kaiyan Ji, Minyu GuoImaginationWorld Models

    Adelaide University

  38. Imagine to Ensure Safety in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 21, 2026Gregory Gorbov, Artem Latyshev, Aleksandr I. PanovHierarchical Reinforcement LearningSafety Constraints

    Moscow Independent Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Moscow 141701, Russia · FRC Computer Science RAS, Moscow 119333, Russia · Cognitive AI Systems Lab, Moscow 117312, Russia

  39. Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Silhouette-Guided Animal Art

    Jun 16, 2026Quoc-Duy Tran, Anh-Tuan Vo, Trung-Nghia LeImaginationSpecies

    University of Science, VNU-HCM, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

  40. LIBERO-Occ: Evaluating and Improving Vision-Language-Action Models under Scene-Induced Occlusion via Viewpoint Imagination

    Jun 9, 2026Taishan Li, Jiwen Zhang, Siyuan Wang +2Diverse Occlusion-And-Revelation ScenariosLibero Manipulation Benchmark

    Fudan University, Shanghai, China · Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China

  41. MemoryVLA++: Temporal Modeling via Memory and Imagination in Vision-Language-Action Models

    Jun 8, 2026Hao Shi, Weiye Li, Bin Xie +6ImaginationRobotic Systems

    Department of Automation, BNRist, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Dexmal, Beijing, China +1

  42. ωω-EVA: Envision, Verify, and Act with Latent Interactive World Models

    Jun 8, 2026Zhenguo Sun, Yu Sun, Hande Huang +1Efficient World-Action ModelLatent World Models

  43. Contemporary AI lacks the imagination to diverge or negate in science

    Jun 6, 2026Honglin Bao, Siyang Wu, Xiao Liu +3Scientific DiscoveryArtificial Intelligence Evaluation

    Data Science Institute, University of Chicago · Knowledge Lab, University of Chicago

  44. PRISM: PRior-guided Imagination Sampling in world Models

    Jun 6, 2026Yuhai Wang, Jiawei Xia, Rongxuan Zhou +4World Model PlanningWorld Models

    1Northeastern University · University of California, Berkeley · 3Qiyuan Lab +1

  45. Thinking with Imagination: Agentic Visual Spatial Reasoning with World Simulators

    Jun 4, 2026Chenming Zhu, Jingli Lin, Yilin Long +4Spatial ReasoningImagination

    1The University of Hong Kong · 2Shanghai AI Laboratory · 3Shanghai Jiao Tong University +2

  46. Imagine Before You Predict: Interleaved Latent Visual Reasoning for Video Event Prediction

    Jun 4, 2026Tianxiang Jiang, Linquan Wu, Sheng Xia +5Future Video PredictionLatent Visual Reasoning

    University of Science and Technology of China · Shanghai AI Laboratory · City University of Hong Kong +4

  47. Imagine Before You Draw: Visual Prompt Engineering for Image Generation

    Jun 3, 2026Liyu Jia, Fengda Zhang, Jiachun Pan +7Visual In-Context LearningImage Generation

    1Nanyang Technological University · 2National University of Singapore · 3Zhejiang University +1

  48. Imaginative Perception Tokens Enhance Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models

    Jun 2, 2026Mahtab Bigverdi, Linjie Li, Weikai Huang +8Spatial ReasoningPerceptually

    University of Washington · 2Allen Institute for AI · 3Microsoft +1

  49. IMWM: Intuition Models Complement World Models for Latent Planning

    Jun 1, 2026Baoqi Gao, Ruize Han, Miao Wang +1World Model PlanningLatent World Models

    Beihang University · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology

  50. Imagine2Real: Towards Zero-shot Humanoid-Object Interaction via Video Generative Priors

    May 21, 2026Jiahe Chen, ZiRui Wang, Feiyu Jia +7Zero-ShotImagination

    Zhejiang University · Shanghai AI Laboratory · The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  51. Reason--Imagine--Act: Closed-Loop LLM Decision Making with World Models for Autonomous Driving

    May 19, 2026Zhengqi Sun, Yiwen Sun, Boxuan Liu +3Autonomous DrivingTrajectory-Level Credit

    Department of Information Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China · State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI, Beijing 100080, China +3

  52. PH-Dreamer: A Physics-Driven World Model via Port-Hamiltonian Generative Dynamics

    May 18, 2026Xueyu Luan, Chenwei ShiWorld ModelsHamiltonian

    School of Electronic and Information Engineering Tongji University Shanghai 200092, China · Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems Tongji University Shanghai 200092, China

  53. MIRAGE: Robust multi-modal architectures translate fMRI-to-image models from vision to mental imagery

    May 16, 2026Reese Kneeland, Cesar Kadir Torrico Villanueva, Jordyn Ojeda +4Functional Magnetic Resonance ImagingImage Reconstruction

    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America · Medical AI Research Center (MedARC) · Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States of America +2

  54. Mind Dreamer: Untethering Imagination via Active Causal Intervention on Latent Manifolds

    May 15, 2026Shaojun Xu, Xiaoling Zhou, Yihan Lin +4Model-Based Reinforcement LearningImagination

    Center for Brain-Inspired Computing Research, Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Pen-Tung Sah Institute of Micro-Nano Science and Technology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China +1

  55. Pelican-Unify 1.0: A Unified Embodied Intelligence Model for Understanding, Reasoning, Imagination and Action

    May 14, 2026Yi Zhang, Yinda Chen, Che Liu +26Embodied Artificial IntelligenceImagination

    Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics (X-Humanoid) WFM System Group

  56. Reinforcing VLAs in Task-Agnostic World Models

    May 12, 2026Yucen Wang, Rui Yu, Fengming Zhang +5Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsWorld Models

    Nanjing University · Interns at Microsoft · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign +4

  57. Transferable Delay-Aware Reinforcement Learning via Implicit Causal Graph Modeling

    May 12, 2026Chenran Zhao, Dianxi Shi, Yaowen Zhang +2Offline Reinforcement LearningCross-Task Knowledge Transfer

    College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China · Institute of Military Transportation, Tianjin, China · Intelligent Game and Decision Lab (IGDL), Beijing, China

  58. From Imagined Futures to Executable Actions: Mixture of Latent Actions for Robot Manipulation

    May 12, 2026Yajie Li, Bozhou Zhang, Chun Gu +5Latent ActionsRobotic Manipulation

    School of Data Science, Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Imperial College London +1

  59. Data-Asymmetric Latent Imagination and Reranking for 3D Robotic Imitation Learning

    May 11, 2026Lianghao Luo, Xizhou Bu, Ruyan Liu +5Scalable Robot LearningImagination

    Morphi

  60. Do multimodal models imagine electric sheep?

    May 10, 2026Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Carl Vondrick, Raja Giryes +2Visual ReasoningMultimodal Model

    Apple