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  1. VISTA: A Visual Harness for Reasoning in an Interactive World

    Oct 1, 2026Qiushi Han, Keya Hu, Linlu Qiu +2Multimodal AgentsMultimodal Reasoning

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  2. Latent-Foresight: End-to-End Learning Predictable Representations for Latent World Models

    Oct 1, 2026Efstathios Karypidis, Spyros Gidaris, Nikos KomodakisLatent PredictionLatent World Models

    Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece · National Technical University of Athens · University of Crete +1

  3. Architecture Without an Architect? Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence in a Divided World

    Oct 1, 2026Simon ChestermanArtificial Intelligence GovernanceGovernance

    National University of Singapore

  4. Getting Out and Getting Back: World and Behavior Grounding in Real2Sim2Real Co-Training

    Sep 30, 2026Samuel Liu, Youngsun Kim, Martin Matak +1Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningContextual Grounding

    University of Cambridge · Industrial Next

  5. WorkGenesis: Building the Worlds That Teach Agents to Work

    Sep 30, 2026Xinyu Zhu, Fenyi Liu, Yuzhu Cai +4Data GenerationWorld

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Endless Frontier · Beihang University

  6. The Planning Limits of Latent World Models

    Sep 30, 2026Ali Alrasheed, Basim Azam, Naveed AkhtarLatent World ModelsWorld Models

    The University of Melbourne, Australia

  7. The Backdrop Exposes What the World Around an Agent Costs It

    Sep 29, 2026Nusrat Jahan Lia, Shubhashis Roy DiptaHazardWorld

    University of Dhaka · University of Maryland, Baltimore County

  8. Audible World Models: Spatially Aware Sound Generation for 3D Worlds

    Sep 29, 2026Duowen Chen, Jinjin He, Gouthaman KV +2Spatial AudioModern Generative Audio Models

    Georgia Institute of Technology · Dolby Laboratories

  9. EVOKE: Eliciting World Knowledge in Agents for Transferable Decision-Making

    Sep 29, 2026Yuhan Guo, Jinming Liu, Liang Xu +8WorldPost-Training

    Shanghai Jiaotong University · Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China +1

  10. PhysWAM: Physically Consistent World Action Model for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Dhruv Parikh, Fengcheng Yu, Quankai Gao +11Autonomous DrivingWorld

    University of Southern California · Woven by Toyota · Toyota Research Institute +1

  11. Anisotropic Representations Improve Planning in JEPA World Models

    Sep 29, 2026Mingu Kang, Yoori Oh, Sookyung Kim +1Latent World ModelsLow-Latency Latent Planning

    Seoul National University · Ewha Womans University

  12. Do-JEPA: From Masking to Intervention in Latent World Models

    Sep 29, 2026Hossein Resani, Javen Qinfeng ShiLatent World ModelsS-Jepa

    Australian Institute for Machine Learning, Adelaide University · Responsible AI Research Centre

  13. Abductive World Modeling via Causal Representation Learning

    Sep 29, 2026Ziqi Liu, Songhan Yang, Linfan Zhou +4Latent World ModelsCausal Representation Learning

    BAIZ Team

  14. W2Rep: Learning Visual Representations by Watching the World Change

    Sep 28, 2026Wen Huang, Hang Guo, Jiarui Yang +3Fine-Grained Video UnderstandingVision Encoders

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China · Nankai University, Tianjin, China · Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

  15. Precise Editing and Flexible Referencing for Interactable Worlds

    Sep 28, 2026Xinyao Liao, Xianfang Zeng, Zhu Liang +5Video World ModelsPrecise Editing

    Nanyang Technological University · StepFun

  16. From World Models to World Action Models: Rethinking Next-State Prediction

    Sep 28, 2026Tingyu Yuan, Ziming Ji, Biaoliang Guan +9Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    CASIA · UCAS · BUPT +4

  17. LRC-JEPA: Disentangling Dynamics and Residual Context for Efficient World Models

    Sep 28, 2026Luzhe Huang, Lei Chu, Jingyi Liang +1Latent World ModelsLow-Latency Latent Planning

    Independent researcher

  18. Dexterous Tactile World Model

    Sep 28, 2026Ziyao Zeng, Xiatao Sun, Hao Wang +6Tactile World ModelContact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation

    Yale University · Texas A&M University · University of California, Los Angeles +1

  19. WAM-OPD: Sharpening World Action Models via On-Policy Distillation

    Sep 28, 2026Panjun Liu, Xiaohan Lei, Shiqi Zhang +8Efficient World-Action ModelRobotic Manipulation

    University of Science and Technology of China

  20. WorldWeave: Growing Persistent Geometric Worlds for Video Generation

    Sep 28, 2026Yifan Huang, Lifan Jiang, Qingyue Hao +5Playable Video World GenerationVideo Generation

    Zhejiang University · Daerwen AI

  21. WorldGraph: Graph-Native World Modeling

    Sep 28, 2026Zezhong Ding, Yipeng Li, Xike XieMultiplex Graph TransformersWorld Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) · Data Darkness Lab, Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, USTC · School of Biomedical Engineering, USTC

  22. Behavioral Monitoring of JEPA World Models with Jacobian Centroids

    Sep 27, 2026Thomas Walker, Randall Balestriero, Richard BaraniukWorld ModelsCenter

    Rice University · Brown University

  23. MomWorld: Momentum-Aware Latent World Model for Long-Horizon Autonomous Driving

    Sep 27, 2026Ziying Song, Shengkai Zhang, Lei Yang +6Long-Horizon PlanningLatent World Models

    Nanyang Technological University · Beijing Jiaotong University · North University of China +2

  24. ALDER: Discovering the Laws of a World by Acting in It

    Sep 27, 2026Teng Cao, Yu Deng, Quentin Delfosse +1World ModelsGoal-Directed Behavior

    Technische Universität Darmstadt · Intrinsic · CS Department, TU Darmstadt +2

  25. Does Learning to Predict the World Help Agents Act? Auditing World-Model Post-Training

    Sep 27, 2026Xinyu Che, Hang Yan, Yanchen Liu +5Next-State PredictionWorld Models

    Xi’an Jiaotong University · University of Southern California · University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  26. DAWN: Noise-Robust Quadruped Parkour via Depth-Denoising World Models

    Sep 24, 2026Yohan Choi, Min-Jun Kim, Jin-Sung Kim +2Depth EstimationRobotic Perception

    Convergence Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan 31253, South Korea · School of Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Korea University of Technology and Education, Cheonan, 31253, South Korea

  27. Latent evolving World Action Model

    Sep 23, 2026Xueji Fang, Boqiang Duan, Hua Wu +2Action GenerationWorld Models

    Zhejiang University · Westlake University · Baidu Inc.

  28. PERSONAWEAVER: Controllable Diversity Beyond Conventional Archetypes in Procedural Character Generation

    Sep 22, 2026Maan Qraitem, Kate Saenko, Bryan A. PlummerArtificial Intelligence PersonasMotion Generation

    Boston University

  29. OmniFysics-Nano-V2 Technical Report: Understanding the Physical World Across Modalities

    Sep 22, 2026Yizhou Liu, Jinghang Han, Kaixiang Qiu +8Omni-ModalComplementary Modalities

    Physical Superintelligence Lab, Fysics AI · College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University

  30. D-JEPA: A Decision-Aligned Latent World Model

    Sep 21, 2026Shuaijun Liu, Chengyu Wu, Qifu Wen +5Latent World ModelsWorld Models

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Boston University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  31. NeuIDO: Neural Intrinsic Dynamics Operator for Physics-Informed 4D World Models

    Sep 21, 2026Jiajing Lin, Xin Zhang, Jianhua SunVideo World ModelsWorld

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China

  32. OnlineWM: Causality-Aware Active Online Learning for Effective World Modeling

    Sep 20, 2026Yikun Miao, Fangqi Zhu, Quanxin Shou +6Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hong Kong SAR, China

  33. XPACE: Joint World and Action Modeling from Heterogeneous Experience

    Sep 15, 2026Jiacheng Wei, Jerry Bai, Xiaoyu Yue +13Efficient World-Action ModelSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    World Model Team, XPENG Robotics

  34. World Models for Embodied Intelligence: From Plausible to Controllable to Actionable

    Sep 15, 2026Nanjie Yao, Hao Wang, Chong Cheng +10Embodied Artificial IntelligenceWorld Models

    HKUST(GZ) · University of Oxford · Princeton University +8

  35. When the World Lies: Backdoor Attacks on Latent World Models for Downstream Control

    Sep 14, 2026Roberto Riaño, Gorka Abad, Stjepan Picek +1Latent World ModelsWorld Models

    Radboud University, The Netherlands · IKERLAN Technology Research Centre, Spain · University of Bergen, Norway +1

  36. Pelican-Sim 1.0: A General World Model Simulator for Embodied Intelligence

    Sep 14, 2026Shilong Zou, Shilin Zhang, Yingji Zhang +8Embodied Artificial IntelligenceAction Space

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

  37. World in World: Explore the World with World Models

    Sep 11, 2026Chenxi Song, Yanming Yang, Chi ZhangVideo World ModelsAutoregressive Video Generation

    Westlake AGI Lab · AGI Lab, Westlake University

  38. Programmable World Model

    Sep 9, 2026Zheng-Hui Huang, Guixu Lin, Jiacheng Lin +8Video World ModelsWorld Models

    Alaya Lab

  39. DUET-DINO: Simultaneous Cross-View World Modeling for Latent Planning in Robot Manipulation

    Sep 9, 2026Nisarga Nilavadi, Ralf Römer, Moritz Reuss +5Robotic ManipulationLatent World Models

    Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab, University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), Germany. · Learning Systems and Robotics Lab, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany. · Intuitive Robots Lab, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. +2

  40. HaWMPO: Hallucination-Aware World Model-based Policy Optimization for Generalist Robot Policy

    Sep 9, 2026Zengjue Chen, Peidong Liu, Jiawei Li +1Efficient World-Action ModelRobot Policies

    Joy Future Academy, JD · School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University

  41. Semantic Bayesian World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Tommaso SoruKnowledge GraphsWorld Models

    Liber AI Research, London, UK

  42. Rethinking World Models for Safety-Critical Embodied Systems

    Sep 3, 2026Kailang Ma, Heye Huang, Inhi Kim +1World ModelsSafety-Critical Scenarios

    Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34051, South Korea.

  43. Unfold The World: Factorize 4D Properties in Reinforcing Spatial Reasoning

    Sep 3, 2026Yijun Yang, Shenghe Zheng, Wenbo Li +8Spatial ReasoningFour-Dimensional

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Joy Future Academy · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +1

  44. GPU-Accelerated Astrodynamics World Models for Spacecraft Rendezvous and Proximity Operations

    Sep 2, 2026Duncan Eddy, Isaac R. Ward, Grace Ra Kim +1SpacecraftWorld Models

    Stanford University

  45. Spectral-Target Physical Latent Structuring for JEPA-Style World Models

    Sep 2, 2026Penghao Zhu, Salvatore Penachio, Kaustav Mukherjee +1Latent World ModelsWorld Models

    Kaliber Labs San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

  46. Belief-Calibrated Optimization: An Explicit World Model for Agentic Optimization

    Sep 1, 2026Yuhan Chen, Zhihua Tian, Mahavir Dabas +7Agentic OptimizationWorld Models

    1Virginia Tech · 2Amazon · 3Independent Researcher

  47. H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control

    Sep 1, 2026Danze Chen, Zeqing Wang, Ziyue Lin +2Video World ModelsHuman Motion Generation

    Tencent · National University of Singapore · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  48. Seeing the World and the Self from Egocentric Video

    Sep 1, 2026Kai Guan, Minchao Jiang, Ruichen WangLi +2Egocentric Motion GenerationEgocentric Video

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo

  49. Can Video World Models Track Unobserved World States?

    Aug 31, 2026Joonghyuk Shin, Yicong Hong, Jaesik Park +1Video World ModelsHidden States

    Seoul National University · Roblox

  50. AnyWorld: Factorized Egocentric World Models for Cross-Embodiment Generalization

    Aug 29, 2026Cheng Chen, Jerry Bai, Jiacheng Wei +11Cross-Embodiment TransferWorld Models

    Nanyang Technological University · XPENG Robotics · Zhejiang University +2

  51. PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling?

    Aug 27, 2026Yuandong Pu, Le Zhuo, Sayak Paul +11Generative Video ModelsPhysical Plausibility

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai AI Laboratory · Krea AI +4

  52. Training Needs Trustworthy Worlds: Verified Synthetic Web Environments for Agent Learning

    Aug 22, 2026Chenghao Zhang, Yuxi Cheng, Saisai Hu +3Synthetic EnvironmentsWeb Agents

    University of Pennsylvania · Pace University · Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University

  53. Reinforced Planning with Latent World Models

    Aug 19, 2026Armin Sommer, Jannik SchillingWorld Model PlanningClassical Planning

    Pantheon Industries

  54. DreamX-Phi 1.0: Action-Conditioned Video World Model for Robotic Manipulation

    Aug 13, 2026DreamX Team, Rui Chen, Xiangxiang Chu +7Efficient World-Action ModelRobotic Manipulation

  55. Diagnosing JEPA World Models with Action-Conditioned Predictive Consistency

    Aug 13, 2026Guo An, Zijing Wu, Honghua Dong +7Action PredictionWorld Models

    Huawei · University of Science and Technology of China · Zhejiang University +3

  56. Scaling Automatic Research Agents via World Models

    Aug 12, 2026Xiyuan Yang, Sheikh Sarwar, Jingru Cheng +8Efficient World-Action ModelWorld

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Amazon

  57. Beyond Pixels: From Video Priors to 4D Worlds

    Aug 11, 2026Zihao Liu, Xiaolong Shen, Zhenglin Zhou +24D GenerationVideo Latents

    ReLER, CCAI, Zhejiang University

  58. 4D-WAM: 4D Consistent World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Aug 10, 2026Jiacheng Fu, Yibo Yuan, Meng Tian +8Autonomous DrivingEfficient World-Action Model

    University of Science and Technology of China · Xi’an Jiaotong University · Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. +1

  59. Learning How the World Evolves: Extrapolative Video World Models via Latent Dynamics Reasoning

    Aug 10, 2026Haodong Li, Shaoteng Liu, Tianyu Wang +7Video World ModelsVideo Diffusion Models

    1UCSD 2Adobe

  60. 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