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  1. World Models' Last Exam in Physics

    Oct 6, 2026Mingju Gao, Qingle Liu, Yuzhao Peng +8Physical Consistency in Video GenerationWorld Model Evaluation

    Navers Lab, Einsia.AI · Peking University · Tsinghua University

  2. Tracking Is Not Permanence: What Video World Models Keep of a Hidden Object

    Oct 5, 2026Peng Xie, Amr AlanwarTemporal ConsistencyObject Permanence

    TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology Technical University of Munich, Germany

  3. When Low Prediction Error Misleads Planning: Diagnosing Representation, Dynamics, and Decision Failures in Latent World Models

    Oct 4, 2026Rui Min, Xianyao Li, Fang Xu +1World Model-Based PlanningAction-Conditioned World Models

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA · Department of Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA

  4. PROWBench: Do Video Models Render What the Program Specifies?

    Oct 1, 2026Zheng-Hui Huang, Guixu Lin, Yu-Ju Tsai +6Long-Horizon Video GenerationControllable Video Generation

    Alaya Lab

  5. In CEM, a World Model Is Also a Proposal Mechanism

    Oct 1, 2026Oliver Obst, Frieder StolzenburgBlack-Box OptimizationModel-Based Planning

    UNSW Sydney · Harz University of Applied Sciences

  6. Kepler: Auditable World Models for ARC-AGI-3

    Sep 30, 2026Wensen WuLong-Horizon Agent EvaluationARC-AGI

    Independent Researcher

  7. Why Do Conventional World Models Fail to Learn Cellular Automata?

    Sep 30, 2026Shaoyang Guo, Ziming LiuWorld Model LearningSpatiotemporal Reasoning

    Meta Circle(元环智能) · Peking University · Tsinghua University

  8. The Planning Limits of Latent World Models

    Sep 30, 2026Ali Alrasheed, Basim Azam, Naveed AkhtarWorld Model-Based PlanningAction-Conditioned World Models

    The University of Melbourne, Australia

  9. HelixWorld: A Real-time Interactive Audio-Visual World Model

    Sep 29, 2026Lei Ke, Jiahao Pan, Zeyue Tian +13World Model LearningReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Noiz AI

  10. Foresight at the Event Boundary: Evaluating Physical Prediction in Video World Models

    Sep 29, 2026Estela Monserrat Arriaga Santana, Julian Rosas Scull, Ehécatl Sacamch'en Núñez Rico +1Physical Consistency in Video GenerationWorld Model Evaluation

    National Autonomous University of Mexico · National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico · University of Texas at El Paso +1

  11. OPIS: An Input-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Object Memory in Video World Models

    Sep 28, 2026Hao Wang, Tao Yu, Liuzhou Zhang +13World Model EvaluationVideo World Models

    USTC · Infrec · CASIA +10

  12. Behavioral Monitoring of JEPA World Models with Jacobian Centroids

    Sep 27, 2026Thomas Walker, Randall Balestriero, Richard BaraniukDistribution ShiftWorld Model-Based Planning

    Rice University · Brown University

  13. MultiEcho: An Experimental Science of Learned Worlds

    Sep 27, 2026Meng Zhu, Airui ZhangCounterfactual EvaluationWorld Models

    SHIHAO XINRUI Group

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

    Sep 27, 2026Xinyu Che, Hang Yan, Yanchen Liu +5World Model LearningRL Post-Training

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

  15. VehDyn: A Driving World Model Benchmark for Vehicle Dynamics

    Sep 27, 2026Tianyi Wang, Wangsheng Du, Jiazhou Chen +12Autonomous Driving BenchmarksPhysical Consistency in Video Generation

  16. Not All Errors Matter: Decision-Relevant Prediction Error Predicts Planning Quality

    Sep 26, 2026Linhao Wang, Yiyan Fan, Dongjin HuangWorld Model-Based PlanningModel-Based Planning

    Shanghai Film Academy, Shanghai University

  17. TriWorldBench: A Tri-View Consistency Perspective on Embodied World Models

    Sep 22, 2026Xuanyi Liu, Haofeng Wang, Ruiqi Li +9World Model LearningRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

    Peking University · Tsinghua University · Beihang University +3

  18. Dual-Frontier: When Can an Agent Trust Its World Model?

    Sep 22, 2026Huatai Zhu, Qiang Chen, Ziqian Kou +5World Model-Based PlanningModel-Based Planning

    Central South University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Xiangjiang Laboratory +2

  19. Beyond Visual Quality: A Study of Test-Time Planning with World Action Models

    Sep 21, 2026Jianhao Yuan, Yu Yuan, Benjamin Ramtoula +5World Model-Based PlanningAction-Conditioned World Models

    University of Oxford · Purdue University · UWE Bristol

  20. HappyWorld-Bench

    Sep 21, 2026Zhiqi Bai, Junai Cai, Yixin Chen +33World ModelsWorld Model Evaluation

    Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group · State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, BIGAI · Tsinghua University +2

  21. What Matters in Designing World Action Models: An Empirical Study

    Sep 21, 2026Chao Tang, Haoqing Wang, Zilang Cen +9World Model LearningCausal World Models

    Samsung Robotics eXperience · Samsung R&D Institute China–Beijing · Zhongguancun Academy +2

  22. Continual Enterprise World Model Discovery in Dynamic Systems

    Sep 17, 2026Shambhavi Mishra, David Vazquez, Perouz Taslakian +3World Model LearningWorld Model Evaluation

    ServiceNow Research · LIVIA, ILLS, ÉTS Montréal · Université Polytechnique Montréal +3

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

    Sep 15, 2026Nanjie Yao, Hao Wang, Chong Cheng +10World ModelsAction-Conditioned World Models

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

  24. IMPLY: Physically Anchored Consistency for World-Model Rollouts

    Sep 14, 2026Aman Mehta, Riya BaviskarWorld ModelsAction-Conditioned World Models

    Independent Researcher

  25. One Model, Two Physical Stories: Auditing Misalignment in Multi-Modal World Modeling

    Sep 13, 2026Geigh Zollicoffer, Minh Vu, Rajiv Ranasinghe +1Physical Consistency in Video GenerationWorld Model Learning

    1Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory · 2Computing and Artificial Intelligence Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory · 3Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory

  26. World Models for Cross-Machine CNC Transfer under Partial Sensor Overlap

    Sep 13, 2026Ayoub Louaye Bouaziz, Matthieu Ostertag, Anton DemaslesManufacturingWorld Model Learning

    Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France · Mines Nancy, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

  27. Programmable World Model

    Sep 9, 2026Zheng-Hui Huang, Guixu Lin, Jiacheng Lin +8World ModelsControllable Video Generation

    Alaya Lab

  28. CALIPER: Clean Scenes Cannot Rank Physical Inference in Pretrained Visual Representations

    Sep 8, 2026Aman Mehta, Riya BaviskarPhysical ReasoningVisual Representation Learning

    Independent Researcher

  29. World Models Under Asynchronous Sensor Observations

    Sep 7, 2026Akash Anand, Abhay Anand, Yash VisheWorld Model LearningWorld Models

    University of California, Davis · University of California, San Diego

  30. Beyond Task Success: Stage-Wise Reliability of World Model Planning under Sensing Degradation

    Sep 7, 2026Geonmyeong Lee, Byoung-Tak ZhangWorld Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    Seoul National University

  31. WorldReward: Reward Modeling for Camera-Conditioned World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Yibin Wang, Zehan Wang, Junshu Tang +13Reward ModelingCamera-Conditioned Video Generation

    Fudan University · Tencent Hunyuan · Shanghai Innovation Institute +3

  32. VeriPhy: Agentic Physical Reasoning for World Model Evaluation and Refinement

    Sep 2, 2026Wenzhuo Xu, Yuchen Zhu, Chongjian Ge +8Physical Consistency in Video GenerationLLM Agent Verification

    1Carnegie Mellon University · 2Georgia Institute of Technology · 4Adobe Research +1

  33. The Intervention Gap in Latent World Models

    Aug 30, 2026Donna VakalisWorld Model-Based PlanningModel-Based Planning

    Mila – Quebec AI Institute · University of Montreal

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

    Aug 27, 2026Yuandong Pu, Le Zhuo, Sayak Paul +11World Model LearningWorld Model Evaluation

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

  35. HarnessEval-W: Agentifying the Evaluation of Visual Worlds

    Aug 17, 2026Weiliang Chen, Haowen Sun, Jun Gao +40Agent EvaluationAutomated Evaluation

  36. PlayWorld: Benchmarking World Models with Agent Players over Long-Horizon Objectives

    Aug 13, 2026Kaixin Ding, Xi Chen, Minghong Cai +9Long-Horizon Agent EvaluationWorld Model Evaluation

    The University of Hong Kong · Kling Team, Kuaishou Technology · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +1

  37. The Objective Is the Bottleneck: Latent World Models Encode What Their Planners Cannot Use

    Aug 13, 2026Joyjeet SinghWorld Model-Based PlanningModel-Based Planning

    Independent researcher

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

    Aug 13, 2026Guo An, Zijing Wu, Honghua Dong +7World ModelsJoint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

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

  39. Better Slots, Better Worlds: Representation Quality & Robustness in Object-Centric World Models

    Aug 12, 2026Shukrullo Nazirjonov, Sai Prasanna, Anna Manasyan +1World ModelsWorld Model-Based Planning

    University of Tuebingen · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

  40. VIScore: Diagnosing Planning-Relevant Quality in Latent World Models

    Aug 11, 2026Haiyu Wu, Randall Balestriero, Morgan LevineRepresentation LearningWorld Models

    Altos Labs · Brown University

  41. The Evaluation Protocol Determines the Result: An Independent Reproduction of LeWorldModel on TwoRoom

    Aug 10, 2026Joyjeet SinghWorld Model-Based PlanningLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

    Independent researcher

  42. WorldSimProbe: Diagnosing Simulator Faithfulness in Action-Conditioned World Models for Embodied Manipulation

    Aug 10, 2026Peterson Co, Sicheng Hu, Chunxuan Jiao +17Robotics SimulationAction-Conditioned World Models

    State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University

  43. SurgWMBench: A Vision-Based Benchmark for World-Modeling Surgical Instrument Motion Planning

    Aug 8, 2026Huanrong Liu, Weiliang Huang, Bob Zhang +3World Models for RoboticsWorld Model-Based Planning

    University of Macau · Xiamen University · National University of Singapore

  44. Beyond Myopic World Models: Long-Horizon End-to-End Training for Direct Future Prediction

    Aug 7, 2026Xinyi Li, Zaishuo Xia, Chenjie Hao +1World Model LearningAction-Conditioned World Models

    University of California, Davis

  45. MemWM: Memory-Augmented Text-Based World Model

    Aug 7, 2026Yujun Wang, Tao Zhang, Jinhe Bi +9LLM World ModelsWorld Model Learning

    LMU Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) · Huawei Heisenberg Research Center +4

  46. GAUGE: A Measurement-Grounded Benchmark for Physical Fidelity in Simulation Engines and Video World Models

    Aug 6, 2026Shuai Wang, Yaxin Feng, Xuekun Jiang +12Physical Consistency in Video GenerationWorld Model Evaluation

    1Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · 2Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 3Shanghai Jiao Tong University +1

  47. AppDeltaWorld: Transition-Grounded Delta Code World Model for Mobile GUI Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Weikai Xu, Yunren Feng, Haoxiang Lei +6Mobile GUI AutomationWorld Model Learning

    1Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · 3Independent Researchers +2

  48. WorldCycle: Self-Verifiable Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Video World Models

    Aug 5, 2026Bohai Gu, Yueyang Yuan, Taiyi Wu +9World Model-Based PlanningAction-Conditioned World Models

    1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 2Wuhan University · 3AI Technology Center, Tencent Video, Tencent

  49. WorldExam: Benchmarking World Models from Apparent Appearance to Inherent Reactivity

    Aug 3, 2026Yuxue Yang, Shuyao Shang, Jiahe Wang +13Controllable Video GenerationWorld Model Evaluation

    1CASIA · 4AMAP · 5THU +2

  50. WM-Cov: Test Adequacy for Interactive World-Model-Style Autonomous Driving Simulation

    Jul 31, 2026Jianxun Cui, Ping Wu, Stanisa Peric +2Autonomous Driving Safety EvaluationWorld Model Evaluation

    School of Transportation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · Chongqing Research Institute of HIT, Chongqing, China · Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd., Chongqing, China +2

  51. BWM: A Low-Cost High-Fidelity World Simulator for Robot Learning

    Jul 31, 2026BWM TeamWorld Models for RoboticsRobotics Simulation

  52. Security of World-Model-Based Embodied AI: A Lifecycle of Threats, Defenses, and Evaluation

    Jul 30, 2026Fazhong Liu, Zhuoyan Chen, Haozhen Tan +3AI Agent SecurityWorld Model Evaluation

  53. Medical world models in healthcare: foundations, applications, and challenges for trustworthy clinical translation

    Jul 28, 2026Zhaoyan Chen, Zhongxiu Cong, Zhuanfeng Jin +7World Model LearningLongitudinal EHR Modeling

    National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Computer Aided Design, School of Software Engineering, Dalian University, Dalian, China · Department of Radiology, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Dalian University, Dalian, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China +3

  54. TRW: TRACE-RealWorld---An Auditable Consistency Contract for World Models as Materialized Views

    Jul 24, 2026Edward Y. ChangWorld ModelsWorld Model-Based Planning

    Stanford University

  55. KineBench: Benchmarking Embodied World Models via IDM-Free Kinematic Grounding

    Jul 22, 2026Zeyu Liu, Zhangzhe Zhu, Yang Zhang +3Physical Consistency in Video GenerationRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence (TeleAI), China Telecom, China · National University of Singapore, Singapore · Fudan University, China +2

  56. AutoWorldModel-Bench: A State-Centric Benchmark for Automated World-Model Research

    Jul 20, 2026Marjan Moodi, Xuankang Zhu, Fernando De Mesentier Silva +2World Model LearningAI Agent Benchmarks

    Electronic Arts · Simon Fraser University

  57. Thinking in Video: Can Video Generators Really Reason About the Real World?

    Jul 20, 2026Yongheng Zhang, Guang Yang, Ruihan Hou +12Video ReasoningCausal Reasoning in Videos

    Central South University · Tencent · Tsinghua University

  58. Concept-Guided Spatial Regularization for World Models in Atari Pong

    Jul 16, 2026Yukuan Lu, Zaishuo Xia, Weyl Lu +1Game-Playing AgentsWorld Model Learning

    UC Davis

  59. Towards Spatial Supersensing in the Wild

    Jul 15, 2026Tianjun Gu, Tianyu Xin, Kuan Zhang +12Long-Video UnderstandingWorld Model Evaluation

    Tsinghua University · NVIDIA · Stanford University

  60. When a Verified World Model Still Loses: Play-Adequacy vs Prediction-Accuracy in LLM-Synthesized Code World Models

    Jul 15, 2026Javier Aguilar MartínLLM World ModelsWorld Models

    AGILabs (javieraguilar.ai)