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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Towards Spatial Supersensing in the Wild

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

    Tsinghua University · NVIDIA · Stanford University

  5. 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)

  6. A Control Theory of Predictability in Latent World Models

    Jul 11, 2026Hanzhe You, Yonggang Zhang, Maohao Ran +6Model Predictive ControlLatent World Models

    University of Science and Technology of China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKGAI · Hong Kong Baptist University

  7. Adaptive Compute in Latent World Models: When Depth Helps, Hurts, or Doesn't Matter

    Jul 11, 2026Achyuthan SivasankarLatent World ModelsWorld Model Evaluation

    New York University

  8. Validate the Dream Before You Trust Its Verdict: Admissibility for World-Model Simulators

    Jul 8, 2026Christian Oefinger, Finn Rasmus Schäfer, Korbinian Moller +2World Models for Autonomous DrivingWorld Model Evaluation

    Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab, Technical University of Munich, Garching b. München, Germany

  9. Grounding Spatial Relations in a Compact World Model: Instruction Leakage and a Goal-Free Dynamics Fix

    Jul 8, 2026Yufeng Wang, Lu Wei, Haibin LingWorld Model LearningVisual Grounding

    1Stony Brook University · 2Westlake University

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

    Jul 7, 2026Finn Rasmus Schäfer, Korbinian Moller, Yuan Gao +3World ModelsWorld Model Evaluation

    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

  11. Deform360: A Massive Multi-view Visuotactile Dataset for Deformable World Models

    Jul 6, 2026Hongyu Li, Wanjia Fu, Xiaoyan Cong +11World ModelsDeformable Object Manipulation

    Brown University, Providence, RI · Columbia University, New York, NY · Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  12. Multiplayer Interactive World Models with Representation Autoencoders

    Jul 6, 2026Anthony Hu, Václav Volhejn, Adrien Ramanana Rahary +24Action-Conditioned World ModelsLatent World Models

    1General Intuition · 2Kyutai · ‡École nationale des ponts et chaussées +1

  13. MoP-JEPA: Hard-Assigned Predictor Mixtures for Stochastic JEPA World Models

    Jul 6, 2026Zhi Song, Ximing Xing, Zhenchao Tang +8World Model LearningLatent Dynamics Modeling

    City University of Hong Kong, China · Tencent, China

  14. Operator-on-F complements value-equivalence: a planning-time diagnostic for latent world models

    Jul 5, 2026Donna VakalisWorld Model-Based PlanningLatent World Models

    1Mila – Quebec AI Institute · 2Université de Montréal

  15. GigaWorld-1: A Roadmap to Build World Models for Robot Policy Evaluation

    Jul 2, 2026GigaWorld Team, Angyuan Ma, Boyuan Wang +24Robot Foundation ModelsAction-Conditioned World Models

    GigaAI · Tsinghua University

  16. Reward Observability and the Limits of Offline Checkpoint Selection in RSSM World Models

    Jul 2, 2026Nikolai Smolyanskiy, Jonathan ShockReinforcement LearningLatent World Models

  17. RoboWorld: Fast and Reliable Neural Simulators for Generalist Robot Policy Evaluation

    Jul 1, 2026Byeongguk Jeon, Seonghyeon Ye, JaeHyeok Doo +4World Model LearningRobotic Policy Evaluation

    1KAIST · 2Config

  18. WorldRoamBench: An Open-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Stability of Interactive World Models

    Jun 30, 2026Ting-Bing Xu, Jiacheng Sui, Zhe Gao +12World Model EvaluationInteractive World Models

    AMAP CV Lab, Alibaba Group · Nanjing University · Tsinghua University +1

  19. World-Model Collapse as a Phase Transition

    Jun 30, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun CaiPhase TransitionsModel Collapse

    Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA · The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · LocationMind, Tokyo, Japan

  20. A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Agent Dynamics in World Models

    Jun 27, 2026Nuo Chen, Lulin Liu, Zihao Li +12Physical Consistency in Video GenerationAutonomous Driving Safety Evaluation

    Texas A&M University · University of Minnesota · Marquette University +6

  21. Event-Conditioned Diagnostics of Kinematic, Contact, and Object-Permanence Fields in Passive Object-State World Models

    Jun 26, 2026Yang Liu, Yuming ChenLatent Dynamics ModelingLatent World Models

    College of Intelligent Robitcs and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University · Shanghai, China

  22. Understanding Rollout Error in Graph World Models

    Jun 26, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun CaiWorld Model LearningWorld Models

    Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA · The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · LocationMind, Tokyo, Japan

  23. MemoBench: Benchmarking World Modeling in Dynamically Changing Environments

    Jun 25, 2026Haoyu Chen, Kaichen Zhou, Hang Hua +11Physical Consistency in Video GenerationWorld Model Evaluation

    Harvard University · MIT · MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab +5

  24. Hallucination in World Models is Predictable and Preventable

    Jun 25, 2026Nicklas Hansen, Xiaolong WangWorld Model LearningWorld Models

    1UC San Diego

  25. Towards Evaluation of Implicit Software World Models in Coding LLMs

    Jun 25, 2026Egor Bogomolov, Yaroslav ZharovLLM EvaluationWorld Model Evaluation

    1JetBrains Research

  26. World Models in Pieces: Structural Certification for General Agents

    Jun 23, 2026Yikai Lu, Yifei Wu, Xinyu Lu +1Long-Horizon Agent EvaluationModel-Based Planning

    School of Data Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China.

  27. Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents

    Jun 23, 2026Yuxin Zuo, Zikai Xiao, Li Sheng +30LLM World ModelsAgentic RL

    Qwen Team

  28. Trimming the Long-Tail of Visual World Modeling Evaluation

    Jun 23, 2026Bingxuan Li, Yining Hong, Cheng Qian +6Neural Network GeneralizationPhysical Consistency in Video Generation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Stanford University · Columbia University

  29. Conformal Orbit-Valid Trust Horizons for Equivariant World Models

    Jun 23, 2026Hongbo WangEquivariant Neural NetworksConformal Prediction

    Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

  30. RoboGaze: Evaluating Robot World Models via Structured Vision-Language Analysis

    Jun 22, 2026Minh-Loi Nguyen, Nghiem Tuong Diep, Hung Khang Nguyen +10VLM EvaluationRobot Manipulation Benchmarks

    Center for AI Research, VinUniversity · 2VinRobotics · 3DFKI +3