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  1. Beyond Policy Alignment: Closing the Planning-Learning Loop for Robot Control with Learned World Models

    Sep 30, 2026Kowndinya Boyalakuntla, Yuhan Liu, Abdeslam BoulariasWorld Model PlanningModel Predictive Control

    Rutgers University

  2. DeepJEPA: Scaling World Models from Within

    Sep 30, 2026Zijian Jin, Yunbei Zhang, Yuanzhe Liu +5World Model PlanningWorld Models

    New York University · Tulane University · UIUC +4

  3. World4Scorer: Outcome-Grounded World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Jieyuan Pei, Meiyi Lu, Sining Ang +12World Model PlanningAutonomous Driving

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · HiThink Research · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +8

  4. Graph World Models for Constrained Epidemic Policy Planning

    Sep 28, 2026Yiqi Su, Rashed Shelim, Lingyi Wang +2Epidemiological ModelsWorld Model Planning

    Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, VA 22305, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Alexandria, VA 22305, USA

  5. AD-E2E-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture For End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 28, 2026Haoran Zhu, Wancong Zhang, Yann LeCun +1Autonomous DrivingWorld Model Planning

    New York University · AMI Labs

  6. ReDrive: Shaping Representations with World Modeling for End-to-End Driving

    Sep 27, 2026Yueting Zhu, Shaoyu Chen, Yuehao Song +4Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingWorld Model Planning

    Huazhong University of Science & Technology · Horizon Robotics

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

    Sep 26, 2026Linhao Wang, Yiyan Fan, Dongjin HuangPrediction ErrorWorld Model Planning

    Shanghai Film Academy, Shanghai University

  8. Representation World Model: Learning States, Transition and Executable Plans in Representation

    Sep 24, 2026Yijun Yuan, Weicheng Zheng, Weibang Wang +7World Model PlanningWorld Models

    IIIS, Tsinghua University

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

    Sep 21, 2026Jianhao Yuan, Yu Yuan, Benjamin Ramtoula +5Action SelectionWorld Model Planning

    University of Oxford · Purdue University · UWE Bristol

  10. Risk-Aware World Modeling with Flow-Guided Occupancy Evolution for Selective Trajectory Planning in Automated Driving

    Sep 16, 2026Rongxiang Zeng, Linsen Cai, Jiafu Zhang +7World Model PlanningMotion Planning

    RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany · Monash University, Melbourne, Australia · Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany

  11. CorrRisk-WM: Corridor-Conditioned Risk World Modeling for Safety-Critical Trajectory Planning

    Sep 15, 2026Tingyu Guo, Reza LangariWorld Model PlanningWorld Models

    J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

  12. What Symmetry Buys a Learned Motion Planner

    Sep 9, 2026Andrea Emir SevincelMotion PlanningWorld Model Planning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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

    Sep 7, 2026Geonmyeong Lee, Byoung-Tak ZhangWorld Model PlanningPrediction Error

    Seoul National University

  14. SV-WAM: An Efficient Surround-View World-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 3, 2026Jinyang Wang, Shiwei Li, Junjian Wang +12Efficient World-Action ModelAutonomous Driving

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · 2Chongqing Changan Technology Co., Ltd. · 3Civil Aviation University of China +2

  15. Reinforced Planning with Latent World Models

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

    Pantheon Industries

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

    Aug 11, 2026Haiyu Wu, Randall Balestriero, Morgan LevineLatent World ModelsWorld Model Planning

    Altos Labs · Brown University

  17. CausalNav: Reliability-Certified Causal World Models for Control under Physical-Parameter Shift

    Aug 7, 2026Yiyao Zhang, Diksha Goel, Hussain Ahmad +2World Model PlanningWorld Models

    School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia · CSIRO’s Data61, Clayton, VIC, Australia · School of Computer Science and Information Technology, Adelaide University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

  18. Adaptive-WAM: Quality-Guided Early-Exit Planning from Intermediate Video-Diffusion Features

    Aug 6, 2026Sining Ang, Yuguang Yang, Yan WangDiffusion PlanningWorld Model Planning

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China · School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University

  19. World Action Planner: Generalizable Decision-Making with Action-Conditioned World Models

    Jul 30, 2026Xiangcheng Zhang, Yilun DuEfficient World-Action ModelWorld Model Planning

    Harvard University

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

    Jul 15, 2026Javier Aguilar MartínWorld Model PlanningLlm-Driven Code Synthesis

    AGILabs (javieraguilar.ai)

  21. Globalized Constrained Stein Variational Inference for Diverse Feasible Robot Motion Planning

    Jul 14, 2026Jiayun Li, Georgia ChalvatzakiWorld Model PlanningPlanning

    PEARL Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt. · Hessian.AI, Darmstadt, Germany. · Robotics Institute Germany (RIG).

  22. World Models as Adversaries: Multi-Agent Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Robust Motion Planning

    Jul 12, 2026Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Junlin He +3World Model PlanningMotion Planning

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Tongji University · McGill University +1

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

    Jul 11, 2026Achyuthan SivasankarAutoregressive RolloutWorld Model Planning

    New York University

  24. Hypothesis-driven Model Expansion under Uncertainty for Open-World Robot Planning

    Jul 7, 2026Anxing Xiao, Hanbo Zhang, Tianrun Hu +1Robot PlanningWorld Model Planning

    School of Computing, National University of Singapore · Smart Systems Institute, National University of Singapore

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

    Jul 6, 2026Zhi Song, Ximing Xing, Zhenchao Tang +8Next-State PredictionWorld Model Planning

    City University of Hong Kong, China · Tencent, China

  26. CARL: Constraint-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Planning with LLMs

    Jul 6, 2026Qiuyi Qi, Jinjian Zhang, Mutian Bao +9Large Language Model PlanningLarge Language Model Reinforcement Learning

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group · City University of Hong Kong

  27. ACID: Action Consistency via Inverse Dynamics for Planning with World Models

    Jul 2, 2026Gawon Seo, Dongwon Kim, Suha KwakWorld Model PlanningInverse Dynamics

    1POSTECH · 2KAIST

  28. Pondering the Way: Spatial-perceiving World Action Model for Embodied Navigation

    Jun 29, 2026Hong Chen, Daqi Liu, Zehan Zhang +10World Model PlanningObject Goal Navigation

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · Xiaomi EV, Beijing, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  29. Agent vs. Parametric World Models: Hybrid Planning for Reliable Language Agents

    Jun 26, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun CaiWorld Model PlanningLatent World Models

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

  30. Internalizing the Future: A Unified Agentic Training Paradigm for World Model Planning

    Jun 25, 2026Xuan Zhang, Zhijian Zhou, Lingfeng Qiao +6Large Language Model PlanningAgentic Learning

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Tencent Youtu Lab

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

    Jun 23, 2026Yikai Lu, Yifei Wu, Xinyu Lu +1World Model PlanningWorld Models

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

  32. FlowMPC: Improving Flow Matching policies with World Models

    Jun 15, 2026Chandon HamelEfficient World-Action ModelMultimodal Action Distributions

    Stanford University

  33. EV-WM: Event-Verified World Models for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Jun 11, 2026Kailin Wang, Haoxiang Jie, Yaoyuan Yan +2World Model PlanningOmninwm

    1AI Lab, Country Garden Services Group · 2Fudan University · 3Omni AI

  34. 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

  35. STRIPS-WM: Learning Grounded Propositional STRIPS-style World Models from Images

    Jun 5, 2026Abhiroop Ajith, Constantinos ChamzasWorld Model PlanningClassical Planning

    Department of Robotics Engineering · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · United States

  36. 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

  37. IDOL: Inverse-Dynamics-Guided Future Prediction for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    May 29, 2026Chenghao Zhang, Timin Li, Dongmei LiAutonomous DrivingWorld Model Planning

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University

  38. World-Ego Modeling for Long-Horizon Evolution in Hybrid Embodied Tasks

    May 19, 2026Zuyao Lin, Jianhui Zhang, Peidong Jia +3World ModelsWorld Model Planning

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · 3Zhongguancun Academy +2

  39. Planner-Admissible Graph-PDE Value Extensions for Sparse Goal-Conditioned Planning

    May 18, 2026Shiheng ZhangPlanningWorld Model Planning

    Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington

  40. EponaV2: Driving World Model with Comprehensive Future Reasoning

    May 14, 2026Jiawei Xu, Zhizhou Zhong, Zhijian Shu +8Autonomous DrivingWorld Model Planning

    1PCA Lab, VCIP, College of Computer Science, Nankai University · 2Horizon Robotics · 3HKUST +4

  41. PriorZero: Bridging Language Priors and World Models for Decision Making

    May 12, 2026Junyu Xiong, Yuan Pu, Jia Tang +1Large Language Model Reinforcement LearningWorld Model Planning

    University of Science and Technology of China · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics +1

  42. TRAP: Tail-aware Ranking Attack for World-Model Planning

    May 3, 2026Siyuan Duan, Ke Zhang, Xizhao LuoWorld Model PlanningLong-Horizon Planning

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University Suzhou, China

  43. ProDrive: Proactive Planning for Autonomous Driving via Ego-Environment Co-Evolution

    Apr 28, 2026Chuyao Fu, Shengzhe Gan, Zhuoli Ouyang +5Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    1Southern University of Science and Technology · 2Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  44. DriveVA: Video Action Models are Zero-Shot Drivers

    Apr 5, 2026Mengmeng Liu, Diankun Zhang, Jiuming Liu +7Autonomous DrivingDrives

    University of Twente, The Netherlands · Xiaomi EV, China · University of Cambridge, United Kingdom +1