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  1. Modality-Autoregressive World-Action Models

    Sep 15, 2026Adam Hung, Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Deva Ramanan +1Action-Conditioned World Modeling

  2. GeoLAM: Learning Geometry-Grounded Latent Actions from Unlabeled Human Videos

    Sep 15, 2026Yifan Xie, Hekun Tian, Jinkun Liu +3Latent Actions

  3. The Latent That Never Was: A Forensic Re-run of the CVAE Ablation in Action Chunking Transformer

    Sep 15, 2026Bo KangLatent Actions

  4. WholeBodyWAM: Generalizing Pre-trained World-Action Priors to Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via WBC-Grounded Coordination

    Sep 15, 2026Zhuo Li, Yiming Yao, Jim Tan +3Humanoid Loco-ManipulationAction-Conditioned World Modeling

  5. WLA^3: World Latent Action Modeling for Semantics, Dynamics, and Kinematics

    Sep 14, 2026Peidong Liu, Zhiyuan Xiang, Mingyang Li +4Latent World Action Models

  6. Reconstructing Is Not Acting: Action-Centric Latent Dynamics Modeling

    Sep 14, 2026Dingjie Fu, Dianxing Shi, Yangyang Xu +1Latent ActionsMotion Model

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

    Sep 14, 2026Aman Mehta, Riya BaviskarWorld ModelsPhysical Plausibility

  8. KuaiRP Series Role-playing Models Technical Report

    Sep 12, 2026Yipeng Wang, Ziwei Zhang, Jiahui Zhang +2Role-PlayingLlm-Synthesized Code World Models

  9. Recursive Code World Models: Building Complex Worlds through Recursive Scene Programs

    Sep 11, 2026Zhiqi Li, Yuxuan Liao, Bo Zhu3D WorldScene Reconstruction

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

    Sep 11, 2026Chenxi Song, Yanming Yang, Chi ZhangAutoregressive Video GenerationCamera Control

  11. Beyond Noise Steering: Dual-Latent Space Reinforcement Learning for Generative Robot Policy

    Sep 11, 2026Pengfei Zhang, Teng Sun, Xianchao XiuRobot PoliciesLatent Actions

  12. Measuring the Value of World-Model Updates: A Counterfactual Utility Protocol for Continual Adaptation

    Sep 11, 2026Anqi Peter Li, Kaden KimCounterfactual UtilityUpdates

  13. Memory as Plans: World-Action Modeling with Memory-Grounded Planning

    Sep 11, 2026Sizhe Zhao, Haozhe Xie, Weiyu Zhao +5Action-Conditioned World ModelingClassical Planning

  14. ActSafeGuard: Differentiable and Training-Aligned Constraint Enforcement for Flow-Matching Policies

    Sep 10, 2026Jianming Ma, Rongjun Jin, Xiaxi Si +3Safety ConstraintsSafeguard

  15. Programmable World Model

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

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

    Sep 9, 2026Nisarga Nilavadi, Ralf Römer, Moritz Reuss +5Latent World Action ModelsRobotic Planning

  17. FolDeX: A Physical-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects

    Sep 9, 2026Chenhuan Liu, Yi Xu, Feng Wu +7Deformable ObjectsRobotic Manipulation

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

    Sep 9, 2026Zengjue Chen, Peidong Liu, Jiawei Li +1Robot PoliciesSafe Reinforcement Learning

  19. Valerant: An Automatic Navigable Game Map Generator via Action-Conditioned World Model Exploration

    Sep 8, 2026Yiran Qiao, Feng Wang, Jing Ma3D World3D Mapping

  20. SyncWorld: Visual Calibration Enables World Models as Zero-Shot Simulators

    Sep 8, 2026Yuncong Yang, Zhengtao Han, Furkan Ozyurt +6World ModelsCalibrated View Pairs

  21. "World Knowledge" in the Weights: Reading Concept Circuits of Vision Transformers

    Sep 8, 2026Yanlin Chen, Tang Li, Xi PengVision TransformerConcept-Based Explainability

  22. VeriScene: Reconstructing Crime Scenes from Legal Evidence via World-Model Agent

    Sep 8, 2026Kevin Chuanpu Fu, Yongsen Zheng, Zee Kin Yeong +1Digital ForensicsScene Understanding

  23. WorldAgen: Unified State-Action Prediction with Test-Time World Model Training

    Sep 8, 2026Chi Wan, Kangrui Wang, Yuan Si +2Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsVision-Language-Action

  24. OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World-Action Model Pretraining

    Sep 7, 2026Yuran Wang, Siqiao Huang, Mingleyang Li +21Action-Conditioned World ModelingFaster-Wam

  25. PV-WM: A Heterogeneous Micro-Macro World Model for Articulated Pedestrian-Vehicle Co-Rollout

    Sep 7, 2026Haozhuang Chi, Jingsong Liang, Ziying Song +4\Emph{State-Prediction Separation HypothesisWorld Models

  26. World Models Under Asynchronous Sensor Observations

    Sep 7, 2026Akash Anand, Abhay Anand, Yash VisheWorld Models\Emph{State-Prediction Separation Hypothesis

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

    Sep 3, 2026Yibin Wang, Zehan Wang, Junshu Tang +13State-Of-The-Art Video World ModelsWorld Models

  28. Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Shaunak A. Mehta, Ananya Hazarika, Haochen Zhang +5Scalable Robot LearningVision-Language-Action

  29. Semantic Bayesian World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Tommaso SoruLlm-Synthesized Code World ModelsBelief-Space Planning

  30. Rethinking World Models for Safety-Critical Embodied Systems

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

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

    Sep 3, 2026Yijun Yang, Shenghe Zheng, Wenbo Li +8Spatial ReasoningVision-Language Model Reasoning

  32. Do Video Generators Track the World Across Segments? A Benchmark and Method for World-State Reasoning in Video Continuation

    Sep 3, 2026Yingmao Miao, Pengfei Zhang, Chaoran Xu +5ContinuationWorld Models and Dynamics

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

    Sep 3, 2026Jinyang Wang, Shiwei Li, Junjian Wang +12Autonomous DrivingFaster-Wam

  34. Drive-HWM: Hierarchical World Models for Dynamic-Latent Guided Autonomous Driving

    Sep 3, 2026Zhaoxin Fan, Tianbao Zhang, Wenjun Wu +5Autonomous DrivingDrives

  35. Toward Physically Grounded JEPA World Models for Goal-Conditioned Robotic Planning

    Sep 3, 2026Muyuan Liu, Yue Huang, Zheng Liang +1Robotic PlanningInverse Dynamics

  36. Building Pretraining Data for World Models: An Unreal Engine-Based Pipeline for Action-Conditioned Video Generation

    Sep 3, 2026Haoyu Wang, Songchun Zhang, Haoran Li +3Camera-Conditioned Video GenerationWorld Models

  37. Long-Horizon Consistent and Interaction-Aware World Models for Multi-Style End-to-End Driving

    Sep 3, 2026Yuxuan Han, Kunyuan Wu, Liyunong Yang +4Autonomous DrivingDrives

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

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

  39. Modeling What Changes: Sparse, Residual World Models for Object-Centric Manipulation

    Sep 2, 2026Param Thakkar, Parsika Paresh Shah, Manisha Sushant GoteWorld ModelsObject-Centric Learning

  40. Accurate in space, unreliable in time: how LLMs represent national cultural change

    Sep 1, 2026Yalda Daryani, Miranda Bogen, Madeleine I. G. DaeppCultural AlignmentChange

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

    Sep 1, 2026Yuhan Chen, Zhihua Tian, Mahavir Dabas +7Llm-Synthesized Code World ModelsFrozen Models

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

    Sep 1, 2026Danze Chen, Zeqing Wang, Ziyue Lin +2Controllable High-Quality Human Video GenerationCinematic Video Generation

  43. Can LLMs Discover Scientific Laws in Real and Parallel Worlds?

    Sep 1, 2026Yiming Huang, Ziche Liu, Zhuohang Wu +11Scientific DiscoveryHuman-Curated Benchmark

  44. Seeing the World and the Self from Egocentric Video

    Sep 1, 2026Kai Guan, Minchao Jiang, Ruichen WangLi +2Ego-MotionEgocentric Video

  45. Solaris: Towards Interfaces That Are Generated, Not Coded

    Sep 1, 2026Yuval Alaluf, Omri Avrahami, Guy Bukchin Leshem +18User InterfaceRobotwin

  46. Towards a Belief-Based World Model for LLM Agents

    Aug 31, 2026Shubham Kumar, Harshit Kumar, Narendra Ahuja +1Llm-Synthesized Code World ModelsLarge Language Model Agents

  47. ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training

    Aug 31, 2026Xionghao Wu, Yijun Yang, Shiyang Zhou +17Action-Conditioned World ModelingAction-Sensitive World Models

  48. IMPACT: Attention Is the Interaction Map for Scalable Interaction-Aware World Model Training

    Aug 31, 2026Rongze Tang, Jianjie Fang, Zhaolu Wang +8Action-Conditioned World ModelingAction-Conditioned Prediction

  49. MNIST-PRO: MNIST is Back as a Partially Observable World for AI Agents

    Aug 31, 2026Vernon Toh, Navonil Majumder, Zhengyuan Liu +2Perceptual TasksPartially Observable Markov Decision Process

  50. CAER: Causal Action Effect Reweighting for World Model Training

    Aug 31, 2026Jianjie Fang, Xvyuan Liu, Ziyou Wang +9Action-Conditioned World ModelingCamera-Conditioned Video Generation

  51. Can Video World Models Track Unobserved World States?

    Aug 31, 2026Joonghyuk Shin, Yicong Hong, Jaesik Park +1State-Of-The-Art Video World ModelsWorld Models and Dynamics

  52. WebWorld: The Browser as a World Model for Self-Improving Web Code

    Aug 31, 2026Jiajun Wu, Jian Yang, Yaxin Du +7WebLlm-Synthesized Code World Models

  53. PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies

    Aug 31, 2026Botong Zhao, Fang Yu, Tim Yu +3Vision-Language-Action PoliciesRobot Policies

  54. How do World Models and Policies Compose in LLM Agents? A Joint Spectral and Behavioral Account

    Aug 30, 2026Ruize Xu, Xiao Yu, Yujin Tang +2Llm-Synthesized Code World ModelsAgentic Reinforcement Learning

  55. The Intervention Gap in Latent World Models

    Aug 30, 2026Donna VakalisLatent World ModelsCausal Intervention

  56. AcrossWAM1.0:A Modular Latent World-Action Stack for Compact Robot Policies

    Aug 30, 2026Yafei Zhang, Nan WuLatent World Action ModelsRobot Policies

  57. Off-Manifold Refinement: Guiding Video Generators with a Frozen World Model

    Aug 30, 2026Hai Nguyen-Truong, Tuan-Anh Vu, Dang HuynhCinematic Video GenerationHuman Motion Generation

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

    Aug 29, 2026Cheng Chen, Jerry Bai, Jiacheng Wei +11Cross-Embodiment GeneralizationEgocentric Video

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

    Aug 27, 2026Yuandong Pu, Le Zhuo, Sayak Paul +11Large-Scale Video Generation ModelsPhysical Plausibility

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

    Aug 25, 2026Xiang Li, Yupeng Zheng, Songen Gu +11Latent ActionsWorld Models