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  1. DELE-w0.5: Inferring Action from Future Latent State for Robotic Manipulation

    Aug 22, 2026Fenghao Lei, Zhixiong Huang, Long Yang +5Robotic ManipulationWorld Models

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

    Aug 13, 2026Kaixin Ding, Xi Chen, Minghong Cai +9World ModelsWorld Models and Dynamics

  3. Alaya-EVOKE: From Linear-Scaling Supervision to Endless World

    Aug 13, 2026Yuanyang Yin, Gongxuan Wang, Yifan Zhan +3Efficient Long-Context InferenceWorld Models and Dynamics

  4. Intervention-Aware Clinical World Model for Post-Op Outcome Forecasting in Cardiology

    Aug 13, 2026Yunsung Chung, Yingshuo Liu, Abboud F. Hassan +4PrognosticsCardiac

  5. AlayaWorld: Interactive Long-Horizon World Modeling - Full Technical Report (v1.1)

    Aug 13, 2026AlayaWorld Team, Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li +15World Models and DynamicsReport

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

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

  7. A Unifying Perspective on Causal World Models: From Observations to Representations to Structure

    Aug 13, 2026Avinash Kori, Fabrizio RussoWorld ModelsLarge Reasoning Models

  8. ContactGuard: Pre-Contact Execution Monitoring with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models

    Aug 13, 2026Gehan Zheng, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming ZhiReal-World Manipulation TasksVisuomotor Policy

  9. S2-HWM: Sparse Event-Structured Hierarchical World Model for Long-Horizon Surgical Robot Manipulation

    Aug 13, 2026Shuzhe Zhang, Xin Zhu, Yinling Qian +1Action-Conditioned World ModelingScalable Robot Learning

  10. H2R-Bench: Benchmarking Human-to-Robot Manipulation Video Generation in World Models

    Aug 13, 2026Dingyi Rong, Yue Shi, Chaofan Ma +6EmbodiedWorld Models

  11. From Local Mismatch to Global Impact: Optimizing Cache Reuse Policy for Efficient Diffusion

    Aug 13, 2026Xichen Ye, Yifan Wu, Zhikang Xie +3Diffusion ModelsDenoising Trajectory

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

    Aug 13, 2026Joyjeet SinghLatent World ModelsPlanner

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

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

  14. HounsWorld: A Multimodal World Model for Hidden Patient-State Readout, Reconstruction, and Simulation

    Aug 13, 2026Yunhao Bai, Zhongwei Qiu, Guangyu Guo +5Multimodal Clinical DataMedical Vision-Language Models

  15. Scaling Automatic Research Agents via World Models

    Aug 12, 2026Xiyuan Yang, Sheikh Sarwar, Jingru Cheng +8Agent ResearchWorld Models and Dynamics

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

    Aug 12, 2026Shukrullo Nazirjonov, Sai Prasanna, Anna Manasyan +1Object-Centric LearningWorld Models and Dynamics

  17. Foresight Without Seeing: Latent Futures for World Action Models

    Aug 12, 2026Jiakai Huang, Zhongbo Wu, Zheng Zhang +3Action-Conditioned World ModelingForesight

  18. How Can Driving World Models Do Counterfactual Prediction?

    Aug 12, 2026Jiaru Zhang, Can Cui, Yi Xu +3Action-Conditioned PredictionWorld Models

  19. Keep the Future, Drop the Rollout: RIFT for World Action Models

    Aug 12, 2026Chushan Zhang, Jinguang Tong, Xuesong Li +2Reinforcement Learning RolloutsWorld Models

  20. Surgical WAM: A World-Action Model for Data-Efficient Surgical Robot Learning

    Aug 11, 2026Wenrui Bao, Tianyun Jiang, Zhiben Chen +3Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive SurgerySurgical Videos

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

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

  22. Flex-π: A Multi-Stream World-Action Model with Compute Flexibility

    Aug 11, 2026Ge Yan, Jinghao Liu, Yuzhi Fan +4Action-Conditioned World ModelingVideo Latents

  23. JEPA-WAM: Stage-Level Joint-Embedding Prediction for World-Action Models in Robot Manipulation

    Aug 11, 2026Xiao Liu, Yuguang Yang, Xi Wang +6Action-Conditioned World ModelingAction-Sensitive World Models

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

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

  25. DuplexWorld: Can voice agents help you get through the day?

    Aug 11, 2026Aryan Vijay Bhosale, Harshit Rajgarhia, Akhil Pothanapalli +3Voice AgentsPersonal Artificial Intelligence Agents

  26. PBD-AG: Persistent Baseline-Delta Active Graphs with Uncertainty-Aware Inspection for Long-Horizon Service Robots

    Aug 11, 2026Shuo Bao, Wei Dong, Shuyue Zhang +8Robot PerceptionRobots

  27. Dreamer-SAC: Off-Policy Learning in Latent World Models for Sample-Efficient Autonomous Driving

    Aug 11, 2026Jiazhuo Li, Linjiang Cao, Qi Liu +1Autonomous DrivingLatent World Models

  28. FACT: Failure-Aware Causal Training for World-Action Models

    Aug 10, 2026Quanquan Peng, Yutong Liang, Rui Yan +2Action-Conditioned World ModelingAction Generation

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

    Aug 10, 2026Joyjeet SinghLatent World ModelsWorld Models

  30. 4D-WAM: 4D Consistent World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Aug 10, 2026Jiacheng Fu, Yibo Yuan, Meng Tian +8Autonomous DrivingFaster-Wam

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

    Aug 10, 2026Haodong Li, Shaoteng Liu, Tianyu Wang +7State-Of-The-Art Video World ModelsInteractive Video World Models

  32. Energy-Structured Latent World Models with Neural Time Fields for Physically Constistent Open-World Motion Planning

    Aug 10, 2026Yapeng Liu, Yuanzhao Zhai, Bo Ding +2Latent World ModelsSafe Motion Planning

  33. World Tokens: Enhancing Embodied Policies with Training-Time World Modeling

    Aug 10, 2026Qu Tang, Benhui Zhuang, Bo Yuan +3World ModelsEmbodied Artificial Intelligence

  34. Model Discovery Agent: LLM-assisted Bayesian experiment design for data-efficient discovery of mechanistic world models

    Aug 10, 2026Kevin MurphyAgentic DiscoveryStructural Causal Model

  35. verdi: retrieval is not transfer for continual world model optimization

    Aug 10, 2026Junyu Wu, Shiqin Nie, Youyi Kou +9Llm-Synthesized Code World ModelsWorld Models

  36. HarnessWAM: Bridging Prediction and Deliberation in World Action Models

    Aug 10, 2026Zhaopeng Gu, Bingke Zhu, Tianxi Lin +8Action-Conditioned World ModelingWorld Models

  37. Rethink Before You Execute: Adaptive Execution for World Action Models

    Aug 10, 2026Feng Ye, Yiming Zhao, Yong Yu +5Dynamic ReplanningWorld Models

  38. Imaginative Generative AI: Crossing the Entropy Wall into Worlds Beyond Imitation

    Aug 10, 2026Farzan Farnia, Hossein Goli, Amin GohariImaginationImitation

  39. Latent World Models with Monotone Planning Costs for Image-Goal Navigation

    Aug 10, 2026Amirhosein Chahe, Siwei Cai, Lifeng ZhouLatent World ModelsVision-And-Language Navigation

  40. SG-WAM: Text-Grounded and Spatial-aware Semantic Guidance for World-Action Models

    Aug 9, 2026Junjie He, Junfeng Li, Zhide Zhong +9Action-Conditioned World ModelingFaster-Wam

  41. Degradation-Guided Underwater Image Restoration with Task-Oriented Latent Control

    Aug 9, 2026Xu Zhang, Xuhui Cao, Kangzhe Yuan +5Underwater Image EnhancementImage Restoration

  42. Population-Scalable Multi-Agent World Modeling

    Aug 9, 2026Renjie Zhao, Yuxiang Wu, Mingyu Zhang +7Decentralized Multi-Agent SystemWorld Models and Dynamics

  43. Vid2WAM: Distilling Video Diffusion Priors into World Action Models

    Aug 9, 2026Chenhao Qiu, Ruixiang Wang, Runyi Zhao +7Action-Conditioned World ModelingVideo Diffusion Models

  44. MotionCraft: Latent World Modeling with Sparse Attention for Visual Upscaling

    Aug 9, 2026Rong Fu, Chunlei Meng, Yangchen Zeng +9Real-World Image Super-ResolutionVideo Diffusion Models

  45. The Replay Gap: Static Evaluation of Model Switching in LLM Agents Scores the Wrong World

    Aug 8, 2026Ashritha GonuguntlaWorld Models and Dynamics

  46. 4D-WAM: Infusing Spatiotemporal Awareness into World Action Models through Trajectory Fields

    Aug 8, 2026Lishan Yang, Wenxuan Song, Xi Wang +14Action-Conditioned World ModelingFaster-Wam

  47. Distilling Physical Priors into Streaming World Models

    Aug 8, 2026Liangliang Zhao, Junying Wang, Danni Yang +5State-Of-The-Art Video World ModelsWorld Models

  48. SurgLAT: Surgical Latent Attention Tracking for Depth-Aware Robotic Laparoscope Control

    Aug 8, 2026Rulin Zhou, Qiujie Song, Yujie Ma +10Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive SurgeryLatent Actions

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

    Aug 7, 2026Yiyao Zhang, Diksha Goel, Hussain Ahmad +2Causal Structure and ReasoningAction-Conditioned Transition Operator

  50. SpikeWorld: Fast-State Adaptation for Frozen Spiking World Models

    Aug 7, 2026Ziqiao YuBinary SpikesFrozen Models

  51. CosmosAlign: Adapting a World Foundation Model for Generative Traffic Video Forecasting

    Aug 7, 2026Quang Minh Dinh, Tuan Kiet DoanWorld ModelsPhysical Alignment

  52. SimWAM: A Simple World Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Aug 7, 2026Zongchuang Zhao, Xin Zhou, Tianyang Xu +5Action-Conditioned World ModelingAction-Sensitive World Models

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

    Aug 7, 2026Xinyi Li, Zaishuo Xia, Chenjie Hao +1Long-Horizon ForecastingWorld Models

  54. UniJEPA: A Unified Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture for Task-Agnostic Visual World Modeling

    Aug 7, 2026An Lanji, Dawei Liu, Jin Li +3Video Joint Embedding Predictive ArchitectureJoint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

  55. Addressable Memory for Video World Models

    Aug 7, 2026Xindi Wu, Sven Elflein, James Lucas +5Long Short-Term MemoryExplicit Memory

  56. From Optimal Actions to World Models: Identifiability of Transition Kernels in Discounted MDPs

    Aug 7, 2026Neal BatraMarkov Decision ProcessesTransitions

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

    Aug 7, 2026Yujun Wang, Tao Zhang, Jinhe Bi +9Llm-Synthesized Code World Models\Emph{State-Prediction Separation Hypothesis

  58. Transformers Struggle to Use Their Emergent World Models: Revisiting the Tower of Hanoi, and the Illusion of Thinking

    Aug 7, 2026Devin Pereira, Willem ZuidemaLlm-Synthesized Code World ModelsLLM Reasoning Methods

  59. Decoupling Intention from Trajectory: A Representational Deduction Framework for World Action Models

    Aug 7, 2026Xiangkai Ma, Yue Ma, Junjie Wang +6World ModelsChain-Of-Thought

  60. GWM-VLA: Geometry-Aware Latent World Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Learning

    Aug 7, 2026Yanping Zhao, Hang Yu, Yiwei Wang +8Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsVision-Language-Action