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  1. N0N_0-TWAM: Scaling Tactile-Native World-Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

    Jul 26, 2026NeoteAI Team, Fudan TEAI TeamTactile World ModelContact-Rich Manipulation

  2. Action from Adjacent Set in Physical Space Outperforms the Best Prediction in World Models

    Jul 26, 2026Liangyu Li, Qingwen Liu, Mingqing Liu +1Latent World ModelsFeasibility

  3. Real-Time Human-Centric World Modeling for Upper-Body Human-Object Interaction

    Jul 26, 2026Chaonan Ji, Jinwei Qi, Peng Zhang +1Articulated ObjectsLong-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body Control

  4. False Prophets: On the Security of World Models in Agentic Systems

    Jul 25, 2026Erik Imgrund, Anna Wimbauer, Klim Kireev +1Agentic SystemsWorld Models

  5. Robot-Factored World Models via Robot Rendering

    Jul 24, 2026Byungjun Kim, Taeksoo Kim, Hyunsoo Cha +1Efficient World-Action ModelVideo World Models

  6. ViTacWorld: Scaling Visuo-Tactile World Models for Contact-Rich Robot Manipulation

    Jul 24, 2026Yunao Huang, Shiyu Sang, Haotao Lu +5Tactile World ModelGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  7. On the Identifiability of Controlled World Models

    Jul 24, 2026Xiangteng Zhang, Yang Guan, Bo Zhang +3Latent World ModelsControllability

  8. Music-JEPA: Learning a World Model of Sound from Action

    Jul 24, 2026Ziyu Wang, Kun Fang, Yann LeCunJoint-Embedding Predictive ArchitecturesSphere-Jepa

  9. Action-Conditioned World Model for Goal Plane Probe Guidance in Robotic Ultrasound

    Jul 24, 2026Siqi Fan, Mingcong Chen, Ran Liu +5UltrasoundEfficient World-Action Model

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

    Jul 24, 2026Edward Y. ChangWorld ModelsRollback

  11. Streaming Multi-Agent Autoregressive Diffusion Model with World State Registers

    Jul 23, 2026Sicheng Mo, Yuheng Li, Ziyang Leng +2Video World ModelsPre-Trained Video Diffusion Models

  12. Persistent Computational State: A Session-Centric Runtime for Generative World Models

    Jul 23, 2026Zhen LinPersistent StateVideo World Models

  13. HyWorldVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Hybrid World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 23, 2026Quanfu Yu, Xian Wu, Hao Xu +1Autonomous DrivingLatent World Models

  14. PhysCoRe: Physics-Corrected Residual World Models for Material-Aware Deformable Dynamics

    Jul 22, 2026Haocheng Yin, Shuohan Tao, Yongsheng Chen +1Deformable ObjectsWorld Models

  15. PerceptDrive: Perception Prior World-Action Modeling with Adaptive Expert Routing for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 22, 2026Yushan Liu, Tianxiong Lv, Bohua Wang +11Autonomous Driving PerceptionAutonomous Driving

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

    Jul 22, 2026Zeyu Liu, Zhangzhe Zhu, Yang Zhang +3Pose-Guided Kinematic ReasoningVideo World Models

  17. Dreamer-CPC: Message Learning with World Models for Decentralized Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 22, 2026Taisuke Takayama, Naoto Yoshida, Tadahiro TaniguchiMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningModel-Free Reinforcement Learning

  18. The World Model Remembers, the Actor Forgets: Dream Rehearsal for Continual Model-Based RL

    Jul 22, 2026Gurp NijjerCatastrophic ForgettingLatent World Models

  19. Koopman Dreamer: Spectrally Constrained Latent Dynamics for Stable World-Model Imagination

    Jul 22, 2026Jiaqi Li, Xinglong Zhang, Haibin Xie +3Latent DynamicsDream

  20. Masked Visual Actions for Unified World Modeling

    Jul 21, 2026Hadi Alzayer, Wenlong Huang, Haonan Chen +8Efficient World-Action Model

  21. ABot-World-0: Infinite Interactive World Rollout on a Single Desktop GPU

    Jul 21, 2026Fan Jiang, Zhaoxu Sun, Mengchao Wang +38Video World ModelsAgentic Control

  22. Agentic Real2Sim: Physics-based World Modeling with Vision-Language Agents

    Jul 21, 2026Guanxiong Chen, Qianjun Xia, Jiawei Peng +24Physics SimulationWorld Models

  23. WorldScape Policy 2.0: Empowering Steerable World Action Modeling with Reasoning-Augmented Memory and In-Context Learning

    Jul 21, 2026Haisheng Su, Zongdai Liu, Xin Jin +13Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  24. DWM: Separating World Effects from Actions in Latent World Models

    Jul 21, 2026Yi-Ge Zhang, Tianqi Du, Qi Zhang +1Latent World ModelsWorld Models

  25. RoboInter1.5: A Holistic Intermediate Representation Suite for Embodied World Modeling and Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 21, 2026Ziqin Wang, Hao Li, Weijun Wang +5Robotic DatasetsIntermediate Representations

  26. Do AI-Native Biotechs Need Departments? Benchmarking Company World Models for AI-Driven Drug Development

    Jul 21, 2026Yinan WangAi-RanDrug Discovery

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

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

  28. AlayaWorld: Interactive Long-Horizon World Modeling -- Full Technical Report

    Jul 20, 2026AlayaWorld Team, Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li +15Video World ModelsTechnical Report

  29. FlashRT: Agent Harness for Guiding Agents to Deploy Real-Time Multimodal Applications

    Jul 20, 2026Krish Agarwal, Zhuoming Chen, Yanyuan Qin +3FlashMulti-Gpu Systems

  30. SAGE: Subgoal-Conditioned Action Generation for Latent World Model Planning

    Jul 20, 2026Letian Cheng, Qi Zhang, Yisen WangContext-Aware Sub-Goal GenerationClassical Planning

  31. Mobile Network Control with a World Model

    Jul 20, 2026Maxime Bouton, Ioanna Mitsioni, Simon Lindståhl +1Networked SystemsMobile Networks

  32. Reinforcement Learning: From Algorithms To Foundation Models

    Jul 20, 2026Zihan DingMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningVideo World Models

  33. GeoWorldAD: Geometry World Action Model for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 20, 2026Songyan Zhang, Jinyuan Tian, Hanbing Li +9Autonomous DrivingEfficient World-Action Model

  34. Test-Time Scaling for World Action Models via Zero-Shot Geometric Evaluation

    Jul 20, 2026Zesen Zhao, Minkyoung Cho, Hui shen +4Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  35. An Explicit World Model Based on Data-First Ontology: DaoQL Multimodal Storage Validation and Counterfactual Reasoning Evaluation

    Jul 19, 2026Zhanbo Li, Shifeng Wu, Xiangjin Meng +1OntologyCounterfactual Reasoning

  36. EvolvingWorld: An Open-Schema Framework for Co-Evolving Role-Play Agents and World Model in Interactive Literary World

    Jul 19, 2026Qing Zong, Yue Guo, Mengxin Yang +2FictionRole-Playing Agents

  37. DSWorld: A Data Science World Model for Efficient Autonomous Agents

    Jul 17, 2026Zherui Yang, Fan Liu, Hao LiuWorld ModelsInteraction Trajectories

  38. Orbis 2: A Hierarchical World Model for Driving

    Jul 17, 2026Sudhanshu Mittal, Arian Mousakhan, Silvio Galesso +4World ModelsSpatial Reasoning

  39. SeerGuard: A Safety Framework for Mobile GUI Agents via World Model Prediction

    Jul 17, 2026Xue Yu, Bo Yuan, Kailin Zhao +3Graphical User Interface AgentsGuard

  40. BadWAM: When World-Action Models Dream Right but Act Wrong

    Jul 16, 2026Qi Li, Xingyi Yang, Xinchao WangEfficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

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

    Jul 16, 2026Yukuan Lu, Zaishuo Xia, Weyl Lu +1World ModelsFrozen Models

  42. Kernel weighted importance sampling for off-policy evaluation in contextual bandits

    Jul 16, 2026Joshua Spear, Matthieu Komorowski, Rebecca Pope +2Linear Contextual BanditsOff-Policy Evaluation

  43. DriftWorld: Fast World Modeling through Drifting

    Jul 16, 2026Susie Lu, Haonan Chen, Weirui Ye +1Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  44. Steering Robustness into World Action Models via Mechanistic Interpretability and Optimal Control

    Jul 16, 2026Jihoon Hong, Julian Skifstad, Qiyue Dai +2Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  45. From Pixels to States: Rethinking Interactive World Models as Game Engines

    Jul 15, 2026Zhen Li, Zian Meng, Shuwei Shi +4World ModelsRecurrent State

  46. M4^\text{4}World: A Multi-view Multimodal Driving World Model for Interactive Object Manipulation and Minute-long Streaming

    Jul 15, 2026Ke Cheng, Hanqiao Ye, Lei Shi +8Autonomous Driving SimulationControllable Video Generation

  47. GigaWorld-Policy-0.5: A Faster and Stronger WAM Empowered by AutoResearch

    Jul 15, 2026GigaWorld Team, Angen Ye, Angyuan Ma +26Efficient World-Action ModelRobot Policies

  48. RENEW: Towards Learning World Models and Repairing Model Exploitation from Preferences

    Jul 15, 2026Logan Mondal Bhamidipaty, Mykel Kochenderfer, Subramanian RamamoorthyOffline Reinforcement LearningReinforcement Learning From Human Feedback

  49. From Surface Forecasting to Observability Forecasting: A Latent World Model for Cloud-Aware EO Monitoring

    Jul 15, 2026Mohanad AlbughdadiCloud-Aware Earth Observation SequencesObservation

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

    Jul 15, 2026Javier Aguilar MartínLarge Language Model PlanningWorld Models

  51. Grounded world models in biological organisms and future embodied AI

    Jul 15, 2026Giovanni Pezzulo, Davide Nuzzi, Marco D'Alessandro +3IntelligenceWorld Models

  52. Learning Safe Agent Behaviour from Human Preferences and Justifications via World Models

    Jul 14, 2026Ilias Kazantzidis, Timothy J. Norman, Yali Du +1Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningExternal Reward Models

  53. FlowWAM: Optical Flow as a Unified Action Representation for World Action Models

    Jul 14, 2026Yixiang Chen, Peiyan Li, Yuan Xu +13Efficient World-Action ModelOptical Flow

  54. Mind the Gap: Promises and Pitfalls of Hierarchical Planning in LeWorldModel

    Jul 14, 2026Niccolò Caselli, Francesco Massafra, Samuele Punzo +3Context-Aware Sub-Goal GenerationLong-Horizon Planning

  55. The GEST-Engine: From Event Graphs to Synthetic Video. A Full Technical Report

    Jul 14, 2026Nicolae Cudlenco, Mihai Masala, Marius LeordeanuAgentic Video GenerationVideo Temporal Grounding

  56. Cycle-World: Mitigating Error Accumulation in Long-term Video World Models via Reverse-Prediction Cycle Consistency

    Jul 13, 2026Zihan Su, Teng Hu, Jiangning Zhang +4Controllable Video GenerationVideo World Models

  57. From World Action Models to Embodied Brains: A Roadmap for Open-World Physical Intelligence

    Jul 13, 2026Yuanzhi Liang, Xufeng Zhan, Haibin Huang +2Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  58. ABot-3DWorld 0: A Universal World Model to Explore Any 3D Space

    Jul 13, 2026Mingchao Sun, Luyang Tang, Yu Liu +343D WorldWorld Models

  59. Xiaomi-Robotics-U0: Unified Embodied Synthesis with World Foundation Model

    Jul 13, 2026Xinghang Li, Jun Guo, Qiwei Li +21Cross-Embodiment TransferIndoor Scene Generation

  60. Towards Predictive, Aligned, and Scalable Robot Learning

    Jul 13, 2026Peijun Tang, Shangjin Xie, Baifu Huang +6Latent World ModelsScalable Robot Learning