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

    Sep 8, 2026Yuncong Yang, Zhengtao Han, Furkan Ozyurt +6World Models

  2. Earth System World Model for What-If Simulations: A Case Study for Terrestrial Ecosystems

    Sep 8, 2026Zhihao Wang, Ruichen Wang, Ruohan Li +6EmulatorsGlobal Climate Models

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

    Sep 8, 2026Kevin Chuanpu Fu, Yongsen Zheng, Zee Kin Yeong +1Crime DomainWorld Models

  4. ActionSplice: In-Flight Action Editing for Interactive World Models

    Sep 8, 2026Pardis Taghavi, Tingyu Guo, Jonas Lossner +2World ModelsAutoregressive Video Generation

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

    Sep 8, 2026Chi Wan, Kangrui Wang, Yuan Si +2Efficient World-Action ModelVision-Language-Action Models

  6. InfluenceField: A Differentiable Field with Interventionally Identifiable Causal Structure for Multimodal World Modeling

    Sep 7, 2026Zihao Yang, Zijia Wang, Zhiqiu HuangCausal InterventionInfluence

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

    Sep 7, 2026Yuran Wang, Siqiao Huang, Mingleyang Li +21Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

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

    Sep 7, 2026Haozhuang Chi, Jingsong Liang, Ziying Song +4Pedestrian Trajectory PredictionWorld Models

  9. World Models Under Asynchronous Sensor Observations

    Sep 7, 2026Akash Anand, Abhay Anand, Yash VisheWorld ModelsAsynchronous Execution

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

    Sep 7, 2026Geonmyeong Lee, Byoung-Tak ZhangWorld ModelsReward-Prediction Error

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

    Sep 3, 2026Yibin Wang, Zehan Wang, Junshu Tang +13Video World ModelsWorld Models

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

    Sep 3, 2026Shaunak A. Mehta, Ananya Hazarika, Haochen Zhang +5Scalable Robot LearningSocial Robot Navigation

  13. Semantic Bayesian World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Tommaso SoruKnowledge GraphsWorld Models

  14. Rethinking World Models for Safety-Critical Embodied Systems

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

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

    Sep 3, 2026Jinyang Wang, Shiwei Li, Junjian Wang +12Autonomous DrivingEfficient World-Action Model

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

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

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

    Sep 3, 2026Muyuan Liu, Yue Huang, Zheng Liang +1Inverse DynamicsRobot Planning

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

    Sep 3, 2026Haoyu Wang, Songchun Zhang, Haoran Li +3World ModelsModel Pretraining

  19. Latent Energy Action Planning with World Models

    Sep 3, 2026Phu Pham, Aniket BeraLatent World ModelsModel Predictive Control

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

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

  21. VeriPhy: Agentic Physical Reasoning for World Model Evaluation and Refinement

    Sep 2, 2026Wenzhuo Xu, Yuchen Zhu, Chongjian Ge +8VerifierVisual Evidence

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

    Sep 2, 2026Duncan Eddy, Isaac R. Ward, Grace Ra Kim +1World ModelsSpacecraft

  23. Spectral-Target Physical Latent Structuring for JEPA-Style World Models

    Sep 2, 2026Penghao Zhu, Salvatore Penachio, Kaustav Mukherjee +1Latent World ModelsWorld Models

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

    Sep 2, 2026Param Thakkar, Parsika Paresh Shah, Manisha Sushant GoteWorld ModelsChange

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

    Sep 1, 2026Yuhan Chen, Zhihua Tian, Mahavir Dabas +7Agentic OptimizationCounterfactual Rollouts

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

    Sep 1, 2026Danze Chen, Zeqing Wang, Ziyue Lin +2Long Video GenerationVideo Pretraining

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

    Sep 1, 2026Yuval Alaluf, Omri Avrahami, Guy Bukchin Leshem +18User InterfaceToward Interaction Dynamics

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

    Aug 31, 2026Shubham Kumar, Harshit Kumar, Narendra Ahuja +1Latent World ModelsLarge Language Model Agents

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

    Aug 31, 2026Xionghao Wu, Yijun Yang, Shiyang Zhou +17Efficient World-Action ModelVideo Pretraining

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

    Aug 31, 2026Rongze Tang, Jianjie Fang, Zhaolu Wang +8Efficient World-Action ModelToward Interaction Dynamics

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

    Aug 31, 2026Jianjie Fang, Xvyuan Liu, Ziyou Wang +9Efficient World-Action ModelCausal Reasoning

  32. Can Video World Models Track Unobserved World States?

    Aug 31, 2026Joonghyuk Shin, Yicong Hong, Jaesik Park +1Video World ModelsHidden States

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

    Aug 31, 2026Jiajun Wu, Jian Yang, Yaxin Du +7WebBrowser Agent

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

    Aug 30, 2026Ruize Xu, Xiao Yu, Yujin Tang +2Agentic Reinforcement-Learning FrameworkWorld Models

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

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

  36. Matrix-Game 3.5: Enhancing Real-Time Streaming Interactive World Models with Patch Memory

    Aug 30, 2026Runjia Qian, Zile Wang, Jihai Zhang +14World Models

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

    Aug 30, 2026Hai Nguyen-Truong, Tuan-Anh Vu, Dang HuynhLong Video GenerationWorld Models

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

    Aug 29, 2026Cheng Chen, Jerry Bai, Jiacheng Wei +11Cross-Embodiment TransferWorld Models

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

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

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

    Aug 25, 2026Xiang Li, Yupeng Zheng, Songen Gu +11Efficient World-Action ModelLatent Actions

  41. BehaviorWorldGen: Closing the Loop between Action Models and World Simulators via Controllable Behavior-Aware Structured World Generation

    Aug 23, 2026Jiaqi Wang, Zhuo Zhang, Haining Guan +15Efficient World-Action Model

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

    Aug 22, 2026Fenghao Lei, Zhixiong Huang, Long Yang +5Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  43. GigaBrain-WBC-0.5: A Behavior World Model for Robust Humanoid Whole-Body Tracking with Environment Interaction

    Aug 18, 2026Ziyang Cheng, Tianshu Tang, Jinxin Lan +19Task-Centric Hybrid Whole-Body ControllerWorld Models

  44. Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning

    Aug 17, 2026Chang Nie, Zhe Liu, Hesheng WangScalable Robot LearningHuman-To-Robot Transfer

  45. HarnessEval-W: Agentifying the Evaluation of Visual Worlds

    Aug 17, 2026Weiliang Chen, Haowen Sun, Jun Gao +40World ModelsReasoning Chain

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

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

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

    Aug 13, 2026Yunsung Chung, Yingshuo Liu, Abboud F. Hassan +4Congenital Heart DiseaseWorld Models

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

    Aug 13, 2026AlayaWorld Team, Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li +15Video World ModelsAutoregressive Video Generation

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

    Aug 13, 2026DreamX Team, Rui Chen, Xiangxiang Chu +7Efficient World-Action ModelGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

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

    Aug 13, 2026Avinash Kori, Fabrizio RussoCausal Representation LearningWorld Models

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

    Aug 13, 2026Gehan Zheng, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming ZhiVisuomotor PolicyReal-World Manipulation Tasks

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

    Aug 13, 2026Shuzhe Zhang, Xin Zhu, Yinling Qian +1Long-Horizon PlanningEfficient World-Action Model

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

    Aug 13, 2026Dingyi Rong, Yue Shi, Chaofan Ma +6EmbodimentHuman-Robot Interaction

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

    Aug 13, 2026Joyjeet SinghLatent World ModelsClassical Planning

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

    Aug 13, 2026Guo An, Zijing Wu, Honghua Dong +7Joint-Embedding Predictive ArchitecturesNext Activity Prediction

  56. 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

  57. Scaling Automatic Research Agents via World Models

    Aug 12, 2026Xiyuan Yang, Sheikh Sarwar, Jingru Cheng +8Efficient World-Action ModelModel Pretraining

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

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

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

    Aug 12, 2026Jiakai Huang, Zhongbo Wu, Zheng Zhang +3Efficient World-Action ModelNext Activity Prediction

  60. How Can Driving World Models Do Counterfactual Prediction?

    Aug 12, 2026Jiaru Zhang, Can Cui, Yi Xu +3Counterfactual ReasoningNext Activity Prediction