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

    Aug 12, 2026Chushan Zhang, Jinguang Tong, Xuesong Li +2Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

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

    Aug 11, 2026Wenrui Bao, Tianyun Jiang, Zhiben Chen +3Surgical VideosRobot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery

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

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

  4. X2-Turn: Frame-Synchronous Dual-Head Modeling for Joint Streaming ASR and Turn State Prediction

    Aug 11, 2026Kaiqi Fu, Rime Wen, Altman Lin +4Turn-TakingLlm-Based Automatic Speech Recognition

  5. Flex-ππ: A Multi-Stream World-Action Model with Compute Flexibility

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

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

    Aug 11, 2026Xiao Liu, Yuguang Yang, Xi Wang +6Efficient World-Action ModelJoint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

  7. 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

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

    Aug 10, 2026Quanquan Peng, Yutong Liang, Rui Yan +2Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

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

    Aug 10, 2026Joyjeet SinghLatent World ModelsWorld Models

  10. 4D-WAM: 4D Consistent World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Aug 10, 2026Jiacheng Fu, Yibo Yuan, Meng Tian +8Autonomous DrivingEfficient World-Action Model

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

    Aug 10, 2026Haodong Li, Shaoteng Liu, Tianyu Wang +7Video World ModelsEfficient Latent Reasoning

  12. 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 ModelsMotion Planners

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

    Aug 10, 2026Qu Tang, Benhui Zhuang, Bo Yuan +3Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

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

    Aug 10, 2026Junyu Wu, Shiqin Nie, Youyi Kou +9World ModelsInference-Time

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

    Aug 10, 2026Zhaopeng Gu, Bingke Zhu, Tianxi Lin +8Efficient World-Action ModelExecutable Robot Behavior

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

    Aug 10, 2026Feng Ye, Yiming Zhao, Yong Yu +5Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  17. Sekai2: From World Exploration to Interactive World Modeling

    Aug 10, 2026Kang He, Wenshuo Peng, Zihui Gao +3Video World ModelsVideo Dataset

  18. WorldSimProbe: Diagnosing Simulator Faithfulness in Action-Conditioned World Models for Embodied Manipulation

    Aug 10, 2026Peterson Co, Sicheng Hu, Chunxuan Jiao +17Efficient World-Action Model

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

    Aug 10, 2026Amirhosein Chahe, Siwei Cai, Lifeng ZhouLatent World ModelsObject Goal Navigation

  20. Twin Rollouts: Noise-Coupled Counterfactual Branching in Interactive Video World Models

    Aug 10, 2026Yu Ma, Hongli Shi, Xinran XuVideo World ModelsCounterfactual Reasoning

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

    Aug 9, 2026Junjie He, Junfeng Li, Zhide Zhong +9Efficient World-Action ModelFaster-Wam

  22. A Structural Dynamics Graph World Model: Unified Modeling, Constrained Rollout, and Interpretable Calibration

    Aug 9, 2026Wei Wang, Yaosen Chen, Han Yang +5Dynamics ModelsWorld Models

  23. Population-Scalable Multi-Agent World Modeling

    Aug 9, 2026Renjie Zhao, Yuxiang Wu, Mingyu Zhang +7World ModelsCross-View

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

    Aug 9, 2026Chenhao Qiu, Ruixiang Wang, Runyi Zhao +7Efficient World-Action ModelVideo Pretraining

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

    Aug 9, 2026Rong Fu, Chunlei Meng, Yangchen Zeng +9Pre-Trained Video Diffusion ModelsLatent World Models

  26. 4D-WAM: Infusing Spatiotemporal Awareness into World Action Models through Trajectory Fields

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

  27. Distilling Physical Priors into Streaming World Models

    Aug 8, 2026Liangliang Zhao, Junying Wang, Danni Yang +5Video World ModelsWorld Models

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

    Aug 7, 2026Yiyao Zhang, Diksha Goel, Hussain Ahmad +2Causal ReasoningWorld Models

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

    Aug 7, 2026Ziqiao YuBinary SpikesFrozen Models

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

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

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

    Aug 7, 2026Zongchuang Zhao, Xin Zhou, Tianyang Xu +5Efficient World-Action ModelAutonomous Driving

  32. 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

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

    Aug 7, 2026An Lanji, Dawei Liu, Jin Li +3Joint-Embedding Predictive ArchitecturesVideo World Models

  34. Addressable Memory for Video World Models

    Aug 7, 2026Xindi Wu, Sven Elflein, James Lucas +5Visual MemoryVideo World Models

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

    Aug 7, 2026Neal BatraMarkov Decision ProcessesOptimal Actions

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

    Aug 7, 2026Yujun Wang, Tao Zhang, Jinhe Bi +9World ModelsLarge Language Model Planning

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

    Aug 7, 2026Devin Pereira, Willem ZuidemaLarge Language Model ReasoningPuzzle

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

    Aug 7, 2026Xiangkai Ma, Yue Ma, Junjie Wang +6Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

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

    Aug 7, 2026Yanping Zhao, Hang Yu, Yiwei Wang +8Vision-Language-Action ModelsLatent Actions

  40. Is Forward Prediction Enough? Physical State Grounding for JEPA World Models

    Aug 7, 2026Haodong Yan, Jiaguan Zhu, Mingyuan Jia +12Latent World ModelsJoint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

  41. Dueling World Models: Advantage-Style Action Channels for Common-Mode Distractor Rejection

    Aug 7, 2026Jiazhuo Li, Yiming Fei, Zhiruo Zhou +1World ModelsLatent Dynamics

  42. TaskSense: Focusing on What Matters in World Models

    Aug 6, 2026SM Mazharul Islam, Manfred HuberLatent World ModelsWorld Models

  43. ωω-0: A Latent Predictive World Action Model for Concurrent Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Aug 6, 2026Zhe Li, Zhenzhe Zhang, Yangyang Wei +8Humanoid Loco-ManipulationEfficient World-Action Model

  44. GeniWorld: A Generalizable Interactive World Model for Robotic Manipulation via Visual Actions

    Aug 6, 2026Chenghao Gu, Hanyang Yu, Jingbo Zhang +7Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  45. MASS: Multiplayer World Models with Authoritative Shared State

    Aug 6, 2026Ziqi Cai, Siqi Yang, Yimu Wang +6Video World ModelsWorld Models

  46. EnvACE: Internalizing Environment Dynamics via World Rehearsal for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 6, 2026Zishan Xu, Zhiyuan Yao, Yuxin Chen +9Agentic Reinforcement-Learning FrameworkLarge Language Model Agents

  47. From Economic Agents to Agentic Economies: A Systems Blueprint for Economic World Models

    Aug 6, 2026Jiale Han, Xiang Li, Jing Qian +7EconomiesWorld Models

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

    Aug 6, 2026Sining Ang, Yuguang Yang, Yan WangDiffusion PlanningPre-Trained Video Diffusion Models

  49. GAUGE: A Measurement-Grounded Benchmark for Physical Fidelity in Simulation Engines and Video World Models

    Aug 6, 2026Shuai Wang, Yaxin Feng, Xuekun Jiang +12Physics SimulationVideo World Models

  50. Robust-WAM: Bridging Generative Pretraining and Semantic Foresight in World-Action Models

    Aug 6, 2026Haodong Yan, Junfeng Li, Junjie He +12Efficient World-Action ModelFaster-Wam

  51. AppDeltaWorld: Transition-Grounded Delta Code World Model for Mobile GUI Agents

    Aug 6, 2026Weikai Xu, Yunren Feng, Haoxiang Lei +6Graphical User Interface AgentsWorld Models

  52. XEWorld: Can Action-Conditioned World Models Generalize to Unseen Robot Embodiments?

    Aug 6, 2026Yixiang Chen, Jiabing Yang, Yuan Xu +10Cross-Embodiment TransferEmbodiment

  53. PhyLatent: Learning Dynamics-Relevant Representations for JEPA World Models

    Aug 6, 2026Xi Zeng, Haojie Ren, Ziying SongLatent World ModelsJoint-Embedding Predictive Architectures

  54. LAWM-3D: Learning 3D-Aware Latent Actions from Human Videos for Generalizable Robot World Models

    Aug 6, 2026Jiarui Yang, Jiale Zhange, Jiawei Li +5Latent ActionsWorld Models

  55. DreamGuard: Efficient Runtime Guardrail for LLM Agents via Risk-Aware World Model

    Aug 6, 2026Wenhao Lin, Chenyu Yu, Xingwei Lin +6Large Language Model AgentsLarge Language Model Safety

  56. JoyAI-RA 0.5: Scaling Robot Manipulation Learning via Dual Action Alignment

    Aug 6, 2026JoyAI-RA TeamEgocentric DatasetRobot Systems

  57. HERA: Historical Evidence Routing Adapter for Physical Prediction in Latent World Models

    Aug 6, 2026Yuanruyi, Yue Cao, Haojia Gao +7Future Video PredictionLatent World Models

  58. Quantum-Structured World Models (QSWMs) for Predictive Latent Dynamics

    Aug 5, 2026Hailong Jiang, Emran Hossain, Feng Yu +3Latent World ModelsIntermediate Latent States

  59. HelloWorld: Enabling Socially Interactive Characters in Video World Models

    Aug 5, 2026Liangyang Ouyang, Ruicong Liu, Xuangeng Chu +2Video World ModelsCharacterization

  60. DreamWAM: Beyond RGB Future Prediction for World Action Models

    Aug 5, 2026Shanglin Yuan, Weiheng Zhao, Xin Shi +6Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models