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  1. Is Energy Guidance All You Need? Training-Free Norm Injection for Driving World Models

    Jul 12, 2026Xiyan Su, Frank Diermeyer, Markus LienkampVideo World ModelsWorld Models

  2. World Models as Adversaries: Multi-Agent Self-Play Fine-Tuning for Robust Motion Planning

    Jul 12, 2026Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Junlin He +3Motion PlannersAutonomous Driving

  3. Stateful Worlds, Stateless Elasticity: Exact-State Serving for Interactive World Models

    Jul 11, 2026Jin Li, Jiawei ChenPersistent StateWorld Models

  4. A Control Theory of Predictability in Latent World Models

    Jul 11, 2026Hanzhe You, Yonggang Zhang, Maohao Ran +6Latent World ModelsReward-Prediction Error

  5. Adaptive Compute in Latent World Models: When Depth Helps, Hurts, or Doesn't Matter

    Jul 11, 2026Achyuthan SivasankarAutoregressive RolloutDeepmind Control Suite

  6. PanoWorld: Real-World Panoramic Generation

    Jul 10, 2026Haoyuan Li, Dizhe Zhang, Yuemei Zhou +7Panoramic ImagesVideo World Models

  7. Causally Debiased Latent Action Model for Embodied Action Conditioned World Models

    Jul 10, 2026Yufan Wei, Kun Zhou, Lingjun Mao +9Latent ActionsWorld Models

  8. GATS: Graph-Augmented Tree Search with Layered World Models for Efficient Agent Planning

    Jul 9, 2026Maureese Williams, Dymitr NowickiLarge Language Model PlanningClassical Planning

  9. Write-Protected Discrete Bottlenecks for Language-Grounded World Models: A Structural Limitation and Sufficient Fix

    Jul 9, 2026Jiayi FangLatent World ModelsLarge Language Model Fine-Tuning

  10. LEEVLA: Seeing What Matters in Latent Environment Evolution for Vision-Language-Action

    Jul 9, 2026Qi Lyu, Baicheng Liu, Xudong Wang +3Vision-Language-Action ModelsLatent World Models

  11. EgoWAM: World Action Models Beyond Pixels with In-the-Wild Egocentric Human Data

    Jul 8, 2026Baoyu Li, Xinchen Yin, Mengying Lin +2Efficient World-Action ModelEgocentric Dataset

  12. TouchWorld: A Predictive and Reactive Tactile Foundation Model for Dexterous Manipulation

    Jul 8, 2026Jianyi Zhou, Feiyang Hong, Yunhao Li +9Tactile World ModelDexterous Manipulation

  13. Validate the Dream Before You Trust Its Verdict: Admissibility for World-Model Simulators

    Jul 8, 2026Christian Oefinger, Finn Rasmus Schäfer, Korbinian Moller +2World ModelsAutonomous Driving Simulation

  14. WAM-TTT: Steering World-Action Models by Watching Human Play at Test Time

    Jul 8, 2026Yusen Feng, Bingchen Han, Jiangran Lyu +13Efficient World-Action ModelVideo Pretraining

  15. RynnWorld-4D: 4D Embodied World Models for Robotic Manipulation

    Jul 7, 2026Haoyu Zhao, Xingyue Zhao, Siteng Huang +34D GenerationGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  16. A Definition and Roadmap for World Models

    Jul 7, 2026Xinyuan Chen, Haoyu Guo, Shi Guo +10World ModelsIntelligence

  17. The Rank-One Corner: How Much Value Equivalence Does a Task Need from a World Model?

    Jul 7, 2026Donna VakalisLatent World ModelsWorld Models

  18. AlayaWorld: Long-Horizon and Playable Video World Generation

    Jul 7, 2026AlayaWorld Team, Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li +14Minute-Long Consistent World GenerationVideo World Models

  19. MoWorld: A Flash World Model

    Jul 7, 2026Team Moxin, Deyi Ji, Tianrun Chen +26Video World ModelsWorld Models

  20. Imagined Rollouts are Kinematic, Not Dynamic: A Diagnosis of Long-Horizon World-Model Failure

    Jul 7, 2026Finn Rasmus Schäfer, Korbinian Moller, Yuan Gao +3World ModelsLong Rollouts

  21. Deform360: A Massive Multi-view Visuotactile Dataset for Deformable World Models

    Jul 6, 2026Hongyu Li, Wanjia Fu, Xiaoyan Cong +11Deformable ObjectsRobotic Datasets

  22. Multiplayer Interactive World Models with Representation Autoencoders

    Jul 6, 2026Anthony Hu, Václav Volhejn, Adrien Ramanana Rahary +24Video World ModelsWorld Models

  23. CP-WSP: A Declarative CP-SAT Framework for Configurable Multi-Constraint Workforce Scheduling

    Jul 6, 2026Vipul Patel, Anirudh Deodhar, Dagnachew BirruCombinatorial OptimizationSatisfiability

  24. UNIVERSE: Unified Video Action Models for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Mask-Modulated Modality Generation

    Jul 6, 2026Mengmeng Liu, Diankun Zhang, Jiuming Liu +7Efficient World-Action ModelAutonomous Driving

  25. Qantara: Bridge-Flow Training for Multi-Paradigm JEPA Control

    Jul 6, 2026Ruslan Rakhimov, George Bredis, Yuriy Maksyuta +1Joint-Embedding Predictive ArchitecturesLatent World Models

  26. DSWAM: A Dual-System World Action Foundation Model for Fine-Grained Robot Manipulation

    Jul 6, 2026Jian Zhu, Jianjun Zhang, Taiyi Su +10Faster-WamGeneralizable Robotic Manipulations

  27. Learning 4D Geometric Priors for Inference-Efficient World Action Models

    Jul 6, 2026Jianjun Zhang, Jian Zhu, Taiyi Su +4Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  28. KAM-WM: Kinematic Affordance Maps from Latent World Models for Robot Manipulation

    Jul 6, 2026Xinyu Shao, Keru Zhou, Guowei Huang +3Efficient World-Action ModelFaster-Wam

  29. Mask2Real-WM: Segmentation Masks as a Sim-to-Real Bridge for Controllable Dexterous World Models

    Jul 5, 2026Riccardo O. Feingold, Davide Liconti, Chenyu Yang +1Efficient World-Action ModelZero-Shot Sim-To-Real Transfer

  30. CRISP: A Spatiotemporal Camera-Radar Backbone for Driving via Forecasting-Based World-Model Pretraining

    Jul 5, 2026Jingyu Song, Yi Liu, Katherine A. SkinnerVision-Radar FusionAutonomous Driving

  31. Geographic Diversity Beats Data Volume for Cross-Domain Generalization in Zero-Label JEPA Driving World Models

    Jul 5, 2026Santosh JaiswalCross-Domain GeneralizationWorld Models

  32. Operator-on-F complements value-equivalence: a planning-time diagnostic for latent world models

    Jul 5, 2026Donna VakalisReward-Prediction ErrorLatent World Models

  33. Learning Task-Sufficient World Models by Synergizing Agentic Exploration and Structured Modeling

    Jul 5, 2026Fan Feng, Yujia Zheng, Minghao Fu +5World ModelsIntermediate Latent States

  34. HALO-WA: Hybrid-Attention Latent-Guided Online Reinforcement Learning for World-Action Models

    Jul 5, 2026Angen Ye, Weijie Ke, Xiaofeng Wang +7Efficient World-Action ModelReal-World Manipulation Tasks

  35. DynaVieW: Schema-Guided World Modeling for Understanding Hierarchical Visual Dynamics

    Jul 5, 2026Silin Gao, Hao Zhao, Zeming Chen +8Video World ModelsVisual In-Context Learning

  36. Worldscape-MoE: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts World Model for Scalable Heterogeneous Action Control

    Jul 4, 2026Jianjie Fang, Yongyan Xu, Ziyou Wang +13Efficient World-Action ModelLong-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body Control

  37. WSA1_1: a 3D-Centric World-Spatial-Action Model for Generalizable Robot Control

    Jul 4, 2026Jiahao Jiang, Jianing Zhang, Zhenhan Yin +8Efficient World-Action ModelScalable Robot Learning

  38. WorldBagel: Uncovering the Power of Unified Multimodal Models for Vision-Language-Action-World Modeling

    Jul 3, 2026Zelin Zhao, Min Shi, Bo Yuan +5Vision-Language-Action ModelsWorld Models

  39. Reduced-Order Models: The Mother of World Models

    Jul 3, 2026Rajat GhoshReduced-Order ModelsWorld Models

  40. DREAMSTEER: Latent World Models Can Steer VLA Policies During Deployment Without Any Finetuning

    Jul 3, 2026Hanchen Cui, Sergio Arnaud, Arjun Majumdar +5Pretrained Vision-Language-ActionLatent World Models

  41. WorldDirector: Building Controllable World Simulators with Persistent Dynamic Memory

    Jul 2, 2026Hanlin Wang, Hao Ouyang, Qiuyu Wang +10Video World ModelsControllable Video Generation

  42. VT-WAM: Visual-Tactile World Action Model for Contact-Rich Manipulation

    Jul 2, 2026Shuai Tian, Yupeng Zheng, Yuhang Zheng +7Tactile World ModelReal-World Manipulation Tasks

  43. Embodied.cpp: A Portable Inference Runtime of Embodied AI Models on Heterogeneous Robots

    Jul 2, 2026Ling Xu, Chuyu Han, Borui Li +6IntelligenceReal-Time Inference

  44. GigaWorld-1: A Roadmap to Build World Models for Robot Policy Evaluation

    Jul 2, 2026GigaWorld Team, Angyuan Ma, Boyuan Wang +24Robot PoliciesWorld Models

  45. WorldSample: Closed-loop Real-robot RL with World Modelling

    Jul 2, 2026Yuquan Xue, Le Xu, Zeyi Liu +5Scalable Robot LearningImitation Learning

  46. ACID: Action Consistency via Inverse Dynamics for Planning with World Models

    Jul 2, 2026Gawon Seo, Dongwon Kim, Suha KwakInverse DynamicsClassical Planning

  47. World Wide Models: Literary Tools for Cultural AI

    Jul 2, 2026Nina BegusLiteratureCultural Knowledge

  48. Bridge-WA: Predicting Where and How the World Changes for Robotic Action

    Jul 2, 2026Yongjie Bai, Hanting Wang, Mingtong Dai +3Efficient World-Action ModelExecutable Robot Behavior

  49. PhysMani: Physics-principled 3D World Model for Dynamic Object Manipulation

    Jul 2, 2026Peng Yun, Shouwang Huang, Hao Li +3Efficient World-Action Model3D World

  50. Repair the Amplifier, Not the Symptom: Stable World-Model Correction for Agent Rollouts

    Jul 2, 2026Xinyuan Song, Zekun CaiLong RolloutsLarge Language Model Planning

  51. Predicting Closed-Loop Performance of Latent World Models: Offline Checkpoint Selection for MPC and Model-Based RL Under Non-Markovian Rewards in LunarLander

    Jul 2, 2026Nikolai SmolyanskiyLatent World ModelsClosed-Loop Control

  52. Certified World Models as Sensing Clocks: Drift-Aware Deadlines for Active Perception

    Jul 1, 2026Hongbo WangClocksDeadlines

  53. OPINE-World: Programmatic World Modeling with Ontology-error-Prioritized Interactive Exploration for ARC-AGI-3

    Jul 1, 2026David Courtis, Wenhao Li, Scott SannerWorld ModelsAutonomous Exploration Strategies

  54. RoboWorld: Fast and Reliable Neural Simulators for Generalist Robot Policy Evaluation

    Jul 1, 2026Byeongguk Jeon, Seonghyeon Ye, JaeHyeok Doo +4World ModelsAutoregressive Video Generation

  55. Valdi: Value Diffusion World Models

    Jul 1, 2026Christopher Lindenberg, Kashyap ChittaLatent World ModelsModel Predictive Control

  56. DynaWM: A Base-VLA-Guided World Foundation Model for Moving-Object Manipulation

    Jul 1, 2026Chongkei Chang, Zhidong DengVision-Language-Action ModelsManipulation

  57. From World Models to World Action Models: A Concise Tutorial for Robotics

    Jul 1, 2026Xiaoxiong Zhang, Xiong Zeng, Wei ZhangEfficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  58. ABot-M0.5: Unified Mobility-and-Manipulation World Action Model

    Jul 1, 2026Ronghan Chen, Yandan Yang, Zuojin Tang +18Efficient World-Action ModelLatent Actions

  59. Path Planning in Physically Viable World Models

    Jul 1, 2026Su Ann Low, Cheng-Hsi Hsiao, Xingjian Li +3Robot PlanningWorld Models

  60. AGI Maze as a Benchmark Framework for World-Modeling Agents

    Jul 1, 2026Alexey PotapovPlanar MazesWorld Models