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  1. VGGTWorld-VLA: Intent-Conditioned 3D World Evolution for Autonomous Driving

    Oct 8, 2026Zhaoyang Liu, Kun Jiang, Ziying Song +1Action-Conditioned World ModelsWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    Tsinghua University · Nanyang Technological University

  2. AffordDrive3D: Affordance-Aware World-Action Modeling with Spatial Understanding

    Oct 8, 2026Tianhui Cai, Xinglong Sun, Chao Fang +6Autonomous DrivingWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    University of California, Los Angeles · NVIDIA · 342dot by Hyundai +1

  3. GeoWM: Efficient Direct World Modeling in Explicit Geometry

    Oct 5, 2026Mehrdad Noori, Guile Wu, Sam Hosseini +1World Model LearningWorld Models for Robotics

    Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, Canada

  4. CtrlWAM: Controllable World Action Models with Aligned Intent and Foresight

    Oct 1, 2026Chensheng Peng, Wenhao Ding, Ran Tian +9World Models for RoboticsAction-Conditioned World Models

    NVIDIA · UC Berkeley · UCLA

  5. ReWAM: Reciprocal World Action Models for Interactive Autonomous Driving

    Sep 30, 2026Benshan Ma, Pei Liu, Ruiguo Zhong +4Action-Conditioned World ModelsMulti-Agent Systems

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Leapmotor · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  6. PhysWAM: Physically Consistent World Action Model for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Dhruv Parikh, Fengcheng Yu, Quankai Gao +11Metric Depth EstimationAutonomous Driving

    University of Southern California · Woven by Toyota · Toyota Research Institute +1

  7. V2X-WAM: A Cooperative World Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Junwei You, Weizhe Tang, Can Wang +6End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAction-Conditioned World Models

    ITS Center, Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, Beijing, 100088, China · State Key Lab of Intelligent Transportation System, Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport, Beijing, 100088, China · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, 53706, USA +4

  8. RoXDrive: Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Action-Faithful Rollouts

    Sep 29, 2026Hongbin Lin, Chaoda Zheng, Yiming Yang +11End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAction-Conditioned World Models

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · XPeng Motors · Xidian University

  9. World4Scorer: Outcome-Grounded World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 29, 2026Jieyuan Pei, Meiyi Lu, Sining Ang +12World Model-Based PlanningWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · HiThink Research · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +8

  10. CoDrive: Cross-Vehicle World-Consistent Video Generation with Precise Trajectory Control for Cooperative Driving

    Sep 28, 2026Yu Meng, Baining Zhao, Junta Wu +10Multi-View ConsistencyCamera-Controlled Video Generation

    Tsinghua University · Tencent Hunyuan · Zhongguancun Academy

  11. AD-E2E-JEPA: A Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture For End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Sep 28, 2026Haoran Zhu, Wancong Zhang, Yann LeCun +1Efficient InferenceWorld Model-Based Planning

    New York University · AMI Labs

  12. MomWorld: Momentum-Aware Latent World Model for Long-Horizon Autonomous Driving

    Sep 27, 2026Ziying Song, Shengkai Zhang, Lei Yang +6Flow MatchingWorld Model-Based Planning

    Nanyang Technological University · Beijing Jiaotong University · North University of China +2

  13. TriO: Tri-Modal Unsupervised Occupancy World Model for Anything Perception

    Sep 25, 2026Quinlan Sykora, Sourav Biswas, Christopher Diehl +3Unsupervised LearningAutonomous Driving Perception

    Waabi · University of Toronto

  14. HelloWorld: Towards Practical Applications of Generative Driving World Models

    Sep 24, 2026Fan Lu, Hanshi Wang, Zijing Wang +20Multi-View Video GenerationWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

  15. MM-Future: Multi-Mode Joint World-Action Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 17, 2026Shuai Liu, Hechangle Gong, Hao Jiang +5World Models for Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Planning

    NIO · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University · Beihang University +1

  16. Risk-Aware World Modeling with Flow-Guided Occupancy Evolution for Selective Trajectory Planning in Automated Driving

    Sep 16, 2026Rongxiang Zeng, Linsen Cai, Jiafu Zhang +7World Model-Based Planning3D Occupancy Prediction

    RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany · Monash University, Melbourne, Australia · Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany

  17. CorrRisk-WM: Corridor-Conditioned Risk World Modeling for Safety-Critical Trajectory Planning

    Sep 15, 2026Tingyu Guo, Reza LangariWorld Model-Based PlanningWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA

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

    Sep 7, 2026Haozhuang Chi, Jingsong Liang, Ziying Song +4World Model LearningMulti-Agent Trajectory Prediction

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

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

    Sep 3, 2026Jinyang Wang, Shiwei Li, Junjian Wang +12End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · 2Chongqing Changan Technology Co., Ltd. · 3Civil Aviation University of China +2

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

    Sep 3, 2026Zhaoxin Fan, Tianbao Zhang, Wenjun Wu +5World ModelsWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing, China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Dim12 AI +3

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

    Sep 3, 2026Yuxuan Han, Kunyuan Wu, Liyunong Yang +4End-to-End Autonomous DrivingWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    School of Intelligence Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Autonomous Driving Center, Shanghai Utopilot Technology Co.Ltd., China

  22. GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving

    Aug 24, 2026Yiren Lu, Xin Ye, Jiaming Liu +10Autonomous DrivingGeometric Representation Learning

    Uber AV Labs · Case Western Reserve University

  23. 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 +15Action-Conditioned World ModelsWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    AFARI World Model Team

  24. BrainWAM: Action-Space Coordination of Semantic Priors and Predictive Dynamics for Autonomous Driving

    Aug 13, 2026Bing Zhan, Shuyao Shang, Jiahao Gu +8VLMs for Autonomous DrivingWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) · Li Auto Inc.

  25. How Can Driving World Models Do Counterfactual Prediction?

    Aug 12, 2026Jiaru Zhang, Can Cui, Yi Xu +3Counterfactual EvaluationCausal Counterfactual Generation

    Purdue University · Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence

  26. Toward the Cognitive--Physical Limits of Embodied Intelligence through a World-Model-Centric Autonomous Racing Agent

    Aug 11, 2026Zitong Shan, Baichuan Lou, Yanxin Zhou +8Autonomous RacingWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore. · K2 Holding, L.L.C, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates +1

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

    Aug 11, 2026Jiazhuo Li, Linjiang Cao, Qi Liu +1World Models for Autonomous DrivingRL for Autonomous Driving

    Tongji University

  28. 4D-WAM: 4D Consistent World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Aug 10, 2026Jiacheng Fu, Yibo Yuan, Meng Tian +8World Action ModelsWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    University of Science and Technology of China · Xi’an Jiaotong University · Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. +1

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

    Aug 7, 2026Zongchuang Zhao, Xin Zhou, Tianyang Xu +6End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    Huazhong University of Science & Technology · Dongfeng Research & Development Institute

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

    Aug 6, 2026Sining Ang, Yuguang Yang, Yan WangEfficient InferenceDiffusion Transformer

    Institute for AI Industry Research (AIR), Tsinghua University · Department of Automation, University of Science and Technology of China · School of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University