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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, Shuo Lu +6VLMs for Autonomous DrivingWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    NLPR, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA)

  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 · K2 Holding, L.L.C, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  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