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  1. SUV: Future Scene Understanding as Video Generation for End-to-End Driving

    Aug 4, 2026Yibo Yuan, Jiacheng Fu, Jiangtong Zhu +8End-to-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving Perception

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

  2. RealWeather: Realistic and Scene-Faithful Weather Translation with Driving World Models

    Aug 3, 2026Yuwei Ning, Liangzhi Wang, Yi Xiao +5Synthetic-to-Real Domain AdaptationWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    1Sun Yat-sen University · 2Shenzhen Loop Area Institute

  3. Auto-JEPA: A Latent World Model of Continuous Intent for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 31, 2026Jiwei Yang, Zhengxian Chen, Chaosheng Huang +1End-to-End Autonomous DrivingJoint-Embedding Predictive Architecture

    School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University · 2State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Green Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University

  4. HyWorldVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model with Hybrid World Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 23, 2026Quanfu Yu, Xian Wu, Hao Xu +1World ModelsAutonomous Driving

    Automotive New Technology Research Institute, BYD Company Limited

  5. PerceptDrive: Perception Prior World-Action Modeling with Adaptive Expert Routing for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 22, 2026Yushan Liu, Tianxiong Lv, Bohua Wang +11End-to-End Autonomous DrivingWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    Tsinghua University · AMap, Alibaba Group

  6. GeoWorldAD: Geometry World Action Model for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 20, 2026Songyan Zhang, Jinyuan Tian, Hanbing Li +9World Models for Autonomous DrivingMotion Planning

    Nanyang Technological University · Xiaomi EV · Zhejiang University

  7. Orbis 2: A Hierarchical World Model for Driving

    Jul 17, 2026Sudhanshu Mittal, Arian Mousakhan, Silvio Galesso +4World ModelsWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    University of Freiburg, Germany

  8. M4^\text{4}World: A Multi-view Multimodal Driving World Model for Interactive Object Manipulation and Minute-long Streaming

    Jul 15, 2026Ke Cheng, Hanqiao Ye, Lei Shi +8Multi-View Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

    1Meituan · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · 3Beijing Institute of Technology

  9. LIDAR-AD: A Decoder-Free Latent-Interaction Dreamer with Action-Residual Chains for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 12, 2026Yongzhi Liu, Yang Xiao, Zhong Cao +5Latent Dynamics ModelingWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 211189, China · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA · Xheart Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou, Jiangsu 215100, China

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

    Jul 12, 2026Xiyan Su, Frank Diermeyer, Markus LienkampDiffusion Model GuidanceVideo Diffusion Models

    Institute of Automotive Technology, Technical University of Munich, Munich Germany

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

    Jul 12, 2026Tong Nie, Yuewen Mei, Junlin He +3Adversarial TrainingSelf-Play RL

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Tongji University · McGill University +1

  12. WCog-VLA: A Dual-Level World-Cognitive Vision-Language-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Jul 9, 2026Xuerun Yan, Zhexi Lian, Nuoheng Zhang +5End-to-End Autonomous DrivingWorld Models

    Tongji University, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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

    Jul 8, 2026Christian Oefinger, Finn Rasmus Schäfer, Korbinian Moller +2World Models for Autonomous DrivingWorld Model Evaluation

    Autonomous Vehicle Systems Lab, Technical University of Munich, Garching b. München, Germany

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

    Jul 6, 2026Mengmeng Liu, Diankun Zhang, Jiuming Liu +7Action-Conditioned Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

    University of Twente · Xiaomi EV · University of Cambridge +1

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

    Jul 5, 2026Santosh JaiswalAutonomous Driving DatasetsZero-Shot Learning

  16. ForgeDrive: Bidirectional Cross-Conditioning for Unified Visual-Action Generation in Autonomous Driving

    Jun 30, 2026Xuchang Zhong, He Zheng, Chenxu Zhao +8Diffusion-Based PlanningWorld Models

    1Amap, Alibaba Group · 2Tsinghua University

  17. OWMDrive: Causality-Aware End-to-End Autonomous Driving via 4D Occupancy World Model

    Jun 29, 2026Junjie Cheng, Ruiqi Song, Ye Wu +3Causal World ModelsEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    The School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China · Waytous Inc., Qingdao 266109, China · The State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China +1

  18. LWDrive: Layer-Wise World-Model-Guided Vision-Language Model Planning for Autonomous Driving

    Jun 29, 2026Chen Yang, Yuhao Wei, Ze Xu +6VLMs for Autonomous DrivingEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Chongqing University

  19. X-Mind: Efficient Visual Chain-of-Thought via Predictive World Model for End-to-End Driving

    Jun 27, 2026Bohao Zhao, Chengrui Wei, Guangfeng Jiang +17World Model LearningEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    PWM Team, XPeng Inc.

  20. CascadeOcc: Rethinking 3D Occupancy World Models with Cascaded VQ Representations

    Jun 26, 2026Kyumin Hwang, Wonhyeok Choi, Jaeyeul Kim +3World Model Learning3D Occupancy Prediction

    Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu 42988, South Korea

  21. ReWorld: Learning Better Representations for World Action Models

    Jun 25, 2026Tianze Xia, Lijun Zhou, Kaixin Xiong +9Representation LearningWorld Model Learning

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Xiaomi EV

  22. BadDreamer: Transferable Backdoor Attacks against Video World Models for Autonomous Driving

    Jun 19, 2026Zhe Shuai, Xiaopeng Xie, Yikun ZengBackdoor AttacksAutonomous Driving

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  23. OmniDrive: An LLM-Choreographed Multi-Agent World Model with Unified Latent Co-Compression for Multi-View Driving Video Generation

    Jun 16, 2026Zijie Meng, Yufei Liu, Chengqian Ma +8Multi-View ConsistencyMulti-View Video Generation

    Peking University · Xiamen University · Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) +5

  24. Metis: A Generalizable and Efficient World-Action Model for Autonomous Driving and Urban Navigation

    Jun 14, 2026Jingyu Li, Zhe Liu, Dongnan Hu +10World Model LearningAutonomous Driving

    Fudan University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · The University of Hong Kong +5

  25. ReactSim-Bench: Benchmarking Reactive Behavior World Model Simulation in Autonomous Driving

    Jun 12, 2026Zhiyuan Zhang, Yanlun Peng, Jianing Zhang +7Autonomous Driving BenchmarksWorld Models for Autonomous Driving

    Sch. of Computer Science & Sch. of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Great Wall Motor · Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI (TEAI), Fudan University +2

  26. VISA: VLM-Guided Instance Semantic Auditing for 3D Occupancy World Models

    Jun 11, 2026Ruiqi Xian, Yuehan Xian, Jing Liang +2Cross-Modal Knowledge DistillationWorld Model Learning

    University of Maryland College Park, USA · Independent Researcher, USA · Standford University, USA +1

  27. Diffusion Transformer World-Action Model for AV Scene Prediction

    Jun 11, 2026Ruslan Sharifullin, Benjamin Jiang, Kai Xi ChewAction-Conditioned Video GenerationDiffusion Transformer

    Stanford University

  28. PLAN-S: Bridging Planning with Latent Style Dynamics for Autonomous Driving World Models

    Jun 4, 2026Xiaoyun Qiu, Jingtao He, Yijie Chen +4Roadmap-Based Motion PlanningWorld Model-Based Planning

    Intelligent Transportation Thrust, Systems Hub, and Center of Seamless Connectivity & Connected Intelligence, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511453, China.

  29. Discrete-WAM: Unified Discrete Vision-Action Token Editing for World-Policy Learning

    Jun 4, 2026Ziyang Yao, Haochen Liu, Yuncheng Jiang +10Hierarchical PlanningWorld Model Learning

    Xiaomi EV

  30. Unified Driving Tokens: Representation- and Geometry-Guided Discrete Tokenizer for Driving World Models and Planning

    Jun 1, 2026Ziyang Yao, Zeyu Zhu, YunCheng Jiang +2Image TokenizationWorld Models

    Peking University · Xiaomi EV