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A comprehensive list of papers for the definition of World Models and using World Models for General Video Generation, Embodied AI, and Autonomous Driving, including papers, codes, and related websites.

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Awesome World Models for Robotics

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Foundation paper of World Model

World Models, NIPS 2018 Oral. [Paper] [Website]

Blog or Technical Report

ST-WAM, ST-WAM: Semantic-Temporal World Action Model for Robust Manipulation under Visual Distribution Shifts. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
NVIDIA OmniDreams, NVIDIA OmniDreams: Real-Time Generative World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous Vehicle Simulation. [Paper]
Cosmos 3, Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI. [Paper] [Website]
X Square Robot, WALL-WM: Carving World Action Modeling at the Event Joints. [Paper] [Website]
GE-Sim 2.0, GE-Sim 2.0: A Roadmap Towards Comprehensive Closed-loop Video World Simulators for Robotic Manipulation. [Paper] [Website]
Xiaomi EV World Model, Xiaomi EV World Model: A Joint World Model Integrating Reconstruction and Generation for Autonomous Driving. [Paper] [Website]
Coowa, The DAWN of World-Action Interactive Models. [Paper]
Being-H0.7, Being-H0.7: A Latent World-Action Model from Egocentric Videos. [Paper]
MotuBrain, MotuBrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control. [Paper]
Cortex 2.0, Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment. [Paper]
HY-World 2.0, HY-World 2.0: A Multi-Modal World Model for Reconstructing, Generating, and Simulating 3D World. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
Helios, Real Real-Time Long Video Generation Model. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.0: Advancing Video Generation for World Complexity. [Paper] [Website]
Matrix-Game 3.0, Matrix-Game 3.0: Real-Time and Streaming Interactive World Model with Long-Horizon Memory. [Paper] [Website]
HY-Embodied-0.5, HY-Embodied-0.5: Embodied Foundation Models for Real-World Agents. [Paper] [Website]
OpenWorldLib, OpenWorldLib: A Unified Codebase and Definition of Advanced World Models. [Paper]
ABot-PhysWorld, ABot-PhysWorld: Interactive World Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulation with Physics Alignment. [Paper]
GigaWorld-Policy, GigaWorld-Policy: An Efficient Action-Centered World--Action Model. [Paper]
GigaBrain-0.5M*, GigaBrain-0.5M*: a VLA That Learns From World Model-Based Reinforcement Learning. [Paper] [Website]
ALIVE, ALIVE: Animate Your World with Lifelike Audio-Video Generation. [Paper] [Website]
DreamDojo, DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos. [Paper] [Website]
lingbot-va, Causal World Modeling for Robot Control. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
lingbot-world, Advancing Open-source World Models. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
TARS, World In Your Hands: A Large-Scale and Open-source Ecosystem for Learning Human-centric Manipulation in the Wild. [Paper] [Website]
SIMA 2, SIMA 2: A Generalist Embodied Agent for Virtual Worlds. [Paper]
SimWorld, SimWorld: An Open-ended Realistic Simulator for Autonomous Agents in Physical and Social Worlds. [Paper] [Website]
Hunyuan-GameCraft-2, Hunyuan-GameCraft-2: Instruction-following Interactive Game World Model. [Paper] [Website]
GigaWorld-0, GigaWorld-0: World Models as Data Engine to Empower Embodied AI. [Paper] [Website]
PAN, PAN: A World Model for General, Interactable, and Long-Horizon World Simulation. [Paper]
Cosmos-Predict2.5, World Simulation with Video Foundation Models for Physical AI. [Paper] [Code]
Emu3.5, Emu3.5: Native Multimodal Models are World Learners. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
ODesign, ODesign: A World Model for Biomolecular Interaction Design. [Paper] [Website]
GigaBrain-0, GigaBrain-0: A World Model-Powered Vision-Language-Action Model. [Paper] [Website]
CWM, CWM: An Open-Weights LLM for Research on Code Generation with World Models. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
WoW, WoW: Towards a World omniscient World model Through Embodied Interaction. [Paper] [Website]
Matrix-Game 2.0, Matrix-Game 2.0: An Open-Source, Real-Time, and Streaming Interactive World Model. [Paper] [Website]
Matrix-3D, Matrix-3D: Omnidirectional Explorable 3D World Generation. [Paper] [Website]
HunyuanWorld 1.0, HunyuanWorld 1.0: Generating Immersive, Explorable, and Interactive 3D Worlds from Words or Pixels. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
What Does it Mean for a Neural Network to Learn a "World Model"?. [Paper]
Matrix-Game, Matrix-Game: Interactive World Foundation Model. [Paper] [Code]
Cosmos-Drive-Dreams, Cosmos-Drive-Dreams: Scalable Synthetic Driving Data Generation with World Foundation Models. [Paper] [Website]
GAIA-2, GAIA-2: A Controllable Multi-View Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving. [Paper] [Website]
Cosmos, Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
1X Technologies, 1X World Model. [Blog]
Runway, Introducing General World Models. [Blog]
Wayve, Introducing GAIA-1: A Cutting-Edge Generative AI Model for Autonomy. [Paper] [Blog]
Yann LeCun, A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence. [Paper]
world-models.io, A structured knowledge hub for AI world models, with model profiles, research syntheses, comparisons, benchmark-oriented evaluation context, and a practical taxonomy. [Website] [Blog]

Survey

"World-Action Models for Robot Learning and Control: A Survey", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Surgical Video Generation From Diffusion to World Models: A Survey", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"From Generation to Simulation: How Far Are World Models from Being True Simulators?", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Security of World-Model-Based Embodied AI: A Lifecycle of Threats, Defenses, and Evaluation", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"From World Action Models to Embodied Brains: A Roadmap for Open-World Physical Intelligence", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"From World Models to World Action Models: A Concise Tutorial for Robotics", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Autonomous Video Generation with Counterfactual Controllability for Self-Evolving World Models", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Medical world models: representing medical states, modelling clinical dynamics and guiding intervention policies", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Bridging the Agent-World Gap: Text World Models for LLM-based Agents", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Towards Interactive Video World Modeling: Frontiers, Challenges, Benchmarks, and Future Trends", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"Safety in Embodied AI: A Survey of Risks, Attacks, and Defenses" arXiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Why We Need World Models for AGI: Where LLMs Fail and How World Models May Outperform" arXiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"World Action Models: The Next Frontier in Embodied AI" arXiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"Latent State Design for World Models under Sufficiency Constraints" arXiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"World Model for Robot Learning: A Comprehensive Survey" arXiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"Visual Generation in the New Era: An Evolution from Atomic Mapping to Agentic World Modeling" arXiv 2026.04. [Paper] [Code]
"Agentic World Modeling: Foundations, Capabilities, Laws, and Beyond" arXiv 2026.04. [Paper]
"Infrastructure-Centric World Models: Bridging Temporal Depth and Spatial Breadth for Roadside Perception" arXiv 2026.04. [Paper]
"Human Cognition in Machines: A Unified Perspective of World Models" arXiv 2026.04. [Paper]
"Video Generation Models as World Models: Efficient Paradigms, Architectures and Algorithms" arXiv 2026.03. [Paper]
"From Digital Twins to World Models:Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications for Mobile Edge General Intelligence" arXiv 2026.03. [Paper]
"The Trinity of Consistency as a Defining Principle for General World Models" arXiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Code]
"A Mechanistic View on Video Generation as World Models: State and Dynamics", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
"From Generative Engines to Actionable Simulators: The Imperative of Physical Grounding in World Models", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
"Modeling the Mental World for Embodied AI: A Comprehensive Review", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
"Digital Twin AI: Opportunities and Challenges from Large Language Models to World Models", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
"Beyond World Models: Rethinking Understanding in AI Models", AAAI 2026. [Paper]
"Simulating the Visual World with Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Wesite] [Code]
"A Step Toward World Models: A Survey on Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"World Models Should Prioritize the Unification of Physical and Social Dynamics", NIPS 2025. [Paper] [Website]
"From Masks to Worlds: A Hitchhiker's Guide to World Models", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
"A Comprehensive Survey on World Models for Embodied AI", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
"The Safety Challenge of World Models for Embodied AI Agents: A Review", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Embodied AI: From LLMs to World Models", IEEE CASM. [Paper]
"3D and 4D World Modeling: A Survey", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Edge General Intelligence Through World Models and Agentic AI: Fundamentals, Solutions, and Challenges", arXiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"A Survey: Learning Embodied Intelligence from Physical Simulators and World Models", arXiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Code]
"Embodied AI Agents: Modeling the World", arXiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"From 2D to 3D Cognition: A Brief Survey of General World Models", arXiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"A Survey on World Models Grounded in Acoustic Physical Information", arXiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Exploring the Evolution of Physics Cognition in Video Generation: A Survey", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Code]
"World Models in Artificial Intelligence: Sensing, Learning, and Reasoning Like a Child", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Simulating the Real World: A Unified Survey of Multimodal Generative Models", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Code]
"Four Principles for Physically Interpretable World Models", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"The Role of World Models in Shaping Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Survey", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper] [Code]
"A Survey of World Models for Autonomous Driving", TPAMI. [Paper]
"Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
"World Models: The Safety Perspective", ISSRE WDMD. [Paper]
"Exploring the Interplay Between Video Generation and World Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
"From Efficient Multimodal Models to World Models: A Survey", arXiv 2024.07. [Paper]
"Aligning Cyber Space with Physical World: A Comprehensive Survey on Embodied AI", arXiv 2024.07. [Paper] [Code]
"Is Sora a World Simulator? A Comprehensive Survey on General World Models and Beyond", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper] [Code]
"World Models for Autonomous Driving: An Initial Survey", TIV. [Paper]
"A survey on multimodal large language models for autonomous driving", WACVW 2024. [Paper] [Code]

Datasets & Benchmarks & Evaluation

VeriPhy: "VeriPhy: Agentic Physical Reasoning for World Model Evaluation and Refinement", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
SolarWM: "SolarWM: Open Data and Scalable Training for Long-Horizon Video World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
PAWBench: "PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling?", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
R2M-Bench: "R2M-Bench: Evaluating Revisit Memory via Relative Consistency in Interactive Video World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
MiniMax H3 1K prompt dataset: curated 1K text-to-video prompts with 3-field structure anatomy, 10 reusable prompts, and an H3 vs. peer model comparison. [Website] [Code] [Dataset]
"CG-World: A Large-Scale World-State Dataset and Protocol for World Models", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
ProVisE: "Show, Don't Tell: Evaluating Spatial Cognition in Generative Pixels Rather Than LLM Text", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
KineBench: "KineBench: Benchmarking Embodied World Models via IDM-Free Kinematic Grounding", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
WorldRoamBench: "WorldRoamBench: An Open-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Stability of Interactive World Models", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Agent Dynamics in World Models", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
PhysEditWorld: "PhysEditWorld: A Large-Scale Dataset Toward Physics-Editable World Models", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Current World Models Lack a Persistent State Core", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
EgoCS-400K: "EgoCS-400K: An Egocentric Gameplay Dataset for World Models", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
ARB4WM: "ARB4WM: An Adversarial Robustness Benchmark for World Models in Continuous Control", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Diffusion Transformer World-Action Model for AV Scene Prediction", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"World Model Self-Distillation: Training World Models to Solve General Tasks", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
WorldOlympiad: "WorldOlympiad: Can Your World Model Survive a Triathlon?", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Can Image Models Imagine Time? ImageTime: A Novel Benchmark for Probing Visual World Modeling Through Spatiotemporal Consistency", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Towards World Models in Biomedical Research", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
RoboTrustBench: "RoboTrustBench: Benchmarking the Trustworthiness of Video World Models for Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper] [Website]
MBench: "MBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark on Memory Capability for Video World Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
MiraBench: "MiraBench: Evaluating Action-Conditioned Reliability in Robotic World Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
What-If World: "What-If World: A Causal Benchmark for General World Models in Embodied Scenarios", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
WBench: "WBench: A Comprehensive Multi-turn Benchmark for Interactive Video World Model Evaluation", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
stable-worldmodel: "stable-worldmodel: A Platform for Reproducible World Modeling Research and Evaluation", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
HalluWorld: "HalluWorld: A Controlled Benchmark for Hallucination via Reference World Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
WorldArena 2.0: "WorldArena 2.0: Extending Embodied World Model Benchmarking on Modality, Functionality and Platform", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
DeTrack: "DeTrack: A Benchmark and Altitude-Aware Dual World Model for Drone-embodied Tracking", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"Quantitative Video World Model Evaluation for Geometric-Consistency", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Is Your Driving World Model an All-Around Player?", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
PhyGround: "PhyGround: Benchmarking Physical Reasoning in Generative World Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
iWorld-Bench: "iWorld-Bench: A Benchmark for Interactive World Models with a Unified Action Generation Framework", ICML 2026. [Paper]
WorldMark: "WorldMark: A Unified Benchmark Suite for Interactive Video World Models", arxiv 2026.04. [Paper]
RoboWM-Bench: "RoboWM-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating World Models in Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2026.04. [Paper] [Code]
MotionScape: "MotionScape: A Large-Scale Real-World Highly Dynamic UAV Video Dataset for World Models", arxiv 2026.04. [Paper] [Code]
EgoVerse: "EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the World", arxiv 2026.04. [Paper] [Website]
"World Reasoning Arena", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Code]
Omni-WorldBench: "Omni-WorldBench: Towards a Comprehensive Interaction-Centric Evaluation for World Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Evaluating State Evolution in Video World Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Website]
MicroVerse: "MicroVerse: A Preliminary Exploration Toward a Micro-World Simulation", ICLR 2026. [Paper] [Code]
WorldArena: "WorldArena: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Perception and Functional Utility of Embodied World Models" arXiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Code]
MIND: "MIND: Benchmarking Memory Consistency and Action Control in World Models" arXiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Code]
WoW-bench: "World of Workflows: a Benchmark for Bringing World Models to Enterprise Systems" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
WorldBench: "WorldBench: Disambiguating Physics for Diagnostic Evaluation of World Models" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website]
PhysicsMind: "PhysicsMind: Sim and Real Mechanics Benchmarking for Physical Reasoning and Prediction in Foundational VLMs and World Models" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
RBench: "Rethinking Video Generation Model for the Embodied World" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
Wow, wo, val!: "Wow, wo, val! A Comprehensive Embodied World Model Evaluation Turing Test" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
DrivingGen: "DrivingGen: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Generative Video World Models in Autonomous Driving" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website]
"A Unified Definition of Hallucination, Or: It's the World Model, Stupid" arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
"Active Intelligence in Video Avatars via Closed-loop World Modeling" arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Code]
MobileWorldBench: "MobileWorldBench: Towards Semantic World Modeling For Mobile Agents" arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Code]
WorldLens: "WorldLens: Full-Spectrum Evaluations of Driving World Models in Real World" arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
"Evaluating Gemini Robotics Policies in a Veo World Simulator" arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
On Memory: "On Memory: A comparison of memory mechanisms in world models" World Modeling Workshop 2026. [Paper]
SmallWorlds: "SmallWorlds: Assessing Dynamics Understanding of World Models in Isolated Environments", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
4DWorldBench: "4DWorldBench: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for 3D/4D World Generation Models", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
Target-Bench: "Target-Bench: Can World Models Achieve Mapless Path Planning with Semantic Targets?", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
PragWorld: "PragWorld: A Benchmark Evaluating LLMs' Local World Model under Minimal Linguistic Alterations and Conversational Dynamics", AAAI 2026. [Paper]
"Can World Simulators Reason? Gen-ViRe: A Generative Visual Reasoning Benchmark", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Code]
"Scalable Policy Evaluation with Video World Models", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"Expert Evaluation of LLM World Models: A High-Tc Superconductivity Case Study", ICML 2025 workshop on Assessing World Models and the Explorations in AI Today. [Paper]
"Benchmarking World-Model Learning", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
LikePhys: "LikePhys: Evaluating Intuitive Physics Understanding in Video Diffusion Models via Likelihood Preference", ICLR 2026. [Paper] [Website]
World-in-World: "World-in-World: World Models in a Closed-Loop World", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
VideoVerse: "VideoVerse: How Far is Your T2V Generator from a World Model?", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
OmniWorld: "OmniWorld: A Multi-Domain and Multi-Modal Dataset for 4D World Modeling", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper] [Website]
"Beyond Simulation: Benchmarking World Models for Planning and Causality in Autonomous Driving", ICRA 2025. [Paper]
WM-ABench: "Do Vision-Language Models Have Internal World Models? Towards an Atomic Evaluation", ACL 2025(Findings). [Paper] [Website]
UNIVERSE: "Adapting Vision-Language Models for Evaluating World Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
WorldPrediction: "WorldPrediction: A Benchmark for High-level World Modeling and Long-horizon Procedural Planning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Toward Memory-Aided World Models: Benchmarking via Spatial Consistency", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Datasets] [Code]
SimWorld: "SimWorld: A Unified Benchmark for Simulator-Conditioned Scene Generation via World Model", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Code]
EWMBench: "EWMBench: Evaluating Scene, Motion, and Semantic Quality in Embodied World Models", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Code]
"Toward Stable World Models: Measuring and Addressing World Instability in Generative Environments", arxiv 2025.03. [Paper]
WorldModelBench: "WorldModelBench: Judging Video Generation Models As World Models", CVPR 2025. [Paper] [Website]
Text2World: "Text2World: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Symbolic World Model Generation", arxiv 2025.02. [Paper] [Website]
ACT-Bench: "ACT-Bench: Towards Action Controllable World Models for Autonomous Driving", arxiv 2024.12. [Paper]
WorldSimBench: "WorldSimBench: Towards Video Generation Models as World Simulators", arxiv 2024.10. [Paper] [Website]
EVA: "EVA: An Embodied World Model for Future Video Anticipation", ICML 2025. [Paper] [Website]
AeroVerse: "AeroVerse: UAV-Agent Benchmark Suite for Simulating, Pre-training, Finetuning, and Evaluating Aerospace Embodied World Models", arxiv 2024.08. [Paper]
CityBench: "CityBench: Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Model as World Model", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper] [Code]
"Imagine the Unseen World: A Benchmark for Systematic Generalization in Visual World Models", NIPS 2023. [Paper]

General World Models

"AlayaVista: Streaming World Modeling from Panoramic States to Perspective Video", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"World in World: Explore the World with World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Programmable World Model", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
Arti-JEPA: "Arti-JEPA: Adapting Video World Model to Real-Time MRI of the Vocal Tract for Speech-Production Analysis", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
Valerant: "Valerant: An Automatic Navigable Game Map Generator via Action-Conditioned World Model Exploration", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
VeriScene: "VeriScene: Reconstructing Crime Scenes from Legal Evidence via World-Model Agent", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
ActionSplice: "ActionSplice: In-Flight Action Editing for Interactive World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"A radiographic world model for clinical reasoning and evidence generation", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Diagnosing and Dynamically Filtering Occupancy World Models for Active Mapping", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
WorldSculpt: "WorldSculpt: Generating Compositional Worlds from Grounded Videos", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
TourPhysics: "TourPhysics: Bringing Physics to World Models for Exploration and Manipulation from a Single Image", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
WorldReward: "WorldReward: Reward Modeling for Camera-Conditioned World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
OctWorld: "OctWorld: Long-Range World-Consistent Video Generation with Octree-Based 3D Mapping", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Semantic Bayesian World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Building Pretraining Data for World Models: An Unreal Engine-Based Pipeline for Action-Conditioned Video Generation", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Discriminative World Models for Web Agents", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
H3-World: "H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
CAER: "CAER: Causal Action Effect Reweighting for World Model Training", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Can Video World Models Track Unobserved World States?", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
WebWorld: "WebWorld: The Browser as a World Model for Self-Improving Web Code", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Matrix-Game 3.5: Enhancing Real-Time Streaming Interactive World Models with Patch Memory", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Off-Manifold Refinement: Guiding Video Generators with a Frozen World Model", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"An Enclosed Mode Is a Gauge Choice: Topology Relative to Reach in Certified Code World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
SpatialCrafter: "SpatialCrafter: Single Image World Modeling with Generative 3D Proxies", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
4DSynth: "4DSynth: Controllable Procedural World Synthesis for Dynamic Embodied Simulation", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
Code World Model: "Code World Model: Coding Agent as World Brain", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Agentic Game Development as a Verifiable Trajectory Data Engine for Scaling World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
Game2World Engine: "Game2World Engine: Unlocking In-the-Wild Gameplay Videos for World Model Training", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
ReWorld: "ReWorld: An Interactive World Model with Long-Horizon Memory", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Long-Horizon Audio-Visual Generation for Persistent Stories and Interactive Worlds", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
Future Querying: "Future Querying: Can LLMs Serve as Implicit Medical World Models?", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
EchoWM: "EchoWM: Open and Enterable Omnimodal World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
LpWM: "LpWM: A Case for Sparse Representations in World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
MOSH-WM: "MOSH-WM: Mask-Grounded Soft-Hamiltonian Dynamics for Object-Centric World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Towards Surgical World-Action Modeling: A Preliminary Joint Visual-Trajectory Forecasting for Surgical Motion Planning", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Orthogonal JEPA: Factorized Predictive States for Latent World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Decision-Metric Alignment in Latent World Models: Diagnostics and Action-Conditioned Objectives for MPC Planning", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Progressive Experience Fusion for Multi-Task World Model Control in Endovascular Navigation", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Partition the Support, Reconstruct the Residual: Training-Free Sparse Attention for Video Generation and World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Towards Zero-Shot Task Transfer with Neurosymbolic World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"An Omitted Mode Is a Rare Rule: The Sampling-Verification Danger Law in Continuous Code World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"No Gaussian Required: Contrastive Inverse Dynamics for JEPA World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
PhiZero: "PhiZero: A World Model Built Around Physical Language", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
QQWorld: "QQWorld: Quantile-Quantile Matching for World Model Regularization", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
ShadowDancer: "ShadowDancer: Teaching Video World Models Any Action by Learning Unified Dynamics Representations from a Video and Its Shadow", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
Tycho: "Tycho: Active Abstraction with Programmatic World Models for ARC-AGI-3", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Failure Detection for Surgical Robot Imitation Policies via Flow-Matching World Modeling", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Mental World Modeling", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"What Can Latent World Models Know? Physical Parameter Identifiability in Multimodal Predictive Representations", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"StatePlay: State-Aware Game World Models for Mechanics-Consistent Generation", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"CalTwin: Towards Calibrated, Shift-Robust Medical World Models via Fisher-Information Regularisation", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"ActSWM: Action-Sensitive World Models for Long-Horizon Planning in Open-World Games", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Genie Sim PanoWorld: An Infinite Indoor 3D World Generation Pipeline via Panoramic Scene Modeling and Simulation", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Learning Implicit Causal World Models from Multi-Agent Demonstrations", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
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"The Double Life of Code World Models: Provably Unmasking Malicious Behavior Through Execution Traces", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
LongVie 2: "LongVie 2: Multimodal Controllable Ultra-Long Video World Model", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
VFMF: "VFMF: World Modeling by Forecasting Vision Foundation Model Features", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
VDAWorld: "VDAWorld: World Modelling via VLM-Directed Abstraction and Simulation", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
"Closing the Train-Test Gap in World Models for Gradient-Based Planning", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
WonderZoom: "WonderZoom: Multi-Scale 3D World Generation", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
Astra: "Astra: General Interactive World Model with Autoregressive Denoising", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
Visionary: "Visionary: The World Model Carrier Built on WebGPU-Powered Gaussian Splatting Platform", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
CLARITY: "CLARITY: Medical World Model for Guiding Treatment Decisions by Modeling Context-Aware Disease Trajectories in Latent Space", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
UnityVideo: "UnityVideo: Unified Multi-Modal Multi-Task Learning for Enhancing World-Aware Video Generation", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"Speech World Model: Causal State-Action Planning with Explicit Reasoning for Speech", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
"Probing the effectiveness of World Models for Spatial Reasoning through Test-time Scaling", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Code]
ProPhy: "ProPhy: Progressive Physical Alignment for Dynamic World Simulation", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
BiTAgent: "BiTAgent: A Task-Aware Modular Framework for Bidirectional Coupling between Multimodal Large Language Models and World Models", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
RELIC: "RELIC: Interactive Video World Model with Long-Horizon Memory", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
"Better World Models Can Lead to Better Post-Training Performance", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
SeeU: "SeeU: Seeing the Unseen World via 4D Dynamics-aware Generation", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
DynamicVerse: "DynamicVerse: A Physically-Aware Multimodal Framework for 4D World Modeling", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
IC-World: "IC-World: In-Context Generation for Shared World Modeling", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Code]
WorldPack: "WorldPack: Compressed Memory Improves Spatial Consistency in Video World Modeling", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
GrndCtrl: "GrndCtrl: Grounding World Models via Self-Supervised Reward Alignment", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
ChronosObserver: "ChronosObserver: Taming 4D World with Hyperspace Diffusion Sampling", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
AVWM: "Audio-Visual World Models: Towards Multisensory Imagination in Sight and Sound", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
VCWorld: "VCWorld: A Biological World Model for Virtual Cell Simulation", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Code]
VISTAv2: "VISTAv2: World Imagination for Indoor Vision-and-Language Navigation", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
Captain Safari: "Captain Safari: A World Engine", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
WorldWander: "WorldWander: Bridging Egocentric and Exocentric Worlds in Video Generation", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Code]
Inferix: "Inferix: A Block-Diffusion based Next-Generation Inference Engine for World Simulation", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Code]
MagicWorld, MagicWorld: Towards Long-Horizon Stability for Interactive Video World Exploration. [Paper][Website] [Code]
"Counterfactual World Models via Digital Twin-conditioned Video Diffusion", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper]
WorldGen: "WorldGen: From Text to Traversable and Interactive 3D Worlds", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
X-WIN: "X-WIN: Building Chest Radiograph World Model via Predictive Sensing", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"Object-Centric World Models for Causality-Aware Reinforcement Learning", AAAI 2026. [Paper]
"Latent-Space Autoregressive World Model for Efficient and Robust Image-Goal Navigation", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper]
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"Next-Latent Prediction Transformers Learn Compact World Models", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper]
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"Bootstrap Off-policy with World Model", NIPS 2025. [Paper]
"Clone Deterministic 3D Worlds with Geometrically-Regularized World Models", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Semantic Communications with World Models", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
TRELLISWorld: "TRELLISWorld: Training-Free World Generation from Object Generators", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
WorldGrow: "WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Code]
PhysWorld: "PhysWorld: From Real Videos to World Models of Deformable Objects via Physics-Aware Demonstration Synthesis", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"How Hard is it to Confuse a World Model?", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Social World Model-Augmented Mechanism Design Policy Learning", NIPS 2025. [Paper]
VAGEN: "VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents", NIPS 2025. [Paper] [Website]
Cosmos-Surg-dVRK: "Cosmos-Surg-dVRK: World Foundation Model-based Automated Online Evaluation of Surgical Robot Policy Learning", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Zero-shot World Models via Search in Memory", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Vector Quantization in the Brain: Grid-like Codes in World Models", NIPS 2025. [Paper]
Terra: "Terra: Explorable Native 3D World Model with Point Latents", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
Deep SPI: "Deep SPI: Safe Policy Improvement via World Models", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"One Life to Learn: Inferring Symbolic World Models for Stochastic Environments from Unguided Exploration", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Code]
R-WoM: "R-WoM: Retrieval-augmented World Model For Computer-use Agents", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
WorldMirror: "WorldMirror: Universal 3D World Reconstruction with Any-Prior Prompting", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
Unified World Models: "Unified World Models: Memory-Augmented Planning and Foresight for Visual Navigation", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [code]
"Code World Models for General Game Playing", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
MorphoSim: "MorphoSim: An Interactive, Controllable, and Editable Language-guided 4D World Simulator", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [code]
ChronoEdit: "ChronoEdit: Towards Temporal Reasoning for Image Editing and World Simulation", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
SFP: "Spatiotemporal Forecasting as Planning: A Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach with Generative World Models", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
EvoWorld: "EvoWorld: Evolving Panoramic World Generation with Explicit 3D Memory", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Code]
"World Model for AI Autonomous Navigation in Mechanical Thrombectomy", MICCAI 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. [Paper]
DyMoDreamer: "DyMoDreamer: World Modeling with Dynamic Modulation", NeurIPS 2025. [Paper] [Code]
Dreamer4: "Training Agents Inside of Scalable World Models", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper] [Website]
"Reinforcement Learning with Inverse Rewards for World Model Post-training", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Context and Diversity Matter: The Emergence of In-Context Learning in World Models", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
FantasyWorld: "FantasyWorld: Geometry-Consistent World Modeling via Unified Video and 3D Prediction", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Remote Sensing-Oriented World Model", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"World Modeling with Probabilistic Structure Integration", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"One Model for All Tasks: Leveraging Efficient World Models in Multi-Task Planning", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper] [Code]
LatticeWorld: "LatticeWorld: A Multimodal Large Language Model-Empowered Framework for Interactive Complex World Generation", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Planning with Reasoning using Vision Language World Model", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Social World Models", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Dynamics-Aligned Latent Imagination in Contextual World Models for Zero-Shot Generalization", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
HERO: "HERO: Hierarchical Extrapolation and Refresh for Efficient World Models", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"Scalable RF Simulation in Generative 4D Worlds", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"Finite Automata Extraction: Low-data World Model Learning as Programs from Gameplay Video", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"Visuomotor Grasping with World Models for Surgical Robots", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"In-Context Reinforcement Learning via Communicative World Models", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper] [Code]
PIGDreamer: "PIGDreamer: Privileged Information Guided World Models for Safe Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning", ICML 2025. [Paper]
SimuRA: "SimuRA: Towards General Goal-Oriented Agent via Simulative Reasoning Architecture with LLM-Based World Model", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Back to the Features: DINO as a Foundation for Video World Models", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
Yume: "Yume: An Interactive World Generation Model", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"LLM world models are mental: Output layer evidence of brittle world model use in LLM mechanical reasoning", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Safety Certification in the Latent space using Control Barrier Functions and World Models", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Assessing adaptive world models in machines with novel games", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Graph World Model", ICML 2025. [Paper] [Website]
MobiWorld: "MobiWorld: World Models for Mobile Wireless Network", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Continual Reinforcement Learning by Planning with Online World Models", ICML 2025 Spotlight. [Paper]
AirScape: "AirScape: An Aerial Generative World Model with Motion Controllability", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website]
Geometry Forcing: "Geometry Forcing: Marrying Video Diffusion and 3D Representation for Consistent World Modeling", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website]
Martian World Models: "Martian World Models: Controllable Video Synthesis with Physically Accurate 3D Reconstructions", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website]
"What Has a Foundation Model Found? Using Inductive Bias to Probe for World Models", ICML 2025. [Paper]
"Critiques of World Models", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"When do World Models Successfully Learn Dynamical Systems?", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
WebSynthesis: "WebSynthesis: World-Model-Guided MCTS for Efficient WebUI-Trajectory Synthesis", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Accurate and Efficient World Modeling with Masked Latent Transformers", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
Dyn-O: "Dyn-O: Building Structured World Models with Object-Centric Representations", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
NavMorph: "NavMorph: A Self-Evolving World Model for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments", ICCV 2025. [Paper] [Code]
"A “Good” Regulator May Provide a World Model for Intelligent Systems", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
Xray2Xray: "Xray2Xray: World Model from Chest X-rays with Volumetric Context", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
MATWM: "Transformer World Model for Sample Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Measuring (a Sufficient) World Model in LLMs: A Variance Decomposition Framework", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Efficient Generation of Diverse Cooperative Agents with World Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
WorldLLM: "WorldLLM: Improving LLMs' world modeling using curiosity-driven theory-making", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"LLMs as World Models: Data-Driven and Human-Centered Pre-Event Simulation for Disaster Impact Assessment", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Bootstrapping World Models from Dynamics Models in Multimodal Foundation Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Video World Models with Long-term Spatial Memory", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
DSG-World: "DSG-World: Learning a 3D Gaussian World Model from Dual State Videos", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Safe Planning and Policy Optimization via World Model Learning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
FOLIAGE: "FOLIAGE: Towards Physical Intelligence World Models Via Unbounded Surface Evolution", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Linear Spatial World Models Emerge in Large Language Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
Simple, Good, Fast: "Simple, Good, Fast: Self-Supervised World Models Free of Baggage", ICLR 2025. [Paper] [Code]
Medical World Model: "Medical World Model: Generative Simulation of Tumor Evolution for Treatment Planning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"General agents need world models", ICML 2025. [Paper]
"Learning Abstract World Models with a Group-Structured Latent Space", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
DeepVerse: "DeepVerse: 4D Autoregressive Video Generation as a World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"World Models for Cognitive Agents: Transforming Edge Intelligence in Future Networks", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
Dyna-Think: "Dyna-Think: Synergizing Reasoning, Acting, and World Model Simulation in AI Agents", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
StateSpaceDiffuser: "StateSpaceDiffuser: Bringing Long Context to Diffusion World Models", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Learning World Models for Interactive Video Generation", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Revisiting Multi-Agent World Modeling from a Diffusion-Inspired Perspective", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Long-Context State-Space Video World Models", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Unlocking Smarter Device Control: Foresighted Planning with a World Model-Driven Code Execution Approach", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"World Models as Reference Trajectories for Rapid Motor Adaptation", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Policy-Driven World Model Adaptation for Robust Offline Model-based Reinforcement Learning", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Building spatial world models from sparse transitional episodic memories", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
PoE-World: "PoE-World: Compositional World Modeling with Products of Programmatic Experts", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Explainable Reinforcement Learning Agents Using World Models", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
seq-JEPA: "seq-JEPA: Autoregressive Predictive Learning of Invariant-Equivariant World Models", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Coupled Distributional Random Expert Distillation for World Model Online Imitation Learning", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Learning Local Causal World Models with State Space Models and Attention", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
WebEvolver: "WebEvolver: Enhancing Web Agent Self-Improvement with Coevolving World Model", arxiv 2025.04. [Paper]
WALL-E 2.0: "WALL-E 2.0: World Alignment by NeuroSymbolic Learning improves World Model-based LLM Agents", arxiv 2025.04. [Paper] [Code]
ViMo: "ViMo: A Generative Visual GUI World Model for App Agent", arxiv 2025.04. [Paper]
"Simulating Before Planning: Constructing Intrinsic User World Model for User-Tailored Dialogue Policy Planning", SIGIR 2025. [Paper]
CheXWorld: "CheXWorld: Exploring Image World Modeling for Radiograph Representation Learning", CVPR 2025. [Paper] [Code]
EchoWorld: "EchoWorld: Learning Motion-Aware World Models for Echocardiography Probe Guidance", CVPR 2025. [Paper] [Code]
"Adapting a World Model for Trajectory Following in a 3D Game", ICLR 2025 Workshop on World Models. [Paper]
MineWorld: "MineWorld: a Real-Time and Open-Source Interactive World Model on Minecraft", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper] [Website]
MoSim: "Neural Motion Simulator Pushing the Limit of World Models in Reinforcement Learning", CVPR 2025. [Paper]
"Improving World Models using Deep Supervision with Linear Probes", ICLR 2025 Workshop on World Models. [Paper]
"Decentralized Collective World Model for Emergent Communication and Coordination", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper]
"Adapting World Models with Latent-State Dynamics Residuals", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper]
"Can Test-Time Scaling Improve World Foundation Model?", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Code]
"Synthesizing world models for bilevel planning", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Long-context autoregressive video modeling with next-frame prediction", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
Aether: "Aether: Geometric-Aware Unified World Modeling", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
FUSDREAMER: "FUSDREAMER: Label-efficient Remote Sensing World Model for Multimodal Data Classification", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
"Inter-environmental world modeling for continuous and compositional dynamics", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
Disentangled World Models: "Disentangled World Models: Learning to Transfer Semantic Knowledge from Distracting Videos for Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Revisiting the Othello World Model Hypothesis", ICLR World Models Workshop. [Paper]
"Learning Transformer-based World Models with Contrastive Predictive Coding", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Surgical Vision World Model", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"World Models for Anomaly Detection during Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Inference", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
WMNav: "WMNav: Integrating Vision-Language Models into World Models for Object Goal Navigation", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
SENSEI: "SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
"Learning Actionable World Models for Industrial Process Control", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Implementing Spiking World Model with Multi-Compartment Neurons for Model-based Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Discrete Codebook World Models for Continuous Control", ICLR 2025. [Paper]
Multimodal Dreaming: "Multimodal Dreaming: A Global Workspace Approach to World Model-Based Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Generalist World Model Pre-Training for Efficient Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Learning To Explore With Predictive World Model Via Self-Supervised Learning", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
M^3: "M^3: A Modular World Model over Streams of Tokens", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"When do neural networks learn world models?", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Pre-Trained Video Generative Models as World Simulators", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
DMWM: "DMWM: Dual-Mind World Model with Long-Term Imagination", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
EvoAgent: "EvoAgent: Agent Autonomous Evolution with Continual World Model for Long-Horizon Tasks", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Acquisition through My Eyes and Steps: A Joint Predictive Agent Model in Egocentric Worlds", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Generating Symbolic World Models via Test-time Scaling of Large Language Models", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper] [Website]
"Improving Transformer World Models for Data-Efficient RL", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Trajectory World Models for Heterogeneous Environments", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Enhancing Memory and Imagination Consistency in Diffusion-based World Models via Linear-Time Sequence Modeling", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Objects matter: object-centric world models improve reinforcement learning in visually complex environments", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
GLAM: "GLAM: Global-Local Variation Awareness in Mamba-based World Model", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
GAWM: "GAWM: Global-Aware World Model for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
"Generative Emergent Communication: Large Language Model is a Collective World Model", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
"Towards Unraveling and Improving Generalization in World Models", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
"Towards Physically Interpretable World Models: Meaningful Weakly Supervised Representations for Visual Trajectory Prediction", arXiv 2024.12. [Paper]
"Transformers Use Causal World Models in Maze-Solving Tasks", arXiv 2024.12. [Paper]
"Causal World Representation in the GPT Model", NIPS 2024 Workshop. [Paper]
Owl-1: "Owl-1: Omni World Model for Consistent Long Video Generation", arXiv 2024.12. [Paper]
"Navigation World Models", arXiv 2024.12. [Paper] [Website]
"Evaluating World Models with LLM for Decision Making", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
LLMPhy: "LLMPhy: Complex Physical Reasoning Using Large Language Models and World Models", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
WebDreamer: "Is Your LLM Secretly a World Model of the Internet? Model-Based Planning for Web Agents", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper] [Code]
"Scaling Laws for Pre-training Agents and World Models", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
DINO-WM: "DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper] [Website]
"Learning World Models for Unconstrained Goal Navigation", NIPS 2024. [Paper]
"How Far is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspective", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
Adaptive World Models: "Adaptive World Models: Learning Behaviors by Latent Imagination Under Non-Stationarity", NIPS 2024 Workshop Adaptive Foundation Models. [Paper]
LLMCWM: "Language Agents Meet Causality -- Bridging LLMs and Causal World Models", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper] [Code]
"Reward-free World Models for Online Imitation Learning", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper]
"Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper]
AVID: "AVID: Adapting Video Diffusion Models to World Models", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper] [Code]
SMAC: "Grounded Answers for Multi-agent Decision-making Problem through Generative World Model", NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
OSWM: "One-shot World Models Using a Transformer Trained on a Synthetic Prior", arXiv 2024.09. [Paper]
"Making Large Language Models into World Models with Precondition and Effect Knowledge", arXiv 2024.09. [Paper]
"Efficient Exploration and Discriminative World Model Learning with an Object-Centric Abstraction", arXiv 2024.08. [Paper]
MoReFree: "World Models Increase Autonomy in Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2024.08. [Paper] [Project]
UrbanWorld: "UrbanWorld: An Urban World Model for 3D City Generation", arXiv 2024.07. [Paper]
PWM: "PWM: Policy Learning with Large World Models", arXiv 2024.07. [Paper] [Code]
"Predicting vs. Acting: A Trade-off Between World Modeling & Agent Modeling", arXiv 2024.07. [Paper]
GenRL: "GenRL: Multimodal foundation world models for generalist embodied agents", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper] [Code]
DLLM: "World Models with Hints of Large Language Models for Goal Achieving", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper]
"Cognitive Map for Language Models: Optimal Planning via Verbally Representing the World Model", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper]
CoDreamer: "CoDreamer: Communication-Based Decentralised World Models", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper]
Pandora: "Pandora: Towards General World Model with Natural Language Actions and Video States", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper] [Code]
EBWM: "Cognitively Inspired Energy-Based World Models", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper]
"Evaluating the World Model Implicit in a Generative Model", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper] [Code]
"Transformers and Slot Encoding for Sample Efficient Physical World Modelling", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper] [Code]
Puppeteer: "Hierarchical World Models as Visual Whole-Body Humanoid Controllers", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper] [Code]
BWArea Model: "BWArea Model: Learning World Model, Inverse Dynamics, and Policy for Controllable Language Generation", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper]
WKM: "Agent Planning with World Knowledge Model", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper] [Code]
Diamond: "Diffusion for World Modeling: Visual Details Matter in Atari", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper] [Code]
"Compete and Compose: Learning Independent Mechanisms for Modular World Models", arXiv 2024.04. [Paper]
"Dreaming of Many Worlds: Learning Contextual World Models Aids Zero-Shot Generalization", arXiv 2024.03. [Paper] [Code]
V-JEPA: "V-JEPA: Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture", Meta AI. [Blog] [Paper] [Code]
IWM: "Learning and Leveraging World Models in Visual Representation Learning", Meta AI. [Paper]
Genie: "Genie: Generative Interactive Environments", DeepMind. [Paper] [Blog]
Sora: "Video generation models as world simulators", OpenAI. [Technical report]
LWM: "World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention", arXiv 2024.02. [Paper] [Code]
"Planning with an Ensemble of World Models", OpenReview. [Paper]
WorldDreamer: "WorldDreamer: Towards General World Models for Video Generation via Predicting Masked Tokens", arXiv 2024.01. [Paper] [Code]
CWM: "Understanding Physical Dynamics with Counterfactual World Modeling", ECCV 2024. [Paper] [Code]
Δ-IRIS: "Efficient World Models with Context-Aware Tokenization", ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code]
LLM-Sim: "Can Language Models Serve as Text-Based World Simulators?", ACL. [Paper] [Code]
AD3: "AD3: Implicit Action is the Key for World Models to Distinguish the Diverse Visual Distractors", ICML 2024. [Paper]
MAMBA: "MAMBA: an Effective World Model Approach for Meta-Reinforcement Learning", ICLR 2024. [Paper] [Code]
R2I: "Mastering Memory Tasks with World Models", ICLR 2024. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
HarmonyDream: "HarmonyDream: Task Harmonization Inside World Models", ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code]
REM: "Improving Token-Based World Models with Parallel Observation Prediction", ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code]
"Do Transformer World Models Give Better Policy Gradients?"", ICML 2024. [Paper]
DreamSmooth: "DreamSmooth: Improving Model-based Reinforcement Learning via Reward Smoothing", ICLR 2024. [Paper]
TD-MPC2: "TD-MPC2: Scalable, Robust World Models for Continuous Control", ICLR 2024. [Paper] [Torch Code]
Hieros: "Hieros: Hierarchical Imagination on Structured State Space Sequence World Models", ICML 2024. [Paper]
CoWorld: "Making Offline RL Online: Collaborative World Models for Offline Visual Reinforcement Learning", NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]

World Models for Embodied AI

LeWAM: "Latent evolving World Action Model", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper] [Code]
"Modality-Autoregressive World-Action Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
XPACE: "XPACE: Joint World and Action Modeling from Heterogeneous Experience", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"World Models for Embodied Intelligence: From Plausible to Controllable to Actionable", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
WholeBodyWAM: "WholeBodyWAM: Generalizing Pre-trained World-Action Priors to Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via WBC-Grounded Coordination", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
WLA$^3$: "WLA$^3$: World Latent Action Modeling for Semantics, Dynamics, and Kinematics", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"When the World Lies: Backdoor Attacks on Latent World Models for Downstream Control", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
DIDO: "DIDO: Distilling Interaction-Centric Dynamics into One-Step Denoising for World Action Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Legislating World-Model-Based Planning with Legal Reasoning", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"One Model, Two Physical Stories: Auditing Misalignment in Multi-Modal World Modeling", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
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World-VLA-Loop: "World-VLA-Loop: Closed-Loop Learning of Video World Model and VLA Policy", arXiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Website]
"Coupled Local and Global World Models for Efficient First Order RL", arXiv 2026.02. [Paper]
"Visuo-Tactile World Models", arXiv 2026.02. [Paper]
BridgeV2W: "BridgeV2W: Bridging Video Generation Models to Embodied World Models via Embodiment Masks", arXiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Website]
World-Gymnast: "World-Gymnast: Training Robots with Reinforcement Learning in a World Model", arXiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Website]
MetaWorld: "MetaWorld: Skill Transfer and Composition in a Hierarchical World Model for Grounding High-Level Instructions", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Code]
"Walk through Paintings: Egocentric World Models from Internet Priors", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
"Aligning Agentic World Models via Knowledgeable Experience Learning", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
ReWorld: "ReWorld: Multi-Dimensional Reward Modeling for Embodied World Models", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
"An Efficient and Multi-Modal Navigation System with One-Step World Model", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
PointWorld: "PointWorld: Scaling 3D World Models for In-The-Wild Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website]
Dream2Flow: "Dream2Flow: Bridging Video Generation and Open-World Manipulation with 3D Object Flow", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
"What Drives Success in Physical Planning with Joint-Embedding Predictive World Models?", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Code]
Act2Goal: "Act2Goal: From World Model To General Goal-conditioned Policy", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
AstraNav-World: "AstraNav-World: World Model for Foresight Control and Consistency", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
ChronoDreamer: "ChronoDreamer: Action-Conditioned World Model as an Online Simulator for Robotic Planning", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
STORM: "STORM: Search-Guided Generative World Models for Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
"World Models Can Leverage Human Videos for Dexterous Manipulation", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
"Latent Action World Models for Control with Unlabeled Trajectories", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
PRISM-WM: "Prismatic World Model: Learning Compositional Dynamics for Planning in Hybrid Systems", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
"Learning Robot Manipulation from Audio World Models", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
"Embodied Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Manipulation Planning with Embodied World Model", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
"World Models That Know When They Don't Know: Controllable Video Generation with Calibrated Uncertainty", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
"Real-World Robot Control by Deep Active Inference With a Temporally Hierarchical World Model", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. [Paper]
"Seeing through Imagination: Learning Scene Geometry via Implicit Spatial World Modeling", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
IGen: "IGen: Scalable Data Generation for Robot Learning from Open-World Images", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
NavForesee: "NavForesee: A Unified Vision-Language World Model for Hierarchical Planning and Dual-Horizon Navigation Prediction", arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
TraceGen: "TraceGen: World Modeling in 3D Trace Space Enables Learning from Cross-Embodiment Videos", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
ENACT: "ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"Learning Massively Multitask World Models for Continuous Control", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
UNeMo: "UNeMo: Collaborative Visual-Language Reasoning and Navigation via a Multimodal World Model", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"MindForge: Empowering Embodied Agents with Theory of Mind for Lifelong Cultural Learning", NeurIPS 2025. [Paper]
"Towards High-Consistency Embodied World Model with Multi-View Trajectory Videos", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
WMPO: "WMPO: World Model-based Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
"Robot Learning from a Physical World Model", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
"When Object-Centric World Models Meet Policy Learning: From Pixels to Policies, and Where It Breaks", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
WorldPlanner: "WorldPlanner: Monte Carlo Tree Search and MPC with Action-Conditioned Visual World Models", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"Learning Interactive World Model for Object-Centric Reinforcement Learning", NIPS 2025. [Paper]
"Scaling Cross-Embodiment World Models for Dexterous Manipulation", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"Co-Evolving Latent Action World Models", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Deductive Chain-of-Thought Augmented Socially-aware Robot Navigation World Model", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
"Deep Active Inference with Diffusion Policy and Multiple Timescale World Model for Real-World Exploration and Navigation", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
ProTerrain: "ProTerrain: Probabilistic Physics-Informed Rough Terrain World Modeling", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Ego-Vision World Model for Humanoid Contact Planning", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
Ctrl-World: "Ctrl-World: A Controllable Generative World Model for Robot Manipulation", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
iMoWM: "iMoWM: Taming Interactive Multi-Modal World Model for Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
WristWorld: "WristWorld: Generating Wrist-Views via 4D World Models for Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"A Recipe for Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer in Manipulation with Online Imitation-Pretrained World Models", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Kinodynamic Motion Planning for Mobile Robot Navigation across Inconsistent World Models", RSS 2025 Workshop on Resilient Off-road Autonomous Robotics (ROAR). [Paper]
EMMA: "EMMA: Generalizing Real-World Robot Manipulation via Generative Visual Transfer", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
LongScape: "LongScape: Advancing Long-Horizon Embodied World Models with Context-Aware MoE", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
KeyWorld: "KeyWorld: Key Frame Reasoning Enables Effective and Efficient World Models", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
DAWM: "DAWM: Diffusion Action World Models for Offline Reinforcement Learning via Action-Inferred Transitions", ICML 2025 Workshop. [Paper]
World4RL: "World4RL: Diffusion World Models for Policy Refinement with Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
SAMPO: "SAMPO:Scale-wise Autoregression with Motion PrOmpt for generative world models", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
PhysicalAgent: "PhysicalAgent: Towards General Cognitive Robotics with Foundation World Models", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
SeqWM: "Empowering Multi-Robot Cooperation via Sequential World Models", ICLR 2026. [Paper] [Code]
M3W: "Learning and Planning Multi-Agent Tasks via an MoE-based World Model", NeurIPS 2025. [Paper] [Code]
"World Model Implanting for Test-time Adaptation of Embodied Agents", ICML 2025. [Paper]
"Learning Primitive Embodied World Models: Towards Scalable Robotic Learning", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper] [Website]
GWM: "GWM: Towards Scalable Gaussian World Models for Robotic Manipulation", ICCV 2025. [Paper] [Website]
"Imaginative World Modeling with Scene Graphs for Embodied Agent Navigation", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"Bounding Distributional Shifts in World Modeling through Novelty Detection", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
Genie Envisioner: "Genie Envisioner: A Unified World Foundation Platform for Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper] [Website]
DiWA: "DiWA: Diffusion Policy Adaptation with World Models", CoRL 2025. [Paper] [Code]
CoEx: "CoEx -- Co-evolving World-model and Exploration", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Latent Policy Steering with Embodiment-Agnostic Pretrained World Models", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
MindJourney: "MindJourney: Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Spatial Reasoning", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website]
FOUNDER: "FOUNDER: Grounding Foundation Models in World Models for Open-Ended Embodied Decision Making", ICML 2025. [Paper] [Website]
EmbodieDreamer: "EmbodieDreamer: Advancing Real2Sim2Real Transfer for Policy Training via Embodied World Modeling", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website]
World4Omni: "World4Omni: A Zero-Shot Framework from Image Generation World Model to Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
RoboScape: "RoboScape: Physics-informed Embodied World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
ParticleFormer: "ParticleFormer: A 3D Point Cloud World Model for Multi-Object, Multi-Material Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
ManiGaussian++: "ManiGaussian++: General Robotic Bimanual Manipulation with Hierarchical Gaussian World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
ReOI: "Reimagination with Test-time Observation Interventions: Distractor-Robust World Model Predictions for Visual Model Predictive Control", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
GAF: "GAF: Gaussian Action Field as a Dynamic World Model for Robotic Mlanipulation", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
"Prompting with the Future: Open-World Model Predictive Control with Interactive Digital Twins", RSS 2025. [Paper] [Website]
V-JEPA 2 and V-JEPA 2-AC: "V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"Time-Aware World Model for Adaptive Prediction and Control", ICML 2025. [Paper]
3DFlowAction: "3DFlowAction: Learning Cross-Embodiment Manipulation from 3D Flow World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
ORV: "ORV: 4D Occupancy-centric Robot Video Generation", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
WoMAP: "WoMAP: World Models For Embodied Open-Vocabulary Object Localization", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Sparse Imagination for Efficient Visual World Model Planning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
Humanoid World Models: "Humanoid World Models: Open World Foundation Models for Humanoid Robotics", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Evaluating Robot Policies in a World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
OSVI-WM: "OSVI-WM: One-Shot Visual Imitation for Unseen Tasks using World-Model-Guided Trajectory Generation", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
WorldEval: "WorldEval: World Model as Real-World Robot Policies Evaluator", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Consistent World Models via Foresight Diffusion", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
Vid2World: "Vid2World: Crafting Video Diffusion Models to Interactive World Models", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website]
RLVR-World: "RLVR-World: Training World Models with Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
LaDi-WM: "LaDi-WM: A Latent Diffusion-based World Model for Predictive Manipulation", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper]
FlowDreamer: "FlowDreamer: A RGB-D World Model with Flow-based Motion Representations for Robot Manipulation", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Occupancy World Model for Robots", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Learning 3D Persistent Embodied World Models", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper]
TesserAct: "TesserAct: Learning 4D Embodied World Models", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper] [Website]
PIN-WM: "PIN-WM: Learning Physics-INformed World Models for Non-Prehensile Manipulation", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper]
"Offline Robotic World Model: Learning Robotic Policies without a Physics Simulator", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper]
ManipDreamer: "ManipDreamer: Boosting Robotic Manipulation World Model with Action Tree and Visual Guidance", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper]
UWM: "Unified World Models: Coupling Video and Action Diffusion for Pretraining on Large Robotic Datasets", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper] [Website]
"Perspective-Shifted Neuro-Symbolic World Models: A Framework for Socially-Aware Robot Navigation", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
AdaWorld: "AdaWorld: Learning Adaptable World Models with Latent Actions", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
DyWA: "DyWA: Dynamics-adaptive World Action Model for Generalizable Non-prehensile Manipulation", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
"Towards Suturing World Models: Learning Predictive Models for Robotic Surgical Tasks", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
"World Modeling Makes a Better Planner: Dual Preference Optimization for Embodied Task Planning", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
LUMOS: "LUMOS: Language-Conditioned Imitation Learning with World Models", ICRA 2025. [Paper] [Website]
"Object-Centric World Model for Language-Guided Manipulation", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
DEMO^3: "Multi-Stage Manipulation with Demonstration-Augmented Reward, Policy, and World Model Learning", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
"Accelerating Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with State-Space World Models", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Learning Humanoid Locomotion with World Model Reconstruction", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Strengthening Generative Robot Policies through Predictive World Modeling", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper] [Website]
Robotic World Model: "Robotic World Model: A Neural Network Simulator for Robust Policy Optimization in Robotics", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
RoboHorizon: "RoboHorizon: An LLM-Assisted Multi-View World Model for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
Dream to Manipulate: "Dream to Manipulate: Compositional World Models Empowering Robot Imitation Learning with Imagination", arXiv 2024.12. [Paper] [Website]
UnrealZoo, UnrealZoo: Enriching Photo-realistic Virtual Worlds for Embodied AI, ICCV 2025 Highlight. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
WHALE: "WHALE: Towards Generalizable and Scalable World Models for Embodied Decision-making", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
VisualPredicator: "VisualPredicator: Learning Abstract World Models with Neuro-Symbolic Predicates for Robot Planning", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper]
"Multi-Task Interactive Robot Fleet Learning with Visual World Models", CoRL 2024. [Paper] [Code]
X-MOBILITY: "X-MOBILITY: End-To-End Generalizable Navigation via World Modeling", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper]
PIVOT-R: "PIVOT-R: Primitive-Driven Waypoint-Aware World Model for Robotic Manipulation", NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
GLIMO: "Grounding Large Language Models In Embodied Environment With Imperfect World Models", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper]
EVA: "EVA: An Embodied World Model for Future Video Anticipation", arxiv 2024.10. [Paper] [Website]
PreLAR: "PreLAR: World Model Pre-training with Learnable Action Representation", ECCV 2024. [Paper] [Code]
WMP: "World Model-based Perception for Visual Legged Locomotion", arXiv 2024.09. [Paper] [Project]
R-AIF: "R-AIF: Solving Sparse-Reward Robotic Tasks from Pixels with Active Inference and World Models", arXiv 2024.09. [Paper]
"Representing Positional Information in Generative World Models for Object Manipulation" arXiv 2024.09 [Paper]
DexSim2Real$^2$: "DexSim2Real$^2: Building Explicit World Model for Precise Articulated Object Dexterous Manipulation", arXiv 2024.09. [Paper]
DWL: "Advancing Humanoid Locomotion: Mastering Challenging Terrains with Denoising World Model Learning", RSS 2024 (Best Paper Award Finalist). [Paper]
"Physically Embodied Gaussian Splatting: A Realtime Correctable World Model for Robotics", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper] [Website]
HRSSM: "Learning Latent Dynamic Robust Representations for World Models", ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code]
RoboDreamer: "RoboDreamer: Learning Compositional World Models for Robot Imagination", ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code]
COMBO: "COMBO: Compositional World Models for Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation", ECCV 2024. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
ManiGaussian: "ManiGaussian: Dynamic Gaussian Splatting for Multi-task Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2024.03. [Paper] [Code]

World Models for VLA

WISE: "WISE: World-model-guided Imagination Scheduling for Efficient Post-training of Vision-Language-Action Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"CheckVLA: Execution-Time Verification with Action-Conditioned World Model for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
World Pilot: "World Pilot: Steering Vision-Language-Action Models with World-Action Priors", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Vision-Language-Action Models Meet World Models: Embodied Agentic AI for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"World-Language-Action Model for Unified World Modeling, Language Reasoning, and Action Synthesis", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
PiL-World: "PiL-World: A Chunk-Wise World Model for VLA Policy-in-the-Loop Evaluation", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Intercepting the Future: Latent-Space Predictive World Model for Dynamic VLA Manipulation", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
Pre-VLA: "Pre-VLA: Preemptive Runtime Verification for Reliable Vision-Language-Action and World-Model Rollouts", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"Reinforcing VLAs in Task-Agnostic World Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
DIAL: "DIAL: Decoupling Intent and Action via Latent World Modeling for End-to-End VLA", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Website]
"Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
"Scaling Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Robot VLAs with Generative 3D Worlds", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
Fast-WAM: "Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination?", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Website]
StructVLA: "Beyond Dense Futures: World Models as Structured Planners for Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
World2Act: "World2Act: Latent Action Post-Training via Skill-Compositional World Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Website]
AtomVLA: "AtomVLA: Scalable Post-Training for Robotic Manipulation via Predictive Latent World Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
Chain of World: "Chain of World: World Model Thinking in Latent Motion", CVPR 2026. [Paper] [Website]
"Learning Physics from Pretrained Video Models: A Multimodal Continuous and Sequential World Interaction Models for Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
World Guidance: "World Guidance: World Modeling in Condition Space for Action Generation", arxiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Website]
SC-VLA: "Self-Correcting VLA: Online Action Refinement via Sparse World Imagination", arxiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Website]
Motus: "Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model", arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
RoboScape-R: "RoboScape-R: Unified Reward-Observation World Models for Generalizable Robotics Training via RL", arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
AdaPower: "AdaPower: Specializing World Foundation Models for Predictive Manipulation", arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
RynnVLA-002: "RynnVLA-002: A Unified Vision-Language-Action and World Model", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Code]
NORA-1.5: "NORA-1.5: A Vision-Language-Action Model Trained using World Model- and Action-based Preference Rewards", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"Dual-Stream Diffusion for World-Model Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
VLA-RFT: "VLA-RFT: Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Fine-tuning with Verified Rewards in World Simulators", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
World-Env: "World-Env: Leveraging World Model as a Virtual Environment for VLA Post-Training", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
MoWM: "MoWM: Mixture-of-World-Models for Embodied Planning via Latent-to-Pixel Feature Modulation", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
LAWM: "Latent Action Pretraining Through World Modeling", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper] [Code]
PAR: "Physical Autoregressive Model for Robotic Manipulation without Action Pretraining", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper] [Website]
DreamVLA: "DreamVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model Dreamed with Comprehensive World Knowledge", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
WorldVLA: "WorldVLA: Towards Autoregressive Action World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
UniVLA: "UniVLA: Unified Vision-Language-Action Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
MinD: "MinD: Unified Visual Imagination and Control via Hierarchical World Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
FLARE: "FLARE: Robot Learning with Implicit World Modeling", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
DreamGen: "DreamGen: Unlocking Generalization in Robot Learning through Video World Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
CoT-VLA: "CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models", CVPR 2025. [Paper]
UP-VLA: "UP-VLA: A Unified Understanding and Prediction Model for Embodied Agent", ICML 2025. [Paper] [Code]
3D-VLA: "3D-VLA: A 3D Vision-Language-Action Generative World Model", ICML 2024. [Paper]

World Models for Visual Understanding

"Thinking with Imagination: Agentic Visual Spatial Reasoning with World Simulators", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Do LLMs Build World Models From Text? A Multilingual Diagnostic of Spatial Reasoning", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
GeoWorld-VLM: "GeoWorld-VLM: Geometry from World Models for Vision-Language Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
World2VLM: "World2VLM: Distilling World Model Imagination into VLMs for Dynamic Spatial Reasoning", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
DILLO: "Describe-Then-Act: Proactive Agent Steering via Distilled Language-Action World Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
WorldVLM: "WorldVLM: Combining World Model Forecasting and Vision-Language Reasoning", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
"When and How Much to Imagine: Adaptive Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Visual Spatial Reasoning", arxiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website]
"Visual Generation Unlocks Human-Like Reasoning through Multimodal World Models", arxiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website]
"Semantic World Models", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
DyVA: "Can World Models Benefit VLMs for World Dynamics?", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
"Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"From Generation to Generalization: Emergent Few-Shot Learning in Video Diffusion Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]

World Models for Autonomous Driving

PV-WM: "PV-WM: A Heterogeneous Micro-Macro World Model for Articulated Pedestrian-Vehicle Co-Rollout", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Rethinking World Models for Safety-Critical Embodied Systems", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
SV-WAM: "SV-WAM: An Efficient Surround-View World-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
Drive-HWM: "Drive-HWM: Hierarchical World Models for Dynamic-Latent Guided Autonomous Driving", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Long-Horizon Consistent and Interaction-Aware World Models for Multi-Style End-to-End Driving", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
4DGS-WAM: "4DGS-WAM: Bridging Past and Future with an Object-Centric World Action Model based on 4D Gaussian Splatting", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
GeoWAM: "GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
BehaviorWorldGen: "BehaviorWorldGen: Closing the Loop between Action Models and World Simulators via Controlla

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Awesome World Models for Robotics

This repository provides a curated list of papers for World Models for General Video Generation, Embodied AI, and Autonomous Driving. Template from Awesome-LLM-Robotics and Awesome-World-Model

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Awesome World Models for Robotics - Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit pull requests or reach out via email to add papers!

Foundation paper of World Model

World Models, NIPS 2018 Oral. [Paper] [Website]

Blog or Technical Report

ST-WAM, ST-WAM: Semantic-Temporal World Action Model for Robust Manipulation under Visual Distribution Shifts. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
NVIDIA OmniDreams, NVIDIA OmniDreams: Real-Time Generative World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous Vehicle Simulation. [Paper]
Cosmos 3, Cosmos 3: Omnimodal World Models for Physical AI. [Paper] [Website]
X Square Robot, WALL-WM: Carving World Action Modeling at the Event Joints. [Paper] [Website]
GE-Sim 2.0, GE-Sim 2.0: A Roadmap Towards Comprehensive Closed-loop Video World Simulators for Robotic Manipulation. [Paper] [Website]
Xiaomi EV World Model, Xiaomi EV World Model: A Joint World Model Integrating Reconstruction and Generation for Autonomous Driving. [Paper] [Website]
Coowa, The DAWN of World-Action Interactive Models. [Paper]
Being-H0.7, Being-H0.7: A Latent World-Action Model from Egocentric Videos. [Paper]
MotuBrain, MotuBrain: An Advanced World Action Model for Robot Control. [Paper]
Cortex 2.0, Cortex 2.0: Grounding World Models in Real-World Industrial Deployment. [Paper]
HY-World 2.0, HY-World 2.0: A Multi-Modal World Model for Reconstructing, Generating, and Simulating 3D World. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
Helios, Real Real-Time Long Video Generation Model. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
Seedance 2.0, Seedance 2.0: Advancing Video Generation for World Complexity. [Paper] [Website]
Matrix-Game 3.0, Matrix-Game 3.0: Real-Time and Streaming Interactive World Model with Long-Horizon Memory. [Paper] [Website]
HY-Embodied-0.5, HY-Embodied-0.5: Embodied Foundation Models for Real-World Agents. [Paper] [Website]
OpenWorldLib, OpenWorldLib: A Unified Codebase and Definition of Advanced World Models. [Paper]
ABot-PhysWorld, ABot-PhysWorld: Interactive World Foundation Model for Robotic Manipulation with Physics Alignment. [Paper]
GigaWorld-Policy, GigaWorld-Policy: An Efficient Action-Centered World--Action Model. [Paper]
GigaBrain-0.5M*, GigaBrain-0.5M*: a VLA That Learns From World Model-Based Reinforcement Learning. [Paper] [Website]
ALIVE, ALIVE: Animate Your World with Lifelike Audio-Video Generation. [Paper] [Website]
DreamDojo, DreamDojo: A Generalist Robot World Model from Large-Scale Human Videos. [Paper] [Website]
lingbot-va, Causal World Modeling for Robot Control. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
lingbot-world, Advancing Open-source World Models. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
TARS, World In Your Hands: A Large-Scale and Open-source Ecosystem for Learning Human-centric Manipulation in the Wild. [Paper] [Website]
SIMA 2, SIMA 2: A Generalist Embodied Agent for Virtual Worlds. [Paper]
SimWorld, SimWorld: An Open-ended Realistic Simulator for Autonomous Agents in Physical and Social Worlds. [Paper] [Website]
Hunyuan-GameCraft-2, Hunyuan-GameCraft-2: Instruction-following Interactive Game World Model. [Paper] [Website]
GigaWorld-0, GigaWorld-0: World Models as Data Engine to Empower Embodied AI. [Paper] [Website]
PAN, PAN: A World Model for General, Interactable, and Long-Horizon World Simulation. [Paper]
Cosmos-Predict2.5, World Simulation with Video Foundation Models for Physical AI. [Paper] [Code]
Emu3.5, Emu3.5: Native Multimodal Models are World Learners. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
ODesign, ODesign: A World Model for Biomolecular Interaction Design. [Paper] [Website]
GigaBrain-0, GigaBrain-0: A World Model-Powered Vision-Language-Action Model. [Paper] [Website]
CWM, CWM: An Open-Weights LLM for Research on Code Generation with World Models. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
WoW, WoW: Towards a World omniscient World model Through Embodied Interaction. [Paper] [Website]
Matrix-Game 2.0, Matrix-Game 2.0: An Open-Source, Real-Time, and Streaming Interactive World Model. [Paper] [Website]
Matrix-3D, Matrix-3D: Omnidirectional Explorable 3D World Generation. [Paper] [Website]
HunyuanWorld 1.0, HunyuanWorld 1.0: Generating Immersive, Explorable, and Interactive 3D Worlds from Words or Pixels. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
What Does it Mean for a Neural Network to Learn a "World Model"?. [Paper]
Matrix-Game, Matrix-Game: Interactive World Foundation Model. [Paper] [Code]
Cosmos-Drive-Dreams, Cosmos-Drive-Dreams: Scalable Synthetic Driving Data Generation with World Foundation Models. [Paper] [Website]
GAIA-2, GAIA-2: A Controllable Multi-View Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving. [Paper] [Website]
Cosmos, Cosmos World Foundation Model Platform for Physical AI. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
1X Technologies, 1X World Model. [Blog]
Runway, Introducing General World Models. [Blog]
Wayve, Introducing GAIA-1: A Cutting-Edge Generative AI Model for Autonomy. [Paper] [Blog]
Yann LeCun, A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence. [Paper]
world-models.io, A structured knowledge hub for AI world models, with model profiles, research syntheses, comparisons, benchmark-oriented evaluation context, and a practical taxonomy. [Website] [Blog]

Survey

"World-Action Models for Robot Learning and Control: A Survey", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Toward Unified Robot Learning: Bridging Representation, Vision-Language-Action, and World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Surgical Video Generation From Diffusion to World Models: A Survey", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"From Generation to Simulation: How Far Are World Models from Being True Simulators?", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Security of World-Model-Based Embodied AI: A Lifecycle of Threats, Defenses, and Evaluation", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"From World Action Models to Embodied Brains: A Roadmap for Open-World Physical Intelligence", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"From World Models to World Action Models: A Concise Tutorial for Robotics", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Autonomous Video Generation with Counterfactual Controllability for Self-Evolving World Models", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Medical world models: representing medical states, modelling clinical dynamics and guiding intervention policies", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Bridging the Agent-World Gap: Text World Models for LLM-based Agents", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Towards Interactive Video World Modeling: Frontiers, Challenges, Benchmarks, and Future Trends", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"Safety in Embodied AI: A Survey of Risks, Attacks, and Defenses" arXiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Why We Need World Models for AGI: Where LLMs Fail and How World Models May Outperform" arXiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"World Action Models: The Next Frontier in Embodied AI" arXiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"Latent State Design for World Models under Sufficiency Constraints" arXiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"World Model for Robot Learning: A Comprehensive Survey" arXiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"Visual Generation in the New Era: An Evolution from Atomic Mapping to Agentic World Modeling" arXiv 2026.04. [Paper] [Code]
"Agentic World Modeling: Foundations, Capabilities, Laws, and Beyond" arXiv 2026.04. [Paper]
"Infrastructure-Centric World Models: Bridging Temporal Depth and Spatial Breadth for Roadside Perception" arXiv 2026.04. [Paper]
"Human Cognition in Machines: A Unified Perspective of World Models" arXiv 2026.04. [Paper]
"Video Generation Models as World Models: Efficient Paradigms, Architectures and Algorithms" arXiv 2026.03. [Paper]
"From Digital Twins to World Models:Opportunities, Challenges, and Applications for Mobile Edge General Intelligence" arXiv 2026.03. [Paper]
"The Trinity of Consistency as a Defining Principle for General World Models" arXiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Code]
"A Mechanistic View on Video Generation as World Models: State and Dynamics", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
"From Generative Engines to Actionable Simulators: The Imperative of Physical Grounding in World Models", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
"Modeling the Mental World for Embodied AI: A Comprehensive Review", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
"Digital Twin AI: Opportunities and Challenges from Large Language Models to World Models", arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
"Beyond World Models: Rethinking Understanding in AI Models", AAAI 2026. [Paper]
"Simulating the Visual World with Artificial Intelligence: A Roadmap", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Wesite] [Code]
"A Step Toward World Models: A Survey on Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"World Models Should Prioritize the Unification of Physical and Social Dynamics", NIPS 2025. [Paper] [Website]
"From Masks to Worlds: A Hitchhiker's Guide to World Models", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
"A Comprehensive Survey on World Models for Embodied AI", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
"The Safety Challenge of World Models for Embodied AI Agents: A Review", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Embodied AI: From LLMs to World Models", IEEE CASM. [Paper]
"3D and 4D World Modeling: A Survey", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Edge General Intelligence Through World Models and Agentic AI: Fundamentals, Solutions, and Challenges", arXiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"A Survey: Learning Embodied Intelligence from Physical Simulators and World Models", arXiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Code]
"Embodied AI Agents: Modeling the World", arXiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"From 2D to 3D Cognition: A Brief Survey of General World Models", arXiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"A Survey on World Models Grounded in Acoustic Physical Information", arXiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Exploring the Evolution of Physics Cognition in Video Generation: A Survey", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Code]
"World Models in Artificial Intelligence: Sensing, Learning, and Reasoning Like a Child", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Simulating the Real World: A Unified Survey of Multimodal Generative Models", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Code]
"Four Principles for Physically Interpretable World Models", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"The Role of World Models in Shaping Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Survey", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper] [Code]
"A Survey of World Models for Autonomous Driving", TPAMI. [Paper]
"Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
"World Models: The Safety Perspective", ISSRE WDMD. [Paper]
"Exploring the Interplay Between Video Generation and World Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
"From Efficient Multimodal Models to World Models: A Survey", arXiv 2024.07. [Paper]
"Aligning Cyber Space with Physical World: A Comprehensive Survey on Embodied AI", arXiv 2024.07. [Paper] [Code]
"Is Sora a World Simulator? A Comprehensive Survey on General World Models and Beyond", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper] [Code]
"World Models for Autonomous Driving: An Initial Survey", TIV. [Paper]
"A survey on multimodal large language models for autonomous driving", WACVW 2024. [Paper] [Code]

Datasets & Benchmarks & Evaluation

VeriPhy: "VeriPhy: Agentic Physical Reasoning for World Model Evaluation and Refinement", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
SolarWM: "SolarWM: Open Data and Scalable Training for Long-Horizon Video World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
PAWBench: "PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling?", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
R2M-Bench: "R2M-Bench: Evaluating Revisit Memory via Relative Consistency in Interactive Video World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
MiniMax H3 1K prompt dataset: curated 1K text-to-video prompts with 3-field structure anatomy, 10 reusable prompts, and an H3 vs. peer model comparison. [Website] [Code] [Dataset]
"CG-World: A Large-Scale World-State Dataset and Protocol for World Models", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
ProVisE: "Show, Don't Tell: Evaluating Spatial Cognition in Generative Pixels Rather Than LLM Text", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
KineBench: "KineBench: Benchmarking Embodied World Models via IDM-Free Kinematic Grounding", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
WorldRoamBench: "WorldRoamBench: An Open-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Stability of Interactive World Models", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"A Physics-Grounded Benchmark for Multi-Agent Dynamics in World Models", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
PhysEditWorld: "PhysEditWorld: A Large-Scale Dataset Toward Physics-Editable World Models", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Current World Models Lack a Persistent State Core", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
EgoCS-400K: "EgoCS-400K: An Egocentric Gameplay Dataset for World Models", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
ARB4WM: "ARB4WM: An Adversarial Robustness Benchmark for World Models in Continuous Control", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Diffusion Transformer World-Action Model for AV Scene Prediction", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"World Model Self-Distillation: Training World Models to Solve General Tasks", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
WorldOlympiad: "WorldOlympiad: Can Your World Model Survive a Triathlon?", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Can Image Models Imagine Time? ImageTime: A Novel Benchmark for Probing Visual World Modeling Through Spatiotemporal Consistency", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Towards World Models in Biomedical Research", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
RoboTrustBench: "RoboTrustBench: Benchmarking the Trustworthiness of Video World Models for Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper] [Website]
MBench: "MBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark on Memory Capability for Video World Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
MiraBench: "MiraBench: Evaluating Action-Conditioned Reliability in Robotic World Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
What-If World: "What-If World: A Causal Benchmark for General World Models in Embodied Scenarios", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
WBench: "WBench: A Comprehensive Multi-turn Benchmark for Interactive Video World Model Evaluation", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
stable-worldmodel: "stable-worldmodel: A Platform for Reproducible World Modeling Research and Evaluation", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
HalluWorld: "HalluWorld: A Controlled Benchmark for Hallucination via Reference World Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
WorldArena 2.0: "WorldArena 2.0: Extending Embodied World Model Benchmarking on Modality, Functionality and Platform", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
DeTrack: "DeTrack: A Benchmark and Altitude-Aware Dual World Model for Drone-embodied Tracking", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"Quantitative Video World Model Evaluation for Geometric-Consistency", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Is Your Driving World Model an All-Around Player?", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
PhyGround: "PhyGround: Benchmarking Physical Reasoning in Generative World Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper] [Website]
iWorld-Bench: "iWorld-Bench: A Benchmark for Interactive World Models with a Unified Action Generation Framework", ICML 2026. [Paper]
WorldMark: "WorldMark: A Unified Benchmark Suite for Interactive Video World Models", arxiv 2026.04. [Paper]
RoboWM-Bench: "RoboWM-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating World Models in Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2026.04. [Paper] [Code]
MotionScape: "MotionScape: A Large-Scale Real-World Highly Dynamic UAV Video Dataset for World Models", arxiv 2026.04. [Paper] [Code]
EgoVerse: "EgoVerse: An Egocentric Human Dataset for Robot Learning from Around the World", arxiv 2026.04. [Paper] [Website]
"World Reasoning Arena", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Code]
Omni-WorldBench: "Omni-WorldBench: Towards a Comprehensive Interaction-Centric Evaluation for World Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Evaluating State Evolution in Video World Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Website]
MicroVerse: "MicroVerse: A Preliminary Exploration Toward a Micro-World Simulation", ICLR 2026. [Paper] [Code]
WorldArena: "WorldArena: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Perception and Functional Utility of Embodied World Models" arXiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Code]
MIND: "MIND: Benchmarking Memory Consistency and Action Control in World Models" arXiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Code]
WoW-bench: "World of Workflows: a Benchmark for Bringing World Models to Enterprise Systems" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
WorldBench: "WorldBench: Disambiguating Physics for Diagnostic Evaluation of World Models" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website]
PhysicsMind: "PhysicsMind: Sim and Real Mechanics Benchmarking for Physical Reasoning and Prediction in Foundational VLMs and World Models" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
RBench: "Rethinking Video Generation Model for the Embodied World" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
Wow, wo, val!: "Wow, wo, val! A Comprehensive Embodied World Model Evaluation Turing Test" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper]
DrivingGen: "DrivingGen: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Generative Video World Models in Autonomous Driving" arXiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website]
"A Unified Definition of Hallucination, Or: It's the World Model, Stupid" arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
"Active Intelligence in Video Avatars via Closed-loop World Modeling" arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Code]
MobileWorldBench: "MobileWorldBench: Towards Semantic World Modeling For Mobile Agents" arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Code]
WorldLens: "WorldLens: Full-Spectrum Evaluations of Driving World Models in Real World" arXiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
"Evaluating Gemini Robotics Policies in a Veo World Simulator" arXiv 2025.12. [Paper]
On Memory: "On Memory: A comparison of memory mechanisms in world models" World Modeling Workshop 2026. [Paper]
SmallWorlds: "SmallWorlds: Assessing Dynamics Understanding of World Models in Isolated Environments", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
4DWorldBench: "4DWorldBench: A Comprehensive Evaluation Framework for 3D/4D World Generation Models", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
Target-Bench: "Target-Bench: Can World Models Achieve Mapless Path Planning with Semantic Targets?", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
PragWorld: "PragWorld: A Benchmark Evaluating LLMs' Local World Model under Minimal Linguistic Alterations and Conversational Dynamics", AAAI 2026. [Paper]
"Can World Simulators Reason? Gen-ViRe: A Generative Visual Reasoning Benchmark", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Code]
"Scalable Policy Evaluation with Video World Models", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"Expert Evaluation of LLM World Models: A High-Tc Superconductivity Case Study", ICML 2025 workshop on Assessing World Models and the Explorations in AI Today. [Paper]
"Benchmarking World-Model Learning", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
LikePhys: "LikePhys: Evaluating Intuitive Physics Understanding in Video Diffusion Models via Likelihood Preference", ICLR 2026. [Paper] [Website]
World-in-World: "World-in-World: World Models in a Closed-Loop World", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
VideoVerse: "VideoVerse: How Far is Your T2V Generator from a World Model?", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
OmniWorld: "OmniWorld: A Multi-Domain and Multi-Modal Dataset for 4D World Modeling", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper] [Website]
"Beyond Simulation: Benchmarking World Models for Planning and Causality in Autonomous Driving", ICRA 2025. [Paper]
WM-ABench: "Do Vision-Language Models Have Internal World Models? Towards an Atomic Evaluation", ACL 2025(Findings). [Paper] [Website]
UNIVERSE: "Adapting Vision-Language Models for Evaluating World Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
WorldPrediction: "WorldPrediction: A Benchmark for High-level World Modeling and Long-horizon Procedural Planning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Toward Memory-Aided World Models: Benchmarking via Spatial Consistency", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Datasets] [Code]
SimWorld: "SimWorld: A Unified Benchmark for Simulator-Conditioned Scene Generation via World Model", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Code]
EWMBench: "EWMBench: Evaluating Scene, Motion, and Semantic Quality in Embodied World Models", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Code]
"Toward Stable World Models: Measuring and Addressing World Instability in Generative Environments", arxiv 2025.03. [Paper]
WorldModelBench: "WorldModelBench: Judging Video Generation Models As World Models", CVPR 2025. [Paper] [Website]
Text2World: "Text2World: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Symbolic World Model Generation", arxiv 2025.02. [Paper] [Website]
ACT-Bench: "ACT-Bench: Towards Action Controllable World Models for Autonomous Driving", arxiv 2024.12. [Paper]
WorldSimBench: "WorldSimBench: Towards Video Generation Models as World Simulators", arxiv 2024.10. [Paper] [Website]
EVA: "EVA: An Embodied World Model for Future Video Anticipation", ICML 2025. [Paper] [Website]
AeroVerse: "AeroVerse: UAV-Agent Benchmark Suite for Simulating, Pre-training, Finetuning, and Evaluating Aerospace Embodied World Models", arxiv 2024.08. [Paper]
CityBench: "CityBench: Evaluating the Capabilities of Large Language Model as World Model", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper] [Code]
"Imagine the Unseen World: A Benchmark for Systematic Generalization in Visual World Models", NIPS 2023. [Paper]

General World Models

"AlayaVista: Streaming World Modeling from Panoramic States to Perspective Video", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"World in World: Explore the World with World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Programmable World Model", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
Arti-JEPA: "Arti-JEPA: Adapting Video World Model to Real-Time MRI of the Vocal Tract for Speech-Production Analysis", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
Valerant: "Valerant: An Automatic Navigable Game Map Generator via Action-Conditioned World Model Exploration", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
VeriScene: "VeriScene: Reconstructing Crime Scenes from Legal Evidence via World-Model Agent", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
ActionSplice: "ActionSplice: In-Flight Action Editing for Interactive World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"A radiographic world model for clinical reasoning and evidence generation", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Diagnosing and Dynamically Filtering Occupancy World Models for Active Mapping", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
WorldSculpt: "WorldSculpt: Generating Compositional Worlds from Grounded Videos", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
TourPhysics: "TourPhysics: Bringing Physics to World Models for Exploration and Manipulation from a Single Image", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
WorldReward: "WorldReward: Reward Modeling for Camera-Conditioned World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
OctWorld: "OctWorld: Long-Range World-Consistent Video Generation with Octree-Based 3D Mapping", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Semantic Bayesian World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Building Pretraining Data for World Models: An Unreal Engine-Based Pipeline for Action-Conditioned Video Generation", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Discriminative World Models for Web Agents", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
H3-World: "H3-World: Turning Language Understanding into World Control", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
CAER: "CAER: Causal Action Effect Reweighting for World Model Training", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Can Video World Models Track Unobserved World States?", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
WebWorld: "WebWorld: The Browser as a World Model for Self-Improving Web Code", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Matrix-Game 3.5: Enhancing Real-Time Streaming Interactive World Models with Patch Memory", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Off-Manifold Refinement: Guiding Video Generators with a Frozen World Model", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"An Enclosed Mode Is a Gauge Choice: Topology Relative to Reach in Certified Code World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
SpatialCrafter: "SpatialCrafter: Single Image World Modeling with Generative 3D Proxies", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
4DSynth: "4DSynth: Controllable Procedural World Synthesis for Dynamic Embodied Simulation", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
Code World Model: "Code World Model: Coding Agent as World Brain", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Agentic Game Development as a Verifiable Trajectory Data Engine for Scaling World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
Game2World Engine: "Game2World Engine: Unlocking In-the-Wild Gameplay Videos for World Model Training", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
ReWorld: "ReWorld: An Interactive World Model with Long-Horizon Memory", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Long-Horizon Audio-Visual Generation for Persistent Stories and Interactive Worlds", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
Future Querying: "Future Querying: Can LLMs Serve as Implicit Medical World Models?", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
EchoWM: "EchoWM: Open and Enterable Omnimodal World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
LpWM: "LpWM: A Case for Sparse Representations in World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
MOSH-WM: "MOSH-WM: Mask-Grounded Soft-Hamiltonian Dynamics for Object-Centric World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Towards Surgical World-Action Modeling: A Preliminary Joint Visual-Trajectory Forecasting for Surgical Motion Planning", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Orthogonal JEPA: Factorized Predictive States for Latent World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Decision-Metric Alignment in Latent World Models: Diagnostics and Action-Conditioned Objectives for MPC Planning", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Progressive Experience Fusion for Multi-Task World Model Control in Endovascular Navigation", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Partition the Support, Reconstruct the Residual: Training-Free Sparse Attention for Video Generation and World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"Towards Zero-Shot Task Transfer with Neurosymbolic World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"An Omitted Mode Is a Rare Rule: The Sampling-Verification Danger Law in Continuous Code World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"No Gaussian Required: Contrastive Inverse Dynamics for JEPA World Models", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
PhiZero: "PhiZero: A World Model Built Around Physical Language", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
QQWorld: "QQWorld: Quantile-Quantile Matching for World Model Regularization", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
ShadowDancer: "ShadowDancer: Teaching Video World Models Any Action by Learning Unified Dynamics Representations from a Video and Its Shadow", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
Tycho: "Tycho: Active Abstraction with Programmatic World Models for ARC-AGI-3", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Failure Detection for Surgical Robot Imitation Policies via Flow-Matching World Modeling", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Mental World Modeling", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"What Can Latent World Models Know? Physical Parameter Identifiability in Multimodal Predictive Representations", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"StatePlay: State-Aware Game World Models for Mechanics-Consistent Generation", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"CalTwin: Towards Calibrated, Shift-Robust Medical World Models via Fisher-Information Regularisation", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"ActSWM: Action-Sensitive World Models for Long-Horizon Planning in Open-World Games", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Genie Sim PanoWorld: An Infinite Indoor 3D World Generation Pipeline via Panoramic Scene Modeling and Simulation", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Learning Implicit Causal World Models from Multi-Agent Demonstrations", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"INTACT: Isomorphic Intent-to-Action Learning for Search-Free World Models", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Reinformed Dreamer: An Asymmetric World Model Efficiently Trained through Latent Guidance", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Wonder: Video World Model Done Better", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Temporal-Distance JEPA: Plan-Aware Representation Learning for Latent World Model Predictive Control", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"On the Identifiability of Controlled World Models", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
Music-JEPA: "Music-JEPA: Learning a World Model of Sound from Action", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
PhysCoRe: "PhysCoRe: Physics-Corrected Residual World Models for Material-Aware Deformable Dynamics", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
Dreamer-CPC: "Dreamer-CPC: Message Learning with World Models for Decentralized Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
Koopman Dreamer: "Koopman Dreamer: Spectrally Constrained Latent Dynamics for Stable World-Model Imagination", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
ABot-World-0: "ABot-World-0: Infinite Interactive World Rollout on a Single Desktop GPU", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
FilmWorld: "FilmWorld: Agentic Novel-to-Film Generation through Dynamic Cinematic World Modeling", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
DWM: "DWM: Separating World Effects from Actions in Latent World Models", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
AlayaWorld: "AlayaWorld: Interactive Long-Horizon World Modeling -- Full Technical Report", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
SAGE: "SAGE: Subgoal-Conditioned Action Generation for Latent World Model Planning", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Mobile Network Control with a World Model", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Concept-Guided Spatial Regularization for World Models in Atari Pong", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
DriftWorld: "DriftWorld: Fast World Modeling through Drifting", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
RENEW: "RENEW: Towards Learning World Models and Repairing Model Exploitation from Preferences", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"From Pixels to States: Rethinking Interactive World Models as Game Engines", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"Learning Safe Agent Behaviour from Human Preferences and Justifications via World Models", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
Cycle-World: "Cycle-World: Mitigating Error Accumulation in Long-term Video World Models via Reverse-Prediction Cycle Consistency", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
ABot-3DWorld 0: "ABot-3DWorld 0: A Universal World Model to Explore Any 3D Space", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
"A Control Theory of Predictability in Latent World Models", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
RetailSMV: "RetailSMV: Exocentric vs. Egocentric Adaptation of Foundation Video World Models in Retail", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
AdaJEPA: "AdaJEPA: An Adaptive Latent World Model", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
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VISTAv2: "VISTAv2: World Imagination for Indoor Vision-and-Language Navigation", `arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website]
Captain Safari: "Captain Safari: A World Engine", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
WorldWander: "WorldWander: Bridging Egocentric and Exocentric Worlds in Video Generation", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Code]
Inferix: "Inferix: A Block-Diffusion based Next-Generation Inference Engine for World Simulation", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Code]
MagicWorld, MagicWorld: Towards Long-Horizon Stability for Interactive Video World Exploration. [Paper][Website] [Code]
"Counterfactual World Models via Digital Twin-conditioned Video Diffusion", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper]
WorldGen: "WorldGen: From Text to Traversable and Interactive 3D Worlds", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
X-WIN: "X-WIN: Building Chest Radiograph World Model via Predictive Sensing", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"Object-Centric World Models for Causality-Aware Reinforcement Learning", AAAI 2026. [Paper]
"Latent-Space Autoregressive World Model for Efficient and Robust Image-Goal Navigation", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper]
Dynamic Sparsity: "Dynamic Sparsity: Challenging Common Sparsity Assumptions for Learning World Models in Robotic Reinforcement Learning Benchmarks", AAAI 2026. [Paper]
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"Next-Latent Prediction Transformers Learn Compact World Models", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper]
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"From Pixels to Cooperation Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning based on Multimodal World Models", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"Bootstrap Off-policy with World Model", NIPS 2025. [Paper]
"Clone Deterministic 3D Worlds with Geometrically-Regularized World Models", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Semantic Communications with World Models", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
TRELLISWorld: "TRELLISWorld: Training-Free World Generation from Object Generators", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
WorldGrow: "WorldGrow: Generating Infinite 3D World", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Code]
PhysWorld: "PhysWorld: From Real Videos to World Models of Deformable Objects via Physics-Aware Demonstration Synthesis", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"How Hard is it to Confuse a World Model?", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Social World Model-Augmented Mechanism Design Policy Learning", NIPS 2025. [Paper]
VAGEN: "VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents", NIPS 2025. [Paper] [Website]
Cosmos-Surg-dVRK: "Cosmos-Surg-dVRK: World Foundation Model-based Automated Online Evaluation of Surgical Robot Policy Learning", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Zero-shot World Models via Search in Memory", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Vector Quantization in the Brain: Grid-like Codes in World Models", NIPS 2025. [Paper]
Terra: "Terra: Explorable Native 3D World Model with Point Latents", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
Deep SPI: "Deep SPI: Safe Policy Improvement via World Models", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"One Life to Learn: Inferring Symbolic World Models for Stochastic Environments from Unguided Exploration", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Code]
R-WoM: "R-WoM: Retrieval-augmented World Model For Computer-use Agents", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
WorldMirror: "WorldMirror: Universal 3D World Reconstruction with Any-Prior Prompting", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
Unified World Models: "Unified World Models: Memory-Augmented Planning and Foresight for Visual Navigation", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [code]
"Code World Models for General Game Playing", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
MorphoSim: "MorphoSim: An Interactive, Controllable, and Editable Language-guided 4D World Simulator", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [code]
ChronoEdit: "ChronoEdit: Towards Temporal Reasoning for Image Editing and World Simulation", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
SFP: "Spatiotemporal Forecasting as Planning: A Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Approach with Generative World Models", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
EvoWorld: "EvoWorld: Evolving Panoramic World Generation with Explicit 3D Memory", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Code]
"World Model for AI Autonomous Navigation in Mechanical Thrombectomy", MICCAI 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. [Paper]
DyMoDreamer: "DyMoDreamer: World Modeling with Dynamic Modulation", NeurIPS 2025. [Paper] [Code]
Dreamer4: "Training Agents Inside of Scalable World Models", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper] [Website]
"Reinforcement Learning with Inverse Rewards for World Model Post-training", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Context and Diversity Matter: The Emergence of In-Context Learning in World Models", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
FantasyWorld: "FantasyWorld: Geometry-Consistent World Modeling via Unified Video and 3D Prediction", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Remote Sensing-Oriented World Model", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"World Modeling with Probabilistic Structure Integration", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"One Model for All Tasks: Leveraging Efficient World Models in Multi-Task Planning", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper] [Code]
LatticeWorld: "LatticeWorld: A Multimodal Large Language Model-Empowered Framework for Interactive Complex World Generation", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Planning with Reasoning using Vision Language World Model", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Social World Models", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"Dynamics-Aligned Latent Imagination in Contextual World Models for Zero-Shot Generalization", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
HERO: "HERO: Hierarchical Extrapolation and Refresh for Efficient World Models", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"Scalable RF Simulation in Generative 4D Worlds", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"Finite Automata Extraction: Low-data World Model Learning as Programs from Gameplay Video", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"Visuomotor Grasping with World Models for Surgical Robots", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"In-Context Reinforcement Learning via Communicative World Models", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper] [Code]
PIGDreamer: "PIGDreamer: Privileged Information Guided World Models for Safe Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning", ICML 2025. [Paper]
SimuRA: "SimuRA: Towards General Goal-Oriented Agent via Simulative Reasoning Architecture with LLM-Based World Model", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Back to the Features: DINO as a Foundation for Video World Models", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
Yume: "Yume: An Interactive World Generation Model", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"LLM world models are mental: Output layer evidence of brittle world model use in LLM mechanical reasoning", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Safety Certification in the Latent space using Control Barrier Functions and World Models", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Assessing adaptive world models in machines with novel games", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Graph World Model", ICML 2025. [Paper] [Website]
MobiWorld: "MobiWorld: World Models for Mobile Wireless Network", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Continual Reinforcement Learning by Planning with Online World Models", ICML 2025 Spotlight. [Paper]
AirScape: "AirScape: An Aerial Generative World Model with Motion Controllability", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website]
Geometry Forcing: "Geometry Forcing: Marrying Video Diffusion and 3D Representation for Consistent World Modeling", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website]
Martian World Models: "Martian World Models: Controllable Video Synthesis with Physically Accurate 3D Reconstructions", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website]
"What Has a Foundation Model Found? Using Inductive Bias to Probe for World Models", ICML 2025. [Paper]
"Critiques of World Models", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"When do World Models Successfully Learn Dynamical Systems?", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
WebSynthesis: "WebSynthesis: World-Model-Guided MCTS for Efficient WebUI-Trajectory Synthesis", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Accurate and Efficient World Modeling with Masked Latent Transformers", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
Dyn-O: "Dyn-O: Building Structured World Models with Object-Centric Representations", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
NavMorph: "NavMorph: A Self-Evolving World Model for Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments", ICCV 2025. [Paper] [Code]
"A “Good” Regulator May Provide a World Model for Intelligent Systems", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
Xray2Xray: "Xray2Xray: World Model from Chest X-rays with Volumetric Context", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
MATWM: "Transformer World Model for Sample Efficient Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Measuring (a Sufficient) World Model in LLMs: A Variance Decomposition Framework", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Efficient Generation of Diverse Cooperative Agents with World Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
WorldLLM: "WorldLLM: Improving LLMs' world modeling using curiosity-driven theory-making", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"LLMs as World Models: Data-Driven and Human-Centered Pre-Event Simulation for Disaster Impact Assessment", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Bootstrapping World Models from Dynamics Models in Multimodal Foundation Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Video World Models with Long-term Spatial Memory", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
DSG-World: "DSG-World: Learning a 3D Gaussian World Model from Dual State Videos", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Safe Planning and Policy Optimization via World Model Learning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
FOLIAGE: "FOLIAGE: Towards Physical Intelligence World Models Via Unbounded Surface Evolution", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Linear Spatial World Models Emerge in Large Language Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
Simple, Good, Fast: "Simple, Good, Fast: Self-Supervised World Models Free of Baggage", ICLR 2025. [Paper] [Code]
Medical World Model: "Medical World Model: Generative Simulation of Tumor Evolution for Treatment Planning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"General agents need world models", ICML 2025. [Paper]
"Learning Abstract World Models with a Group-Structured Latent Space", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
DeepVerse: "DeepVerse: 4D Autoregressive Video Generation as a World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"World Models for Cognitive Agents: Transforming Edge Intelligence in Future Networks", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
Dyna-Think: "Dyna-Think: Synergizing Reasoning, Acting, and World Model Simulation in AI Agents", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
StateSpaceDiffuser: "StateSpaceDiffuser: Bringing Long Context to Diffusion World Models", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Learning World Models for Interactive Video Generation", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Revisiting Multi-Agent World Modeling from a Diffusion-Inspired Perspective", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Long-Context State-Space Video World Models", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Unlocking Smarter Device Control: Foresighted Planning with a World Model-Driven Code Execution Approach", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"World Models as Reference Trajectories for Rapid Motor Adaptation", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Policy-Driven World Model Adaptation for Robust Offline Model-based Reinforcement Learning", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Building spatial world models from sparse transitional episodic memories", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
PoE-World: "PoE-World: Compositional World Modeling with Products of Programmatic Experts", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Explainable Reinforcement Learning Agents Using World Models", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
seq-JEPA: "seq-JEPA: Autoregressive Predictive Learning of Invariant-Equivariant World Models", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Coupled Distributional Random Expert Distillation for World Model Online Imitation Learning", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Learning Local Causal World Models with State Space Models and Attention", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
WebEvolver: "WebEvolver: Enhancing Web Agent Self-Improvement with Coevolving World Model", arxiv 2025.04. [Paper]
WALL-E 2.0: "WALL-E 2.0: World Alignment by NeuroSymbolic Learning improves World Model-based LLM Agents", arxiv 2025.04. [Paper] [Code]
ViMo: "ViMo: A Generative Visual GUI World Model for App Agent", arxiv 2025.04. [Paper]
"Simulating Before Planning: Constructing Intrinsic User World Model for User-Tailored Dialogue Policy Planning", SIGIR 2025. [Paper]
CheXWorld: "CheXWorld: Exploring Image World Modeling for Radiograph Representation Learning", CVPR 2025. [Paper] [Code]
EchoWorld: "EchoWorld: Learning Motion-Aware World Models for Echocardiography Probe Guidance", CVPR 2025. [Paper] [Code]
"Adapting a World Model for Trajectory Following in a 3D Game", ICLR 2025 Workshop on World Models. [Paper]
MineWorld: "MineWorld: a Real-Time and Open-Source Interactive World Model on Minecraft", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper] [Website]
MoSim: "Neural Motion Simulator Pushing the Limit of World Models in Reinforcement Learning", CVPR 2025. [Paper]
"Improving World Models using Deep Supervision with Linear Probes", ICLR 2025 Workshop on World Models. [Paper]
"Decentralized Collective World Model for Emergent Communication and Coordination", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper]
"Adapting World Models with Latent-State Dynamics Residuals", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper]
"Can Test-Time Scaling Improve World Foundation Model?", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Code]
"Synthesizing world models for bilevel planning", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Long-context autoregressive video modeling with next-frame prediction", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
Aether: "Aether: Geometric-Aware Unified World Modeling", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
FUSDREAMER: "FUSDREAMER: Label-efficient Remote Sensing World Model for Multimodal Data Classification", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
"Inter-environmental world modeling for continuous and compositional dynamics", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
Disentangled World Models: "Disentangled World Models: Learning to Transfer Semantic Knowledge from Distracting Videos for Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Revisiting the Othello World Model Hypothesis", ICLR World Models Workshop. [Paper]
"Learning Transformer-based World Models with Contrastive Predictive Coding", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Surgical Vision World Model", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"World Models for Anomaly Detection during Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Inference", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
WMNav: "WMNav: Integrating Vision-Language Models into World Models for Object Goal Navigation", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
SENSEI: "SENSEI: Semantic Exploration Guided by Foundation Models to Learn Versatile World Models", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
"Learning Actionable World Models for Industrial Process Control", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Implementing Spiking World Model with Multi-Compartment Neurons for Model-based Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
"Discrete Codebook World Models for Continuous Control", ICLR 2025. [Paper]
Multimodal Dreaming: "Multimodal Dreaming: A Global Workspace Approach to World Model-Based Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Generalist World Model Pre-Training for Efficient Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Learning To Explore With Predictive World Model Via Self-Supervised Learning", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
M^3: "M^3: A Modular World Model over Streams of Tokens", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"When do neural networks learn world models?", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Pre-Trained Video Generative Models as World Simulators", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
DMWM: "DMWM: Dual-Mind World Model with Long-Term Imagination", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
EvoAgent: "EvoAgent: Agent Autonomous Evolution with Continual World Model for Long-Horizon Tasks", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Acquisition through My Eyes and Steps: A Joint Predictive Agent Model in Egocentric Worlds", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Generating Symbolic World Models via Test-time Scaling of Large Language Models", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper] [Website]
"Improving Transformer World Models for Data-Efficient RL", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Trajectory World Models for Heterogeneous Environments", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Enhancing Memory and Imagination Consistency in Diffusion-based World Models via Linear-Time Sequence Modeling", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Objects matter: object-centric world models improve reinforcement learning in visually complex environments", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
GLAM: "GLAM: Global-Local Variation Awareness in Mamba-based World Model", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
GAWM: "GAWM: Global-Aware World Model for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
"Generative Emergent Communication: Large Language Model is a Collective World Model", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
"Towards Unraveling and Improving Generalization in World Models", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
"Towards Physically Interpretable World Models: Meaningful Weakly Supervised Representations for Visual Trajectory Prediction", arXiv 2024.12. [Paper]
"Transformers Use Causal World Models in Maze-Solving Tasks", arXiv 2024.12. [Paper]
"Causal World Representation in the GPT Model", NIPS 2024 Workshop. [Paper]
Owl-1: "Owl-1: Omni World Model for Consistent Long Video Generation", arXiv 2024.12. [Paper]
"Navigation World Models", arXiv 2024.12. [Paper] [Website]
"Evaluating World Models with LLM for Decision Making", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
LLMPhy: "LLMPhy: Complex Physical Reasoning Using Large Language Models and World Models", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
WebDreamer: "Is Your LLM Secretly a World Model of the Internet? Model-Based Planning for Web Agents", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper] [Code]
"Scaling Laws for Pre-training Agents and World Models", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
DINO-WM: "DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper] [Website]
"Learning World Models for Unconstrained Goal Navigation", NIPS 2024. [Paper]
"How Far is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspective", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
Adaptive World Models: "Adaptive World Models: Learning Behaviors by Latent Imagination Under Non-Stationarity", NIPS 2024 Workshop Adaptive Foundation Models. [Paper]
LLMCWM: "Language Agents Meet Causality -- Bridging LLMs and Causal World Models", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper] [Code]
"Reward-free World Models for Online Imitation Learning", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper]
"Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper]
AVID: "AVID: Adapting Video Diffusion Models to World Models", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper] [Code]
SMAC: "Grounded Answers for Multi-agent Decision-making Problem through Generative World Model", NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
OSWM: "One-shot World Models Using a Transformer Trained on a Synthetic Prior", arXiv 2024.09. [Paper]
"Making Large Language Models into World Models with Precondition and Effect Knowledge", arXiv 2024.09. [Paper]
"Efficient Exploration and Discriminative World Model Learning with an Object-Centric Abstraction", arXiv 2024.08. [Paper]
MoReFree: "World Models Increase Autonomy in Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2024.08. [Paper] [Project]
UrbanWorld: "UrbanWorld: An Urban World Model for 3D City Generation", arXiv 2024.07. [Paper]
PWM: "PWM: Policy Learning with Large World Models", arXiv 2024.07. [Paper] [Code]
"Predicting vs. Acting: A Trade-off Between World Modeling & Agent Modeling", arXiv 2024.07. [Paper]
GenRL: "GenRL: Multimodal foundation world models for generalist embodied agents", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper] [Code]
DLLM: "World Models with Hints of Large Language Models for Goal Achieving", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper]
"Cognitive Map for Language Models: Optimal Planning via Verbally Representing the World Model", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper]
CoDreamer: "CoDreamer: Communication-Based Decentralised World Models", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper]
Pandora: "Pandora: Towards General World Model with Natural Language Actions and Video States", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper] [Code]
EBWM: "Cognitively Inspired Energy-Based World Models", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper]
"Evaluating the World Model Implicit in a Generative Model", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper] [Code]
"Transformers and Slot Encoding for Sample Efficient Physical World Modelling", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper] [Code]
Puppeteer: "Hierarchical World Models as Visual Whole-Body Humanoid Controllers", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper] [Code]
BWArea Model: "BWArea Model: Learning World Model, Inverse Dynamics, and Policy for Controllable Language Generation", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper]
WKM: "Agent Planning with World Knowledge Model", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper] [Code]
Diamond: "Diffusion for World Modeling: Visual Details Matter in Atari", arXiv 2024.05. [Paper] [Code]
"Compete and Compose: Learning Independent Mechanisms for Modular World Models", arXiv 2024.04. [Paper]
"Dreaming of Many Worlds: Learning Contextual World Models Aids Zero-Shot Generalization", arXiv 2024.03. [Paper] [Code]
V-JEPA: "V-JEPA: Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture", Meta AI. [Blog] [Paper] [Code]
IWM: "Learning and Leveraging World Models in Visual Representation Learning", Meta AI. [Paper]
Genie: "Genie: Generative Interactive Environments", DeepMind. [Paper] [Blog]
Sora: "Video generation models as world simulators", OpenAI. [Technical report]
LWM: "World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With RingAttention", arXiv 2024.02. [Paper] [Code]
"Planning with an Ensemble of World Models", OpenReview. [Paper]
WorldDreamer: "WorldDreamer: Towards General World Models for Video Generation via Predicting Masked Tokens", arXiv 2024.01. [Paper] [Code]
CWM: "Understanding Physical Dynamics with Counterfactual World Modeling", ECCV 2024. [Paper] [Code]
Δ-IRIS: "Efficient World Models with Context-Aware Tokenization", ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code]
LLM-Sim: "Can Language Models Serve as Text-Based World Simulators?", ACL. [Paper] [Code]
AD3: "AD3: Implicit Action is the Key for World Models to Distinguish the Diverse Visual Distractors", ICML 2024. [Paper]
MAMBA: "MAMBA: an Effective World Model Approach for Meta-Reinforcement Learning", ICLR 2024. [Paper] [Code]
R2I: "Mastering Memory Tasks with World Models", ICLR 2024. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
HarmonyDream: "HarmonyDream: Task Harmonization Inside World Models", ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code]
REM: "Improving Token-Based World Models with Parallel Observation Prediction", ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code]
"Do Transformer World Models Give Better Policy Gradients?"", ICML 2024. [Paper]
DreamSmooth: "DreamSmooth: Improving Model-based Reinforcement Learning via Reward Smoothing", ICLR 2024. [Paper]
TD-MPC2: "TD-MPC2: Scalable, Robust World Models for Continuous Control", ICLR 2024. [Paper] [Torch Code]
Hieros: "Hieros: Hierarchical Imagination on Structured State Space Sequence World Models", ICML 2024. [Paper]
CoWorld: "Making Offline RL Online: Collaborative World Models for Offline Visual Reinforcement Learning", NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]

World Models for Embodied AI

LeWAM: "Latent evolving World Action Model", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper] [Code]
"Modality-Autoregressive World-Action Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
XPACE: "XPACE: Joint World and Action Modeling from Heterogeneous Experience", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"World Models for Embodied Intelligence: From Plausible to Controllable to Actionable", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
WholeBodyWAM: "WholeBodyWAM: Generalizing Pre-trained World-Action Priors to Humanoid Loco-Manipulation via WBC-Grounded Coordination", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
WLA$^3$: "WLA$^3$: World Latent Action Modeling for Semantics, Dynamics, and Kinematics", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"When the World Lies: Backdoor Attacks on Latent World Models for Downstream Control", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
DIDO: "DIDO: Distilling Interaction-Centric Dynamics into One-Step Denoising for World Action Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Legislating World-Model-Based Planning with Legal Reasoning", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"One Model, Two Physical Stories: Auditing Misalignment in Multi-Modal World Modeling", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Memory as Plans: World-Action Modeling with Memory-Grounded Planning", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
FARM: "FARM: Reading Failure Signals from the Internal Predictive States of a Frozen Robotic World Model", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
DUET-DINO: "DUET-DINO: Simultaneous Cross-View World Modeling for Latent Planning in Robot Manipulation", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
HaWMPO: "HaWMPO: Hallucination-Aware World Model-based Policy Optimization for Generalist Robot Policy", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Compact Visuotactile World Models for Lifting: Prediction, Reward Alignment, and Force Constraints", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
SyncWorld: "SyncWorld: Visual Calibration Enables World Models as Zero-Shot Simulators", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
WorldAgen: "WorldAgen: Unified State-Action Prediction with Test-Time World Model Training", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
OpenWAM: "OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World-Action Model Pretraining", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Beyond Task Success: Stage-Wise Reliability of World Model Planning under Sensing Degradation", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
TrojanWorld: "TrojanWorld: Backdooring World-Model Agents via Imagination Steering", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
WM-Craftnet: "WM-Craftnet: World Synesthesia Model for Generalizable and Robust Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Learning to Use Imagination: Progress-Conditioned Future Utilization for World Action Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
TacPAC: "TacPAC: Tactile Prediction and Real-Time Action Correction in World-Action Models for Contact-Rich Manipulation", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Toward Physically Grounded JEPA World Models for Goal-Conditioned Robotic Planning", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Latent Energy Action Planning with World Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"World-Model-Augmented Visual Locomotion for Humanoids on Foothold-Constrained Terrain", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
SA-WAM: "Spatially Aware World Action Model via Geometric Latent Diffusion", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"World-Coherent Decoding: Self-Verifying Test-Time Planning for World Action Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
ZimaBlue: "ZimaBlue: Evolving Generalizable World Action Models through Scalable Video Pre-training", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
IMPACT: "IMPACT: Attention Is the Interaction Map for Scalable Interaction-Aware World Model Training", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
PAVE: "PAVE: Predictive Alignment and Value-Guided Evolution for World-Action Policies", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
Motus2: "Motus2: A Self-Evolving General World Model for Dexterous Manipulation", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
"AcrossWAM1.0:A Modular Latent World-Action Stack for Compact Robot Policies", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
AcrossVAM1.0: "AcrossVAM1.0: Particle World Modeling for Text-Assisted Robot Video Prediction", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
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TraceGen: "TraceGen: World Modeling in 3D Trace Space Enables Learning from Cross-Embodiment Videos", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
ENACT: "ENACT: Evaluating Embodied Cognition with World Modeling of Egocentric Interaction", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"Learning Massively Multitask World Models for Continuous Control", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
UNeMo: "UNeMo: Collaborative Visual-Language Reasoning and Navigation via a Multimodal World Model", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"MindForge: Empowering Embodied Agents with Theory of Mind for Lifelong Cultural Learning", NeurIPS 2025. [Paper]
"Towards High-Consistency Embodied World Model with Multi-View Trajectory Videos", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
WMPO: "WMPO: World Model-based Policy Optimization for Vision-Language-Action Models", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
"Robot Learning from a Physical World Model", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website]
"When Object-Centric World Models Meet Policy Learning: From Pixels to Policies, and Where It Breaks", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
WorldPlanner: "WorldPlanner: Monte Carlo Tree Search and MPC with Action-Conditioned Visual World Models", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"Learning Interactive World Model for Object-Centric Reinforcement Learning", NIPS 2025. [Paper]
"Scaling Cross-Embodiment World Models for Dexterous Manipulation", arXiv 2025.11. [Paper]
"Co-Evolving Latent Action World Models", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Deductive Chain-of-Thought Augmented Socially-aware Robot Navigation World Model", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
"Deep Active Inference with Diffusion Policy and Multiple Timescale World Model for Real-World Exploration and Navigation", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
ProTerrain: "ProTerrain: Probabilistic Physics-Informed Rough Terrain World Modeling", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Ego-Vision World Model for Humanoid Contact Planning", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
Ctrl-World: "Ctrl-World: A Controllable Generative World Model for Robot Manipulation", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
iMoWM: "iMoWM: Taming Interactive Multi-Modal World Model for Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
WristWorld: "WristWorld: Generating Wrist-Views via 4D World Models for Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"A Recipe for Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer in Manipulation with Online Imitation-Pretrained World Models", arXiv 2025.10. [Paper]
"Kinodynamic Motion Planning for Mobile Robot Navigation across Inconsistent World Models", RSS 2025 Workshop on Resilient Off-road Autonomous Robotics (ROAR). [Paper]
EMMA: "EMMA: Generalizing Real-World Robot Manipulation via Generative Visual Transfer", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
LongScape: "LongScape: Advancing Long-Horizon Embodied World Models with Context-Aware MoE", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
KeyWorld: "KeyWorld: Key Frame Reasoning Enables Effective and Efficient World Models", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
DAWM: "DAWM: Diffusion Action World Models for Offline Reinforcement Learning via Action-Inferred Transitions", ICML 2025 Workshop. [Paper]
World4RL: "World4RL: Diffusion World Models for Policy Refinement with Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
SAMPO: "SAMPO:Scale-wise Autoregression with Motion PrOmpt for generative world models", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
PhysicalAgent: "PhysicalAgent: Towards General Cognitive Robotics with Foundation World Models", arXiv 2025.09. [Paper]
SeqWM: "Empowering Multi-Robot Cooperation via Sequential World Models", ICLR 2026. [Paper] [Code]
M3W: "Learning and Planning Multi-Agent Tasks via an MoE-based World Model", NeurIPS 2025. [Paper] [Code]
"World Model Implanting for Test-time Adaptation of Embodied Agents", ICML 2025. [Paper]
"Learning Primitive Embodied World Models: Towards Scalable Robotic Learning", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper] [Website]
GWM: "GWM: Towards Scalable Gaussian World Models for Robotic Manipulation", ICCV 2025. [Paper] [Website]
"Imaginative World Modeling with Scene Graphs for Embodied Agent Navigation", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
"Bounding Distributional Shifts in World Modeling through Novelty Detection", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper]
Genie Envisioner: "Genie Envisioner: A Unified World Foundation Platform for Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper] [Website]
DiWA: "DiWA: Diffusion Policy Adaptation with World Models", CoRL 2025. [Paper] [Code]
CoEx: "CoEx -- Co-evolving World-model and Exploration", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
"Latent Policy Steering with Embodiment-Agnostic Pretrained World Models", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper]
MindJourney: "MindJourney: Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Spatial Reasoning", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website]
FOUNDER: "FOUNDER: Grounding Foundation Models in World Models for Open-Ended Embodied Decision Making", ICML 2025. [Paper] [Website]
EmbodieDreamer: "EmbodieDreamer: Advancing Real2Sim2Real Transfer for Policy Training via Embodied World Modeling", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Website]
World4Omni: "World4Omni: A Zero-Shot Framework from Image Generation World Model to Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
RoboScape: "RoboScape: Physics-informed Embodied World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
ParticleFormer: "ParticleFormer: A 3D Point Cloud World Model for Multi-Object, Multi-Material Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
ManiGaussian++: "ManiGaussian++: General Robotic Bimanual Manipulation with Hierarchical Gaussian World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
ReOI: "Reimagination with Test-time Observation Interventions: Distractor-Robust World Model Predictions for Visual Model Predictive Control", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
GAF: "GAF: Gaussian Action Field as a Dynamic World Model for Robotic Mlanipulation", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
"Prompting with the Future: Open-World Model Predictive Control with Interactive Digital Twins", RSS 2025. [Paper] [Website]
V-JEPA 2 and V-JEPA 2-AC: "V-JEPA 2: Self-Supervised Video Models Enable Understanding, Prediction and Planning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"Time-Aware World Model for Adaptive Prediction and Control", ICML 2025. [Paper]
3DFlowAction: "3DFlowAction: Learning Cross-Embodiment Manipulation from 3D Flow World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
ORV: "ORV: 4D Occupancy-centric Robot Video Generation", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
WoMAP: "WoMAP: World Models For Embodied Open-Vocabulary Object Localization", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Sparse Imagination for Efficient Visual World Model Planning", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
Humanoid World Models: "Humanoid World Models: Open World Foundation Models for Humanoid Robotics", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]
"Evaluating Robot Policies in a World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
OSVI-WM: "OSVI-WM: One-Shot Visual Imitation for Unseen Tasks using World-Model-Guided Trajectory Generation", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
WorldEval: "WorldEval: World Model as Real-World Robot Policies Evaluator", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Consistent World Models via Foresight Diffusion", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper]
Vid2World: "Vid2World: Crafting Video Diffusion Models to Interactive World Models", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website]
RLVR-World: "RLVR-World: Training World Models with Reinforcement Learning", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
LaDi-WM: "LaDi-WM: A Latent Diffusion-based World Model for Predictive Manipulation", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper]
FlowDreamer: "FlowDreamer: A RGB-D World Model with Flow-based Motion Representations for Robot Manipulation", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Website]
"Occupancy World Model for Robots", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper]
"Learning 3D Persistent Embodied World Models", arXiv 2025.05. [Paper]
TesserAct: "TesserAct: Learning 4D Embodied World Models", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper] [Website]
PIN-WM: "PIN-WM: Learning Physics-INformed World Models for Non-Prehensile Manipulation", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper]
"Offline Robotic World Model: Learning Robotic Policies without a Physics Simulator", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper]
ManipDreamer: "ManipDreamer: Boosting Robotic Manipulation World Model with Action Tree and Visual Guidance", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper]
UWM: "Unified World Models: Coupling Video and Action Diffusion for Pretraining on Large Robotic Datasets", arXiv 2025.04. [Paper] [Website]
"Perspective-Shifted Neuro-Symbolic World Models: A Framework for Socially-Aware Robot Navigation", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
AdaWorld: "AdaWorld: Learning Adaptable World Models with Latent Actions", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
DyWA: "DyWA: Dynamics-adaptive World Action Model for Generalizable Non-prehensile Manipulation", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
"Towards Suturing World Models: Learning Predictive Models for Robotic Surgical Tasks", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
"World Modeling Makes a Better Planner: Dual Preference Optimization for Embodied Task Planning", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
LUMOS: "LUMOS: Language-Conditioned Imitation Learning with World Models", ICRA 2025. [Paper] [Website]
"Object-Centric World Model for Language-Guided Manipulation", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper]
DEMO^3: "Multi-Stage Manipulation with Demonstration-Augmented Reward, Policy, and World Model Learning", arXiv 2025.03. [Paper] [Website]
"Accelerating Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with State-Space World Models", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Learning Humanoid Locomotion with World Model Reconstruction", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper]
"Strengthening Generative Robot Policies through Predictive World Modeling", arXiv 2025.02. [Paper] [Website]
Robotic World Model: "Robotic World Model: A Neural Network Simulator for Robust Policy Optimization in Robotics", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
RoboHorizon: "RoboHorizon: An LLM-Assisted Multi-View World Model for Long-Horizon Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2025.01. [Paper]
Dream to Manipulate: "Dream to Manipulate: Compositional World Models Empowering Robot Imitation Learning with Imagination", arXiv 2024.12. [Paper] [Website]
UnrealZoo, UnrealZoo: Enriching Photo-realistic Virtual Worlds for Embodied AI, ICCV 2025 Highlight. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
WHALE: "WHALE: Towards Generalizable and Scalable World Models for Embodied Decision-making", arXiv 2024.11. [Paper]
VisualPredicator: "VisualPredicator: Learning Abstract World Models with Neuro-Symbolic Predicates for Robot Planning", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper]
"Multi-Task Interactive Robot Fleet Learning with Visual World Models", CoRL 2024. [Paper] [Code]
X-MOBILITY: "X-MOBILITY: End-To-End Generalizable Navigation via World Modeling", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper]
PIVOT-R: "PIVOT-R: Primitive-Driven Waypoint-Aware World Model for Robotic Manipulation", NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
GLIMO: "Grounding Large Language Models In Embodied Environment With Imperfect World Models", arXiv 2024.10. [Paper]
EVA: "EVA: An Embodied World Model for Future Video Anticipation", arxiv 2024.10. [Paper] [Website]
PreLAR: "PreLAR: World Model Pre-training with Learnable Action Representation", ECCV 2024. [Paper] [Code]
WMP: "World Model-based Perception for Visual Legged Locomotion", arXiv 2024.09. [Paper] [Project]
R-AIF: "R-AIF: Solving Sparse-Reward Robotic Tasks from Pixels with Active Inference and World Models", arXiv 2024.09. [Paper]
"Representing Positional Information in Generative World Models for Object Manipulation" arXiv 2024.09 [Paper]
DexSim2Real$^2$: "DexSim2Real$^2: Building Explicit World Model for Precise Articulated Object Dexterous Manipulation", arXiv 2024.09. [Paper]
DWL: "Advancing Humanoid Locomotion: Mastering Challenging Terrains with Denoising World Model Learning", RSS 2024 (Best Paper Award Finalist). [Paper]
"Physically Embodied Gaussian Splatting: A Realtime Correctable World Model for Robotics", arXiv 2024.06. [Paper] [Website]
HRSSM: "Learning Latent Dynamic Robust Representations for World Models", ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code]
RoboDreamer: "RoboDreamer: Learning Compositional World Models for Robot Imagination", ICML 2024. [Paper] [Code]
COMBO: "COMBO: Compositional World Models for Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation", ECCV 2024. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
ManiGaussian: "ManiGaussian: Dynamic Gaussian Splatting for Multi-task Robotic Manipulation", arXiv 2024.03. [Paper] [Code]

World Models for VLA

WISE: "WISE: World-model-guided Imagination Scheduling for Efficient Post-training of Vision-Language-Action Models", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"CheckVLA: Execution-Time Verification with Action-Conditioned World Model for Long-Horizon Mobile Manipulation", arxiv 2026.07. [Paper]
World Pilot: "World Pilot: Steering Vision-Language-Action Models with World-Action Priors", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Vision-Language-Action Models Meet World Models: Embodied Agentic AI for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"World-Language-Action Model for Unified World Modeling, Language Reasoning, and Action Synthesis", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
PiL-World: "PiL-World: A Chunk-Wise World Model for VLA Policy-in-the-Loop Evaluation", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Intercepting the Future: Latent-Space Predictive World Model for Dynamic VLA Manipulation", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
Pre-VLA: "Pre-VLA: Preemptive Runtime Verification for Reliable Vision-Language-Action and World-Model Rollouts", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
"Reinforcing VLAs in Task-Agnostic World Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
DIAL: "DIAL: Decoupling Intent and Action via Latent World Modeling for End-to-End VLA", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Website]
"Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
"Scaling Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Robot VLAs with Generative 3D Worlds", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
Fast-WAM: "Fast-WAM: Do World Action Models Need Test-time Future Imagination?", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Website]
StructVLA: "Beyond Dense Futures: World Models as Structured Planners for Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
World2Act: "World2Act: Latent Action Post-Training via Skill-Compositional World Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Website]
AtomVLA: "AtomVLA: Scalable Post-Training for Robotic Manipulation via Predictive Latent World Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
Chain of World: "Chain of World: World Model Thinking in Latent Motion", CVPR 2026. [Paper] [Website]
"Learning Physics from Pretrained Video Models: A Multimodal Continuous and Sequential World Interaction Models for Robotic Manipulation", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
World Guidance: "World Guidance: World Modeling in Condition Space for Action Generation", arxiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Website]
SC-VLA: "Self-Correcting VLA: Online Action Refinement via Sparse World Imagination", arxiv 2026.02. [Paper] [Website]
Motus: "Motus: A Unified Latent Action World Model", arxiv 2025.12. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
RoboScape-R: "RoboScape-R: Unified Reward-Observation World Models for Generalizable Robotics Training via RL", arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
AdaPower: "AdaPower: Specializing World Foundation Models for Predictive Manipulation", arxiv 2025.12. [Paper]
RynnVLA-002: "RynnVLA-002: A Unified Vision-Language-Action and World Model", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Code]
NORA-1.5: "NORA-1.5: A Vision-Language-Action Model Trained using World Model- and Action-based Preference Rewards", arxiv 2025.11. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
"Dual-Stream Diffusion for World-Model Augmented Vision-Language-Action Model", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
VLA-RFT: "VLA-RFT: Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Fine-tuning with Verified Rewards in World Simulators", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper]
World-Env: "World-Env: Leveraging World Model as a Virtual Environment for VLA Post-Training", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
MoWM: "MoWM: Mixture-of-World-Models for Embodied Planning via Latent-to-Pixel Feature Modulation", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
LAWM: "Latent Action Pretraining Through World Modeling", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper] [Code]
PAR: "Physical Autoregressive Model for Robotic Manipulation without Action Pretraining", arxiv 2025.08. [Paper] [Website]
DreamVLA: "DreamVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model Dreamed with Comprehensive World Knowledge", arxiv 2025.07. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
WorldVLA: "WorldVLA: Towards Autoregressive Action World Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
UniVLA: "UniVLA: Unified Vision-Language-Action Model", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
MinD: "MinD: Unified Visual Imagination and Control via Hierarchical World Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Website]
FLARE: "FLARE: Robot Learning with Implicit World Modeling", arxiv 2025.05. [Paper] [Code] [Website]
DreamGen: "DreamGen: Unlocking Generalization in Robot Learning through Video World Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper] [Code]
CoT-VLA: "CoT-VLA: Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-Language-Action Models", CVPR 2025. [Paper]
UP-VLA: "UP-VLA: A Unified Understanding and Prediction Model for Embodied Agent", ICML 2025. [Paper] [Code]
3D-VLA: "3D-VLA: A 3D Vision-Language-Action Generative World Model", ICML 2024. [Paper]

World Models for Visual Understanding

"Thinking with Imagination: Agentic Visual Spatial Reasoning with World Simulators", arxiv 2026.06. [Paper]
"Do LLMs Build World Models From Text? A Multilingual Diagnostic of Spatial Reasoning", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
GeoWorld-VLM: "GeoWorld-VLM: Geometry from World Models for Vision-Language Models", arxiv 2026.05. [Paper]
World2VLM: "World2VLM: Distilling World Model Imagination into VLMs for Dynamic Spatial Reasoning", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper] [Website] [Code]
DILLO: "Describe-Then-Act: Proactive Agent Steering via Distilled Language-Action World Models", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
WorldVLM: "WorldVLM: Combining World Model Forecasting and Vision-Language Reasoning", arxiv 2026.03. [Paper]
"When and How Much to Imagine: Adaptive Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Visual Spatial Reasoning", arxiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website]
"Visual Generation Unlocks Human-Like Reasoning through Multimodal World Models", arxiv 2026.01. [Paper] [Website]
"Semantic World Models", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
DyVA: "Can World Models Benefit VLMs for World Dynamics?", arxiv 2025.10. [Paper] [Website]
"Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners", arxiv 2025.09. [Paper]
"From Generation to Generalization: Emergent Few-Shot Learning in Video Diffusion Models", arxiv 2025.06. [Paper]

World Models for Autonomous Driving

PV-WM: "PV-WM: A Heterogeneous Micro-Macro World Model for Articulated Pedestrian-Vehicle Co-Rollout", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Rethinking World Models for Safety-Critical Embodied Systems", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
SV-WAM: "SV-WAM: An Efficient Surround-View World-Action Model for End-to-End Autonomous Driving", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
Drive-HWM: "Drive-HWM: Hierarchical World Models for Dynamic-Latent Guided Autonomous Driving", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
"Long-Horizon Consistent and Interaction-Aware World Models for Multi-Style End-to-End Driving", arxiv 2026.09. [Paper]
4DGS-WAM: "4DGS-WAM: Bridging Past and Future with an Object-Centric World Action Model based on 4D Gaussian Splatting", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
GeoWAM: "GeoWAM: Visual Geometry World Action Models for Autonomous Driving", arxiv 2026.08. [Paper]
BehaviorWorldGen: "BehaviorWorldGen: Closing the Loop between Action Models and World Simulators via Controlla

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