Awesome-World-Model

A curated list of awesome resources on World Models, based on the comprehensive survey "Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models".

News🔥

• [2024/11/21] Initial release of our survey is available on arXiv.
• [2025/06/13] Our survey paper "Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models" has been accepted by ACM Computing Surveys.
• [2025/06/25] Second version of our survey is available on arXiv.
• [2025/07/18] Initial release of the Awesome-World-Model GitHub repository.
• [2025/11/18] Third version of our survey is available on arXiv.

Contact

If you have any suggestions or find our work helpful, feel free to contact us
Email: dingjt15@tsinghua.org.cn

If this list helps your research, please ⭐ and cite:

@article{ding2025understanding,
  title={Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models},
  author={Ding, Jingtao and Zhang, Yunke and Shang, Yu and Zhang, Yuheng and Zong, Zefang and Feng, Jie and Yuan, Yuan and Su, Hongyuan and Li, Nian and Sukiennik, Nicholas and others},
  journal={ACM Computing Surveys},
  volume={58},
  number={3},
  pages={1--38},
  year={2025},
  publisher={ACM New York, NY}
}

Table of Contents 🍃

• Roadmap of world models in deep learning era

  • Model-based RL
  • Self-supervised learning
  • LLM/MLLM
  • Interactive 3D environment

• 3 Implicit Representation of the External World

  • 3.1 World Model in Decision Making
  • 3.2 World Knowledge Learned by Models

• 4 Future Prediction of the Physical World

  • 4.1 World Model as Video Generation
  • 4.2 World Model as Embodied Environment

• 5 Applications of World Models

  • 5.1 Game Intelligence
  • 5.2 Embodied Intelligence
  • 5.3 Urban Intelligence
  • 5.4 Societal Intelligence

Roadmap of world models in deep learning era

Model-based RL

Self-supervised learning

LLM/MLLM

Video generation

Interactive 3D environment

Application

3 Implicit Representation of the External World

3.1 World Model in Decision Making

3.2 World Knowledge Learned by Models

4 Future Prediction of the Physical World

4.1 World Model as Video Generation

4.2 World Model as Embodied Environment

5 Applications of World Models

5.1 Game Intelligence

5.2 Embodied Intelligence

5.3 Urban Intelligence

Autonomous Driving

Autonomous Logistics & Urban Analytics

5.4 Societal Intelligence