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Video generation models as world simulators

We explore large-scale training of generative models on video data. Specifically, we train text-conditional diffusion models jointly on videos and images of variable durations, resolutions and aspect ratios.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

MilliVid: Hierarchical Latents for Long-Range Consistency in Video Generation

arXiv:2606. 09056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generative models have become increasingly powerful, but long-range consistency remains challenging to achieve because even a few dozen frames require impractically long transformer sequence lengths.

By Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya, David Charatan, Basile Van Hoorick, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Phillip Isola, Vincent Sitzmann
arXiv AI
Jul 22

AlayaWorld: Interactive Long-Horizon World Modeling -- Full Technical Report

arXiv:2607. 18367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unlike conventional video game development, which relies on labor-intensive pipelines for asset production, animation, physics, and programming, video world models generate interactive environments from user inputs instantly.

By AlayaWorld Team, Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li, Yifan Zhan, Yongtao Ge, Yuanyang Yin, Jiaming Tan, Kang He, Liaoyuan Fan, Mingliang Zhai, Ruicong Liu, Xiaojie Xu, Xuangeng Chu, Zhen Li, Zhengyuan Lin, Zhixiang Wang, Zian Meng, Zihui Gao
arXiv AI
Sep 21

Physically Based Rendering in the Latent Space

The paper introduces a method that applies physically based rendering (PBR) within the latent space of variational autoencoders used in image diffusion models. By modifying the rendering equation and using a differentiable renderer, the authors can generate latent maps that guide content creation with physically accurate lighting. The approach is trained on a single rendered image and then shown to generalize to changes in scene geometry, lighting, and camera viewpoint.

By Vuk Radovanovic, Vishesh Gupta, Adrien Gruson, Binh-Son Hua
arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

Matrix-game 2.0: An open-source, real-time, and streaming interactive world model

arXiv:2508.13009v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in interactive video generations have demonstrated diffusion model's potential as world models by capturing complex physical dynami...

By Xianglong He, Chunli Peng, Zexiang Liu, Boyang Wang, Yifan Zhang, Qi Cui, Fei Kang, Biao Jiang, Mengyin An, Yangyang Ren, Baixin Xu, Hao-Xiang Guo, Kaixiong Gong, Size Wu, Wei Li, Xuchen Song, Yang Liu, Yangguang Li, Yahui Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

From Diffusion to Flow: Efficient Motion Generation in MotionGPT3

The paper compares diffusion and rectified flow objectives within the MotionGPT3 framework for text-driven motion generation. Experiments on HumanML3D show that rectified flow converges faster, achieves strong test performance earlier, and matches or exceeds diffusion quality while requiring fewer sampling steps. The study isolates the generative objective’s impact, demonstrating that rectified flow’s benefits transfer to continuous-latent motion generation.

By Jaymin Bhan, JiHong Jeon, SangYeop Jeong