arXiv:2608.29910v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Interactive world models extend video generation from offline clip synthesis toward persistent simulation of interactive virtual worlds, enabling appli...
By Runjia Qian, Zile Wang, Jihai Zhang, Kai Zou, Wei Yu, Jiaxing Li, Zexiang Liu, Yaokun Li, Fei Kang, Kaichen Huang, Mengyin An, Haobo Zhang, Biao Jiang, Jiahua Wang, Haofeng Sun, Yang Liu, Yangguang Li
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: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:2606. 10135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transitioning bidirectional video diffusion models into an autoregressive paradigm improves the interactivity of video world models, but existing causal pipelines need many stages (control fine-tuning, autoregressive training, causal initialization, few-step distillation) and still trail bidirectional models in quality due to error accumulation.
By Shaohao Rui, Xiaofeng Mao, Zhanyu Zhang, Peijia Lin, Yansong Zhu, Yibo Zhang, Haibin Wan, Weijie Ma
arXiv:2607.14935v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent advances in video understanding have spanned motion, long video, and streaming interaction, driving this field toward real-world application...
By Xinhao Li, Yuhan Zhu, Xiangyu Zeng, Yuhao Dong, Haoning Wu, Zhiqiu Zhang, Yuandong Yang, Changlian Ma, Qingyu Zhang, Yansong Shi, Xinyu Chen, Haoran Chen, Zizheng Huang, Jun Zhang, Kun Ouyang, Lin Sui, Ziang Yan, Yicheng Xu, Chenting Wang, Yinan He, Hongjie Zhang, Yi Wang, Yu Qiao, Yali Wang, Ziwei Liu, Kai Chen, Limin Wang
SolarWM is an open foundation for building interactive video world models, offering a reconfigurable multi‑source data engine that unifies 1.43 million clips from 10 datasets into a consistent, frame‑aligned format. It provides a backbone‑native adaptation framework that preserves native representations of models ranging from 5 B to 33 B parameters, and a three‑stage training recipe combining bidirectional adaptation, teacher‑forced autoregressive initialization, and distribution‑matching distillation. The resulting causal models can interact in real‑time over rollouts from minutes to hours, trained only on 5‑second sequences, and the project releases data, pipeline, recipes, weights, and framework for reproducible research.
By Junchao Huang, Guian Fang, Shengju Qian, Xianghao Kong, Zhuoran Zhao, Wei Huang, Yihua Du, Zixin Zhang, Justin Cui, Yuchao Gu, Yukang Chen, Xinting Hu, Tianyu He, Shaoshuai Shi, Zhuotao Tian, Xin Wang, Mike Zheng Shou, Li Jiang
arXiv:2512. 02473v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video world models have attracted significant attention for their ability to produce high-fidelity future visual observations conditioned on past observations and navigation actions.
By Yuta Oshima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Masahiro Suzuki, Yutaka Matsuo, Hiroki Furuta
arXiv:2605.30263v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent video diffusion foundation models have achieved remarkable progress in high-quality video generation, yet turning them into real-time intera...
By Min Zhao, Hongzhou Zhu, Bokai Yan, Zihan Zhou, Yimin Chen, Honglie Wang, Wenqiang Sun, Zhengwei Fang, Zizheng Xun, Zihao Li, Kaiwen Zheng, Guande He, Xiao Yang, Chongxuan Li, Fan Bao, Jun Zhu
arXiv:2602. 01801v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive video diffusion models enable streaming generation, opening the door to long-form synthesis, video world models, and interactive neural game engines.
By Dvir Samuel, Issar Tzachor, Matan Levy, Michael Green, Gal Chechik, Rami Ben-Ari
WorldCrafter is a video world model that introduces a camera‑queryable implicit 3D‑aware memory to improve long‑horizon consistency and viewpoint control. The model compresses multi‑view evidence into a limited token budget shaped by the requested viewpoint, integrating historical observations via a memory encoder and pose‑conditioned readout before denoising. Experiments on static and dynamic scenes demonstrate significant gains in consistency and camera‑control accuracy while maintaining visual quality during minute‑scale exploration.
By Wangbo Yu, Kunhao Liu, Wenbo Hu, Shenghai Yuan, Chaoran Feng, Haiyang Zhou, Yukun Huang, Yiran Wang, Wang Zhao, Yingmin Luo, Ying Shan
arXiv:2605. 31603v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Connector-based video unified models have demonstrated strong capability in instruction-grounded video synthesis, but integrating a large high-fidelity generator into the unified training loop is computationally prohibitive, limiting achievable visual quality.
By Jiazheng Xing, Hangjie Yuan, Lingling Cai, Xinyu Liu, Yujie Wei, Fei Du, Tao Feng, Hai Ci, Jiasheng Tang, Weihua Chen, Fan Wang, Yong Liu
arXiv:2608.23565v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: An interactive world model must follow the user's actions, remember the places it has shown, and stream in real time. The tension is structural: contro...
By Zhifei Chen, Luozhou Wang, Guibao Shen, Dongyu Yan, Shuai Yang, Tianshuo Xu, Yihua Du, Wei Wang, Tianyi Gui, Lianghua Huang, Yingcong Chen