arXiv AI

From Generation to Simulation: How Far Are World Models from Being True Simulators?

arXiv AI
Aug 11

WorldSimProbe: Diagnosing Simulator Faithfulness in Action-Conditioned World Models for Embodied Manipulation

arXiv:2608. 09298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) promise to provide embodied AI with scalable predictive simulators for planning, policy evaluation, and data generation.

By Peterson Co, Sicheng Hu, Chunxuan Jiao, Hongyang Cheng, Yulin Luo, Yijie Xu, Sixiang Chen, Zhongxia Zhao, Zihao Wang, DaFeng Chi, Peidong Liu, YuTong Chen, Henghua Liu, Zhihao Yuan, Huizhu Jia, Yuzheng Zhuang, Tianle Zhang, Liang Lin, Huajie Tan, Shanghang Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 10

PAN: A World Model for General, Actionable, and Long-Horizon World Simulation

arXiv:2511.09057v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A world model is a cognitive simulator of the real-world environment allowing biological agents to reason about how the world evolves, whethe...

By PAN Team, Zihan Liu, Yi Gu, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Zeyu Feng, Qiyue Gao, Yiyan Hu, Benhao Huang, Yichi Yang, Kun Zhou, Jiannan Xiang, Zhiting Hu, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric P. Xing
arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

World-Action Models for Robot Learning and Control: A Survey

The survey "World-Action Models for Robot Learning and Control" reviews recent advances in coupling future world prediction with executable action generation for robots in open environments. It clarifies the scope of World-Action Models (WAMs) relative to conventional world models, model-based RL, and Vision‑Language‑Action policies, and organizes existing methods through a unified taxonomy covering representations, transition modeling, action interfaces, architectures, training pipelines, data modalities, and scaling strategies. The paper also surveys applications in manipulation, navigation, and autonomous driving, summarizes datasets, benchmarks, and metrics, and discusses key challenges such as action alignment, spatial consistency, long‑horizon memory, and efficient inference.

By Zuxing Lu, Hongjia Zhai, Guanzhi Wang, Huajian Zeng, Jiaqi Yang, Jingyu Liu, Lei Cheng, Yuantai Zhang, Yuheng Qiu, Zezhou Cheng, Ivan Laptev, Danfei Xu, Benjamin Riviere, Giuseppe Loianno, Eric Xing, Xingxing Zuo
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Earth System World Model for What-If Simulations: A Case Study for Terrestrial Ecosystems

The paper introduces an action‑conditioned world‑modeling framework that turns Earth‑system simulator trajectories into training data for controllable state‑transition learning. By pretraining on naturally observed state changes as implicit action supervision and using masked response learning, the model can infer unobserved variables and learn coupled system dependencies. Experiments on ecosystem dynamics across six global regions demonstrate that the model maintains long‑horizon emulation accuracy while enabling structural interventions and coherent responses in coupled ecosystem‑cycle variables.

By Zhihao Wang, Ruichen Wang, Ruohan Li, Lei Ma, George Hurtt, Xiaowei Jia, Gengchen Mai, Shaowen Wang, Yiqun Xie
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

BehaviorWorldGen: Closing the Loop between Action Models and World Simulators via Controllable Behavior-Aware Structured World Generation

arXiv:2608.22187v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern driving action models are increasingly improved in a self-improvement loop, where a learned world simulator imagines future observations and t...

By Jiaqi Wang, Zhuo Zhang, Haining Guan, Tingguang Zhou, Haowen Cui, Zhongyang Zhu, Yulong Zheng, ChuanYe Wang, Xuefeng Chen, Zhen Yang, Tianchen Deng, Feiyang Tan, Hangning Zhou, Bo Dai, Lixia Shen, Xiwu Chen, Xiyang Wang, Jiajun Zhu