arXiv AI

Network World Models as Environments for Algorithm Design on Complex Systems

The paper introduces an action‑conditioned Network World Model that learns how a network’s diffusion dynamics evolve under interventions over time. This model can quickly predict the outcomes of actions, enabling a coding agent to design and refine algorithms that select actions to maximize expected performance on complex network tasks. Experiments on eight network tasks and five diffusion models show that the resulting algorithms match or surpass the best existing baselines in 138 of 141 settings while achieving up to 14.5× faster rollouts than traditional Monte Carlo simulation.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

Agentic World Modeling: Foundations, Capabilities, Laws, and Beyond

arXiv:2604. 22748v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI systems move from generating text to accomplishing goals through sustained interaction, the ability to model environment dynamics becomes a central bottleneck.

By Meng Chu, Xuan Billy Zhang, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Lingdong Kong, Jize Zhang, Teng Tu, Weijian Ma, Ziqi Huang, Senqiao Yang, Wei Huang, Yeying Jin, Zhefan Rao, Jinhui Ye, Xinyu Lin, Xichen Zhang, Qisheng Hu, Shuai Yang, Leyang Shen, Wei Chow, Yifei Dong, Fengyi Wu, Quanyu Long, Bin Xia, Shaozuo Yu, Mingkang Zhu, Wenhu Zhang, Jiehui Huang, Haokun Gui, Runyi Li, Shiyi Du, Xu Huang, Dong Huang, Rui Liu, Chenyu Tang, Xuhang Chen, Chengzu Li, Haoxuan Che, Long Chen, Qifeng Chen, Wenxuan Zhang, Wenya Wang, Xiaojuan Qi, Yang Deng, Yanwei Li, Mike Zheng Shou, Zhi-Qi Cheng, See-Kiong Ng, Ziwei Liu, Philip Torr, Jiaya Jia
arXiv AI
Sep 4

CoMAP: Co-Evolving World Models and Agent Policies for LLM Agents

CoMAP introduces a framework that jointly evolves textual world models and agent policies through a closed‑loop interaction. At each decision step the world model forecasts future state feedback for candidate actions, while the agent reflects on the reliability of this feedback to refine its action. The resulting on‑policy trajectories are used to self‑distill and update the world model, improving prediction accuracy and long‑horizon decision‑making across embodied planning, web navigation, and tool‑use benchmarks.

By Youwei Liu, Jian Wang, Hanlin Wang, Wenjie Li
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Driving Epidemic Models with AI Agents: the Epydemix Agent Framework

The Epydemix Agent Framework adds an AI‑friendly layer to the Epydemix Python library for stochastic epidemic modeling. It provides four key features: model and parameter discovery, declarative scenario validation, execution via tested code, and result inspectability, enabling an AI agent to manage the entire modeling workflow from natural‑language input to quantitative outputs. The authors demonstrate the framework with a vaccination strategy case study and evaluate it over 50 agent sessions, showing reductions in turns, output tokens, and cost compared to direct Python use.

By Nicol\`o Gozzi, Ciro Cattuto, Alessandro Vespignani
arXiv AI
3d ago

Beyond Prediction: Steering VLM Agents with Retrospective World Modeling

The paper introduces Retrospective World Modeling, a new paradigm for vision‑language‑model (VLM) agents that allows them to reason backward by estimating which action most likely caused a state transition. It proposes the Self‑Consistency Reward (SCR), an intrinsic signal that measures how well a policy action aligns with this retrospective explanation, providing dense transition‑level feedback. Experiments demonstrate that incorporating SCR improves policy robustness and generalization compared to purely prospective world‑modeling approaches.

By Yongjiang Liu, Jie Zhang, Haoyue Zhang, Jingcai Guo, Deze Zeng, Song Guo