arXiv:2606. 07687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video world models are increasingly used to provide predictive visual representations, yet it remains unclear which pretraining signals induce action-relevant structure in their latent spaces.
By Jewon Yeom, Hanseul Kim, Jeongjae Park, Sungmok Jung, Jaejin Lee, Taesup Kim
arXiv:2605.15618v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Self-supervised video models are increasingly framed as world models, yet they are still evaluated almost entirely on clean video and reporte...
By Ali J Alrasheed, Aryan Yazdan Parast, Basim Azam, James Bailey, Naveed Akhtar
arXiv:2607. 20988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models augmented with world modeling represent a promising paradigm for end-to-end autonomous driving.
By Quanfu Yu, Xian Wu, Hao Xu, Liulong Ma
The paper introduces a reinforcement learning post‑training scheme that trains robot world models on their own autoregressive rollouts, using a contrastive RL objective adapted from diffusion models. It also proposes a training protocol that compares multiple variable‑length futures, a multi‑view visual fidelity reward, and demonstrates state‑of‑the‑art rollout fidelity on the DROID dataset, outperforming baselines on LPIPS, SSIM, and human preference tests.
By Jai Bardhan, Patrik Drozdik, Josef Sivic, Vladimir Petrik
arXiv:2603. 17555v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion-based image-to-video (I2V) models are increasingly effective, yet they struggle to scale to ultra-high-resolution inputs (e.
By Hugo Caselles-Dupr\'e, Mathis Koroglu, Guillaume Jeanneret, Arnaud Dapogny, Matthieu Cord
arXiv:2607.14088v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Video generation models typically rely on 3D-VAEs trained for pixel-level reconstruction, whose latent spaces may underrepresent semantic structure...
By Zhihao Xie, Junfeng Wu, Xinting Hu, Junchao Huang, Li Jiang
arXiv:2607.08020v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Autoregressive video diffusion enables efficient streaming and long-horizon video generation, but repeatedly reusing generated latents as causal co...
By Thanh-Nhan Vo, Trong-Thuan Nguyen, Trung-Hoang Le, Tam V. Nguyen, Minh-Triet Tran
Latent video generation relies on autoencoders to define a compact space in which generative models operate. Although video autoencoder architectures have evolved substantially, their latent spaces are still optimized primarily for pixel-level reconstruction and provide limited high-level semantic organization.
arXiv:2606. 05328v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern video diffusion models generate increasingly realistic and temporally coherent videos, motivating their use as candidate world simulators.
By Parsa Esmati, Somjit Nath, Katja Hofmann, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Majid Mirmehdi
arXiv:2609.40037v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Few-step autoregressive video generation enables efficient streaming synthesis, but errors introduced in early temporal blocks are reused as context an...
By Fangyu Lin, Xingtong Ge, Lunjie Zhu, Yi Zhang, Zhening Liu, Tianhang Wang, Mengfei Li, Yumeng Zhang, Guanglu Song, Yu Liu, Jun Zhang
The paper introduces Relax Forcing, a training‑free memory mechanism for autoregressive video diffusion that structures temporal context into Sink, Tail, and History frames. By selecting History frames with a relaxation criterion, the method reduces error accumulation and attention overhead while preserving motion dynamics. Experiments on VBench‑Long demonstrate that this structured memory improves long‑video generation quality over existing baselines.
By Zengqun Zhao, Yanzuo Lu, Ziquan Liu, Jifei Song, Jiankang Deng, Ioannis Patras
arXiv:2608.24293v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Latent diffusion models have emerged as a dominant framework for high-fidelity image and video synthesis, operating in compact latent spaces with varia...
By Yeonkyeong Lee, Hyunsung Go, Jongmin Kim, Sewoong Lim, Donghoon Lee