AgentGarten is a framework that links simulators and game engines with a shared neural renderer to create real‑time interactive virtual worlds. It uses a pretrained video model adapted to geometry conditions, refined with Adversarial Forcing, to produce realistic visual observations while maintaining consistent state and rules. The system enables agents to learn efficiently—achieving comparable performance in only four training rounds versus millions in traditional reinforcement learning—by distilling experience into playbooks that successive agents can inherit and improve upon.
arXiv:2608. 08600v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models have recently achieved impressive progress in visual prediction and interactive generation, but extending them to multi-agent environments introduces a fundamental scalability challenge.
arXiv:2607. 01531v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning how an environment behaves from interaction is central to building agents that adapt to unfamiliar tasks.
arXiv:2607. 01531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning how an environment behaves from interaction is central to building agents that adapt to unfamiliar tasks.
Learning how an environment behaves from interaction is central to building agents that adapt to unfamiliar tasks. World models learned with deep networks are flexible but data-hungry and transfer poorly beyond their training distribution.
arXiv:2609.25652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent game world models support realistic visual simulation and interactive gameplay based on player inputs. However, they typically learn environment...
The paper introduces Code World Model, a framework that decouples world evolution from visual rendering by using a coding agent as a world brain. The agent reasons about events, generates executable code to maintain persistent state, and a proxy representation links this state to a video model for high‑fidelity visual output. Experiments with MiniMax‑H3 show that the system can follow proxy‑based spatiotemporal specifications while preserving rich visual dynamics, illustrating a new approach to open‑ended world modeling.
arXiv:2607. 14200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Imitation learning is an appealing way to scale game-playing agents to complex 3D environments by training policies to map visual observations to actions from human demonstrations.
arXiv:2609.10540v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent video world models generate increasingly realistic and interactive visual experiences, yet lack reliable mechanisms for maintaining persistent w...
PlaySuite is a large-scale benchmark that evaluates interactive visual intelligence by using over 5,000 open-source video games from platforms like PyWeek and itch.io. The benchmark covers diverse game engines (Pygame, HTML5, Godot, Unity) and introduces a unified closed-loop interaction framework and a Video-LLM-as-a-judge protocol to standardize progress measurement. Evaluation of fourteen recent models shows a perception-action gap, with strong reasoning but poor sustained progress, spatial grounding, action execution, and self-correction.
arXiv:2607. 27380v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-video models have achieved remarkable visual quality, yet they still struggle to generate physically consistent dynamics because the temporal evolution of a scene must be inferred implicitly from a highly compressed text prompt.
WorldMind is a decoupled framework for state-aware NPC behavior in game world models, separating interactive world modeling into four layers: Understanding, Decision, Control, and Generation. It constructs a compact state from generated frames, reasons over it to plan NPC actions, translates actions into temporally aligned conditions, and synthesizes visual outcomes. Experiments on the newly introduced BOSS-140K dataset show that WorldMind achieves more tactically appropriate and coherent NPC behavior than baseline models in about 70% of pairwise comparisons.
PAVXploreRL introduces a reinforcement learning framework that builds on a pretrained latent world model to explicitly optimize Physical Plausibility, Action Adherence, and Visual Fidelity (PAV) objectives. By combining in‑distribution expert trajectories with noise‑driven out‑of‑distribution action exploration, the method avoids reliance on paired video supervision and improves generalization. Experiments demonstrate a 5.6% average performance gain over pretrained baselines and more reliable policy evaluation with reduced overestimation bias.