arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

WorldMind: Decoupled Game World Model for State-Aware NPC Behavior

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.

By Zhiyang Deng, Boran Zhang, Danze Chen, Yeying Jin
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 10

Programmable World Model

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...

By Zheng-Hui Huang, Guixu Lin, Jiacheng Lin, Yi-Chuan Huang, Ruihan Yu, Muyao Niu, Siqi Yang, Yu-Lun Liu, Yung-Yu Chuang, Kaipeng Zhang, Zhixiang Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 16

AI for Games in the Foundation Model Era

arXiv:2609.16679v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models, alongside advances in learned game-world models, are reshaping AI across the game lifecycle. Beyond playing games, recent systems mo...

By Meng Luo, Yanlin Li, Hao Li, Hongzhan Lin, Pengfei Zhou, Tianjie Ju, Ran Zhang, Yeying Jin, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Code World Model: Coding Agent as World Brain

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.

By Yiwen Chen, Guosheng Lin, Chi Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

Magpie: Real-Time World Renderer for Interactive Games

Magpie is a real‑time generative world‑rendering system designed for interactive games. It decouples gameplay execution from visual generation, allowing designers to define scenes and rules in a game engine while a separate render server produces visual output from the engine’s white‑box frames. This approach preserves gameplay designability and reproducibility, and reduces early prototype dependence on finished visual assets.

By Xiaoyu Zhan, Xinyu Wang, Xiaohong Zhang, Huanjie Zhu, Tengjiao Sun, Pengcheng Fang, Jiaxing Yu, Yanwen Guo, Dongjie Fu