arXiv AI
Oct 16

WorldCast: Exploring Intelligent Visual Generation in World State Prediction

WorldCast is a benchmark that tests multimodal generative models on multi-step world state prediction, requiring them to forecast successive future states from multimodal observations and diverse references. The study evaluates 12 models across 320 manually designed cases in eight categories, revealing that advanced models like GPT-Image-2.5 achieve high scores while open-source models lag behind, especially on complex context and reasoning tasks. The results underscore the importance of integrating dynamic planning, reasoning, and unified multimodal capabilities for realistic world simulation.

By Wenhao Yan, Haodong Li, Xiaotong Li, Yaxin Luo, Zhengrong Yue, Jialv Zou, Xu Huang, Haojin Yang, Nan Jia, Yan Feng, Peng Pei, Xunliang Cai