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Learning from Next-Frame Prediction: Towards Unified and Scalable Visual World Modeling

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arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 23

Learning from Next-Frame Prediction: Towards Unified and Scalable Visual Representation Learning

The paper introduces VANE, a self‑supervised visual pretraining framework that learns from next‑frame prediction in embedding space. It uses a causal encoder to summarize past observations, a state predictor to infer the representation of the entire next frame, and a lightweight generative decoder to reconstruct fine‑grained spatial detail. By applying the same objective to both videos and still images through a local‑to‑global crop sequence, VANE achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on anticipation, recognition, and dense perception benchmarks, notably outperforming V‑JEPA on EPIC‑KITCHENS‑100 action anticipation.

By Yifeng Yao, Jinghan Li, Zhihao Zhang, Yajiao Xiong, Yang Jin, Kun Xu, Huishuai Zhang, Dongyan Zhao
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 16

Imagine Before You Predict: Interleaved Latent Visual Reasoning for Video Event Prediction

The paper introduces Future‑L1, an interleaved latent visual reasoning framework that alternates between language tokens and continuous latent visual spans during autoregressive decoding for video event prediction. By training on a curated dataset (Future‑L1‑50K) and optimizing latent trajectories with a latent‑aware RL objective (LA‑DAPO), Future‑L1 achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on FutureBench and TwiFF‑Bench, outperforming prior models by significant margins. The work demonstrates that preserving intermediate visual semantics in latent space, rather than verbalizing every reasoning step, leads to more accurate and visually grounded future predictions.

By Tianxiang Jiang, Linquan Wu, Sheng Xia, Songze Li, Ziang Yan, Haoyu Yang, Yu Qiao, Yi Wang