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
arXiv:2511.09057v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: A world model is a cognitive simulator of the real-world environment allowing biological agents to reason about how the world evolves, whethe...
By PAN Team, Zihan Liu, Yi Gu, Mingkai Deng, Guangyi Liu, Zeyu Feng, Qiyue Gao, Yiyan Hu, Benhao Huang, Yichi Yang, Kun Zhou, Jiannan Xiang, Zhiting Hu, Zhengzhong Liu, Eric P. Xing
arXiv:2608.22429v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) capable of thinking with images often rely on external tools for fine-grained perception. However, this relian...
By Changjiang Jiang, Qiannian Zhao, Lei Xin, Jinxiang Xie, Preslav Nakov, Zhuohan Xie
Recent advances in multimodal generative models have enabled instruction-based image generation to move beyond semantic manipulation to knowledge-driven visual reasoning. However, these methods focus on explicit commonsense reasoning, shallow causal understanding, and direct knowledge recall, failing at knowledge-intensive generation.
arXiv:2609.37576v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: With the rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) generation, robust evaluation becomes critical yet challenging, as traditional metrics fail to captur...
By Yu Zhao, Jiarui Wang, Huiyu Duan, Ye Zhao, Jutao Tang, Juntong Wang, Guangtao Zhai, Xiongkuo Min
arXiv:2604.13491v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: With the rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), unified MLLMs that jointly perform image understanding and generation have adv...
By Yongjin Kim, Yoonjin Oh, Yerin Kim, Hyomin Kim, Jeeyoung Yun, Yujung Heo, Minjun Kim, Sungwoong Kim