Action-conditioned world models (ACWMs) promise to provide embodied AI with scalable predictive simulators for planning, policy evaluation, and data generation. Realizing this promise requires precise action-conditioned transitions rather than merely plausible outputs.
arXiv:2606. 15032v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models have become a central abstraction in modern AI.
By Yang Yu, Shiyuan Zhang, Yifei Sheng, Haoxiang Ren, Haoxin Lin
arXiv:2607. 00836v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models are increasingly used in embodied intelligence and generative simulation, yet their scope remains ambiguous across communities.
By Xiaoxiong Zhang, Xiong Zeng, Wei Zhang
arXiv:2608. 06994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) aim to construct a unified architecture capable of understanding world state evolution and guiding to generative motion planning.
By Xiangkai Ma, Yue Ma, Junjie Wang, Sheng Xu, Mingyang Li, Han Zhang, Yuzheng Zhuang, Wenzhong Li, Zhihao Yuan
arXiv:2606. 16533v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce \textbf{Kairos}, a regret-aware native world-action model stack for Physical AI.
By Kairos Team, Fei Wang, Shan You, Qiming Zhang, Tao Huang, Zuoyi Fu, Zhisheng Zheng, Yunlong Xi, Feng Lv, Xiaoming Wu, Zeyu Liu, Cong Wan, Pu Li, Ruiqing Yang, Xiaoou Li, Wei Wang, Kangkang Zhu, Yuwei Zhang, Shi Fu, Zheng Zhang, Xiaoning Wu, Xuzeng Fan, Dacheng Tao, Xiaogang Wang
arXiv:2607. 03964v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models are rapidly becoming a core infrastructure for embodied intelligence and interactive agents: they provide controllable simulators in which agents can perceive, act, forecast, and acquire scalable experience.
By Jianjie Fang, Yongyan Xu, Ziyou Wang, Chen Gao, Yuchao Huang, Zhaolu Wang, Rongze Tang, Mingyuan Jia, Baining Zhao, Weichen Zhang, Xin Zhang, Haisheng Su, Yu Shang, Wei Wu, Xinlei Chen, Yong Li