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11 papers

cs.CV2026

Apple-: Benchmarking Thinking with Video Towards Law-Grounded Physical Intelligence

Runmao Yao, Kairui Hu, Yukang Cao +11

Modern video generation models are increasingly hailed as emerging world models with an internalized grasp of physical law. Yet existing benchmarks largely evaluate physical plausi…

cs.AI2026

Agentic World Modeling: Foundations, Capabilities, Laws, and Beyond

Meng Chu, Xuan Billy Zhang, Kevin Qinghong Lin +47

As AI systems move from generating text to accomplishing goals through sustained interaction, the ability to model environment dynamics becomes a central bottleneck. Agents that ma…

cs.CV2026

WorldLens: Full-Spectrum Evaluations of Driving World Models in Real World

Ao Liang, Lingdong Kong, Tianyi Yan +19

Generative world models are reshaping embodied AI, enabling agents to synthesize realistic 4D driving environments that look convincing but often fail physically or behaviorally. D…

cs.CV2026

Demystifying Video Reasoning

Ruisi Wang, Zhongang Cai, Fanyi Pu +11

Recent advances in video generation have revealed an unexpected phenomenon: diffusion-based video models exhibit non-trivial reasoning capabilities. Prior work attributes this to a…

cs.CV2026

VChain: Chain-of-Visual-Thought for Reasoning in Video Generation

Ziqi Huang, Ning Yu, Gordon Chen +3

Recent video generation models can produce smooth and visually appealing clips, but they often struggle to synthesize complex dynamics with a coherent chain of consequences. Accura…

cs.RO2026

Kinema4D: Kinematic 4D World Modeling for Spatiotemporal Embodied Simulation

Mutian Xu, Tianbao Zhang, Tianqi Liu +3

Simulating robot-world interactions is a cornerstone of Embodied AI. Recently, a few works have shown promise in leveraging video generations to transcend the rigid visual/physical…