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cs.DS2026

Hit-and-Run Mixes as Fast as the Ball Walk

Ruizhe Zhang

Let be an isotropic convex body. We prove that the hit-and-run walk, started from any -warm distribution, reaches total-variation distance f…

cs.CV2026

ShadowDancer: Teaching Video World Models Any Action by Learning Unified Dynamics Representations from a Video and Its Shadow

Jin Cao, Zian Meng, Kaipeng Zhang

ShadowDancer introduces a method for precise, frame‑level control of video world models by learning unified dynamics representations from paired videos that share the same underlyi…

cs.AI2026

AlayaWorld: Interactive Long-Horizon World Modeling -- Full Technical Report

AlayaWorld Team, Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li +15

Unlike conventional video game development, which relies on labor-intensive pipelines for asset production, animation, physics, and programming, video world models generate interac…

cs.CV2026

From Pixels to States: Rethinking Interactive World Models as Game Engines

Zhen Li, Zian Meng, Shuwei Shi +4

The paper surveys how recent video generative models can be used to build interactive game worlds, analyzing four key dimensions of game engine design and introducing a large datas…

cs.CV2026

AlayaWorld: Long-Horizon and Playable Video World Generation

AlayaWorld Team, Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li +14

Game worlds have traditionally been built through labor-intensive production pipelines, making them costly to develop, difficult to customization, and expensive to modify after dep…

cs.CV2026

WildWorld: A Large-Scale Dataset for Dynamic World Modeling with Actions and Explicit State toward Generative ARPG

Zhen Li, Zian Meng, Shuwei Shi +5

Dynamical systems theory and reinforcement learning view world evolution as latent-state dynamics driven by actions, with visual observations providing partial information about th…