5 papers
World Editing: Intervening on Executable Worlds at Increasing Depth
Max Ku, Nok-Kan Law, Yu-Chien Tang +15
Interactive world models are increasingly capable of generating environments and acting within them, yet deliberately editing an existing executable world remains underexplored. We…
Token-World: World Modeling in Vision-Language Model Token Space for Robot Manipulation
Chuyao Fu, Xiaowei Chi, Yuhan Rui +14
A common approach to world-model simulation for vision-language-action (VLA) systems is to predict future RGB observations and then re-encode them into policy inputs, introducing a…
Hierarchical Denoising For Multi-Step Visual Reasoning
Zezhong Qian, Xiaowei Chi, Chak-Wing Mak +9
Video models are evolving into vision foundation models, yet they still lack human-like multi-step reasoning. Streaming autoregressive diffusion models are efficient but limited in…
ImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World Tasks
Samin Mahdizadeh Sani, Max Ku, Nima Jamali +23
Advances in diffusion, autoregressive, and hybrid models have enabled high-quality image synthesis for tasks such as text-to-image, editing, and reference-guided composition. Yet,…
PhysicsMind: Sim and Real Mechanics Benchmarking for Physical Reasoning and Prediction in Foundational VLMs and World Models
Chak-Wing Mak, Guanyu Zhu, Boyi Zhang +16
Modern foundational Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and video world models have advanced significantly in mathematical, common-sense, and visual reasoning, but their grasp…