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most citedUrbanVideo-Bench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Embodied Intelligence with Video Data in Urban Spaces

17 citations · 20 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.RO2026

UniW(A)M: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts Framework for World and World-Action Models

Jingbo Xu, Jianjie Fang, Zhuohang Li +9

World models (WMs) and world-action models (WAMs) focus on future world prediction and executable action generation, respectively. Although these models learn shared physical dynam…

cs.CV2026

CoDrive: Cross-Vehicle World-Consistent Video Generation with Precise Trajectory Control for Cooperative Driving

Yu Meng, Baining Zhao, Junta Wu +10

Real-world driving is inherently multi-agent, yet most existing driving world models generate observations from a single ego vehicle. Independently extending them to multiple vehic…

cs.AI2026

IMPACT: Attention Is the Interaction Map for Scalable Interaction-Aware World Model Training

Rongze Tang, Jianjie Fang, Zhaolu Wang +8

World models have made remarkable progress in action-conditioned future prediction for embodied agents, yet still struggle to model physically plausible interactions. Existing appr…

cs.AI2026

CAER: Causal Action Effect Reweighting for World Model Training

Jianjie Fang, Xvyuan Liu, Ziyou Wang +9

World models are becoming core infrastructure for embodied intelligence, with action-conditioned video generation providing controllable predictions of how scenes evolve after agen…

cs.CV2026

WorldExam: Benchmarking World Models from Apparent Appearance to Inherent Reactivity

Yuxue Yang, Shuyao Shang, Jiahe Wang +13

Controllable video generation models are increasingly being developed as world models. Accordingly, evaluating them in this role extends beyond the apparent appearance of generated…

cs.RO2026

WorldScape Policy 2.0: Empowering Steerable World Action Modeling with Reasoning-Augmented Memory and In-Context Learning

Haisheng Su, Zongdai Liu, Xin Jin +13

World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising paradigm for robotic manipulation by jointly modeling visual state transitions and robot actions. However, existing WAMs are constraine…

cs.RO2026

Worldscape-MoE: A Unified Mixture-of-Experts World Model for Scalable Heterogeneous Action Control

Jianjie Fang, Yongyan Xu, Ziyou Wang +13

World models are rapidly becoming a core infrastructure for embodied intelligence and interactive agents: they provide controllable simulators in which agents can perceive, act, fo…

cs.AI2026

DyCon: Dynamic Reasoning Control via Evolving Difficulty Modeling

Tengyao Tu, Yulin Li, Hui-Ling Zhen +6

Recent advances in Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) demonstrate remarkable performance improvements by iteratively reflecting, exploring, and executing complex tasks, yet suffer from…

cs.CV2026

NavOne: One-Step Global Planning for Vision-Language Navigation on Top-Down Maps

Dijia Zhan, Jinyi Li, Chenxi Zheng +4

Existing Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) methods typically adopt an egocentric, step-by-step paradigm, which struggles with error accumulation and limits efficiency. While recent…

cs.RO2026

Dreaming when Necessary: Advancing World Action Models with Adaptive Multi-Modal Reasoning

Yinzhou Tang, Jingbo Xu, Yu Shang +4

World Action Models (WAMs) offer a promising approach to embodied intelligence, yet existing methods rely heavily on video prediction as action priors and lack adaptive multimodal…

cs.AI2026

WorldFly: A World-Model-Based Vision-Language-Action Model for UAV Navigation

Shengtao Zheng, Kai Li, Weichen Zhang +5

End-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promise in UAV navigation. However, existing approaches typically rely on historical observations to directly predict acti…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

Towards World Models in Biomedical Research

Guangyu Wang, Jingkun Yue, Siqi Zhang +19

A central goal of biomedicine is to understand, predict and ultimately control the dynamic mechanisms by which biological systems respond to perturbations, disease progression and…

cs.CE2026

LiveFigure: Generating Editable Scientific Illustration with VLM Agents

Chenyang Shao, Jiahe Liu, Fengli Xu +1

Scientific illustrations are essential for depicting conceptual designs, methodologies, and experimental workflows in research, playing a pivotal role in communicating complex acad…

cs.RO2026

WorldArena 2.0: Extending Embodied World Model Benchmarking on Modality, Functionality and Platform

Yu Shang, Yinzhou Tang, Yiding Ma +26

World models have emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, enabling agents to predict action-conditioned future and reason about environmental dynamics. However, ex…

cs.CV2026

UniVLR: Unifying Text and Vision in Visual Latent Reasoning for Multimodal LLMs

Houcheng Jiang, Jiajun Fu, Junfeng Fang +4

Multimodal large language models are increasingly expected to perform thinking with images, yet existing visual latent reasoning methods still rely on explicit textual chain-of-tho…

cs.CV2026

iWorld-Bench: A Benchmark for Interactive World Models with a Unified Action Generation Framework

Jianjie Fang, Yingshan Lei, Qin Wan +8

Achieving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) requires agents that learn and interact adaptively, with interactive world models providing scalable environments for perception, re…

cs.AI2026

Efficient Reasoning with Balanced Thinking

Yulin Li, Tengyao Tu, Li Ding +5

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet they often suffer from overthinking, expending redundant computational steps on simple problems, or…

cs.CV2026

CityCube: Benchmarking Cross-view Spatial Reasoning on Vision-Language Models in Urban Environments

Haotian Xu, Yue Hu, Zhengqiu Zhu +7

Cross-view spatial reasoning is essential for embodied AI, underpinning spatial understanding, mental simulation and planning in complex environments. Existing benchmarks primarily…

cs.CV2025

Towards Autonomous UAV Visual Object Search in City Space: Benchmark and Agentic Methodology

Yatai Ji, Zhengqiu Zhu, Yong Zhao +7

Aerial Visual Object Search (AVOS) tasks in urban environments require Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to autonomously search for and identify target objects using visual and textu…

cs.AI2025

Embodied-R: Collaborative Framework for Activating Embodied Spatial Reasoning in Foundation Models via Reinforcement Learning

Baining Zhao, Ziyou Wang, Jianjie Fang +7

Humans can perceive and reason about spatial relationships from sequential visual observations, such as egocentric video streams. However, how pretrained models acquire such abilit…

cs.CV2025

The Point, the Vision and the Text: Does Point Cloud Boost Spatial Reasoning of Large Language Models? A Bias-Controlled Study

Weichen Zhang, Ruiying Peng, Xin Zeng +9

3D Large Language Models (LLMs) leveraging spatial information in point clouds for 3D spatial reasoning attract great attention. Despite some promising results, the advantages of p…

cs.CV2025★ 17 cited

UrbanVideo-Bench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Embodied Intelligence with Video Data in Urban Spaces

Baining Zhao, Jianjie Fang, Zichao Dai +8

Large multimodal models exhibit remarkable intelligence, yet their embodied cognitive abilities during motion in open-ended urban 3D space remain to be explored. We introduce a ben…

cs.CV2025

Open3D-VQA: A Benchmark for Comprehensive Spatial Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Model in Open Space

Weichen Zhang, Zile Zhou, Xin Zeng +7

Spatial reasoning is a fundamental capability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), yet their performance in open aerial environments remains underexplored. In this work, we…

cs.AI2025

CityEQA: A Hierarchical LLM Agent on Embodied Question Answering Benchmark in City Space

Yong Zhao, Kai Xu, Zhengqiu Zhu +7

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) has primarily focused on indoor environments, leaving the complexities of urban settings-spanning environment, action, and perception-largely unex…