By adding future visual state prediction and a dedicated inverse kinematics diffusion network that uses only visual boundary conditions, a 0.5B driving VLA recovers visual grounding and matches 7-8B models on NAVSIM-v2 and nuScenes.
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GAIA-2: A Controllable Multi-View Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving
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Generative models offer a scalable and flexible paradigm for simulating complex environments, yet current approaches fall short in addressing the domain-specific requirements of autonomous driving - such as multi-agent interactions, fine-grained control, and multi-camera consistency. We introduce GAIA-2, Generative AI for Autonomy, a latent diffusion world model that unifies these capabilities within a single generative framework. GAIA-2 supports controllable video generation conditioned on a rich set of structured inputs: ego-vehicle dynamics, agent configurations, environmental factors, and road semantics. It generates high-resolution, spatiotemporally consistent multi-camera videos across geographically diverse driving environments (UK, US, Germany). The model integrates both structured conditioning and external latent embeddings (e.g., from a proprietary driving model) to facilitate flexible and semantically grounded scene synthesis. Through this integration, GAIA-2 enables scalable simulation of both common and rare driving scenarios, advancing the use of generative world models as a core tool in the development of autonomous systems. Videos are available at https://wayve.ai/thinking/gaia-2.
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MultiWorld is a scalable framework for multi-agent multi-view video world models that improves controllability and consistency over single-agent baselines in game and robot tasks.
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Dreamer 4 is the first agent to obtain diamonds in Minecraft from only offline data by reinforcement learning inside a scalable world model that accurately predicts game mechanics.
PanoWorld adds depth consistency and trajectory consistency losses plus spherical adaptations to a pre-trained video model, plus a new PanoGeo dataset, to produce geometry-consistent 360 video.
Real2Sim reconstructs editable dynamic driving scenes as temporally continuous Gaussians integrated with a differentiable MPM physics solver for high-fidelity simulation of interactions and collisions.
HorizonDrive is a new anti-drifting autoregressive training and distillation method that enables minute-scale stable driving video rollouts by making the teacher model rollout-capable via scheduled rollout recovery and teacher rollout DMD.
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LA-Pose achieves over 10% higher pose accuracy than recent feed-forward methods on Waymo and PandaSet benchmarks by repurposing latent actions from self-supervised inverse-dynamics pretraining while using orders of magnitude less labeled 3D data.
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Re2Pix decomposes video prediction into semantic feature forecasting followed by representation-conditioned diffusion synthesis, with nested dropout and mixed supervision to handle prediction errors.
LMGenDrive unifies LLM-based multimodal understanding with generative world models to output both future driving videos and control signals for end-to-end closed-loop autonomous driving.
Video generation models can function as world simulators if efficiency gaps in spatiotemporal modeling are bridged via organized paradigms, architectures, and algorithms.
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HERO accelerates world model inference 1.73x via hierarchical patch-wise refresh in shallow layers and linear extrapolation in deeper layers with minimal quality loss.
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