Must-Read Papers: From Generation to Simulation, World Models Weekly Roundup
TheTuringPost · x · 2026-09-02
TuringPost curated a list of must-read research papers on World Models from this week, focusing on topics such as the gap between generation and simulation, executable world representations for physical reasoning, and bridging robot control with visual prediction.
Key Papers:
- From Generation to Simulation: How Far Are World Models from Being True Simulators?
- Code as Worlds: Agentic Discovery of Executable World Representations for Physical Reasoning
- Can Video World Models Track Unobserved World States?
- ReWorld: An Interactive World Model with Long-Horizon Memory
- NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams
- AnyWorld
- TrAct: Bridging Robot Control and Visual Prediction with Visual Tracks
- Hydra: A Navigation World Action Model
- Agentic Game Development as a Verifiable Trajectory Data Engine for Scaling World Models
- DreamLedger: Where to Refuse World-Model Imagination Using Execution-Settled Credit
- Driving on Memory
- RoboPhys-3D
- PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling?
Full list and links available in the original post.
More from Research
- UK AI Security Institute warns OpenAI's new reasoning technique undermines monitoring — pstAsiatech · 2026-09-02
- LeCun, Hassabis, and Li Converge on World Models as AI's Future — TheTuringPost · 2026-09-02
- €10k prize launched for robust EEG biomarkers in depression treatment — bttyeo · 2026-09-02
- PIXIO Report: Doubling the speed of open video model inference — tsi_org · 2026-09-02
- Brain has low MFU but is a mega kernel — _arohan_ · 2026-09-02
- Sakana AI CTO Llion Jones to speak on neuroscience×ML at CiNet conference in Osaka — SakanaAILabs · 2026-09-02