Blender-generated datasets teach world models object permanence at 10k samples per task

_akhaliq · x · 2026-09-26

The paper "Training Object Permanence in World Models" (arXiv:2609.28654) argues object permanence — a foundation of human cognition — is missing from current video and world models. The authors build a data infrastructure of diverse object-permanence cognitive tasks, each with a Blender-based generator scalable to at least 10,000 diverse samples per task. They show this infrastructure effectively trains video models and world models that acquire object permanence, offering a systematic path toward human-like physical common sense in world models.

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