E2050 - From Pixels to States: Rethinking Interactive World Models as Game Engines

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Authors:
Zhen Li, Zian Meng, Shuwei Shi, Mingliang Zhai, Jiaming Tan, Chuanhao Li, Kaipeng Zhang

Title:
From Pixels to States: Rethinking Interactive World Models as Game Engines

Arxiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14076v1

Abstract:
Building interactive worlds that respond coherently to player actions has long been a shared goal of computer graphics, games, and artificial intelligence. Recent video generative models provide a data-driven route toward this goal by predicting future observations conditioned on user actions, and are increasingly regarded as potential next-generation game engines. Rea...