World Models papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• World Models went from 23 papers in 2023 to 250 in 2026, roughly 11x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most World Models work: 159 papers from 2023 to 2026, 37% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with Multimodal LLMs: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 34 in 2026.
• Among the 4 topics under Trending Systems, it ranks #4 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, AI Agents, is up 12x versus 11x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Hierarchical World Model for Driving
• ICML 2026A Deep Learning Model of Mental Rotation Informed by Interactive VR Experiments
• ICLR 2026Astra: General Interactive World Model with Autoregressive Denoising
• CVPR 2026Active Intelligence in Video Avatars via Closed-loop World Modeling
• NeurIPS 2025COME: Adding Scene-Centric Forecasting Control to Occupancy World Model
• ICML 2025A Causal World Model Underlying Next Token Prediction: Exploring GPT in a Controlled Environment
• ICLR 2025AdaWM: Adaptive World Model based Planning for Autonomous Driving
• CVPR 2025DIO: Decomposable Implicit 4D Occupancy-Flow World Model
• NeurIPS 2024A Data-Centric Perspective on Evaluating Machine Learning Models for Tabular Data
• ICML 20243D-VLA: A 3D Vision-Language-Action Generative World Model
• ICLR 2024Copilot4D: Learning Unsupervised World Models for Autonomous Driving via Discrete Diffusion
• CVPR 2024DriveWorld: 4D Pre-trained Scene Understanding via World Models for Autonomous Driving
• NeurIPS 2023Action Inference by Maximising Evidence: Zero-Shot Imitation from Observation with World Models
• ICML 2023Do Embodied Agents Dream of Pixelated Sheep: Embodied Decision Making using Language Guided World Modelling
• ICLR 2023Dynamic Update-to-Data Ratio: Minimizing World Model Overfitting
• NeurIPS 2026A World Model of Radiologist Reading for Medical Image Representation Learning
• ICML 2026Behavior-Invariant Task Representation Learning with Transformer-based World Models for Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning
• ICLR 2026Building spatial world models from sparse transitional episodic memories
• CVPR 2026Chain of World World Model Thinking in Latent Motion
• NeurIPS 2025DMWM: Dual-Mind World Model with Long-Term Imagination

All World Models papers

425 papers, page 1 of 9

1. CVPR 2026A Frame is Worth One Token Efficient Generative World Modeling
2. CVPR 2026Active Intelligence in Video Avatars via Closed-loop World Modeling
3. CVPR 2026BAgger Backwards Aggregation for Mitigating Drift in Autoregressive Video Diffusion
4. CVPR 2026Chain of World World Model Thinking in Latent Motion
5. CVPR 2026Cloning Deterministic Worlds The Critical Role of Latent Geometry in
6. CVPR 2026Dexterous World Models
7. CVPR 2026DLWM Dual Latent World Models enable Holistic Gaussian-centric Pre-training in
8. CVPR 2026DreamSAC Learning Hamiltonian World Models via Symmetry Exploration
9. CVPR 2026GaussianDWM 3D Gaussian Driving World Model for Unified Scene Understanding
10. CVPR 2026GEM Generating LiDAR World Model via Deformable Mamba
11. CVPR 2026GenieDrive Towards Physics-Aware Driving World Model with 4D Occupancy Guided
12. CVPR 2026GeoWorld Geometric World Models
13. CVPR 2026IPR-1 Interactive Physical Reasoner
14. CVPR 2026Latent Chain-of-Thought World Modeling for End-to-End Autonomous Driving
15. CVPR 2026MAD Motion Appearance Decoupling for efficient Driving World Models
16. CVPR 2026MajutsuCity Language-driven Aesthetic-adaptive City Generation with Controllable 3D Assets and
17. CVPR 2026ModularAgent A Task-Aware Modular Framework for Joint Optimization of Multimodal
18. CVPR 2026Motus A Unified Latent Action World Model
19. CVPR 2026MRI Contrast Enhancement Kinetics World Model
20. CVPR 2026NavForesee A Unified Vision-Language World Model for Hierarchical Planning and
21. CVPR 2026NeoVerse Enhancing 4D World Model with in-the-wild Monocular Videos
22. CVPR 2026Perceptual 3D Simulation With Physical World Modeling
23. CVPR 2026Physical Object Understanding with a Physically Controllable World Model
24. CVPR 2026Planning in 8 Tokens A Compact Discrete Tokenizer for Latent
25. CVPR 2026PointWorld Scaling 3D World Models for In-The-Wild Robotic Manipulation
26. CVPR 2026RAYNOVA Scale-Temporal Autoregressive World Modeling in Ray Space
27. CVPR 2026RehearseVLA Simulated Post-Training for VLAs with Physically-Consistent World Model
28. CVPR 2026SEBA Sample-Efficient Black-Box Attacks on Visual Reinforcement Learning
29. CVPR 2026SparseWorld-TC Trajectory-Conditioned Sparse Occupancy World Model
30. CVPR 2026Spatial Retrieval Augmented Autonomous Driving
31. CVPR 2026StaMo Unsupervised Learning of Generalizable Robot Motion from Compact State
32. CVPR 2026Stereo World Model Camera-Guided Stereo Video Generation
33. CVPR 2026Think Before You Drive World Model-Inspired Multimodal Grounding
34. CVPR 2026TraceGen World Modeling in 3D Trace Space Enables Learning from
35. CVPR 2026U4D Uncertainty-Aware 4D World Modeling from LiDAR Sequences
36. CVPR 2026VerseCrafter Dynamic Realistic Video World Model with 4D Geometric Control
37. CVPR 2026WorldLens Full-Spectrum Evaluations of Driving World Models in Real World
38. CVPR 2026WorldReel 4D Video Generation with Consistent Geometry and Motion Modeling
39. CVPR 2026WPT World-to-Policy Transfer via Online World Model Distillation
40. CVPR 2026X-WIN Building Chest Radiograph World Model via Predictive Sensing
41. ICLR 2026Astra: General Interactive World Model with Autoregressive Denoising
42. ICLR 2026Building spatial world models from sparse transitional episodic memories
43. ICLR 2026Code World Models for General Game Playing
44. ICLR 2026Composition of Memory Experts for Diffusion World Models
45. ICLR 2026ConsisDrive: Identity-Preserving Driving World Models for Video Generation by Instance Mask
46. ICLR 2026Context and Diversity Matter: The Emergence of In-Context Learning in World Models
47. ICLR 2026Ctrl-World: A Controllable Generative World Model for Robot Manipulation
48. ICLR 2026Deep SPI: Safe Policy Improvement via World Models
49. ICLR 2026DriveVLA-W0: World Models Amplify Data Scaling Law in Autonomous Driving
50. ICLR 2026DrivingGen: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Generative Video World Models in Autonomous Driving

FAQ

How many World Models papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

425 in total: 23 in 2023, 46 in 2024, 106 in 2025, 250 in 2026.

How many World Models papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 85 World Models papers, versus 42 the year before.

How many World Models papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 56 World Models papers, versus 24 the year before.

How many World Models papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 69 World Models papers, versus 27 the year before.

How many World Models papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 40 World Models papers, versus 13 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most World Models papers?

NeurIPS, with 159 papers from 2023 to 2026.