World Models papers, 2023–2026
Learned environment dynamics, interactive world simulation, and latent dynamics for planning
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 425 papers are tagged with this topic.
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.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 23 |
| 2024 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 46 |
| 2025 | 42 | 24 | 27 | 13 | 106 |
| 2026 | 85 | 56 | 69 | 40 | 250 |
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
13 papers, page 1 of 1
- CVPR 2025CheXWorld: Exploring Image World Modeling for Radiograph Representation Learning
- CVPR 2025DIO: Decomposable Implicit 4D Occupancy-Flow World Model
- CVPR 2025DriveDreamer4D: World Models Are Effective Data Machines for 4D Driving Scene Representation
- CVPR 2025EchoWorld: Learning Motion-Aware World Models for Echocardiography Probe Guidance
- CVPR 2025Exploration-Driven Generative Interactive Environments
- CVPR 2025GaussianWorld: Gaussian World Model for Streaming 3D Occupancy Prediction
- CVPR 2025GEM: A Generalizable Ego-Vision Multimodal World Model for Fine-Grained Ego-Motion, Object Dynamics, and Scene Composition Control
- CVPR 2025MaskGWM: A Generalizable Driving World Model with Video Mask Reconstruction
- CVPR 2025Missing Target-Relevant Information Prediction with World Model for Accurate Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2025Navigation World Models
- CVPR 2025Neural Motion Simulator Pushing the Limit of World Models in Reinforcement Learning
- CVPR 2025ReconDreamer: Crafting World Models for Driving Scene Reconstruction via Online Restoration
- CVPR 2025SceneDiffuser++: City-Scale Traffic Simulation via a Generative World Model
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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.