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

42 papers, page 1 of 1

1. NeurIPS 2025Agents Robust to Distribution Shifts Learn Causal World Models Even Under Mediation
2. NeurIPS 2025Bootstrap Off-policy with World Model
3. NeurIPS 2025COME: Adding Scene-Centric Forecasting Control to Occupancy World Model
4. NeurIPS 2025DMWM: Dual-Mind World Model with Long-Term Imagination
5. NeurIPS 2025DyMoDreamer: World Modeling with Dynamic Modulation
6. NeurIPS 2025Dyn-O: Building Structured World Models with Object-Centric Representations
7. NeurIPS 2025Dynamics-Aligned Latent Imagination in Contextual World Models for Zero-Shot Generalization
8. NeurIPS 2025DynamicVerse: A Physically-Aware Multimodal Framework for 4D World Modeling
9. NeurIPS 2025EDELINE: Enhancing Memory in Diffusion-based World Models via Linear-Time Sequence Modeling
10. NeurIPS 2025From Forecasting to Planning: Policy World Model for Collaborative State-Action Prediction
11. NeurIPS 2025Image as a World: Generating Interactive World from Single Image via Panoramic Video Generation
12. NeurIPS 2025Learning 3D Persistent Embodied World Models
13. NeurIPS 2025Learning and Planning Multi-Agent Tasks via an MoE-based World Model
14. NeurIPS 2025Learning Interactive World Model for Object-Centric Reinforcement Learning
15. NeurIPS 2025Learning World Models for Interactive Video Generation
16. NeurIPS 2025Leveraging Conditional Dependence for Efficient World Model Denoising
17. NeurIPS 2025Martian World Model: Controllable Video Synthesis with Physically Accurate 3D Reconstructions
18. NeurIPS 2025MindJourney: Test-Time Scaling with World Models for Spatial Reasoning
19. NeurIPS 2025OSVI-WM: One-Shot Visual Imitation for Unseen Tasks using World-Model-Guided Trajectory Generation
20. NeurIPS 2025Overcoming Challenges of Long-Horizon Prediction in Driving World Models
21. NeurIPS 2025PlayerOne: Egocentric World Simulator
22. NeurIPS 2025PoE-World: Compositional World Modeling with Products of Programmatic Experts
23. NeurIPS 2025Program Synthesis via Test-Time Transduction
24. NeurIPS 2025Raw2Drive: Reinforcement Learning with Aligned World Models for End-to-End Autonomous Driving (in CARLA v2)
25. NeurIPS 2025Revisiting Multi-Agent World Modeling from a Diffusion-Inspired Perspective
26. NeurIPS 2025RLVR-World: Training World Models with Reinforcement Learning
27. NeurIPS 2025RoboScape: Physics-informed Embodied World Model
28. NeurIPS 2025SAMPO: Scale-wise Autoregression with Motion Prompt for Generative World Models
29. NeurIPS 2025seq-JEPA: Autoregressive Predictive Learning of Invariant-Equivariant World Models
30. NeurIPS 2025Social World Model-Augmented Mechanism Design Policy Learning
31. NeurIPS 2025SPARTAN: A Sparse Transformer World Model Attending to What Matters
32. NeurIPS 2025StateSpaceDiffuser: Bringing Long Context to Diffusion World Models
33. NeurIPS 2025Text-to-Decision Agent: Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning from Natural Language Supervision
34. NeurIPS 2025Towards foundational LiDAR world models with efficient latent flow matching
35. NeurIPS 2025VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents
36. NeurIPS 2025Vector Quantization in the Brain: Grid-like Codes in World Models
37. NeurIPS 2025Video World Models with Long-term Spatial Memory
38. NeurIPS 2025WALL-E: World Alignment by NeuroSymbolic Learning improves World Model-based LLM Agents
39. NeurIPS 2025World Models as Reference Trajectories for Rapid Motor Adaptation
40. NeurIPS 2025World Models Should Prioritize the Unification of Physical and Social Dynamics
41. NeurIPS 2025WorldModelBench: Judging Video Generation Models As World Models
42. NeurIPS 2025Zero-shot World Models via Search in Memory

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.