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

106 papers, page 1 of 3

1. CVPR 2025CheXWorld: Exploring Image World Modeling for Radiograph Representation Learning
2. CVPR 2025DIO: Decomposable Implicit 4D Occupancy-Flow World Model
3. CVPR 2025DriveDreamer4D: World Models Are Effective Data Machines for 4D Driving Scene Representation
4. CVPR 2025EchoWorld: Learning Motion-Aware World Models for Echocardiography Probe Guidance
5. CVPR 2025Exploration-Driven Generative Interactive Environments
6. CVPR 2025GaussianWorld: Gaussian World Model for Streaming 3D Occupancy Prediction
7. CVPR 2025GEM: A Generalizable Ego-Vision Multimodal World Model for Fine-Grained Ego-Motion, Object Dynamics, and Scene Composition Control
8. CVPR 2025MaskGWM: A Generalizable Driving World Model with Video Mask Reconstruction
9. CVPR 2025Missing Target-Relevant Information Prediction with World Model for Accurate Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
10. CVPR 2025Navigation World Models
11. CVPR 2025Neural Motion Simulator Pushing the Limit of World Models in Reinforcement Learning
12. CVPR 2025ReconDreamer: Crafting World Models for Driving Scene Reconstruction via Online Restoration
13. CVPR 2025SceneDiffuser++: City-Scale Traffic Simulation via a Generative World Model
14. ICLR 2025AdaWM: Adaptive World Model based Planning for Autonomous Driving
15. ICLR 2025COMBO: Compositional World Models for Embodied Multi-Agent Cooperation
16. ICLR 2025Discrete Codebook World Models for Continuous Control
17. ICLR 2025Drama: Mamba-Enabled Model-Based Reinforcement Learning Is Sample and Parameter Efficient
18. ICLR 2025Dream to Manipulate: Compositional World Models Empowering Robot Imitation Learning with Imagination
19. ICLR 2025Dreamweaver: Learning Compositional World Models from Pixels
20. ICLR 2025Efficient Exploration and Discriminative World Model Learning with an Object-Centric Abstraction
21. ICLR 2025Empowering LLM Agents with Zero-Shot Optimal Decision-Making through Q-learning
22. ICLR 2025Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Latent World Model
23. ICLR 2025FLIP: Flow-Centric Generative Planning as General-Purpose Manipulation World Model
24. ICLR 2025FOSP: Fine-tuning Offline Safe Policy through World Models
25. ICLR 2025Hierarchical World Models as Visual Whole-Body Humanoid Controllers
26. ICLR 2025Language Agents Meet Causality -- Bridging LLMs and Causal World Models
27. ICLR 2025Learning Transformer-based World Models with Contrastive Predictive Coding
28. ICLR 2025Learning View-invariant World Models for Visual Robotic Manipulation
29. ICLR 2025MMWorld: Towards Multi-discipline Multi-faceted World Model Evaluation in Videos
30. ICLR 2025Open-World Reinforcement Learning over Long Short-Term Imagination
31. ICLR 2025PWM: Policy Learning with Multi-Task World Models
32. ICLR 2025Scaling Offline Model-Based RL via Jointly-Optimized World-Action Model Pretraining
33. ICLR 2025Semi-Supervised Vision-Centric 3D Occupancy World Model for Autonomous Driving
34. ICLR 2025Simple, Good, Fast: Self-Supervised World Models Free of Baggage
35. ICLR 2025VisualPredicator: Learning Abstract World Models with Neuro-Symbolic Predicates for Robot Planning
36. ICLR 2025Web Agents with World Models: Learning and Leveraging Environment Dynamics in Web Navigation
37. ICLR 2025World Model on Million-Length Video And Language With Blockwise RingAttention
38. ICML 2025A Causal World Model Underlying Next Token Prediction: Exploring GPT in a Controlled Environment
39. ICML 2025Accurate and Efficient World Modeling with Masked Latent Transformers
40. ICML 2025AdaWorld: Learning Adaptable World Models with Latent Actions
41. ICML 2025Continual Reinforcement Learning by Planning with Online World Models
42. ICML 2025DINO-WM: World Models on Pre-trained Visual Features enable Zero-shot Planning
43. ICML 2025Empowering World Models with Reflection for Embodied Video Prediction
44. ICML 2025FOUNDER: Grounding Foundation Models in World Models for Open-Ended Embodied Decision Making
45. ICML 2025General agents need world models
46. ICML 2025Graph World Model
47. ICML 2025How Far Is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspective
48. ICML 2025Improving Transformer World Models for Data-Efficient RL
49. ICML 2025Multi-Stage Manipulation with Demonstration-Augmented Reward, Policy, and World Model Learning
50. ICML 2025Neurosymbolic World Models for Sequential Decision Making

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.