A curated list of awesome resources on World Models, based on the comprehensive survey "Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models".
- [2024/11/21] Initial release of our survey is available on arXiv.
- [2025/06/13] Our survey paper "Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models" has been accepted by ACM Computing Surveys.
- [2025/06/25] Second version of our survey is available on arXiv.
- [2025/07/18] Initial release of the Awesome-World-Model GitHub repository.
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If this list helps your research, please ⭐ and cite:
@article{ding2025worldmodels,
title={Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models},
author={Ding, Jingtao and Zhang, Yunke and Shang, Yu and Zhang, Yuheng and Zong, Zefang and Feng, Jie and Yuan, Yuan and Su, Hongyu and Li, Nian and Sukiennik, Nicholas and Xu, Fengli and Li, Yong},
journal={ACM Computing Surveys},
year={2025}
}- 1 Introduction & 2 Background
- 3 Implicit Representation of the External World
- 4 Future Prediction of the Physical World
- 5 Applications of World Models
| Title | Pub. & Date | Code / Project URL |
|---|---|---|
| World and Human Action Models towards Gameplay Ideation | Nature 2025 | - |
| GameFactory: Creating New Games with Generative Interactive Videos | ICCV 2025 |  |
| Unbounded: A Generative Infinite Game of Character Life Simulation | CVPR 2025 | Website |
| GameGen-𝕏: Interactive Open-world Game Video Generation | ICLR 2025 |  |
| Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines | ICLR 2025 | Website |
| Exploration-Driven Generative Interactive Environments | ICLR 2025 |  |
| Matrix-Game: Interactive World Foundation Model | arXiv 2025 |  |
| Mineworld: a Real-time and Open-source Interactive World Model on Minecraft | arXiv 2025 |  |
| Model as a Game: On Numerical and Spatial Consistency for Generative Games | arXiv 2025 | - |
