V. World Simulation

Research on human-centered environment evolution, predictive simulation, and action-aware world models.

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--- ## V.1 Human-Centered World Generation *Human-conditioned visual futures in environments that evolve around situated activity.* | Method | Paper | Venue | Paper Page | Website | |---|---|:---:|:---:|:---:| | EgoGenesis | EgoGenesis: Egocentric World-Action Modeling with Online Anchored Projective Memory and Action-3D RoPE | arXiv 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28243 "Paper page") | [:house:](https://egogenesis.github.io/ "Homepage") | | Real-Time Human-Centric World Modeling for Upper-Body Human-Object Interaction | Real-Time Human-Centric World Modeling for Upper-Body Human-Object Interaction | arXiv 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23517 "Paper page") | [:house:](https://bjkim95.github.io/rofacto/ "Homepage") | | AnchorWorld | AnchorWorld: Embodied Egocentric World Simulation with View-based Evolution Customization | arXiv 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.07326 "Paper page") | [:house:](https://yuli0103.github.io/AnchorWorld/ "Homepage") | | EgoForge | EgoForge: Goal-Directed Egocentric World Simulator | arXiv 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20169 "Paper page") | [:house:](https://plan-lab.github.io/projects/egoforge/ "Homepage") | | Generated Reality | Generated Reality: Human-centric World Simulation using Interactive Video Generation with Hand and Camera Control | CVPR 2026 Findings | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18422 "Paper page") | [:house:](https://codeysun.github.io/generated-reality/ "Homepage") | | Hand2World | Hand2World: Autoregressive Egocentric Interaction Generation via Free-Space Hand Gestures | arXiv 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09600 "Paper page") | [:octocat:](https://github.com/NTUYWANG103/Hand2World "GitHub") | | DWM | Dexterous world models | CVPR 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/html/Kim_Dexterous_World_Models_CVPR_2026_paper.html "Paper page") | [:octocat:](https://github.com/snuvclab/dwm "GitHub") | | EgoControl | EgoControl: Controllable Egocentric Video Generation via 3D Full-Body Poses | CVPR 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/html/Pallotta_EgoControl_Controllable_Egocentric_Video_Generation_via_3D_Full-Body_Poses_CVPR_2026_paper.html "Paper page") | [:house:](https://cvg-bonn.github.io/EgoControl/ "Homepage") [:octocat:](https://github.com/CVG-Bonn/EgoControl/ "GitHub") | | EgoTwin | EgoTwin: Dreaming Body and View in First Person | ICLR 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://openreview.net/forum?id=QFJkvv3zMi "Paper page") | [:house:](https://egotwin.pages.dev/ "Homepage") | | EgoWorld | EgoWorld: Translating Exocentric View to Egocentric View using Rich Exocentric Observations | ICLR 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17896 "Paper page") | [:octocat:](https://github.com/redorangeyellowy/EgoWorld "GitHub") | | EgoX | EgoX: Egocentric Video Generation from a Single Exocentric Video | CVPR 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/html/Kang_EgoX_Egocentric_Video_Generation_from_a_Single_Exocentric_Video_CVPR_2026_paper.html "Paper page") | [:octocat:](https://github.com/DAVIAN-Robotics/EgoX "GitHub") | | PlayerOne | Playerone: Egocentric World Simulator | NeurIPS 2025 | [:page_facing_up:](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2025/hash/d607a260b3bc0b9a704a1a04dd64040a-Abstract-Conference.html "Paper page") | [:octocat:](https://github.com/yuanpengtu/PlayerOne "GitHub") |

--- ## V.2 Actionable World Planning *Action-dependent world transitions designed to support prediction, evaluation, and planning.* | Method | Paper | Venue | Paper Page | Website | |---|---|:---:|:---:|:---:| | EgoExo-WM | EgoExo-WM: Unlocking Exo Video for Ego World Models | arXiv 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.15477v1 "Paper page") | [:house:](https://vision.cs.utexas.edu/projects/EgoExo-WM/ "Homepage") | | LWM | Lifting Embodied World Models for Planning and Control | ECCV 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26182 "Paper page") | [:octocat:](https://github.com/alexnwang/lifted-world-model "GitHub") | | EgoSim | EgoSim: Egocentric World Simulator for Embodied Interaction Generation | ECCV 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01001 "Paper page") | [:octocat:](https://github.com/jinkun-hao/EgoSim "GitHub") | | LOME | LOME: Learning Human-Object Manipulation with Action-Conditioned Egocentric World Model | arXiv 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27449 "Paper page") | [:octocat:](https://github.com/Zerg-Overmind/LOME "GitHub") | | EgoHOI | Egocentric World Model for Photorealistic Hand-Object Interaction Synthesis | arXiv 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13615 "Paper page") | [:octocat:](https://github.com/phai-lab/egohoi "GitHub") | | EgoTwin | EgoTwin: Dreaming Body and View in First Person | ICLR 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://openreview.net/forum?id=QFJkvv3zMi "Paper page") | [:house:](https://egotwin.pages.dev/ "Homepage") | | EgoMAN | Flowing from reasoning to motion: Learning 3d hand trajectory prediction from egocentric human interaction videos | ECCV 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16907 "Paper page") | [:house:](https://egoman-project.github.io/ "Homepage") | | HandWorld | HandWorld: Hand-Centric Unified Video Action Generation | CVPR 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2026/html/Sun_HandWorld_Hand-Centric_Unified_Video_Action_Generation_CVPR_2026_paper.html "Paper page") | - | | DexWM | World Models for Learning Dexterous Hand-Object Interactions from Human Videos | ECCV 2026 | [:page_facing_up:](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13644 "Paper page") | [:house:](https://raktimgg.github.io/dexwm/ "Homepage") | | EgoAgent | EgoAgent: A Joint Predictive Agent Model in Egocentric Worlds | ICCV 2025 | [:page_facing_up:](https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2025/html/Chen_EgoAgent_A_Joint_Predictive_Agent_Model_in_Egocentric_Worlds_ICCV_2025_paper.html "Paper page") | [:octocat:](https://github.com/zju3dv/EgoAgent "GitHub") | | PEVA | Whole-Body Conditioned Egocentric Video Prediction | NeurIPS 2025 | [:page_facing_up:](https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2025/hash/f0552f14388d95b19740dee809f5cad1-Abstract-Conference.html "Paper page") | [:house:](https://dannytran123.github.io/PEVA/ "Homepage") |

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