Awesome-World-Model 
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".
News🔥
- [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.
- [2025/11/18] Third version of our survey is available on arXiv.
Contact
If you have any suggestions or find our work helpful, feel free to contact us
Email: dingjt15@tsinghua.org.cn
If this list helps your research, please ⭐ and cite:
@article{ding2025understanding,
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, Hongyuan and Li, Nian and Sukiennik, Nicholas and others},
journal={ACM Computing Surveys},
volume={58},
number={3},
pages={1--38},
year={2025},
publisher={ACM New York, NY}
}
Table of Contents 🍃
Roadmap of world models in deep learning era
Model-based RL
Self-supervised learning
LLM/MLLM
Video generation
Interactive 3D environment
Application
3 Implicit Representation of the External World
3.1 World Model in Decision Making
3.2 World Knowledge Learned by Models
4 Future Prediction of the Physical World
4.1 World Model as Video Generation
4.2 World Model as Embodied Environment
5 Applications of World Models
5.1 Game Intelligence
| 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 | — |
