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DreamWorld: Unified World Modeling in Video Generation

arXiv 2603.00466 ↗First posted 28 Feb 2026cs.CVcited by 7

On the map: World models → Video-generation world models and simulators

Abstract (arXiv)

Despite impressive progress in video generation, existing models remain limited to surface-level plausibility, lacking a coherent and unified understanding of the world. Prior approaches typically incorporate only a single form of world-related knowledge or rely on rigid alignment strategies to introduce additional knowledge. However, aligning the single world knowledge is insufficient to constitute a world model that requires jointly modeling multiple heterogeneous dimensions (e.g., physical commonsense, 3D and temporal consistency). To address this limitation, we introduce DreamWorld, a unified framework that integrates complementary world knowledge into video generators via a Joint World Modeling Paradigm, jointly predicting video pixels and features from foundation models to capture temporal dynamics, spatial geometry, and semantic consistency. However, naively optimizing these heterogeneous objectives can lead to visual instability and temporal flickering. To mitigate this issue, we propose textitConsistent Constraint Annealing (CCA) to progressively regulate world-level constraints during training, and textitMulti-Source Inner-Guidance to enforce learned world priors at inference. Extensive evaluations show that DreamWorld improves world consistency, outperforming Wan2.1 by 2.26 points on VBench. Code will be made publicly available at hrefhttps://github.com/ABU121111/DreamWorldtextcolormypinkGithub.

Key facts. Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Video-generation world models and simulators, one of 11 directions in World models. Builds on 29 of its 42 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 28 Feb 2026.

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  1. 2025Geometry Forcing: Marrying Video Diffusion and 3D Representation for Consistent World Modeling10 Jul
  2. 2025Video World Models with Long-term Spatial Memory5 Jun
  3. 2025VBench-2.0: Advancing Video Generation Benchmark Suite for Intrinsic Faithfulness27 Mar
  4. 2022Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformers19 Dec

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  5. 2024Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Thinkcited by 703
  6. 2024Diffusion Forcing: Next-token Prediction Meets Full-Sequence Diffusioncited by 681
  7. 2024Latte: Latent Diffusion Transformer for Video Generationcited by 546
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  9. 2024Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generationcited by 455
  10. 2024Pyramidal Flow Matching for Efficient Video Generative Modelingcited by 366
  11. 2026LTX-2: Efficient Joint Audio-Visual Foundation Modelcited by 236
  12. 2024How Far is Video Generation from World Model: A Physical Law Perspectivecited by 212
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  1. 2019Cyclical Annealing Schedule: A Simple Approach to Mitigating KL Vanishingcited by 191
  2. 2025VideoJAM: Joint Appearance-Motion Representations for Enhanced Motion Generation in Video Modelscited by 113
  3. 2025VideoREPA: Learning Physics for Video Generation through Relational Alignment with Foundation Modelscited by 98
  4. 2024DriveWorld: 4D Pre-trained Scene Understanding via World Models for Autonomous Drivingcited by 93
  5. 2025No Other Representation Component Is Needed: Diffusion Transformers Can Provide Representation Guidance by Themselvescited by 56
  6. 2025Boosting Generative Image Modeling via Joint Image-Feature Synthesiscited by 45
  7. 2025Thinking with Video: Video Generation as a Promising Multimodal Reasoning Paradigmcited by 42
  8. 2025Aligning Text to Image in Diffusion Models is Easier Than You Thinkcited by 22
  9. 2025MaskFlow: Discrete Flows For Flexible and Efficient Long Video Generationcited by 12
  10. 2025Guiding Cross-Modal Representations with MLLM Priors via Preference Alignmentcited by 4
  11. 2025AlignVid: Training-Free Attention Scaling for Semantic Fidelity in Text-Guided Image-to-Video Generationcited by 2
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  13. 2025Multi-dimensional Preference Alignment by Conditioning Reward Itselfcited by 1

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  1. 2026A Frame is Worth One Token: Efficient Generative World Modeling with Delta Tokens
  2. 2025IC-World: In-Context Generation for Shared World Modeling
  3. 2025WorldWeaver: Generating Long-Horizon Video Worlds via Rich Perception
  4. 2026World-R1: Reinforcing 3D Constraints for Text-to-Video Generation
  5. 2026MBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark on Memory Capability for Video World Models
  6. 2025Dreamland: Controllable World Creation with Simulator and Generative Models
  7. 2026World-T3: Test-Time Training as Persistent Memory for Real-Time Video World Models
  8. 2025FantasyWorld: Geometry-Consistent World Modeling via Unified Video and 3D Prediction