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Xiaomi Auto World Model: A Joint World Model Integrating Reconstruction and Generation for Autonomous Driving

arXiv 2605.18137 ↗First posted 18 May 2026cs.CVcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

This report presents a unified technical system addressing the two core capabilities of world models for autonomous driving: world representation and world generation. For world representation, we propose WorldRec, a feed-forward reconstruction architecture driven by sparse scene queries. WorldRec initializes structured queries in 3D space, leveraging them to aggregate cross-view, cross-temporal features, thereby naturally enforcing spatial consistency across frames and yielding compact yet high-fidelity 3D Gaussian scene representations. For world generation, we propose WorldGen, a two-stage training framework of bidirectional pretraining followed by causal fine-tuning through three progressive stages (Teacher Forcing, ODE distillation, and DMD), enabling high-quality online causal video generation in as few as 4 denoising steps. Building on both modules, we further introduce the JWM, which deeply integrates WorldRec and WorldGen to achieve synergistic gains in generation stability, cross-frame consistency, and visual fidelity, providing a solid foundation for closed-loop simulation, data synthesis, and end-to-end training in autonomous driving.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 13 Oct 2026). Placed in World models for autonomous driving, one of 11 directions in World models. Builds on 43 of its 44 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 May 2026.

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  2. 2025Rethinking Driving World Model as Synthetic Data Generator for Perception Tasks22 Oct
  3. 2025GAIA-2: A Controllable Multi-View Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving26 Mar
  4. 2025Uni-Gaussians: Unifying Camera and Lidar Simulation with Gaussians for Dynamic Driving Scenarios11 Mar
  5. 2024OmniRe: Omni Urban Scene Reconstruction29 Aug
  6. 2024Unleashing Generalization of End-to-End Autonomous Driving with Controllable Long Video Generation3 Jun
  7. 2024textitS3Gaussian: Self-Supervised Street Gaussians for Autonomous Driving30 May
  8. 2024Vista: A Generalizable Driving World Model with High Fidelity and Versatile Controllability27 May
  9. 2024GenAD: Generalized Predictive Model for Autonomous Driving14 Mar
  10. 2024Street Gaussians: Modeling Dynamic Urban Scenes with Gaussian Splatting2 Jan
  11. 2023Driving into the Future: Multiview Visual Forecasting and Planning with World Model for Autonomous Driving29 Nov
  12. 2023OccWorld: Learning a 3D Occupancy World Model for Autonomous Driving27 Nov
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  1. 2023GAIA-1: A Generative World Model for Autonomous Driving29 Sep
  2. 2023DriveDreamer: Towards Real-world-driven World Models for Autonomous Driving18 Sep

Other references · 29

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  2. 2020Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 9,028
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  4. 2022Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformerscited by 5,973
  5. 2019Scalability in Perception for Autonomous Driving: Waymo Open Datasetcited by 2,440
  6. 2018World Modelscited by 1,481
  7. 2023pixelSplat: 3D Gaussian Splats from Image Pairs for Scalable Generalizable 3D Reconstructioncited by 673
  8. 2024Improved Distribution Matching Distillation for Fast Image Synthesiscited by 664
  9. 2015Sequence Level Training with Recurrent Neural Networkscited by 573
  10. 2024MVSplat: Efficient 3D Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Multi-View Imagescited by 557
  11. 2023DrivingGaussian: Composite Gaussian Splatting for Surrounding Dynamic Autonomous Driving Scenescited by 359
  12. 2024DepthSplat: Connecting Gaussian Splatting and Depthcited by 277
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  1. 2023MagicDrive: Street View Generation with Diverse 3D Geometry Controlcited by 252
  2. 2024No Pose, No Problem: Surprisingly Simple 3D Gaussian Splats from Sparse Unposed Imagescited by 243
  3. 2023Panacea: Panoramic and Controllable Video Generation for Autonomous Drivingcited by 166
  4. 2026Causal Forcing: Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation Done Right for High-Quality Real-Time Interactive Video Generationcited by 164
  5. 2025Difix3D+: Improving 3D Reconstructions with Single-Step Diffusion Modelscited by 160
  6. 2024UniScene: Unified Occupancy-centric Driving Scene Generationcited by 103
  7. 2024MagicDrive-V2: High-Resolution Long Video Generation for Autonomous Driving with Adaptive Controlcited by 90
  8. 20243DGUT: Enabling Distorted Cameras and Secondary Rays in Gaussian Splattingcited by 88
  9. 2025RAD: Training an End-to-End Driving Policy via Large-Scale 3DGS-based Reinforcement Learningcited by 76
  10. 2024STORM: Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction Model for Large-Scale Outdoor Scenescited by 53
  11. 2025DGGT: Feedforward 4D Reconstruction of Dynamic Driving Scenes using Unposed Imagescited by 22
  12. 2025Genesis: Multimodal Driving Scene Generation with Spatio-Temporal and Cross-Modal Consistencycited by 21
  13. 2025WorldSplat: Gaussian-Centric Feed-Forward 4D Scene Generation for Autonomous Drivingcited by 11
  14. 2025DiVE: Efficient Multi-View Driving Scenes Generation Based on Video Diffusion Transformercited by 10
  15. 2026ParkGaussian: Surround-view 3D Gaussian Splatting for Autonomous Parkingcited by 7
  16. 2025ExtraGS: Geometric-Aware Trajectory Extrapolation with Uncertainty-Guided Generative Priorscited by 4
  17. 2026UFO: Unifying Feed-Forward and Optimization-based Methods for Large Driving Scene Modelingcited by 3

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  3. 2026ReWorld: Representation Learning for World Action Models
  4. 2026Bridging Scene Generation and Planning: Driving with World Model via Unifying Vision and Motion Representation
  5. 2025A Survey of World Models for Autonomous Driving
  6. 2026FAR-Drive: Frame-AutoRegressive Video Generation in Closed-Loop Autonomous Driving
  7. 2025HERMES: A Unified Self-Driving World Model for Simultaneous 3D Scene Understanding and Generation
  8. 2026ZYT-World: A Real-Time Controllable World Model for Closed-Loop Autonomous-Driving Simulation