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Zhixiang Wang

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Preprint Sep 2026

Programmable World Model

Recent video world models generate increasingly realistic and interactive visual experiences, yet lack reliable mechanisms for maintaining persistent world state and enforcing programmable rules over extended interactions. We introduce Programmable World Model, a framework that decouples world-state evolution from visual observation generation. An agent translates natural-language instructions into executable programs that specify entity states and state-transition rules, enabling direct control over individual entities and their interactions. A lightweight engine executes these programs to update and maintain an explicit, persistent global world state, including off-screen entities and non-visual attributes. To connect world state with visual generation, we introduce state-augmented 3D oriented bounding boxes (OBBs) as an intermediate representation. This representation, together with the target camera trajectory, is deterministically compiled into pixel-aligned spatiotemporal conditioning signals for a pretrained video model serving as the generative renderer. This design allows users to create playable games with predefined mechanics, direct control over individual entities, and persistent world state throughout gameplay. We further introduce CombatStateBench, a benchmark for evaluating programmable world models. On CombatStateBench, our method achieves 94% Count Accuracy and 98% State Accuracy, substantially outperforming existing interactive video world models while supporting coherent long-horizon generation. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of separating explicit state evolution from generative rendering for building persistent, programmable worlds.

Zheng-Hui Huang, Gui-Xu Lin, Jia-Cheng Lin et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Generative World Renderer at the Speed of Play

Generative world renderer AlayaRenderer receives structured world states exported from physics engines and synthesizes RGB frames. Unlike models that generate frames from text/control-hints prompts, AlayaRenderer preserves scene structure without altering the underlying world dynamics. This demonstrates an alternative path toward interactive world modeling and user-controllable play. However, the original AlayaRenderer is too computationally expensive for real-time deployment. This technical report introduces AlayaRenderer-Flash, a real-time-oriented generative forward world renderer that pushes AlayaRenderer from 0.56 FPS to 31.54 FPS, reaching the speed of play. AlayaRenderer-Flash reformulates the original renderer as a few-step autoregressive streaming model and introduces lightweight distilled codecs for efficient latent encoding and frame reconstruction. It retains the teacher model's G-buffer and text-prompt interfaces while enabling continuous rendering over input streams of unbounded length. We evaluate AlayaRenderer-Flash on G-buffer streams across content preservation, temporal consistency, cross-window stability, prompt controllability, and runtime efficiency. Our results show that AlayaRenderer-Flash substantially reduces inference cost while preserving the core rendering capabilities of the teacher model. By integrating AlayaRenderer-Flash with a physics engine, we build a fully playable generative world running at 30 FPS.

Guixu Lin, Zheng-Hui Huang, Siqi Yang et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

AlayaWorld: Interactive Long-Horizon World Modeling - Full Technical Report (v1.1)

The new version of AlayaWorld substantially revise how conditioning signals are represented and integrated into the model, replacing the previous depth-warping-based spatial memory with a streaming 3D point-cache renderer.

AlayaWorld Team Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li, Y. Zhan et al. · 1 citation · ⚡1
Jul 2026

AlayaWorld: Long-Horizon and Playable Video World Generation

AlayaWorld enables open-ended real-time interaction, allowing users to freely navigate and perform diverse actions such as combat, spell casting, and monster summoning, and the framework unifies the complete development-from data preparation model architecture, model training, inference acceleration, and deployment-within a modular and extensible architecture.

AlayaWorld Team, Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li et al. · 1 citation
Jul 2026

AlayaWorld: Interactive Long-Horizon World Modeling - Full Technical Report

AlayaWorld is presented, an interactive long-horizon video world model that generates 24-fps video at 540p and 720p and introduces a discrete autoregressive distillation formulation that combines distribution-matching distillation, self-forcing++, and consistency distillation, reducing inference from approximately 30 sampling steps to four steps per chunk.

AlayaWorld Team Kaipeng Zhang, Chuanhao Li, Y. Zhan et al. · 4 citations

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