VisualPatchWorld: Code World Models as Latent Structured Representations for Planning

arXiv:2607.25236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Different research lines use the term world model in different ways, yet they share a common aim: to capture how the world evolves under action in a form that supports perception, simulation, and planning. Two prominent realizations are neural predictors that learn dynamics in continuous vector spaces, and hand-built physics engines that expose explicit state and physical laws. Neural predictors scale from data but leave the form of the dynamics im...