Walking in the Implicit: Interactive World Exploration via Neural Scene Representation

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NeuWorld is a new interactive video generation system that uses compact neural implicit scene representations and a transformer VAE with diffusion transformer for trajectory-conditioned rendering, achieving long-horizon consistency.

Interactive video generation systems for camera-controlled world exploration roll out growing sequences of latent video frames, entangling state transition with high-frequency observation synthesis. We propose Walking in the Implicit, a scene-centric paradigm that changes the rollout variable from frame latents to a fixed-length, renderable implicit state, termed Neural Implicit Scene (NIS). This factorizes interactive generation into stochastic transition of a compact scene state and deterministic pose-conditioned rendering given the sampled state. We instantiate this paradigm as NeuWorld: a transformer VAE learns locally anchored NIS from sparse posed frames, and a diffusion transformer evolves NIS conditioned on future camera trajectories and geometry-aware retrieved history. By reusing the VAE encoder as a unified conditioner, NeuWorld maps camera, reference-image, and history cues into the same NIS modality, avoiding external heterogeneous encoders. Trained from scratch on public posed-view data without pretrained video backbones or auxiliary 3D reconstructors, NeuWorld achieves strong long-horizon consistency with favorable inference efficiency.
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NeuWorld enables efficient interactive video generation by representing scenes as compact neural implicit states and using a transformer VAE with diffusion transformer for trajectory-conditioned rendering.

Interactive video generation systems for camera-controlled world exploration roll out growing sequences oflatent video frames, entangling state transition with high-frequency observation synthesis. We propose Walking in the Implicit, a scene-centric paradigm that changes the rollout variable from frame latents to a fixed-length, renderableimplicit state, termedNeural Implicit Scene(NIS). This factorizes interactive generation into stochastic transition of a compact scene state and deterministicpose-conditioned renderinggiven the sampled state. We instantiate this paradigm as NeuWorld: atransformer VAElearns locally anchored NIS from sparse posed frames, and adiffusion transformerevolves NIS conditioned on futurecamera trajectoriesand geometry-aware retrieved history. By reusing theVAE encoderas aunified conditioner, NeuWorld maps camera, reference-image, and history cues into the same NIS modality, avoiding external heterogeneous encoders. Trained from scratch on public posed-view data without pretrained video backbones or auxiliary 3D reconstructors, NeuWorld achieves stronglong-horizon consistencywith favorable inference efficiency.

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