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Interactive World Simulation with Cosmos for Physical AI

2026-11-04 15:11:04
NVIDIA, , Anis Ahmad, Jon Allen, Malik Aqeel Anwar, Jesse Archer, Maciej Bala, Piotr Barejko, Aarti Basant, Dan Blick, Taras Bolzhelarskyi, Henry Che, Jin Chen, Yukang Chen, Tae Eun Choe, Yuzhu Dong, Nat Duca, Liang Feng, Francesco Ferroni, Xiao Fu, Mohit Gambhir, Vivek Goel, Rony Goldenthal, Aryaman Gupta, Ali Hassani, Nathan Hayes-Roth, Yong He, Michael Honke, Shengyu Huang, Wei Huang, DeLesley Hutchins, Suneel Indupuru, Pooya Jannaty, Jingyi Jin, Janmesh Kalra, Ashna Khetan, Xin Kong, Aleksandr Korovko, Hui Kuang, Zhengfei Kuang, George Kurian, Jean-Francois Lafleche, Jayjun Lee, Justin Leung, William Lew, Xiang Li, Zhaoshuo Li, Chen-Hsuan Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, Xiangyu Lu, Yuhang Lu, Martin Ding Ma, Qianli Ma, Aditya Mahajan, Miguel Martin, Janarbek Matai, Jonathan McCaffrey, Qing Miao, Ashkan Mirzaei, Mustafa Munir, Sangmin Oh, David Pankratz, Trung Pham, Marilyn Reeb, Gavriel State, Jiaxiang Tang, Shitao Tang, Yue Tang, Tolou Tavakkoli, Alexander Temirov, Hweimi Tsou, Sergei Vasilev, Thomas Volk, Andrew Z. Wang, Hao Wang, Shijie Wang, Zhonghao Wang, David Wehr, Shumian Xin, Mengyao Xu, Yao Xu, Shuai Yang, Sophia Zalewski, Pengcuo Zeren, Cindy Zha, Jing Zhang, Yuliya Zhautouskaya, Kaiwen Zheng, Andrew Zhu, Rick Zhuang

Abstract

We present a shared framework that adapts Cosmos world foundation models for real-time interactive world simulation in Physical AI. By streaming visual observations in response to actions and scene controls, the framework enables users and embodied agents to interact with evolving virtual environments. It supports both predicting the visual consequences of actions and generating observations from physical state maintained by an external simulator. We demonstrate this approach across camera navigation and robot manipulation, controllable video transfer, and multi-view autonomous vehicle (AV) simulation. These examples provide a shared foundation for developing interactive virtual environments for Physical AI training and evaluation. Our code and model checkpoints are available at this https URL and this https URL. The project website is available at this https URL.

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URL

https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.06627

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.06627.pdf


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