World Agent: Can Language Models Keep a World Running?

arXiv:2609.32692 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-26 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-26

Updated: 2026-09-26

Code: https://github.com/HCPLab-SYSU/WorldAgent-Benchmark

Project page: https://oasis-model.github.io

Terminology

• Benchmark — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• World Model — 14× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Trace — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Actor — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmarking — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• In International Conference on Learning Representations — 5× in this paper
• Initial Data — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agent Architectures — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Embodied AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• F1 Score — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• GameLogicBench: Evaluating Coding Agents on Runtime Game Logic with Tick-Level State Assertions
• The GEST-Engine: From Event Graphs to Synthetic Video. A Full Technical Report
• World Models
• PhyAgentOS: A Self-Evolving Operating System for Embodied Agents with Decoupled Cognitive Planning and Physical Execution
• AI for Games in the Foundation Model Era
• GameCraft-Bench: Can Agents Build Playable Games End-to-End in a Real Game Engine?
• What-If Analysis of Large Language Models: Explore the Game World Using Proactive Thinking
• WorldRoamBench: An Open-World Benchmark for Long-Horizon Stability of Interactive World Models

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