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Discovering Hybrid World Representations with Co-Evolving Foundation Models

Jiajun Wu, Yunzhi Zhang, Hong-Xing Yu, Joy Hsu, Jiayuan Mao

Abstract

This perspective article discusses an emerging research direction: to what extent can foundation models yield usable structure for modeling the physical world? We offer a Markovian formulation of structured world models and outline the notion of multi-level hybrid world representations that support compositional structure. We then review and suggest possible discovery paradigms, spanning distillation, interaction-driven continual learning, and ensemble learning.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{aaai2026_discoveringhybri,
  title = {Discovering Hybrid World Representations with Co-Evolving Foundation Models},
  author = {Jiajun Wu and Yunzhi Zhang and Hong-Xing Yu and Joy Hsu and Jiayuan Mao},
  booktitle = {AAAI 2026},
  year = {2026}
}
Discovering Hybrid World Representations with Co-Evolving Foundation Models · AAAI 2026