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Zhi-Yang Deng

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Preprint Aug 2026

WorldMind: Decoupled Game World Model for State-Aware NPC Behavior

Game world models have recently demonstrated promising capabilities in generating visually coherent and action-controllable gameplay videos. However, non-player character (NPC) behavior in existing models is either implicitly entangled with video generation or explicitly prescribed through external control signals. Con...

Zhi-Yang Deng, Bo-Ran Zhang, Dan Chen et al. · 3 citations

Preprint Sep 2026

GameDirector: Decoupling Gameplay Logic from Rendering for Player-Configurable Game World Models

Recent game world models support realistic visual simulation and interactive gameplay based on player inputs. However, they typically learn environment dynamics from pixel-level supervision, jointly modeling perception, memory, state transitions, and rendering within a single end-to-end framework. While this design ena...

Zi-Jun Lin, Zhi-Yang Deng, Yu-Zhe Wu et al. · 0 citations