The goal of this workshop is to exchange ideas and establish communications among researchers working on building generalizable world models that describe how the physical world evolves in response to interacting agents (e.g. human and robots). Large-scale datasets of videos, images, and text hold the key for learning generalizable world models that are visually plausible. However, distilling useful physical information from such diverse unstructured data is challenging and requires careful attention to data curation, developing scalable algorithms, and implementing suitable training curricula. On the other hand, physics-based priors can enable learning plausible scene dynamics but it is difficult to scale to complex phenomenon that lack efficient solvers or even governing dynamic equations. Developing general world models that can simulate complex real-world phenomenon in a physically-plausible fashion can unlock enormous opportunities in generative modeling and robotics, and would be of wide interest to the larger AI community, and we believe this workshop falls at an ideal timing given recent significant progress in both video-modeling models and physics-based simulation. This workshop aims to bring together researchers in machine learning, robotics, physics-based simulation, and computer vision broadly aspiring to build scalable world models by utilizing internet data, simulation, and beyond in myriad ways.

Our workshop will focus on topics including but not limited to the following:

• Controllable Video Generation and Generative Simulations. How can we improve fine-grained control in video generation and integrate it with world models conditioned on low-level actions?
• Incorporating physics priors. How can we leverage physics prior to empower learned world models with physical realism?
• Dynamic 3D Reconstruction. How can we generalize 3D reconstruction using web data while preserving scene consistency and controlled motion of dynamic elements?
• Applications to Robotics and Time-Series Prediction. How can we use generic dataset such as web video and text to build shared world models that can synthesize physically-plausible results for applications such as robotics?
• Special Considerations: Data Curation, Hallucination, and Broader Implications. How do dataset biases impact learned world models, and how can we mitigate them?

We invite submissions of original research papers related to building physically plausible world models.

Submission Types:

• Short Papers / Extended Abstracts (max 3 pages) - For preliminary results, interesting applications, or novel ideas that did not pan out in practice. The top three short papers will be invited for a spotlight talk.
• Full Papers (max 8 pages) - For original research contributions. Three award candidates will be selected for spotlight talks.

Submission Guidelines:

• Submit your paper via OpenReview
• Please follow the style guidelines of ICML 2025.
• Papers are non-archival - we welcome submissions that have been submitted to or accepted by other venues.
• Papers already accepted to ICML 2025 will undergo an expedited review process primarily evaluating their relevance to the workshop themes.
• All accepted papers will be presented in a poster session
• Short papers have a maximum length of 3 pages and appendices are not allowed. Full papers can be up to 8 pages with an unlimited appendix. References do not count toward the page limit and may be as extensive as necessary.

Important Dates:

• Submission Deadline: May 10, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: June 10, 2025
• Camera ready submission: June 20, 2025