Active Intelligence in Video Avatars via Closed-loop World Modeling

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Main Authors: He, Xuanhua, Yang, Tianyu, Cao, Ke, Wu, Ruiqi, Meng, Cheng, Zhang, Yong, Kang, Zhuoliang, Wei, Xiaoming, Chen, Qifeng
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author He, Xuanhua
Yang, Tianyu
Cao, Ke
Wu, Ruiqi
Meng, Cheng
Zhang, Yong
Kang, Zhuoliang
Wei, Xiaoming
Chen, Qifeng
author_facet He, Xuanhua
Yang, Tianyu
Cao, Ke
Wu, Ruiqi
Meng, Cheng
Zhang, Yong
Kang, Zhuoliang
Wei, Xiaoming
Chen, Qifeng
contents Current video avatar generation methods excel at identity preservation and motion alignment but lack genuine agency, they cannot autonomously pursue long-term goals through adaptive environmental interaction. We address this by introducing L-IVA (Long-horizon Interactive Visual Avatar), a task and benchmark for evaluating goal-directed planning in stochastic generative environments, and ORCA (Online Reasoning and Cognitive Architecture), the first framework enabling active intelligence in video avatars. ORCA embodies Internal World Model (IWM) capabilities through two key innovations: (1) a closed-loop OTAR cycle (Observe-Think-Act-Reflect) that maintains robust state tracking under generative uncertainty by continuously verifying predicted outcomes against actual generations, and (2) a hierarchical dual-system architecture where System 2 performs strategic reasoning with state prediction while System 1 translates abstract plans into precise, model-specific action captions. By formulating avatar control as a POMDP and implementing continuous belief updating with outcome verification, ORCA enables autonomous multi-step task completion in open-domain scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ORCA significantly outperforms open-loop and non-reflective baselines in task success rate and behavioral coherence, validating our IWM-inspired design for advancing video avatar intelligence from passive animation to active, goal-oriented behavior.
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spellingShingle Active Intelligence in Video Avatars via Closed-loop World Modeling
He, Xuanhua
Yang, Tianyu
Cao, Ke
Wu, Ruiqi
Meng, Cheng
Zhang, Yong
Kang, Zhuoliang
Wei, Xiaoming
Chen, Qifeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Current video avatar generation methods excel at identity preservation and motion alignment but lack genuine agency, they cannot autonomously pursue long-term goals through adaptive environmental interaction. We address this by introducing L-IVA (Long-horizon Interactive Visual Avatar), a task and benchmark for evaluating goal-directed planning in stochastic generative environments, and ORCA (Online Reasoning and Cognitive Architecture), the first framework enabling active intelligence in video avatars. ORCA embodies Internal World Model (IWM) capabilities through two key innovations: (1) a closed-loop OTAR cycle (Observe-Think-Act-Reflect) that maintains robust state tracking under generative uncertainty by continuously verifying predicted outcomes against actual generations, and (2) a hierarchical dual-system architecture where System 2 performs strategic reasoning with state prediction while System 1 translates abstract plans into precise, model-specific action captions. By formulating avatar control as a POMDP and implementing continuous belief updating with outcome verification, ORCA enables autonomous multi-step task completion in open-domain scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ORCA significantly outperforms open-loop and non-reflective baselines in task success rate and behavioral coherence, validating our IWM-inspired design for advancing video avatar intelligence from passive animation to active, goal-oriented behavior.
title Active Intelligence in Video Avatars via Closed-loop World Modeling
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20615