Atomic Generation
One-shot plausible rendering from prompts or latent codes.
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Visual Generation in the New Era
An evolution from atomic mapping to agentic world modeling.
This roadmap organizes modern visual generation around capabilities: controllable composition, persistent context, agentic interaction, and causal world simulation. Use the dynamic explorers below to retrieve papers, tasks, categories, and stress-test cases from the full roadmap bibliography.
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From prettier images to verifiable visual intelligence
Conditional Generation
Faithful control under layouts, references, and explicit constraints.
In-Context Generation
Multi-reference, multi-condition, and long-context visual coherence.
Agentic Generation
Planning, tool use, verification, rollback, and iterative refinement.
World Modeling
Causal, physical, and action-conditioned simulation of visual worlds.
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@article{wu2026visual,
title={Visual Generation in the New Era: An Evolution from Atomic Mapping to Agentic World Modeling},
author={Wu, Keming and Yang, Zuhao and Zhang, Kaichen and Wang, Shizun and Zhu, Haowei and Leng, Sicong and Yang, Zhongyu and Wang, Qijie and Wang, Sudong and Wang, Ziting and others},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.28185},
year={2026}
}