RESEARCH PAPERSubmitted 9 Feb 2026

WorldArena: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Perception and Functional Utility of Embodied World Models

Yu Shang; Zhuohang Li; Yiding Ma; Weikang Su; Xin Jin; Ziyou Wang; Lei Jin; Xin Zhang; Yinzhou Tang; Haisheng Su; Chen Gao; Wei Wu; Xihui Liu; Dhruv Shah; Zhaoxiang Zhang; Zhibo Chen; Jun Zhu; Yonghong Tian; Tat-Seng Chua; Wenwu Zhu; Yong Li

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Major category: Benchmarks & simulators
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Subcategories: World model benchmarks Evaluation protocols & diagnostics Composite scores
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@article{worldarena,
      title={WorldArena: A Unified Benchmark for Evaluating Perception and Functional Utility of Embodied World Models}, 
      author={Yu Shang and Zhuohang Li and Yiding Ma and Weikang Su and Xin Jin and Ziyou Wang and Lei Jin and Xin Zhang and Yinzhou Tang and Haisheng Su and Chen Gao and Wei Wu and Xihui Liu and Dhruv Shah and Zhaoxiang Zhang and Zhibo Chen and Jun Zhu and Yonghong Tian and Tat-Seng Chua and Wenwu Zhu and Yong Li},
      year={2026},
      journal={arXiv:2602.08971},
}

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