OmniNWM: Omni Driving Navigation World Models

1SJTU, 2EIT(Ningbo), 3PhiGent, 4NUS, 5THU, *Equal Contribution #Project Leader Corresponding
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We introduce OmniNWM, a comprehensive navigation world model that simultaneously forecasts panoramic RGB, semantic, metric depth, 3D semantic occupancy videos, and future planning trajectories for autonomous driving.

Abstract

Autonomous driving world models are expected to work effectively across three core dimensions: state, action, and reward. Existing models, however, are typically restricted to limited state modalities, short video sequences, imprecise action control, and a lack of reward awareness. In this paper, we introduce OmniNWM, an omniscient panoramic navigation world model that addresses all three dimensions within a unified framework. For state, OmniNWM jointly generates panoramic videos of RGB, semantics, metric depth, and 3D occupancy. A flexible forcing strategy enables high-quality long-horizon auto-regressive generation. For action, we introduce a normalized panoramic Plücker ray-map representation that encodes input trajectories into pixel-level signals, enabling highly precise and generalizable control over panoramic video generation. Regarding reward, we move beyond learning reward functions with external image-based models: instead, we leverage the generated 3D occupancy to directly define rule-based dense rewards for driving compliance and safety. Extensive experiments demonstrate that OmniNWM achieves state-of-the-art performance in video generation, control accuracy, and long-horizon stability, while providing a reliable closed-loop evaluation framework through occupancy-grounded rewards.


Long-term Navigation

Examples of Long-term Generative Navigation with VLA Future Planning (Beyond GT Length)


Long-term Navigation Scenario 1

Long-term Navigation Scenario 2

Long-term Navigation Scenario 3

Long-term Navigation Scenario 4

Long-term Navigation Scenario 5


Trajectory Control

Examples of Out-of-distribution Trajectory Control with the Same Conditional Frame

Trajectory Control Scenario 1

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Trajectory Control Scenario 3

Trajectory Control Scenario 4

Trajectory Control Scenario 5

Trajectory Control: Reversing


3D Semantic Occupancy

Examples of Diverse Generated Scenarios with 3D Semantic Occupancy

3D Semantic Occupancy Scenario 1

3D Semantic Occupancy Scenario 2

3D Semantic Occupancy Scenario3


Zero-shot Generalization

Examples of Zero-shot Generalization on Different Datasets and Camera View Configures


Nuplan 3 Camera Views

Nuplan 6 Camera Views

In-House Collected Dataset Scenario 1

In-House Collected Dataset Scenario 2


Diverse Generation

Examples of Diverse Generated Samples with Pixel-level Alighed Panoramic RGB, Semantic and Depth Videos

Diverse Generation Scenario 1

Diverse Generation Scenario 2

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BibTeX

@misc{li2025omninwmomniscientdrivingnavigation,
  title={OmniNWM: Omniscient Driving Navigation World Models}, 
  author={Bohan Li and Zhuang Ma and Dalong Du and Baorui Peng and Zhujin Liang and Zhenqiang Liu and Chao Ma and Yueming Jin and Hao Zhao and Wenjun Zeng and Xin Jin},
  year={2025},
  eprint={2510.18313},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  primaryClass={cs.CV},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18313}, 
}