AlayaWorld is an interactive autoregressive world model for long-horizon, playable video generation with real-time camera control, prompt switching, and memory consistency.

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Why it is worth attention

It achieves minute-long video rollouts with real-time interactivity by combining a 3D cache for spatial recall, compressed temporal memory, stabilization training on drifted histories, and few-step distillation, addressing key challenges in video world models.

Who it is for

  • Researchers in video generation and world models
  • AI game developers seeking interactive long-horizon environments
  • Creative professionals exploring controllable video synthesis
  • Computer vision researchers studying spatial-temporal consistency

Use cases

  • Interactive navigation of generated 3D-like video scenes with camera control
  • Long-horizon storytelling with mid-generation prompt switching
  • Real-time video world simulation for prototyping game environments
  • Benchmarking and research on stable long-duration video generation

Strengths

  • Real-time interaction via camera modulation and chunk-level prompt switching (≲1.33s chunks)
  • Long-horizon memory consistency using explicit 3D cache and frame-history embeddings
  • Stability over minute-long rollouts via drift training and error bank re-injection
  • Open-source inference code and pretrained weights available on GitHub and Hugging Face

Considerations

  • Only inference code released; training code and training data are not yet available
  • Requires external third-party weights (Gemma text encoder, Depth-Anything-3) with gated access and separate downloads
  • Released under a non-commercial license (LTX-2 Community License) restricting commercial use

README quick start

AlayaWorld: Long-Horizon and Playable Video World Generation

Alaya Lab

An interactive autoregressive world model with real-time camera control, prompt switching, and long-horizon memory consistency.


📰 News

🚀 Release Roadmap

  • Inference code
  • Pretrained weights — 🤗 AlayaLab/AlayaWorld
  • Training code
  • Training data (partial)

✨ Core Properties

AlayaWorld is built around four core properties — interaction, consistency, stability, and runtime.

🎮 Interaction

Two control channels: a rendered 3D cache with lightweight AdaLN camera modulation for grounded, trajectory-aware navigation, and chunk-level prompt switching to introduce new events mid-generation.

🧠 Consistency

Two forms of complementary memory: an explicit 3D cache reprojected to the queried view for spatial recall, plus a compressed frame-history embedding for temporal continuity, so revisited places stay recognizable.

🛡️ Stability

Long-horizon stability from training on drifted histories and an error bank that re-injects accumulated artifacts into both memory and target, preventing errors from compounding over minute-long rollouts.

⚡ Runtime

Real-time interaction via few-step DMD distillation and short temporal chunks, with prompt switching at chunk boundaries to minimize both visual and semantic latency.

🏃 Quick Start

Inference is image-to-video: give the model a first-frame image, a camera trajectory, and a text prompt, and it rolls out a video chunk by chunk along the camera path (1 chunk ≈ 1.33s @ 24fps; ~45 chunks ≈ 1 minute).

1. Environment — a CUDA GPU and PyTorch ≥ 2.6 (the DiT uses flex_attention).

2. Weights — the model runs on four pieces. Only merged_infer.safetensors (AlayaWorld's own weights) is hosted on our 🤗 repo; the text encoder and the depth model are third-party — get them from their original sources:

| Path under checkpoints/ | Source |

Description

Full-stack open-source interactive long-horizon world model.

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