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Mingchun Lu

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MetaWorld: Scaling Multi-Agent Video World Model from Single-view Video Data

Video world models are a foundational generative technology for embodied AI and the Metaverse, yet existing approaches are inherently limited to a single agent observing from a single perspective. Extending these models to multi-agent settings introduces two critical challenges: data scarcity (coordinated multi-view recordings are prohibitively expensive to collect for general open-domain scenarios) and world state alignment (independently generated video streams cannot ensure that shared physical environments and events evolve consistently across views). To address these challenges, we propose MetaWorld, a novel framework that scales multi-agent video world models to open-domain environments directly from single-view videos. First, we introduce Monocular World-State Unrolling (MWSU) to explicitly decompose monocular footage into the camera operator's ego-motion and the visible subject's spatial trajectory. This camera-trajectory decomposition naturally extracts synchronized multi-agent motion data within a shared 3D space, completely bypassing the need for multi-camera setups. Second, for precise visual control, we develop the Subject-Aware World Generator to enable appearance-driven simulation conditioned on per-agent identity images. Finally, to ensure both views are grounded in the identical physical reality, we propose World-State Alignment, a per-frame inter-branch cross-attention mechanism inserted at every transformer layer of the video DiT. By jointly synchronizing the denoising process, WSA enforces both static geometric consistency and dynamic motion consistency, encouraging that the shared 3D environment and physical events remain well-aligned across both egocentric views. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MetaWorld achieves superior cross-view consistency and identity fidelity, establishing a highly scalable, physics-driven paradigm for multi-agent video world modeling.

cs.CV

Hardness of FeB4: Density functional theory investigation

A recent experimental study reported the successful synthesis of an orthorhombic FeB4 with a high hardness of 62 GPa, which has reignited extensive interests on whether transition metal borides (TRBs) compounds will become superhard materials. However, it is contradicted with some theoretical studies suggesting transition metal boron compounds are unlikely to become superhard materials. Here, we examined structural and electronic properties of FeB4 using density functional theory. The electronic calculations show the good metallicity and covalent FeB bonding. Meanwhile, we extensively investigated stress strain relations of FeB4 under various tensile and shear loading directions. The calculated weakest tensile and shear stresses are 40 GPa and 25 GPa, respectively. Further simulations (e.g. electron localized function and bond length along the weakest loading direction) on FeB4 show the weak Fe-B bonding is responsible for this low hardness. Moreover, these results are consistent with the value of Vickers hardness (11.7 to 32.3 GPa) by employing different empirical hardness models and below the superhardness threshold of 40 GPa. Our current results suggest FeB4 is a hard material and unlikely to become superhard.

cond-mat.mtrl-sci