{
  "id": 17423,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01049",
  "title": "FactorJEPA: Factorizing Monolithic Futures into Layout-Agent-Interaction Channels for Crowded and Chaotic Global South Urban Worlds",
  "summary": "World models have attracted significant attention for their ability to capture and predict the structure and dynamics of the physical world. In this emerging landscape, Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPA) offer a particularly compelling direction. We study a largely unexplored regime: populous, crowded, and chaotic Global South urban environments, which we call DENSEWORLD. Unlike the lower-density, lane-structured settings that dominate existing evaluations, these scenes exhibit soft",
  "authors": "Kapil Wanaskar, Gaytri Jena, Aman Chadha, Vinija Jain, Vasu Sharma, Amitava Das",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "agents-autonomy,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-01T20:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T05:10:34.355Z",
  "source_slug": "hf-daily",
  "source_name": "HuggingFace Daily Papers",
  "source_homepage": "https://huggingface.co/papers",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17423",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01049",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}