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This research challenges the prevailing assumption that generative world models require full recomputation for every request by introducing Persistent Computational State (PCS). The authors demonstrate that retaining minimal non-recomputable state—such as RNG seeds and memory banks—enables efficient session management with negligible overhead, effectively decoupling runtime capabilities from model architecture alone. This shift toward a session-centric approach is crucial for scaling complex simulators where backtracking and multi-step planning are essential functionalities.
Persistent Computational State: A Session-Centric Runtime for Generative World Models
arXiv:2607.21686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative world models are increasingly driven as simulators: a planner forks a state, rolls out futures, backtracks, and returns to a visited viewpoint. Recent benchmarks establish that current video world models fail this usage, and attribute it to the model, prescribing new architectures and training objectives. We show this attribution is incomplete, and for an important class of models simply wrong. Snapshotting the state the runtime already holds -- an observation plus RNG state, a memory bank, or a windowed KV context, by architecture -- and restoring it after a genuine excursion reproduces the never-left continuation byte-identically on all three; corrupting only the RNG degrades it. The capability was never missing: request-centric serving discarded it, inheriting from language-model serving the assumption that runtime state is recomputable -- but world-model state carries a non-recomputable kernel. We define Persistent Computational State (PCS), the minimal non-recomputable state that must survive across requests, show it can be discovered by measurement, and build a session-centric runtime over it. Checkpoint and restore cost 0.012 ms against a 1.85 s generation step; resident sessions become host- rather than device-bounded (measured to 1,024); and world memory must be evicted by relevance to the return, not recency -- the inverse of LLM practice.
Abstract:Generative world models are increasingly driven as simulators: a planner forks a state, rolls out futures, backtracks, and returns to a visited viewpoint. Recent benchmarks establish that current video world models fail this usage, and attribute it to the model, prescribing new architectures and training objectives. We show this attribution is incomplete, and for an important class of models simply wrong. Snapshotting the state the runtime already holds -- an observation plus RNG state, a memory bank, or a windowed KV context, by architecture -- and restoring it after a genuine excursion reproduces the never-left continuation byte-identically on all three; corrupting only the RNG degrades it. The capability was never missing: request-centric serving discarded it, inheriting from language-model serving the assumption that runtime state is recomputable -- but world-model state carries a non-recomputable kernel. We define Persistent Computational State (PCS), the minimal non-recomputable state that must survive across requests, show it can be discovered by measurement, and build a session-centric runtime over it. Checkpoint and restore cost 0.012 ms against a 1.85 s generation step; resident sessions become host- rather than device-bounded (measured to 1,024); and world memory must be evicted by relevance to the return, not recency -- the inverse of LLM practice.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2607.21686 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2607.21686v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.21686 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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