🎮 HY-World 1.5: A Systematic Framework for Interactive World Modeling with Real-Time Latency and Geometric Consistency

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"Hold Infinity in the Palm of Your Hand, and Eternity in an Hour"

🎥 Video

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9fd12b40-41ab-4201-8667-8b333db1123d

🔥 News

April 16, 2026: 🤗 We release HY-World-2.0, state-of-the-art 3D world model!
March 8, 2026: 🚀 We release the RL post-training code 🧭 WorldCompass for WorldPlay-8B model (based on HY Video)! Read more in our new paper.
January 6, 2026: 🚀 We release the training code for WorldPlay-8B model (based on HY Video), enabling the community to train and fine-tune their own world models!
January 6, 2026: 🎯 We open-source WorldPlay-5B model (based on WAN), a new lightweight model that fits into small-VRAM GPUs (but with compromised quality)!
January 3, 2026: ⚡ We update the inference code with quantization and engineering optimization for even faster inference speeds!
December 17, 2025: 👋 We present the technical report (and research paper) of HY-World 1.5 (WorldPlay), please check out the details and spark some discussion!
December 17, 2025: 🤗 We release the first open-source, real-time interactive, and long-term geometric consistent world model, HY-World 1.5 (WorldPlay)!

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📋 Table of Contents

🎥 Video
🔥 News
📋 Table of Contents
📖 Introduction
✨ Highlights
📜 System Requirements
🛠️ Dependencies and Installation
- 1. Create Environment
- 2. Install Attention Libraries
- 3. Install AngelSlim and DeepGEMM (Optional)
- 4. Download All Required Models
🎮 Quick Start
🧱 Model Checkpoints
🔑 Inference
- Configure Model Paths
- Configuration Options
- Model Selection
- Camera Trajectory Control
  - Option 1: Pose String (Recommended for Quick Testing)
  - Option 2: Custom JSON Files
- Prompt Rewriting (Optional)
- Run Inference
⚙️Training
📊 Evaluation
🎬 More Examples
📝 TODO
📚 Citation
Contact
🙏 Acknowledgements

📖 Introduction

While HY-World 1.0 is capable of generating immersive 3D worlds, it relies on a lengthy offline generation process and lacks real-time interaction. HY-World 1.5 bridges this gap with WorldPlay, a streaming video diffusion model that enables real-time, interactive world modeling with long-term geometric consistency, resolving the trade-off between speed and memory that limits current methods. Our model draws power from four key designs. 1) We use a Dual Action Representation to enable robust action control in response to the user's keyboard and mouse inputs. 2) To enforce long-term consistency, our Reconstituted Context Memory dynamically rebuilds context from past frames and uses temporal reframing to keep geometrically important but long-past frames accessible, effectively alleviating memory attenuation. 3) We design WorldCompass, a novel Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training framework designed to directly improve the action-following and visual quality of the long-horizon, autoregressive video model. 4) We also propose Context Forcing, a novel distillation method designed for memory-aware models. Aligning memory context between the teacher and student preserves the student's capacity to use long-range information, enabling real-time speeds while preventing error drift. Taken together, HY-World 1.5 generates long-horizon streaming video at 24 FPS with superior consistency, comparing favorably with existing techniques. Our model shows strong generalization across diverse scenes, supporting first-person and third-person perspectives in both real-world and stylized environments, enabling versatile applications such as 3D reconstruction, promptable events, and infinite world extension.

✨ Highlights

Systematic Overview

HY-World 1.5 has open-sourced a systematic and comprehensive training framework for real-time world models, covering the entire pipeline and all stages, including data, training, and inference deployment. The technical report discloses detailed training specifics for model pre-training, middle-training, reinforcement learning post-training, and memory-aware model distillation. In addition, the report introduces a series of engineering techniques aimed at reducing network transmission latency and model inference latency, thereby achieving a real-time streaming inference experience for users.

Inference Pipeline

Given a single image or text prompt to describe a world, our model performs a next chunk (16 video frames) prediction task to generate future videos conditioned on action from users. For the generation of each chunk, we dynamically reconstitute context memory from past chunks to enforce long-term temporal and geometric consistency.

📜 System Requirements

GPU: NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support
GPU Memory cost:
- Inference with AR distilled models (based on HunyuanVideo1.5 with 125 frames):
  - sp = 8: memory=28G
  - sp = 4: memory=34G
  - sp = 1: memory=72G
- Training (based on HunyuanVideo1.5 with 125 frames):
  - sp = 8: memory=60G

🛠️ Dependencies and Installation

1. Create Environment

conda create --name worldplay python=3.10 -y
conda activate worldplay
pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Install Attention Libraries

SageAttention (Required for the WAN pipeline, optional for HunyuanVideo):

pip install sageattention

Alternatively, you can build from source for potentially better performance:

git clone https://github.com/cooper1637/SageAttention.git
cd SageAttention
export EXT_PARALLEL=4 NVCC_APPEND_FLAGS="--threads 8" MAX_JOBS=32 # Optional
python3 setup.py install

Flash Attention (optional, for faster HunyuanVideo inference):
```
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
```
Detailed instructions: Flash Attention

3. Install AngelSlim and DeepGEMM (Optional, for quantization/fp8 acceleration)

AngelSlim: Install AngelSlim to quantize transformer. Only needed if you enable --use_fp8_gemm true in run.sh.
```
pip install angelslim==0.2.2
```

DeepGEMM: To enable fp8 gemm for transformer. Only needed if you enable --use_fp8_gemm true in run.sh.

git clone --recursive git@github.com:deepseek-ai/DeepGEMM.git
cd DeepGEMM
./develop.sh
./install.sh

4. Download All Required Models

Download the pretrained HunyuanVideo-1.5 base model by following the HunyuanVideo-1.5 download instructions. The pipeline uses the 480P-I2V model.

You also need the following models placed under the HunyuanVideo-1.5 model directory (MODEL_PATH):

Text encoder: Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct → text_encoder/llm/
ByT5 encoder: google/byt5-small → text_encoder/byt5-small/
Glyph encoder: AI-ModelScope/Glyph-SDXL-v2 → text_encoder/Glyph-SDXL-v2/
Vision encoder: FLUX.1-Redux-dev (gated, requires access) → vision_encoder/siglip/

Alternatively, we provide a download script that automatically downloads and organizes all required models:

python download_models.py --hf_token <your_huggingface_token>

Important: The vision encoder requires access to a gated model. Before running:

Request access at: https://huggingface.co/black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-Redux-dev
Wait for approval (usually instant)
Create/get your access token at: https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens (select "Read" permission)

If you don't have FLUX access yet, you can skip the vision encoder (only for WAN pipeline; the HunyuanVideo pipeline requires the vision encoder):

python download_models.py --skip_vision_encoder

After download completes, the script will print the model paths to add to run.sh.

🎮 Quick Start

We provide a demo for the HY-World 1.5 model for quick start.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/643a33a4-b677-4eff-ad1d-32205c594274

Try our online demo without installation: https://3d.hunyuan.tencent.com/sceneTo3D

🧱 Model Checkpoints

Model	Description	Download
HY-World1.5-Bidirectional-480P-I2V	Bidirectional attention model with reconstituted context memory.	Link
HY-World1.5-Autoregressive-480P-I2V	Autoregressive model with reconstituted context memory.	Link
HY-World1.5-Autoregressive-480P-I2V-rl	Autoregressive model with RL post-training.	Link
HY-World1.5-Autoregressive-480P-I2V-distill	Distilled autoregressive model optimized for fast inference (4 steps).	Link
HY-World1.5-Autoregressive-480P-I2V-rl-distill	Distilled autoregressive model with RL post-training.	To be released

🔑 Inference

We provide two inference pipelines for WorldPlay:

HunyuanVideo-based Pipeline (recommended): Better action control and long-term memory, with HunyuanVideo-8B as backbone
WAN Pipeline (lightweight): Small VRAM but action control and long-term memory are compromised, with WAN-5B as backbone

HunyuanVideo-based Inference

Configure Model Paths

After running download_models.py, update run.sh with the printed model paths:

# These paths are printed by download_models.py after download completes
MODEL_PATH=<path_printed_by_download_script>
AR_ACTION_MODEL_PATH=<path_printed_by_download_script>/ar_model/diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors
AR_RL_ACTION_MODEL_PATH=<path_printed_by_download_script>/ar_rl_model/diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors
BI_ACTION_MODEL_PATH=<path_printed_by_download_script>/bidirectional_model/diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors
AR_DISTILL_ACTION_MODEL_PATH=<path_printed_by_download_script>/ar_distilled_action_model/diffusion_pytorch_model.safetensors

Note: The action model paths (AR_ACTION_MODEL_PATH, etc.) should point to the .safetensors file, not the directory.

Configuration Options

In run.sh, you can configure:

Parameter	Description
`PROMPT`	Text description of the scene
`IMAGE_PATH`	Input image path (required for I2V)
`NUM_FRAMES`	Number of frames to generate (default: 125). Important Note: Must satisfy `(num_frames-1) % 4 == 0`. For bidirectional models: `[(num_frames-1) // 4 + 1] % 16 == 0`. For autoregressive models: `[(num_frames-1) // 4 + 1] % 4 == 0`
`N_INFERENCE_GPU`	Number of GPUs for parallel inference
`POSE`	Camera trajectory: pose string (e.g., `w-31` means generating `[1 + 31]` latents) or JSON file path

Model Selection

Uncomment one of the three inference commands in run.sh:

Bidirectional Model:

--action_ckpt $BI_ACTION_MODEL_PATH --model_type 'bi'

Autoregressive Model:

--action_ckpt $AR_ACTION_MODEL_PATH --model_type 'ar'

Autoregressive + RL Model:

--action_ckpt $AR_RL_ACTION_MODEL_PATH --model_type 'ar'

Distilled Model:

--action_ckpt $AR_DISTILL_ACTION_MODEL_PATH --few_step true --num_inference_steps 4 --model_type 'ar'

Camera Trajectory Control

You have two options to control camera trajectories:

Option 1: Pose String (Recommended for Quick Testing)

Use intuitive pose strings by setting the POSE variable in run.sh:

POSE='w-31'

Supported Actions:

Movement: w (forward), s (backward), a (left), d (right)
Rotation: up (pitch up), down (pitch down), left (yaw left), right (yaw right)
Format: action-duration where duration specifies the number of latents corresponding to the given action.

Examples:

# Move forward for 31 latents (default). Generate [1 + 31] latents
POSE='w-31'

# Move forward 3 latents, rotate right 1 latents, move right 4 latents. Generate [1 + 3 + 1 + 4] latents
POSE='w-3, right-1, d-4'

# Complex trajectory. Generate [1 + 2 + 1 + 2 + 4] latents
POSE='w-2, right-1, d-2, up-4'

Option 2: Custom JSON Files

For more complex trajectories, use generate_custom_trajectory.py:

python generate_custom_trajectory.py

Then set the JSON file path in run.sh:

POSE='./assets/pose/your_custom_trajectory.json'

Prompt Rewriting (Optional)

For better prompts, you can enable prompt rewriting with a vLLM server:

export T2V_REWRITE_BASE_URL="<your_vllm_server_base_url>"
export T2V_REWRITE_MODEL_NAME="<your_model_name>"
REWRITE=true  # in run.sh

Run Inference

After editing run.sh to configure your settings, run:

bash run.sh

WAN Pipeline Inference

For detailed information about WAN-based WorldPlay pipeline, please refer to wan/README.md.

⚙️Training

We provide a detailed documentation in Training Documentation.

📊 Evaluation

HY-World 1.5 surpasses existing methods across various quantitative metrics, including reconstruction metrics for different video lengths and human evaluations.

Model	Real-time			Short-term					Long-term
		PSNR ⬆	SSIM ⬆	LPIPS ⬇	$R_{dist}$ ⬇	$T_{dist}$ ⬇	PSNR ⬆	SSIM ⬆	LPIPS ⬇	$R_{dist}$ ⬇	$T_{dist}$ ⬇
CameraCtrl	❌	17.93	0.569	0.298	0.037	0.341	10.09	0.241	0.549	0.733	1.117
SEVA	❌	19.84	0.598	0.313	0.047	0.223	10.51	0.301	0.517	0.721	1.893
ViewCrafter	❌	19.91	0.617	0.327	0.029	0.543	9.32	0.271	0.661	1.573	3.051
Gen3C	❌	21.68	0.635	0.278	0.024	0.477	15.37	0.431	0.483	0.357	0.979
VMem	❌	19.97	0.587	0.316	0.048	0.219	12.77	0.335	0.542	0.748	1.547
Matrix-Game-2.0	✅	17.26	0.505	0.383	0.287	0.843	9.57	0.205	0.631	2.125	2.742
GameCraft	❌	21.05	0.639	0.341	0.151	0.617	10.09	0.287	0.614	2.497	3.291
Ours (w/o Context Forcing)	❌	21.27	0.669	0.261	0.033	0.157	16.27	0.425	0.495	0.611	0.991
Ours (full)	✅	21.92	0.702	0.247	0.031	0.121	18.94	0.585	0.371	0.332	0.797

🎬 More Examples

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/51fcb28c-bd6e-44e5-adac-e3c6660f24f7

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b9060cd1-a442-4d67-9f16-daa7a2e6f2c8

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b883a748-cc77-480f-b6a0-e94b6ce9efea

📝 TODO

Open-source WorldCompass post-training framework
Open-source training code
Open-source quantized & accelerated inference
Open-source Lite model

📚 Citation

@article{hyworld2025,
  title={HY-World 1.5: A Systematic Framework for Interactive World Modeling with Real-Time Latency and Geometric Consistency},
  author={Team HunyuanWorld},
  journal={arXiv preprint},
  year={2025}
}

@article{worldplay2025,
    title={WorldPlay: Towards Long-Term Geometric Consistency for Real-Time Interactive World Model},
    author={Wenqiang Sun and Haiyu Zhang and Haoyuan Wang and Junta Wu and Zehan Wang and Zhenwei Wang and Yunhong Wang and Jun Zhang and Tengfei Wang and Chunchao Guo},
    year={2025},
    journal={arXiv preprint}
}

@article{wang2026worldcompass,
  title={WorldCompass: Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon World Models},
  author={Wang, Zehan and Wang, Tengfei and Zhang, Haiyu and Zuo, Xuhui and Wu, Junta and Wang, Haoyuan and Sun, Wenqiang and Wang, Zhenwei and Cao, Chenjie and Zhao, Hengshuang and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint},
  year={2026}
}

Contact

Please send emails to tengfeiwang12@gmail.com if there is any question

🙏 Acknowledgements

We would like to thank HunyuanWorld, HunyuanWorld-Mirror, HunyuanVideo, and FastVideo for their great work.