Navigating Latent Worlds: A Hypertextual Taxonomy of World Models as Nonlinear Knowledge StructuresWorld models, learned internal representations that simulate environment dynamics, predict future states, and enable counterfactual reasoning, have emerged as a central construct in the pursuit of autonomous intelligence.
doi
10.1145/3800935.3830860
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979-8-4007-2564-7
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Navigating Latent Worlds: A Hypertextual Taxonomy of World Models as Nonlinear Knowledge Structures
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3800935.3830860
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Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta, Adit Kotwal
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https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830860
license
CC BY 4.0
summary
World models, learned internal representations that simulate environment dynamics, predict future states, and enable counterfactual reasoning, have emerged as a central construct in the pursuit of autonomous intelligence.
keywords
world models; hypertext theory; nonlinear knowledge representation; latent state traversal; foundation models; generative simulation; reader agency
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2026-09-14
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HT '26: 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext, London, United Kingdom, September 14–18, 2026
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CCS Concepts: • Information systems → Hypertext languages ; • Computing methodologies → Reinforcement learning ; • Information systems → Hypertext navigation and linked data ;
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Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta, Adit Kotwal
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3800935
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2026-09-14
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ACM Reference Format: Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta, and Adit Kotwal. 2026. Navigating Latent Worlds: A Hypertextual Taxonomy of World Models as Nonlinear Knowledge Structures. In 37th ACM Conference on Hypertext (HT '26), September 14--18, 2026, London, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA 11 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800935.3830860