Next Forcing Causal World Modeling with Multi-Chunk Prediction

Gangwei Xu Qihang Zhang Jiaming Zhou Xing Zhu Yujun Shen Xin Yang Yinghao Xu

Real-World Deployment

Real-world deployment results. Fruit Sorting, where the robot places an orange, an apple and a pear into a basket.

RoboTwin Benchmark Results

Faster Training Convergence and Higher Success Rate
2.3x faster convergence at 50 FPS
94.1 / 93.5% Clean / Random success rate
2x inference acceleration

We introduce Next Forcing, a multi-chunk prediction framework for causal world modeling. It tackles the myopic supervision problem in autoregressive video world models, where next-chunk denoising often learns local appearance shortcuts instead of long-range dynamics, especially at high frame rates. By supervising future video chunks through chained MCP modules, Next Forcing improves training convergence and enables parallel chunk prediction at inference, reducing sequential generation cost and accelerating rollout.

How It Works

Next Forcing extends causal world modeling from one-step prediction to multi-chunk prediction: chained MCP modules expose the backbone to multiple future chunks during training while keeping generation causal.

Multi-chunk prediction

The main model denoises the current chunk, while chained MCP modules predict future chunks (next1, next2, ...) using features from the main model, providing dense temporal supervision during training and enabling parallel chunk prediction at inference.

Architecture diagram of Next Forcing with chained multi-chunk prediction modules.

Training and Inference Acceleration

Next Forcing accelerates both training convergence and inference rollout on RoboTwin.

PhyWorld Benchmark

On physical reasoning videos, Next Forcing produces more consistent dynamics than LingBot-VA under the same causal setup.

General Video Comparison

We evaluate pure video generation after removing the action stream. Next Forcing consistently achieves lower FVD than LingBot-VA throughout training, and the qualitative comparisons below show stronger temporal consistency.

FVD (↓) Across Training Steps

Citation

@article{nextforcing,
  title={Next Forcing: Causal World Modeling with Multi-Chunk Prediction},
  author={Gangwei Xu and Qihang Zhang and Jiaming Zhou and Xing Zhu and Yujun Shen and Xin Yang and Yinghao Xu},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.11187},
  year={2026}
}