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LOCI: Spatial Linear Memory for Streaming World Models

Ji Xia, Tingting Liao, Xuezhi Liang, Hao Li, Guangyi Liu

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Published 2026-09-30 · First seen 2026-10-02

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When a camera revisits a previously observed region, a video world model should reproduce what was there before. This requires both remembering past observations and retrieving the right one for the current viewpoint. Key-value caches preserve visual detail but grow with video length; recurrent memory is compact but compresses history into a fixed-size state, so individual past observations are no longer directly accessible. We introduce LOCI, a hybrid spatial-memory architecture that keeps both representations. In half of the transformer blocks, main attention keeps a key-value cache of past observations; in the other half, it is restricted to the current chunk and complemented by a recurrent linear-attention memory whose reads and writes are conditioned on projective camera geometry, so viewpoint enters both memory addressing and stored content. Recurrent readouts flow into subsequent cache-backed blocks and supply their queries with accumulated scene context. On the public MIND memory benchmark and on held-out recorded trajectories, LOCI reproduces revisited content more faithfully than representative world models and a same-recipe full-softmax model; with full history, it lowers peak memory at equal length by about 30% relative to full softmax. With a bounded bank of retained observations, it streams long videos at constant memory and remains more faithful than full softmax under the same budget.

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@misc{xia2026loci,
  title = {LOCI: Spatial Linear Memory for Streaming World Models},
  author = {Ji Xia and Tingting Liao and Xuezhi Liang and Hao Li and Guangyi Liu},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {When a camera revisits a previously observed region, a video world model should reproduce what was there before. This requires both remembering past observations and retrieving the right one for the current viewpoint. Key-value caches preserve visual detail but grow with video length; recurrent memory is compact but compresses history into a fixed-size state, so individual past observations are no longer directly accessible. We introduce LOCI, a hybrid spatial-memory architecture that keeps both},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/papers/2609.40222},
  keywords = {code available, huggingface daily},
  eprint = {2609.40222},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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