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    "headline": "The Driving World Model Pins the Road in Memory",
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    "dek": "WAM-Sim separates persistent road, scene and vehicle identity tokens, then tunes its rollouts with online reinforcement learning.",
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    "body_text": "Pose-aligned structural tokens preserve road topology, read-only scene tokens retain geolocated appearance and write-once instance tokens keep traffic identities across occlusions. On nuScenes, the authors report FID 3.47, FVD 25.72, 24.16 mAP and 71.23 road mIoU, with less drift over minute-scale self-collected rollouts. Those metrics describe a simulation model and benchmark, not autonomous-driving safety or real-world readiness.",
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      "title": "arXiv preprint 2611.07939, original v1",
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