This repository is a curated awesome list and survey companion for diffusion models applied to time series, spatio-temporal, and tabular data. It contains no executable code; the sole content is a large README.md that organizes hundreds of papers into a taxonomy by task (prediction, generation, imputation, anomaly detection, classification/regression, causal inference, event prediction, foundation models) and by application domain (healthcare, sequential recommendation, weather, energy, finance, AIOps, environment, traffic, manufacturing, audio, biology, communication). Each entry links to the paper and, where available, official code repositories. It is the companion to an ACM Computing Surveys paper (DOI 10.1145/3783986) and includes citation information, a Google Sheets taxonomy, and an overview figure. The repository is actively maintained with recent commits and welcomes pull requests. As a research resource, it is highly reproducible: all content is in the markdown file, with no dependencies, datasets, or environment setup required. Although classified as data_research due to its research orientation, it is not a data pipeline or ML codebase. Its value is as a reference index and literature map for researchers; the README itself is the reusable asset.
This repository is a curated literature review (awesome list) focused on the progression from video generation to world models in AI research. It systematically organizes and categorizes recent academic papers (primarily from 2022-2026) into a hierarchical structure covering technical foundations, application domains, evaluation methodologies, and theoretical perspectives. The main value lies in its comprehensive paper collection with structured metadata including publication dates, venues, paper links, project pages, and official code repositories. The repository follows a standard awesome-list format using markdown tables with shields.io badges for easy navigation to paper resources. Content is organized into eight main sections: Generation 1-4 (covering faithfulness, interactiveness, planning, and randomness aspects), Evaluation and Datasets, Study and Rethinking, Downstream Tasks, and World Models for Other Applications. Each section contains subsections detailing specific technical approaches (e.g., GAN-based, U-Net-based, DiT-based video generation) and application areas (robotics, autonomous driving, gaming). The list is actively maintained with frequent updates incorporating very recent pre-print papers. As a static reference resource, the repository contains no executable code, data processing pipelines, or computational components. Its reproducibility is high because the curated content is directly available in the README upon cloning, requiring no setup or dependencies to access the paper list. The organizational pattern demonstrates good practices for academic literature curation, though it does not contain novel reusable data engineering components beyond the standard markdown documentation format.