Design-Ignoring versus Design-Respecting World Models for Epidemiology

arXiv:2609.30679 · stat.ME, stat.AP, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-09-25 · Read on arXiv

stat.ME, stat.AP, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Terminology

• World Model — 14× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Applying Wolbachia to Eliminate Dengue — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Action-Conditioned Dynamics — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Latent Dynamics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reconstruction Error — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Medical world models in healthcare: foundations, applications, and challenges for trustworthy clinical translation
• Understanding World or Predicting Future? A Comprehensive Survey of World Models
• World Models
• Toward World Models for Epidemiology
• EHRWorld: A Patient-Centric Medical World Model for Long-Horizon Clinical Trajectories
• Medical World Model: Generative Simulation of Tumor Evolution for Treatment Planning

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