Specification-Driven Generation and Evaluation of Discrete-Event World Models via the DEVS Formalism

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03784v1
• Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:50:32 GMT
• Title: Specification-Driven Generation and Evaluation of Discrete-Event World Models via the DEVS Formalism
• Authors: Zheyu Chen, Zhuohuan Li, Chuanhao Li,
• Abstract summary: We seek a principled middle ground that combines the reliability of explicit simulators with the flexibility of learned models.<n>We advocate explicit, executable discrete-event world models synthesized directly from natural-language specifications.
• Score: 9.578714623643291
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: World models are essential for planning and evaluation in agentic systems, yet existing approaches lie at two extremes: hand-engineered simulators that offer consistency and reproducibility but are costly to adapt, and implicit neural models that are flexible but difficult to constrain, verify, and debug over long horizons. We seek a principled middle ground that combines the reliability of explicit simulators with the flexibility of learned models, allowing world models to be adapted during online execution. By targeting a broad class of environments whose dynamics are governed by the ordering, timing, and causality of discrete events, such as queueing and service operations, embodied task planning, and message-mediated multi-agent coordination, we advocate explicit, executable discrete-event world models synthesized directly from natural-language specifications. Our approach adopts the DEVS formalism and introduces a staged LLM-based generation pipeline that separates structural inference of component interactions from component-level event and timing logic. To evaluate generated models without a unique ground truth, simulators emit structured event traces that are validated against specification-derived temporal and semantic constraints, enabling reproducible verification and localized diagnostics. Together, these contributions produce world models that are consistent over long-horizon rollouts, verifiable from observable behavior, and efficient to synthesize on demand during online execution.

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