When Generative Models Act as Simulators
arXiv:2610.12847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A simulator summarizes an environment in a state that users can read and change. Generative models learn representations of the world without explicit specification, but offer no built-in way to edit that world's state. We investigate the conditions under which a generative model can act as a simulator through $\textit{editability}$: whether changing a model's latent representation produces the next-step outputs we get by editing a simulator's s…