Ask HN: How to get into Generative World Models (not literally)

Title. New to this topic and thinking of contributing to this field.

I know Diffusion and Transformer Architectures get combined in various ways here, but any advice on which other core fields to learn about?

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Ask HN: How to get into Generative World Models (not literally)

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