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Recent advances in generative foundational models, often termed "world models," have propelled interest in applying them to critical tasks like robotic planning and autonomous system training. For reliable deployment, these models must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Rishi Upadhyay , Howard Zhang , Jim Solomon , Ayush Agrawal , Pranay Boreddy , Shruti Satya Narayana , Yunhao Ba , Alex Wong , Celso M de Melo , Achuta Kadambi

Modern foundational Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) and video world models have advanced significantly in mathematical, common-sense, and visual reasoning, but their grasp of the underlying physics remains underexplored. Existing…

Video representation learning has recently attracted attention in computer vision due to its applications for activity and scene forecasting or vision-based planning and control. Video prediction models often learn a latent representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Rama Krishna Kandukuri , Jan Achterhold , Michael Möller , Jörg Stückler

We present SeePhys, a large-scale multimodal benchmark for LLM reasoning grounded in physics questions ranging from middle school to PhD qualifying exams. The benchmark covers 7 fundamental domains spanning the physics discipline,…

Video game playing is an extremely structured domain where algorithmic decision-making can be tested without adverse real-world consequences. While prevailing methods rely on image inputs to avoid the problem of hand-crafting state space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Abhishek Jaiswal , Nisheeth Srivastava

Understanding and reasoning about physics is an important ability of intelligent agents. We develop the PHYRE benchmark for physical reasoning that contains a set of simple classical mechanics puzzles in a 2D physical environment. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Anton Bakhtin , Laurens van der Maaten , Justin Johnson , Laura Gustafson , Ross Girshick

Evaluating whether Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) genuinely reason about physical dynamics remains challenging. Most existing benchmarks rely on recognition-style protocols such as Visual Question Answering (VQA) and Violation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jiarong Liang , Max Ku , Ka-Hei Hui , Ping Nie , Wenhu Chen

Multiple benchmarks have been developed to assess the alignment between deep neural networks (DNNs) and human vision. In almost all cases these benchmarks are observational in the sense they are composed of behavioural and brain responses…

AI video generation is undergoing a revolution, with quality and realism advancing rapidly. These advances have led to a passionate scientific debate: Do video models learn "world models" that discover laws of physics -- or, alternatively,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Saman Motamed , Laura Culp , Kevin Swersky , Priyank Jaini , Robert Geirhos

In order to build agents with a rich understanding of their environment, one key objective is to endow them with a grasp of intuitive physics; an ability to reason about three-dimensional objects, their dynamic interactions, and responses…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Luis Piloto , Ari Weinstein , Dhruva TB , Arun Ahuja , Mehdi Mirza , Greg Wayne , David Amos , Chia-chun Hung , Matt Botvinick

Learning causal relationships in high-dimensional data (images, videos) is a hard task, as they are often defined on low dimensional manifolds and must be extracted from complex signals dominated by appearance, lighting, textures and also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Steeven Janny , Fabien Baradel , Natalia Neverova , Madiha Nadri , Greg Mori , Christian Wolf

Reasoning about the behaviour of physical objects is a key capability of agents operating in physical worlds. Humans are very experienced in physical reasoning while it remains a major challenge for AI. To facilitate research addressing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Cheng Xue , Vimukthini Pinto , Chathura Gamage , Peng Zhang , Jochen Renz

We introduce a benchmark framework developed by and for the scientific community to evaluate, monitor and steer large language model development in fundamental physics. Building on philosophical concepts of scientific understanding and…

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Understanding the physical world is essential for generalist AI agents. However, it remains unclear whether state-of-the-art vision perception models (e.g., large VLMs) can reason physical properties quantitatively. Existing evaluations are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Li Puyin , Tiange Xiang , Ella Mao , Shirley Wei , Xinye Chen , Adnan Masood , Li Fei-fei , Ehsan Adeli

With the rise of machines to human-level performance in complex recognition tasks, a growing amount of work is directed towards comparing information processing in humans and machines. These studies are an exciting chance to learn about one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Christina M. Funke , Judy Borowski , Karolina Stosio , Wieland Brendel , Thomas S. A. Wallis , Matthias Bethge

Generative AI models, particularly Text-to-Video (T2V) systems, offer a promising avenue for transforming science education by automating the creation of engaging and intuitive visual explanations. In this work, we take a first step toward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Megha Mariam K. M , Aditya Arun , Zakaria Laskar , C. V. Jawahar

Physical reasoning is a crucial aspect in the development of general AI systems, given that human learning starts with interacting with the physical world before progressing to more complex concepts. Although researchers have studied and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Andrew Melnik , Robin Schiewer , Moritz Lange , Andrei Muresanu , Mozhgan Saeidi , Animesh Garg , Helge Ritter

Humans intuitively recognize objects' physical properties and predict their motion, even when the objects are engaged in complicated interactions. The abilities to perform physical reasoning and to adapt to new environments, while intrinsic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Yunzhu Li , Toru Lin , Kexin Yi , Daniel M. Bear , Daniel L. K. Yamins , Jiajun Wu , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Antonio Torralba

The rapid advancement of embodied intelligence and world models has intensified efforts to integrate physical laws into AI systems, yet physical perception and symbolic physics reasoning have developed along separate trajectories without a…

One of the primary challenges faced by deep learning is the degree to which current methods exploit superficial statistics and dataset bias, rather than learning to generalise over the specific representations they have experienced. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Damien Teney , Peng Wang , Jiewei Cao , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel