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Adopting Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to long-duration dynamic sequences has been challenging. Existing methods struggle to balance between quality and storage size and encounter difficulties with complex scene changes such as topological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Minye Wu , Tinne Tuytelaars

Discrete-time modeling of acoustic, mechanical and electrical systems is a prominent topic in the musical signal processing literature. Such models are mostly derived by discretizing a mathematical model, given in terms of ordinary or…

Numerical simulations provide key insights into many physical, real-world problems. However, while these simulations are solved on a full 3D domain, most analysis only require a reduced set of metrics (e.g. plane-level concentrations). This…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Tingkai Xue , Chin Chun Ooi , Zhengwei Ge , Fong Yew Leong , Hongying Li , Chang Wei Kang

Recently, neural operators have emerged as powerful tools for learning mappings between function spaces, enabling data-driven simulations of complex dynamics. Despite their successes, a deeper understanding of their learning mechanisms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Wenhan Gao , Jian Luo , Fang Wan , Ruichen Xu , Xiang Liu , Haipeng Xing , Yi Liu

We present a method to learn compositional multi-object dynamics models from image observations based on implicit object encoders, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs), and graph neural networks. NeRFs have become a popular choice for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Danny Driess , Zhiao Huang , Yunzhu Li , Russ Tedrake , Marc Toussaint

Dynamical systems are ubiquitous within science and engineering, from turbulent flow across aircraft wings to structural variability of proteins. Although some systems are well understood and simulated, scientific imaging often confronts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ali SaraerToosi , Renbo Tu , Kamyar Azizzadenesheli , Aviad Levis

How to improve the ability of scene representation is a key issue in vision-oriented decision-making applications, and current approaches usually learn task-relevant state representations within visual reinforcement learning to address this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Dayang Liang , Jinyang Lai , Yunlong Liu

Data-driven learning approaches for physics simulation, sometimes referred to as world models, have emerged as promising alternatives to traditional physics simulators due to their differentiable nature. Prior work has demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Chanho Kim , Suhas V. Sumukh , Li Fuxin

Physical dynamical systems can be viewed as natural information processors: their systems preserve, transform, and disperse input information. This perspective motivates learning not only from data generated by such systems, but also how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Felix Köster , Atsushi Uchida

Industrial chain plays an increasingly important role in the sustainable development of national economy. However, as a typical complex network, data-driven deep learning is still in its infancy in describing and analyzing the resilience of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Bicheng Wang , Junping Wang , Yibo Xue

Data-driven modeling of human motions is ubiquitous in computer graphics and computer vision applications, such as synthesizing realistic motions or recognizing actions. Recent research has shown that such problems can be approached by…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-21 He Wang , Edmond S. L. Ho , Hubert P. H. Shum , Zhanxing Zhu

Harnessing data to discover the underlying governing laws or equations that describe the behavior of complex physical systems can significantly advance our modeling, simulation and understanding of such systems in various science and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Zhao Chen , Yang Liu , Hao Sun

Critical points separate distinct dynamical regimes of complex systems, often delimiting functional or macroscopic phases in which the system operates. However, the long-term prediction of critical regimes and behaviors is challenging given…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-04-15 Xiangrong Wang , Dan Lu , Zongze Wu , Weina Xu , Hongru Hou , Yanqing Hu , Yamir Moreno

Here we present a machine learning framework and model implementation that can learn to simulate a wide variety of challenging physical domains, involving fluids, rigid solids, and deformable materials interacting with one another. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Alvaro Sanchez-Gonzalez , Jonathan Godwin , Tobias Pfaff , Rex Ying , Jure Leskovec , Peter W. Battaglia

Many current methods to learn intuitive physics are based on interaction networks and similar approaches. However, they rely on information that has proven difficult to estimate directly from image data in the past. We aim to narrow this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Michael Kissner , Helmut Mayer

We present a novel deep learning architecture for probabilistic future prediction from video. We predict the future semantics, geometry and motion of complex real-world urban scenes and use this representation to control an autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Anthony Hu , Fergal Cotter , Nikhil Mohan , Corina Gurau , Alex Kendall

Humans demonstrate remarkable abilities to predict physical events in complex scenes. Two classes of models for physical scene understanding have recently been proposed: "Intuitive Physics Engines", or IPEs, which posit that people make…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-10-05 Renqiao Zhang , Jiajun Wu , Chengkai Zhang , William T. Freeman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Humans have a remarkable capacity to understand the physical dynamics of objects in their environment, flexibly capturing complex structures and interactions at multiple levels of detail. Inspired by this ability, we propose a hierarchical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Damian Mrowca , Chengxu Zhuang , Elias Wang , Nick Haber , Li Fei-Fei , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Daniel L. K. Yamins

Multiscale stochastic dynamical systems have been widely adopted to a variety of scientific and engineering problems due to their capability of depicting complex phenomena in many real world applications. This work is devoted to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Lingyu Feng , Ting Gao , Min Dai , Jinqiao Duan

We propose a hybrid neural network (NN) and PDE approach for learning generalizable PDE dynamics from motion observations. Many NN approaches learn an end-to-end model that implicitly models both the governing PDE and constitutive models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Pingchuan Ma , Peter Yichen Chen , Bolei Deng , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tao Du , Chuang Gan , Wojciech Matusik