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Real-time synthesis of physically plausible human interactions remains a critical challenge for immersive VR/AR systems and humanoid robotics. While existing methods demonstrate progress in kinematic motion generation, they often fail to…

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The ability to perceive and reason about social interactions in the context of physical environments is core to human social intelligence and human-machine cooperation. However, no prior dataset or benchmark has systematically evaluated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Aviv Netanyahu , Tianmin Shu , Boris Katz , Andrei Barbu , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Accurate prediction of physical interaction outcomes is a crucial component of human intelligence and is important for safe and efficient deployments of robots in the real world. While there are existing vision-based intuitive physics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Jiafei Duan , Samson Yu , Soujanya Poria , Bihan Wen , Cheston Tan

Large language models demonstrate remarkable capabilities across various domains, especially mathematics and logic reasoning. However, current evaluations overlook physics-based reasoning - a complex task requiring physics theorems and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xinyu Zhang , Yuxuan Dong , Yanrui Wu , Jiaxing Huang , Chengyou Jia , Basura Fernando , Mike Zheng Shou , Lingling Zhang , Jun Liu

Neural networks lack the ability to reason about qualitative physics and so cannot generalize to scenarios and tasks unseen during training. We propose ESPRIT, a framework for commonsense reasoning about qualitative physics in natural…

Although current large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have advanced in multimodal understanding and reasoning, their fundamental perceptual and reasoning abilities remain limited. Specifically, even on simple jigsaw tasks, existing VLMs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yu Zeng , Wenxuan Huang , Shiting Huang , Xikun Bao , Yukun Qi , Yiming Zhao , Qiuchen Wang , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Huaian Chen , Wanli Ouyang , Feng Zhao

Performing tasks in a physical environment is a crucial yet challenging problem for AI systems operating in the real world. Physics simulation-based tasks are often employed to facilitate research that addresses this challenge. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Chathura Gamage , Vimukthini Pinto , Matthew Stephenson , Jochen Renz

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…

The large number of published articles in physics journals under the title "Comments on ..." and "Reply to ..." is indicative that the conceptual understanding of physical phenomena is very elusive and hard to grasp even to experts, but it…

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Interacting with human agents in complex scenarios presents a significant challenge for robotic navigation, particularly in environments that necessitate both collision avoidance and collaborative interaction, such as indoor spaces. Unlike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Lingfeng Sun , Yixiao Wang , Pin-Yun Hung , Changhao Wang , Xiang Zhang , Zhuo Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Existing human motion Q\&A methods rely on explicit program execution, where the requirement for manually defined functional modules may limit the scalability and adaptability. To overcome this, we propose an implicit program-guided motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chen Li , Chinthani Sugandhika , Yeo Keat Ee , Eric Peh , Hao Zhang , Hong Yang , Deepu Rajan , Basura Fernando

When a robot performs a task next to a human, physical interaction is inevitable: the human might push, pull, twist, or guide the robot. The state-of-the-art treats these interactions as disturbances that the robot should reject or avoid.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Dylan P. Losey , Andrea Bajcsy , Marcia K. O'Malley , Anca D. Dragan

Is dynamics prediction indispensable for physical reasoning? If so, what kind of roles do the dynamics prediction modules play during the physical reasoning process? Most studies focus on designing dynamics prediction networks and treating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Shiqian Li , Kewen Wu , Chi Zhang , Yixin Zhu

By dynamic planning, we refer to the ability of the human brain to infer and impose motor trajectories related to cognitive decisions. A recent paradigm, active inference, brings fundamental insights into the adaptation of biological…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Matteo Priorelli , Ivilin Peev Stoianov

Although Vision Language Models (VLMs) exhibit strong perceptual abilities and impressive visual reasoning, they struggle with attention to detail and precise action planning in complex, dynamic environments, leading to subpar performance.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xinrun Xu , Pi Bu , Ye Wang , Börje F. Karlsson , Ziming Wang , Tengtao Song , Qi Zhu , Jun Song , Zhiming Ding , Bo Zheng

Large pre-trained vision and language models have demonstrated remarkable capacities for various tasks. However, solving the knowledge-based visual reasoning tasks remains challenging, which requires a model to comprehensively understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Zhenfang Chen , Qinhong Zhou , Yikang Shen , Yining Hong , Hao Zhang , Chuang Gan

Deep reasoning is fundamental for solving complex tasks, especially in vision-centric scenarios that demand sequential, multimodal understanding. However, existing benchmarks typically evaluate agents with fully synthetic, single-turn…

Recent advancements in deep learning, computer vision, and embodied AI have given rise to synthetic causal reasoning video datasets. These datasets facilitate the development of AI algorithms that can reason about physical interactions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-16 Jiafei Duan , Samson Yu Bai Jian , Cheston Tan

We present IntPhys 2, a video benchmark designed to evaluate the intuitive physics understanding of deep learning models. Building on the original IntPhys benchmark, IntPhys 2 focuses on four core principles related to macroscopic objects:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Florian Bordes , Quentin Garrido , Justine T Kao , Adina Williams , Michael Rabbat , Emmanuel Dupoux

Recent advances in world models have shown promise for modeling future dynamics of environmental states, enabling agents to reason and act without accessing real environments. Current methods mainly perform single-step or fixed-horizon…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Youwei Liu , Jian Wang , Hanlin Wang , Beichen Guo , Wenjie Li