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Synthesizing physics-grounded 3D assets is a critical bottleneck for interactive virtual worlds and embodied AI. Existing methods predominantly focus on static geometry, overlooking the functional properties essential for interaction. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yunhan Yang , Chunshi Wang , Junliang Ye , Yang Li , Zanxin Chen , Zehuan Huang , Yao Mu , Zhuo Chen , Chunchao Guo , Xihui Liu

Creating hand-drawn animation sequences is labor-intensive and demands professional expertise. We introduce PhysAnimator, a novel approach for generating physically plausible meanwhile anime-stylized animation from static anime…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tianyi Xie , Yiwei Zhao , Ying Jiang , Chenfanfu Jiang

While recent video generation models have achieved significant visual fidelity, they often suffer from the lack of explicit physical controllability and plausibility. To address this, some recent studies attempted to guide the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Haoze Zhang , Tianyu Huang , Zichen Wan , Xiaowei Jin , Hongzhi Zhang , Hui Li , Wangmeng Zuo

Diffusion-based generative modeling has been achieving state-of-the-art results on various generation tasks. Most diffusion models, however, are limited to a single-generation modeling. Can we generalize diffusion models with the ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Changyou Chen , Han Ding , Bunyamin Sisman , Yi Xu , Ouye Xie , Benjamin Z. Yao , Son Dinh Tran , Belinda Zeng

Recent progress in stochastic motion prediction, i.e., predicting multiple possible future human motions given a single past pose sequence, has led to producing truly diverse future motions and even providing control over the motion of some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Wei Mao , Miaomiao Liu , Mathieu Salzmann

We propose a methodology that combines generative latent diffusion models with physics-informed machine learning to generate solutions of parametric partial differential equations (PDEs) conditioned on partial observations, which includes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Davide Gallon , Philippe von Wurstemberger , Patrick Cheridito , Arnulf Jentzen

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) offer a promising approach for simulating dynamic scenes and environments, with broad applications in robotics and media generation. However, existing models often generate temporally incoherent content that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhexiao Xiong , Yizhi Song , Liu He , Wei Xiong , Yu Yuan , Feng Qiao , Nathan Jacobs

Recent advances in video generation have shown remarkable potential for constructing world simulators. However, current models still struggle to produce physically consistent results, particularly when handling large-scale or complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zijun Wang , Panwen Hu , Jing Wang , Terry Jingchen Zhang , Yuhao Cheng , Long Chen , Yiqiang Yan , Zutao Jiang , Hanhui Li , Xiaodan Liang

Recent advances in 3D content generation have amplified demand for dynamic models that are both visually realistic and physically consistent. However, state-of-the-art video diffusion models frequently produce implausible results such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Siwei Meng , Yawei Luo , Ping Liu

Motivated by the problem of pursuit-evasion, we present a motion planning framework that combines energy-based diffusion models with artificial potential fields for robust real time trajectory generation in complex environments. Our…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Wondmgezahu Teshome , Kian Behzad , Octavia Camps , Michael Everett , Milad Siami , Mario Sznaier

Score-based diffusion models generate samples from a complex underlying data distribution by time-reversal of a diffusion process and represent the state-of-the-art in many generative AI applications. Here, I show how a generative diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 Adrian Baule

Current performance-driven building design methods are not widely adopted outside the research field for several reasons that make them difficult to integrate into a typical design process. In the early design phase, in particular, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Spyridon Ampanavos , Ali Malkawi

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for solving PDE-constrained inverse problems. Compared to end-to-end approaches relying on massive paired datasets, explicitly decoupling the prior distribution of physical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Haibo Liu , Guang Lin

Recent works exploring deep learning application to dynamical systems modeling have demonstrated that embedding physical priors into neural networks can yield more effective, physically-realistic, and data-efficient models. However, in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Elliott Skomski , Jan Drgona , Aaron Tuor

Generative policies based on diffusion and flow matching have become a dominant paradigm for visuomotor robotic control. We show that replacing the standard Gaussian source distribution with WarmPrior, a simple temporally grounded prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Sinjae Kang , Chanyoung Kim , Kaixin Wang , Li Zhao , Kimin Lee

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generating unimodal data across various tasks, including image, video, and text generation. On the contrary, the joint generation of multimodal data through diffusion models is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kevin Rojas , Yuchen Zhu , Sichen Zhu , Felix X. -F. Ye , Molei Tao

Many natural materials exhibit highly complex, nonlinear, anisotropic, and heterogeneous mechanical properties. Recently, it has been demonstrated that data-driven strain energy functions possess the flexibility to capture the behavior of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Vahidullah Tac , Manuel K Rausch , Ilias Bilionis , Francisco Sahli Costabal , Adrian Buganza Tepole

In this paper we describe a novel framework for diffusion-based generative modeling on constrained spaces. In particular, we introduce manual bridges, a framework that expands the kinds of constraints that can be practically used to form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Saeid Naderiparizi , Xiaoxuan Liang , Berend Zwartsenberg , Frank Wood

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generating many different kinds of data, including images, text, and videos. Despite their success, there has been limited research on how the underlying diffusion process and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Alex M. Tseng , Nathaniel Diamant , Tommaso Biancalani , Gabriele Scalia

Deep generative models have made rapid progress in image, text, audio, and video generation, and are increasingly being applied to structured records. For tabular data, however, generative modeling remains difficult: a dataset may contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhong Li , Qi Huang , Lincen Yang , Jiayang Shi , Zhao Yang , Niki van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Matthijs van Leeuwen