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Flow matching models (FMs) have revolutionized text-to-image (T2I) generation, with reinforcement learning (RL) serving as a critical post-training strategy for alignment with reward objectives. In this research, we show that current RL…

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Modern video diffusion models excel at appearance synthesis but still struggle with physical consistency: objects drift, collisions lack realistic rebound, and material responses seldom match their underlying properties. We present PhyCo, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sriram Narayanan , Ziyu Jiang , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Manmohan Chandraker

Recent diffusion-based video generation models can synthesize visually plausible videos, yet they often struggle to satisfy physical constraints. A key reason is that most existing approaches remain single-stage: they entangle high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yibo Zhao , Hengjia Li , Xiaofei He , Boxi Wu

Physically Plausible Video Generation (PPVG) has emerged as a promising avenue for modeling real-world physical phenomena. PPVG requires an understanding of commonsense knowledge, which remains a challenge for video diffusion models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Zixuan Wang , Yixin Hu , Haolan Wang , Feng Chen , Yan Liu , Wen Li , Yinjie Lei

In recent years, fueled by the rapid advancement of diffusion models, text-to-video (T2V) generation models have achieved remarkable progress, with notable examples including Pika, Luma, Kling, and Open-Sora. Although these models exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jiayang Liu , Siyuan Liang , Shiqian Zhao , Rongcheng Tu , Wenbo Zhou , Aishan Liu , Dacheng Tao , Siew Kei Lam

The notable gap between user-provided and model-preferred prompts poses a significant challenge for generating high-quality images with text-to-image models, compelling the need for prompt engineering. Current studies on prompt engineering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shiyu Wu , Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Yequan Wang , Jing Liu

Prompting has shown impressive success in enabling large pretrained language models (LMs) to perform diverse NLP tasks, especially when only few downstream data are available. Automatically finding the optimal prompt for each task, however,…

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Recent advances in video generation models demonstrate their potential as world simulators, but they often struggle with videos deviating from physical laws, a key concern overlooked by most text-to-video benchmarks. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Yongfan Chen , Xiuwen Zhu , Tianyu Li

Generative world models are increasingly used for video generation, where learned simulators are expected to capture the physical rules that govern real-world dynamics. However, evaluating whether generated videos actually follow these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Juyi Lin , Arash Akbari , Yumei He , Lin Zhao , Haichao Zhang , Arman Akbari , Xingchen Xu , Zoe Y. Lu , Enfu Nan , Hokin Deng , Edmund Yeh , Sarah Ostadabbas , Yun Fu , Jennifer Dy , Pu Zhao , Yanzhi Wang

Text-to-video generative models have made significant strides in recent years, producing high-quality videos that excel in both aesthetic appeal and accurate instruction following, and have become central to digital art creation and user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Xuyang Guo , Jiayan Huo , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang , Jiale Zhao

Recently, diffusion-based deep generative models (e.g., Stable Diffusion) have shown impressive results in text-to-image synthesis. However, current text-to-image models often require multiple passes of prompt engineering by humans in order…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Tingfeng Cao , Chengyu Wang , Bingyan Liu , Ziheng Wu , Jinhui Zhu , Jun Huang

Prompt optimization improves the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) without requiring parameter updates to the target model. Following heuristic-based "Think step by step" approaches, the field has evolved in two main…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Andreea Nica , Ivan Zakazov , Nicolas Mario Baldwin , Saibo Geng , Robert West

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

Modern video generative models produce visually impressive results, yet frequently violate basic physical principles. We propose Proprio, a training-free framework that enables a frozen video generator to assess and improve the physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mariam Hassan , Kaouther Messaoud , Wuyang Li , Alexandre Alahi

Large language models (LLMs) are evolving from conversational systems into strong reasoners for tasks such as Olympiad mathematics and competitive programming. While scaling parameters and test-time computation has driven progress, a key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Xueliang Zhao , Wei Wu , Jian Guan , Zhuocheng Gong , Lingpeng Kong

Most text-to-video(T2V) diffusion models depend on pre-trained text encoders for semantic alignment, yet they often fail to maintain video quality when provided with concise prompts rather than well-designed ones. The primary issue lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Xiangjun Zhang , Litong Gong , Yinglin Zheng , Yansong Liu , Wentao Jiang , Mingyi Xu , Biao Wang , Tiezheng Ge , Ming Zeng

Text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation is central to applications such as filmmaking and world modeling. However, current models often fail to produce physically plausible sounds. Previous benchmarks primarily focus on audio-video temporal…

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have achieved impressive results, yet existing models often struggle with simple or underspecified prompts, leading to suboptimal image-text alignment, aesthetics, and quality. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ruibo Chen , Jiacheng Pan , Heng Huang , Zhenheng Yang

Text-to-video models have made remarkable advancements through optimization on high-quality text-video pairs, where the textual prompts play a pivotal role in determining quality of output videos. However, achieving the desired output often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yatai Ji , Jiacheng Zhang , Jie Wu , Shilong Zhang , Shoufa Chen , Chongjian GE , Peize Sun , Weifeng Chen , Wenqi Shao , Xuefeng Xiao , Weilin Huang , Ping Luo

Recently, open-domain text-to-video (T2V) generation models have made remarkable progress. However, the promising results are mainly shown by the qualitative cases of generated videos, while the quantitative evaluation of T2V models still…

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