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Recent video diffusion models have demonstrated their great capability in generating visually-pleasing results, while synthesizing the correct physical effects in generated videos remains challenging. The complexity of real-world motions,…

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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…

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Latent video diffusion models generate videos by progressively transforming Gaussian noise into realistic samples conditioned on text or visual inputs. However, existing conditioning methods often require additional training and…

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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…

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Video generation models have achieved remarkable progress in creating high-quality, photorealistic content. However, their ability to accurately simulate physical phenomena remains a critical and unresolved challenge. This paper presents…

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Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) generation have achieved good visual quality, yet synthesizing videos that faithfully follow physical laws remains an open challenge. Existing methods mainly based on graphics or prompt extension…

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State-of-the-art video generative models produce promising visual content yet often violate basic physics principles, limiting their utility. While some attribute this deficiency to insufficient physics understanding from pre-training, we…

Interactive world models that simulate object dynamics are crucial for robotics, VR, and AR. However, it remains a significant challenge to learn physics-consistent dynamics models from limited real-world video data, especially for…

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Video generation models are increasingly used as world simulators for tasks like driving and robotic manipulation. What matters in these settings is not whether a single video looks right, but whether the model's output changes when its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kunlin Cai , Rui Song , Jinghuai Zhang , Kaiyuan Zhang , Pranav Bodapati , Alicia Yu , Fnu Suya , Mohammad Rostami , Jiaqi Ma , Yuan Tian

The diversity, quantity, and quality of manipulation data are critical for training effective robot policies. However, due to hardware and physical setup constraints, collecting large-scale real-world manipulation data remains difficult to…

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Recent advancements in video generation have witnessed significant progress, especially with the rapid advancement of diffusion models. Despite this, their deficiencies in physical cognition have gradually received widespread attention -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Minghui Lin , Xiang Wang , Yishan Wang , Shu Wang , Fengqi Dai , Pengxiang Ding , Cunxiang Wang , Zhengrong Zuo , Nong Sang , Siteng Huang , Donglin Wang

Despite advancements in generating visually stunning content, video diffusion models (VDMs) often yield physically inconsistent results due to pixel-only reconstruction. To address this, we propose MMPhysVideo, the first framework to scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Shubo Lin , Xuanyang Zhang , Wei Cheng , Weiming Hu , Gang Yu , Jin Gao

Recent video diffusion models have achieved impressive capabilities as large-scale generative world models. However, these models often struggle with fine-grained physical consistency, exhibiting physically implausible dynamics over time.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Haoran Lu , Shang Wu , Jianshu Zhang , Maojiang Su , Guo Ye , Chenwei Xu , Lie Lu , Pranav Maneriker , Fan Du , Manling Li , Zhaoran Wang , Han Liu

Despite recent progress, video diffusion models still struggle to synthesize realistic videos involving highly dynamic motions or requiring fine-grained motion controllability. A central limitation lies in the scarcity of such examples in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Wonjoon Jin , Jiyun Won , Janghyeok Han , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Seung-Hwan Baek , Sunghyun Cho

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

Video generation models have shown strong potential as world models for autonomous driving simulation. However, existing approaches are primarily trained on real-world driving datasets, which mostly contain natural and safe driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiawei Zhou , Zhenxin Zhu , Lingyi Du , Linye Lyu , Lijun Zhou , Zhanqian Wu , Hongcheng Luo , Zhuotao Tian , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Haiyang Sun , Yu Li

Generative world models (WMs) are increasingly used to synthesize controllable, sensor-conditioned driving videos, yet their reliance on physical priors exposes novel attack surfaces. In this paper, we present Physical-Conditioned World…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zhixiang Guo , Siyuan Liang , Andras Balogh , Noah Lunberry , Rong-Cheng Tu , Mark Jelasity , Dacheng Tao

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 generation models produce visually compelling results but systematically violate physical commonsense -- on VideoPhy-2, the best model achieves only 32.6% joint accuracy. We identify a specification bottleneck: text prompts are lossy…

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