The paper demonstrates that learned simulators can fail in two distinct ways when conditions change: long‑horizon drift due to accumulated errors and incorrect responses to interventions on physical parameters. By adding a symplectic integrator to preserve conservative dynamics, rollouts remain stable for up to 100× the training horizon, while encoding physical coupling via explicit linear factorization allows the model to generalize to unseen signs of that coupling. The study shows that stability and counterfactual generalization arise from separate structural choices, enabling designers to impose each property independently.
arXiv:2606. 24945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We ask a representation-learning question about physical world models: when does a conservation law remain certifiable after a model learns a latent representation?
arXiv:2608.23526v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models can predict video without learning dynamics that they reliably preserve. We test whether a frozen DreamerV3 trained only on pendulum video...
arXiv:2607. 21644v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a goal-agnostic control framework for partial differential equations (PDEs) built around a joint-embedding predictive architecture (JEPA).
arXiv:2607. 11958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Under the free energy principle, a predictive system does not observe reality directly; it maintains a generative model of the world and experiences that model's best current hypothesis.
arXiv:2609.10464v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) world models learn a compact latent representation of the world that supports prediction and planning,...
arXiv:2608. 00097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical learning rules such as equilibrium propagation (EP), coupled learning (CL), and adjoint coupled learning (AL) train resistive networks through local measurements.
arXiv:2606. 09929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical reservoir computing harnesses nonlinear mechanical dynamics but, by convention, freezes the substrate and trains only a linear readout, presuming the substrate is not usefully trainable.
arXiv:2607. 18715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models underpin much of modern model-based control, yet current action-conditioned formulations supervise the next-latent transition with a single, undifferentiated target, forcing a monolithic learning signal to absorb every source of state change.
arXiv:2607. 27017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A central premise of latent world models is that predicting the future forces a representation to internalize the physics of its environment.
arXiv:2608.30778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical learning lets a trainable material or network use its own physical response to carry error signals, reducing the need for a separately program...
arXiv:2607. 10362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent world models are trained to predict future states in a learned representation and are then deployed inside a planner that selects actions by simulating them forward.
The paper introduces an in‑span adaptation technique for reduced‑order models, where the reduced subspace is continually updated using the model’s own predictions via an incremental singular‑value decomposition with a forgetting factor. This creates a trajectory‑informed spectral preconditioner that reweights and realigns the basis without changing the subspace, enabling the model to better absorb future out‑of‑span corrections. The authors demonstrate the method on a 3‑D spiral example and nonlinear PDEs such as viscous Burgers and Fisher–KPP, and relate the approach to in‑context learning in dynamical systems.