arXiv:2608. 02150v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Embodied intelligence and world models require video understanding systems to go beyond recognizing objects and actions and develop an understanding of physical regularities.
By Zhongjie Ba, Shengwang Xu, Peng Cheng, Jinyang Zou, Ting Yu, Zhibo Wang, Zhan Qin
Embodied intelligence and world models require video understanding systems to go beyond recognizing objects and actions and develop an understanding of physical regularities. However, despite their strong performance on general video understanding tasks, current video-language models still struggle to reliably determine whether an observed event conforms to specific physical laws.
arXiv:2606. 05966v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding and reasoning about the physical world is the foundation of intelligent behavior, yet state-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) still fail at causal physical reasoning, often producing plausible but incorrect answers.
By Tianyi Tang, Zhuoyi Lin, Zeyu Feng, Tianyi Ma, Yew-Soon Ong, Ivor Tsang, Haiyan Yin
arXiv:2608. 04575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable physical reasoning from video requires understanding how objects move, interact, and respond to interventions.
By Chen Yang, Shenxiang Zeng, Haoyang Zhao, Zhouyuan Xu, Youquan He, Haoyu Li, Mingyi Deng, Jiansheng Fan, Chen Wang
arXiv:2509. 12263v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large multimodal models (LMMs) encode physical laws observed during training, such as momentum conservation, as parametric knowledge.
By Gautam Sreekumar, Vishnu Naresh Boddeti
arXiv:2508. 10956v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inspired by human categorization, visual reasoning about object properties, such as physical attributes and functions, involves identifying and recognizing low-level details and higher-level abstractions.
By Abhishek Kolari, Mohammadhossein Khojasteh, Yifan Jiang, Floris den Hengst, Filip Ilievski
arXiv:2510. 01483v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate strong image-level scene understanding, but reasoning over long egocentric video remains costly: because VLMs maintain no persistent memory or explicit spatial representation, all sampled frames must be re-processed for every new query.
By Mohamad Al Mdfaa, Svetlana Lukina, Timur Akhtyamov, Arthur Nigmatzyanov, Dmitrii Nalberskii, Sergey Zagoruyko, Gonzalo Ferrer
Video generation models achieve high visual quality but often struggle to generate physics-aware videos. Unlike rigid-body motion, which can be described by explicit trajectories or formulas, complex deformation dynamics remain challenging to synthesize.
arXiv:2604. 09686v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traditional neural network models for intent inference rely heavily on observable states and struggle to generalize across diverse tasks and dynamic environments.
By Anshul Nayak, Shahil Shaik, Yue Wang
arXiv:2606. 07433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video understanding is being rapidly transformed by multimodal large language models (MLLMs), as research moves from short clips to long, multimodal, and knowledge-intensive video scenarios.
By Jiahao Meng, Yue Tan, Qi Xu, Kuan Gao, Weisong Liu, Yanwei Li, Jason Li, Lingdong Kong, Haochen Wang, Qianyu Zhou, Jiangning Zhang, Guangliang Cheng, Yunhai Tong, Lu Qi, Minghsuan Yang
arXiv:2606. 28128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation models have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied world simulation.
By Peiwen Zhang, Yufan Deng, Shangkun Sun, Juncheng Ma, Duomin Wang, Jonas Du, Zilin Pan, Ye Huang, Hao Liang, Songyan Huang, Ruihua Zhang, Enze Xie, Ming-Yu Liu, Daquan Zhou
arXiv:2606. 07602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-based LEGO assembly generation requires both semantic grounding and physical feasibility.
By Yuhuan Yuan, Zhouliang Yu, Minghao Liu, Weiyang Liu, Ge Lin Kan