The paper introduces Physically Plausible Video Generation (PPVG), a method that generates videos consistent with physical laws by treating physical evolution as a chain of causally connected events. It employs three modules: Physics-driven Event Chain Reasoning to decompose phenomena into scene-graph events, Transition-aware Routed Keyframe Conditioning to guide keyframe synthesis for smooth transitions, and Physics-injected Contrastive Semantic Guidance to steer generation toward plausible dynamics. Experiments on multiple physics benchmarks show improved physical plausibility compared to prior approaches.
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:2606. 18586v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical events are not understood by their names alone, but by the causal state changes that compose them.
PhysPlan is a training‑free guidance framework that enhances video diffusion models by incorporating physical awareness through agentic physics simulation. It uses a vision‑language model to generate a Chain‑of‑Visual‑Thought representation of kinematic trajectories and 3D depth, which then drives an object‑centric test‑time optimization that isolates kinematic changes and locks the passive environment. The framework also employs Kinetic Intensity Profiling to adapt hyperparameters to varying physical deformations, and demonstrates superior performance on PhyGenBench and Physics‑IQ benchmarks compared to existing VDM baselines.
arXiv:2607. 10190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on video understanding and visual question answering, yet they remain unreliable in reasoning about physical plausibility, where understanding object interactions, causal dynamics, and fundamental physical principles is essential.
arXiv:2607. 07601v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety evaluation for autonomous driving is dominated by rare, safety-critical interactions, motivating simulators that can deliberately synthesize corner cases with photorealistic observations.
arXiv:2609.18430v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modeling physical dynamics, including how objects move, interact, and change state, is central to video world models for embodied AI. We present StrucP...
arXiv:2607. 16355v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in physics-grounded video generation leverage physics simulation as a physical prior to guide video synthesis toward physically plausible outcomes.
Video generation models are increasingly capable of producing realistic videos, but they still struggle to generate videos that follow basic physical laws. Compounding this is a lack of reliable granular evaluation methods for localizing and specifying physical law violations in videos.
The paper introduces VWG-Bench, a benchmark covering nine reasoning dimensions and 38 tasks to evaluate video generative models on symbolic reasoning, physical laws, and goal pursuit. It also presents Vid-PRE, a prompt-rewriting framework that offloads reasoning to a VLM, improving logical performance without changing the generator architecture. Experiments show that current models excel at visual quality but struggle with logic-heavy tasks, while Vid-PRE significantly boosts reasoning across multiple generators.
arXiv:2602. 10840v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been widely studied in areas such as mathematical reasoning, complex coding, and scientific problem solving.
arXiv:2606. 29020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Weather synthesis aims to add weather effects to input videos while preserving scene identity, structure, and motion.
arXiv:2607. 27380v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-video models have achieved remarkable visual quality, yet they still struggle to generate physically consistent dynamics because the temporal evolution of a scene must be inferred implicitly from a highly compressed text prompt.