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.
Recent advances in image-to-video generation have improved visual realism, making physically grounded and controllable dynamics an important step toward future world simulation. Current models often generate plausible motion, but it is not reliably governed by explicit physical causes, and instance-level constraints can leak or become entangled in multi-object interactions.
arXiv:2608. 04575v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable physical reasoning from video requires understanding how objects move, interact, and respond to interventions.
arXiv:2607. 13451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Simulating deformable objects is essential for a wide range of robotic manipulation applications, yet accurately predicting their dynamics remains challenging.
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:2606. 28128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation models have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied world simulation.
Generalizable robot manipulation requires policies that can anticipate how visual scenes evolve while executing language instructions. While recent Vision-Language-Action models benefit from large-scale pretraining, their predominantly static pretraining objectives provide limited supervision for physical dynamics and temporal causality, leaving control-relevant knowledge to be learned from downstream robot demonstrations.
arXiv:2606. 16202v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humans naturally understand object physics through everyday interactions, but faithfully predicting complex deformable dynamics, such as elastic materials and fabrics, remains a major challenge for computer vision and robotics.
arXiv:2606. 28385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in robot world models enable synthetic video generation for embodied prediction and planning.
arXiv:2603. 06140v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video object insertion is fundamental to video editing, yet existing diffusion methods often produce visually plausible but physically inconsistent results.
arXiv:2603. 16085v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent breakthroughs in 3D generation have enabled the synthesis of high-fidelity individual assets.
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.