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: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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
arXiv:2606. 09181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in video multimodal models have significantly improved VideoQA performance.
arXiv:2509. 12263v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large multimodal models (LMMs) encode physical laws observed during training, such as momentum conservation, as parametric knowledge.
arXiv:2607. 11862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) excel in question answering (QA) but largely operate as black boxes, providing textual answers without verifiable visual grounding.
arXiv:2607. 02551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video multimodal large language models have made strong progress on open-ended video understanding, but they still lack precise local spatiotemporal perception.
arXiv:2608. 13167v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When visual evidence is occluded or chaotic, models should abstain.
arXiv:2606. 01810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current benchmarks for embodied vision-language planning often favor linguistic next-token prediction over physically grounded next-state reasoning.
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.