arXiv AI

APT: Atomic Physical Transitions for Causal Video-Language Understanding

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.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

PhyCheck: Fine-Grained Evidence-Grounded Dataset for Physical Law Understanding in Video-LLMs

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 AI
Jul 28

EgoPlay: Event-Triggered Video Editing for Egocentric Streams

arXiv:2607. 24560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce EgoPlay, an event-triggered video-to-video editor for egocentric streams, obtained by fine-tuning a pretrained V2V diffusion transformer on event-conditioned data built primarily from Ego4D.

By Jinjie Mai, Gordon Guocheng Qian, Willi Menapace, Arpit Sahni, Chaoyang Wang, Ashkan Mirzaei, Runjia Li, Sergey Tulyakov, Bernard Ghanem, Peter Wonka, Rameen Abdal
arXiv AI
Jul 10

MAVEN: A Multi-stage Agentic Annotation Pipeline for Video Reasoning Tasks

arXiv:2605. 21917v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training Vision Language Models (VLMs) for video event reasoning requires high-quality structured annotations capturing not only what happened, but when, where, why, and with what consequence, at a scale manual labelling cannot support.

By Han Zhang, Wanting Jiang, Tomasz Kornuta, Tian Zheng, Vidya Murali
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

WALL-WM: Carving World Action Modeling at the Event Joints

WALL-WM is a World Action Model that shifts video-action learning from chunk-centric optimization to event-grounded Vision-Language-Action pretraining, using semantically coherent action events as the atomic unit of learning. Existing WAMs commonly initialize from multimodal or video foundation models and then optimize fixed-length action chunks conditioned directly on the current observation and instruction.

arXiv AI
Jul 14

PhysMRV: Physical Memory Retrieval and Verification for Physics Plausibility Reasoning

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.

By Wenyuan Wang, Lianyu Hu, Hao Wang, Yang Liu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 27

EgoPlay: Event-Triggered Video Editing for Egocentric Streams

We introduce EgoPlay, an event-triggered video-to-video editor for egocentric streams, obtained by fine-tuning a pretrained V2V diffusion transformer on event-conditioned data built primarily from Ego4D. Given a monocular video and an event-triggered prompt of the form "when X happens, do Y," EgoPlay infers whether and when event X occurs, preserves pre-event frames, and applies edit Y only to the post-event continuation.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1

Event-Driven Video Generation

arXiv:2603. 13402v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current text-to-video models can make individual frames look convincing while still getting simple interactions wrong: objects move before contact, an intended action is skipped, a placed object keeps drifting, or a support relation breaks.

By Chika Maduabuchi, Jindong Wang