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: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:2605. 00412v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models have recently re-emerged as a central paradigm for embodied intelligence, robotics, autonomous driving, and model-based reinforcement learning.
By Sen Cui, Jingheng Ma
arXiv:2503. 24009v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Realistic simulation is critical for applications ranging from robotics to animation.
By Mikel Zhobro, Andreas Ren\'e Geist, Georg Martius
arXiv:2607. 07763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are typically trained to predict discrete-time physical dynamics with a fixed step size baked into the model weights, preventing prediction at variable temporal resolutions.
By Eli Laird, Corey Clark
arXiv:2608. 09876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physically consistent motion planning remains a fundamental challenge in embodied AI, as generated trajectories must strictly conform to real-world execution dynamics.
By Yapeng Liu, Yuanzhao Zhai, Bo Ding, Huaimin Wang, Lin Wang
arXiv:2608. 05948v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics engines facilitate large-scale training and evaluation for embodied intelligence, while generative video world models are emerging as implicit simulators of future states and interactions.
By Shuai Wang, Yaxin Feng, Xuekun Jiang, Shihan Tian, Ningyu Yan, Xing Shen, Chaoyang Lyu, Hui Wang, Yunsong Zhou, Hanqing Wang, Jiangmiao Pang, Yang Xiang, Xing Gao, Chunhua Shen, Weinan Zhang
Physics engines facilitate large-scale training and evaluation for embodied intelligence, while generative video world models are emerging as implicit simulators of future states and interactions. However, existing evaluations of physical fidelity are often conducted in isolation and rely heavily on perceptual similarity or human judgments, providing limited insight into which physical principles or parameters are violated.
arXiv:2512. 10946v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human-level contact-rich manipulation relies on the distinct roles of two key modalities: vision provides spatially rich but temporally slow global context, while force sensing captures rapid local contact dynamics.
By Wendi Chen, Han Xue, Yi Wang, Fangyuan Zhou, Jun Lv, Yang Jin, Shirun Tang, Chuan Wen, Cewu Lu
arXiv:2607. 20535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditional Predictive Digital Twins often remain geometrically rigid, requiring extensive retraining or fine-tuning whenever the underlying physical domain or boundary conditions change.
By Alicia Tierz, Ic\'iar Alfaro, David Gonz\'alez, El\'ias Cueto
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.
By Shivansh Patel, Kaifeng Zhang, Sanjay Pokkali, Svetlana Lazebnik, Yunzhu Li
Predicting object dynamics (i. e.