The paper introduces a framework that separates physical modeling from execution in physics reasoning tasks. It uses a two‑stage post‑training approach: supervised fine‑tuning to build structured models and reinforcement learning with rubric‑based feedback to refine them. Experiments on PhysReason, PhyX, and SeePhys show that this explicit modeling improves reasoning performance by about 3% on average for small LLMs.
By Ye Zhang, Xuehang Guo, Rui Pan, Pengfei Yu, Denghui Zhang, Manling Li, Qingyun Wang
arXiv:2510. 25306v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Partial physical knowledge--governing structures known, constitutive relations or their combinations not--pervades spatiotemporal systems.
By Xizhe Wang, Xiaobin Song, Hongbo Zhao, Qingshan Jia, Qianchuan Zhao, Hao Sun, Benben Jiang
arXiv:2609.07814v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) struggle on PDEs whose governing physics varies across the domain. We trace this to a structural property of s...
By Hanwen Wang, Paris Perdikaris
arXiv:2509. 13805v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation models have revolutionized natural language processing through a ``train once, deploy anywhere'' paradigm, where a single pre-trained model adapts to countless downstream tasks without retraining.
By Florian Wiesner, Zo\"e J. Gray, Matthias Wessling, Stephen Baek
arXiv:2605. 29283v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent physics foundation models claim general spatiotemporal forecasting ability, yet their evaluations often collapse performance into a single average score under a fixed training distribution.
By Mengdi Chu, Yang Liu, Ayan Biswas, Han-Wei Shen
arXiv:2606. 19754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Partial differential equations (PDEs) play a central role in modeling complex physical, biological, and engineering systems.
By Zhiwen Yu, Derong Yang, Liujian Zhang, Kaixiang Yang, Peilin Zhan, Jianmin Lv, Jane You, C. L. Philip Chen