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Score4.0PainA physics-aware conditioning scheme for generative video models to improve physical plausibility.
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ARXIV:2603.26285 · GENERATIVE VIDEO · SUBMITTED 30 MAR · 21:58 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.26285GENERATIVE VIDEOSUBMITTED 30 MAR · 21:58 UTCFRESHNESS STALESaurabh · Pathak · Elahe Arani · Mykola Pechenizkiy · Bahram Zonooz · arXiv
A physics-aware conditioning scheme for generative video models to improve physical plausibility.
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Pain A physics-aware conditioning scheme for generative video models to improve physical plausibility.
Evidence 108 refs | 3 sources | 50% coverage
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A physics-aware conditioning scheme for generative video models to improve physical plausibility. Prior attempts to inject physics rely on conditioning: frame-level signals are domain-specific and short-horizon, while global text prompts are coarse and noisy,…
Generative video models achieve high visual fidelity but often violate basic physical principles, limiting reliability in real-world settings. Prior attempts to inject physics rely on conditioning: frame-level signals are domain-specific and short-horizon, while global…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 4.0/10 on the public viability pass. Generative video models achieve high visual fidelity but often violate basic physical principles, limiting reliability in real-world settings.
Generative Video moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 4.0/10.
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A physics-aware conditioning scheme for generative video models to improve physical plausibility.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.26285A physics-aware conditioning scheme for generative video models to improve physical plausibility.
Abstract
Generative video models achieve high visual fidelity but often violate basic physical principles, limiting reliability in real-world settings. Prior attempts to inject physics rely on conditioning: frame-level signals are domain-specific and short-horizon, while global text prompts are coarse and noisy, missing fine-grained dynamics. We present PhysVid, a physics-aware local conditioning scheme that operates over temporally contiguous chunks of frames. Each chunk is annotated with physics-grounded descriptions of states, interactions, and constraints, which are fused with the global prompt via chunk-aware cross-attention during training. At inference, we introduce negative physics prompts (descriptions of locally relevant law violations) to steer generation away from implausible trajectories. On VideoPhy, PhysVid improves physical commonsense scores by $\approx 33\%$ over baseline video generators, and by up to $\approx 8\%$ on VideoPhy2. These results show that local, physics-aware guidance substantially increases physical plausibility in generative video and marks a step toward physics-grounded video models.
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A physics-aware conditioning scheme for generative video models to improve physical plausibility. Prior attempts to inject physics rely on conditioning: frame-level signals are domain-specific and short-horizon, while global text prompts are coarse and noisy, missing fine-graine...
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Generative video models achieve high visual fidelity but often violate basic physical principles, limiting reliability in real-world settings. Prior attempts to inject physics rely on conditioning: frame-level signals are domain-specific and short-horizon, while global text prom...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 4.0/10 on the public viability pass. Generative video models achieve high visual fidelity but often violate basic physical principles, limiting reliability in real-world settings.
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Generative Video moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 4.0/10.
On VideoPhy, PhysVid improves physical commonsense scores by ≈ 33% over baseline video generators
The abstract explicitly states this quantitative improvement and it is supported by Table 3 which shows a 33% improvement for PhysVid-1.7B on the PC score for VideoPhy compared to a baseline.
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and by up to ≈ 8% on VideoPhy2.
The abstract explicitly states this quantitative improvement and it is supported by Table 3 which shows an 8% improvement for PhysVid-1.7B on the PC score for VideoPhy2 compared to a baseline.
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We present PhysVid, a physics-aware local conditioning scheme that operates over temporally contiguous chunks of frames.
The abstract clearly describes the core method of PhysVid as a 'physics-aware local conditioning scheme that operates over temporally contiguous chunks of frames'.
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Each chunk is annotated with physics-grounded descriptions of states, interactions, and constraints
The abstract details the content of the annotations used in PhysVid's conditioning scheme.
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which are fused with the global prompt via chunk-aware cross-attention during training.
The abstract explains how the local and global information is integrated within the PhysVid model.
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At inference, we introduce negative physics prompts (descriptions of locally relevant law violations) to steer generation away from implausible trajectories.
The abstract describes a specific technique used during inference to improve physical plausibility.
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These results show that local, physics-aware guidance substantially increases physical plausibility in generative video
The abstract concludes by stating the overall impact of the local, physics-aware guidance, which is supported by the quantitative results.
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and marks a step toward physics-grounded video models.
The abstract positions PhysVid as a contribution to the broader field of physics-grounded video generation.
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