PhysVideoGenerator: Towards Physically Aware Video Generation via Latent Physics Guidance
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Abstract (arXiv)
Current video generation models produce high-quality aesthetic videos but often struggle to learn representations of real-world physics dynamics, resulting in artifacts such as unnatural object collisions, inconsistent gravity, and temporal flickering. In this work, we propose PhysVideoGenerator, a proof-of-concept framework that explicitly embeds a learnable physics prior into the video generation process. We introduce a lightweight predictor network, PredictorP, which regresses high-level physical features extracted from a pre-trained Video Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (V-JEPA 2) directly from noisy diffusion latents. These predicted physics tokens are injected into the temporal attention layers of a DiT-based generator (Latte) via a dedicated cross-attention mechanism. Our primary contribution is demonstrating the technical feasibility of this joint training paradigm: we show that diffusion latents contain sufficient information to recover V-JEPA 2 physical representations, and that multi-task optimization remains stable over training. This report documents the architectural design, technical challenges, and validation of training stability, establishing a foundation for future large-scale evaluation of physics-aware generative models.
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Citing papers per year: 2026: 5.
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- 2026LaMo: Self-Supervised Latent Motion Priors for Physical Realism in Video Generationcited by 4
- 2026Motion Forcing: A Decoupled Framework for Robust Video Generation in Motion Dynamicscited by 3
- 2026Pretrained Video Models as Differentiable Physics Simulators for Urban Wind Flowscited by 1
- 2026VR-JEPA: Learning Contrastive-State Latent Guidance for Generation-based Video Reasoningcited by 0
- 2026Physis-Lang: Self-Evolving Language as a Physical Representation for Video World Modelcited by 0
- 2026Physis-Lang: Self-Evolving Language as a Physical Representation for Video World Model30 Sep 2026
- 2026VR-JEPA: Learning Contrastive-State Latent Guidance for Generation-based Video Reasoning30 Sep 2026
- 2026LaMo: Self-Supervised Latent Motion Priors for Physical Realism in Video Generation22 May 2026
- 2026Pretrained Video Models as Differentiable Physics Simulators for Urban Wind Flows22 Mar 2026
- 2026Motion Forcing: A Decoupled Framework for Robust Video Generation in Motion Dynamics11 Mar 2026