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New PhyS framework distills physical priors into streaming world models

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Researchers have developed PhyS, a novel three-stage framework designed to imbue streaming world models with physical coherence. This framework addresses limitations in current methods by constructing a large dataset of 120,000 real-world physical interaction videos, PhyS-120K, to train a physics-aware teacher model. The PhyS framework then distills these physical priors into a smaller causal model, which is further refined using online reinforcement learning and a technique called Temporal Credit Routing to ensure physically plausible long-term predictions. AI

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New PhyS framework distills physical priors into streaming world models

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Liangliang Zhao, Junying Wang, Danni Yang, Yifan Chang, Bin Fu, Yu Qiao, Bowen Zhou, Yihao Liu ·

    Distilling Physical Priors into Streaming World Models

    arXiv:2608.07981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Streaming world models predict future visual states online while maintaining physically coherent dynamics over long horizons. However, their rollouts often violate basic physical constraints. A common approach distills pretrained bi…

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