Explicit predictive states boost physical plausibility in video world models

Adding temporally grounded registry slots that co-evolve with video tokens and are supervised by future frame representations improves physical plausibility across multiple backbones.

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Shinseong Kim · Jaeseok Jeong · Jianlong Fu · Youngjung Uh

Yonsei University · Microsoft Research Asia

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The authors introduce Physical Registry, dedicated slots inside a video Diffusion Transformer that encode predictive dynamics.

The authors propose Physical Registry, a set of registry slots in video Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) that serve as explicit predictive states.

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From Microsoft Research Asia and Yonsei University

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Physical Registry adds explicit predictive states to video DiTs, improving physical plausibility with minimal parameters.

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