New benchmark PhysVista tests vision-language models on full physical cognition loop

The benchmark jointly evaluates perception, reasoning, and plausibility assessment using real and AI-generated videos.

Chinese Tech
Xinge Peng · Yiting Lu · Tianwu Zhi · Wen Wen · Jianzhao Liu · Xin Li · +1 more

University of Science and Technology of China · ByteDance · City University of Hong Kong

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The authors introduce PhysVista, a benchmark for evaluating physical intelligence in Vision-Language Models (VLMs).

The authors constructed PhysVista, a benchmark that restores the closed cognitive loop of physical understanding.

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PhysVista finds that modern vision-language models recognize video content better than they reason about dynamics or judge physical plausibility.

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