Video generators can use simulator checks to correct physical errors

The authors present a workflow for constructing physics-constrained training videos and repairing generated clips, alongside a release of 100,000 videos.

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Yuxuan Chen · Xiaojie Li · Hao Chen · Juncheng Ma · Kewei Zhang · Zhongjing Du · +8 more
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PhysLoop improves video generation models by using a simulator to guide an LLM's physics knowledge into generating physically consistent training videos.

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Video generation models create realistic moving images but often break the laws of physics. Objects vanish, multiply, or fail to react on impact. Fixing this requires physically accurate training data, which is very hard to produce at scale under controlled conditions.

PhysLoop connects a Large Language Model (LLM) to an internal simulator. The LLM knows physics from text, but the simulator enforces spatial and causal constraints. The system guides the LLM to generate, test, and correct video scenes automatically.

The main finding is that this loop produces physically consistent videos that improve the video generation model's own output quality. It provides a practical path toward , where models learn to fix their own limitations with limited human intervention.

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STANDARD GENERATORVideo Generator: No physics checkVideo GeneratorNo physics checkGenerated Video: May have physical errorsGenerated VideoMay have physicalerrorsPHYSLOOP WORKFLOWproposedactionsphysicaloutcomesfailure feedbackacceptedvideoLanguage Model: Proposes scenariosLanguageModelProposesscenariosInternal Simulator: Enforces physicsInternalSimulatorEnforces physicsAssessment & Correction: Iterative feedbackAssessment &CorrectionIterativefeedbackPhysically Consistent: Checked by simulatorPhysicallyConsistentChecked bysimulatorReleased 100K training videos and evaluation datasets PhysLoop-Gen & PhysLoop-Repair…
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