World models calibrated to hidden physics via short interaction clips

PhysiCalWorld uses a physics descriptor token learned from video alone to condition predictions without fine-tuning.

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Yunhao Luo · Wentao He · Yinpei Dai · Hyelin Nam · Hongze Fu · Joyce Chai · +2 more

University of Michigan

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The authors propose PhysiCalWorld, a method that calibrates action-conditioned world models to instance-specific dynamics by prompting them with a short exploratory interaction clip.

The authors trained an end-to-end model that encodes an interaction clip (a sequence of observation-action pairs) from a test scene into a single physics descriptor token.

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