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About this paper

Awomo-WM Team, Enhui Ma, Kaiwen Guo, Tingrui Zhang, Wei Song, Yingshui Tan, Jianhua Xu, Tong Zhang and 1 more

StrucPhysVideo combines physics-focused video curation, structured temporal captions, and action-conditioned latent video generation to improve learned predictions of physical scene dynamics. Its text-image-to-video model reaches 45.5% on Physics-IQ Verified, while the robot-action model improves trajectory, depth, perceptual, and interaction metrics over DreamDojo-AgiBot.

Key insights

  • Physics-focused captions improve physical-dynamics prediction beyond raw captions: Physics-IQ scores rise from 24.8% to 33.2% on Wan2.2-5B and from 37.9% to 45.5% on LingBot-Video-30B.
  • Preserving the reference latent during sampling and explicitly representing temporal entity behavior helps maintain object identity, scene geometry, contacts, and plausible post-interaction motion.
  • The framework treats physical world modeling as a combined data-quality, language-grounding, generative-modeling, and action-conditioning problem rather than relying solely on larger video models.

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