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Can you make video generators obey physics?
Yu Yuan, Jianhao Yuan, Xijun Wang, Daiqing Li, Liu He, Lu Ling, Stanley H. Chan
May 30, 2026
Video generators excel at creating plausible motion but ignore real-world physics—objects drift, collide, or waste energy. OptiWorld adds an optimal-control layer at inference: extract compact state, plan trajectories under physical constraints on a learned manifold, then render video along that path. Handles goal-conditioned generation, dynamics editing, and counterfactuals.
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