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arxiv:2601.09255

PhyRPR: Training-Free Physics-Constrained Video Generation

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Abstract

A three-stage pipeline decouples physical reasoning from visual synthesis in video generation, improving physical plausibility and motion controllability through distinct phases of reasoning, planning, and refinement.

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Recent diffusion-based video generation models can synthesize visually plausible videos, yet they often struggle to satisfy physical constraints. A key reason is that most existing approaches remain single-stage: they entangle high-level physical understanding with low-level visual synthesis, making it hard to generate content that require explicit physical reasoning. To address this limitation, we propose a training-free three-stage pipeline,PhyRPR:Phy\uline{Reason}--Phy\uline{Plan}--Phy\uline{Refine}, which decouples physical understanding from visual synthesis. Specifically, PhyReason uses a large multimodal model for physical state reasoning and an image generator for keyframe synthesis; PhyPlan deterministically synthesizes a controllable coarse motion scaffold; and PhyRefine injects this scaffold into diffusion sampling via a latent fusion strategy to refine appearance while preserving the planned dynamics. This staged design enables explicit physical control during generation. Extensive experiments under physics constraints show that our method consistently improves physical plausibility and motion controllability.

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