arXiv:2603.09094cs.CV2026-03中稿 · CVPR被引 6

用因果事件链生成更真实的物理视频,解决传统方法只靠提示词的问题。

Chain of Event-Centric Causal Thought for Physically Plausible Video Generation

  • 将物理现象拆解为因果相连的事件链,用公式约束确保推理确定性。
  • 通过跨模态提示对齐时间序列,实现事件间视觉连续性与关键帧渐进生成。
  • 适合研究物理模拟、视频生成与多模态推理的开发者和研究人员。

物理上合理的视频生成(PPVG)已成为建模现实世界物理现象的有前景方向。该任务需要常识知识理解,这对视频扩散模型仍是挑战。现有方法利用大语言模型的常识推理能力,将物理概念嵌入提示词中。然而,由于缺乏建模因果演进的条件机制,生成模型常将物理现象表现为单一时刻的提示结果。本文将PPVG视为生成一系列因果关联且动态演化的事件序列。为此,我们设计两个核心模块:(1) 物理驱动的事件链推理。该模块将提示中的物理现象分解为多个基本事件单元,采用思维链推理,并引入物理公式作为约束,以消除因果歧义,建立确定性因果依赖。(2) 时序感知的跨模态提示(TCP)。为保持事件间的连续性,该模块将因果事件单元转化为时间对齐的视觉-语言提示,总结离散事件描述以获得因果一致的叙事,同时通过交互式编辑逐步合成各事件的视觉关键帧。在PhyGenBench和VideoPhy基准上的全面实验表明,本框架在多种物理领域下生成的视频具有更优的物理合理性。代码已开源:https://github.com/ZixuanWang0525/CoECT。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Physically Plausible Video Generation (PPVG) has emerged as a promising avenue for modeling real-world physical phenomena. PPVG requires an understanding of commonsense knowledge, which remains a challenge for video diffusion models. Current approaches leverage commonsense reasoning capability of large language models to embed physical concepts into prompts. However, generation models often render physical phenomena as a single moment defined by prompts, due to the lack of conditioning mechanisms for modeling causal progression. In this paper, we view PPVG as generating a sequence of causally connected and dynamically evolving events. To realize this paradigm, we design two key modules: (1) Physics-driven Event Chain Reasoning. This module decomposes the physical phenomena described in prompts into multiple elementary event units, leveraging chain-of-thought reasoning. To mitigate causal ambiguity, we embed physical formulas as constraints to impose deterministic causal dependencies during reasoning. (2) Transition-aware Cross-modal Prompting (TCP). To maintain continuity between events, this module transforms causal event units into temporally aligned vision-language prompts. It summarizes discrete event descriptions to obtain causally consistent narratives, while progressively synthesizing visual keyframes of individual events by interactive editing. Comprehensive experiments on PhyGenBench and VideoPhy benchmarks demonstrate that our framework achieves superior performance in generating physically plausible videos across diverse physical domains. Code is available at https://github.com/ZixuanWang0525/CoECT.

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