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PhiZero: A World Model Built Around Physical Language

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TL;DR - PhiZero is a world model that predicts compact “physical-language” representations of state transitions before rendering them as video. This reason-then-render design makes physical dynamics explicit rather than leaving them implicit in pixel-space prediction.

  • Learns its discrete physical-language representation from in-the-wild videos through self-supervision.
  • Separates future-state reasoning from video generation to promote physically coherent evolution.
  • Evaluated on both generation and understanding benchmarks.
  • Supports interactive modeling, action-conditioned simulation, and zero-shot motion transfer.

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PhiZero: A World Model Built Around Physical Language

arXiv cs.CV Shuyao Shang, Yuqi Wang, Ruopeng Gao, Xu Chen, Tieniu Tan, Lue Fan, Zhaoxiang Zhang 2026-07-30 arXiv:2607.28624
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TL;DR - PhiZero is a world model that predicts compact “physical-language” representations of state transitions before rendering them as video. This reason-then-render design makes physical dynamics explicit rather than leaving them implicit in pixel-space prediction.

  • Learns its discrete physical-language representation from in-the-wild videos through self-supervision.
  • Separates future-state reasoning from video generation to promote physically coherent evolution.
  • Evaluated on both generation and understanding benchmarks.
  • Supports interactive modeling, action-conditioned simulation, and zero-shot motion transfer.
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