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Publication
ICML 2024
Conference paper
ContPhy: Continuum Physical Concept Learning and Reasoning from Videos
Abstract
We introduce the Continuum Physical Dataset (ContPhy), a novel benchmark for assessing machine physical commonsense.ContPhy complements existing physical reasoning benchmarks by encompassing the inference of diverse physical properties, such as mass and density, across various scenarios and predicting corresponding dynamics.We evaluated a range of AI models and found that they still struggle to achieve satisfactory performance on ContPhy, which shows that current AI models still lack physical commonsense for the continuum, especially soft-bodies, and illustrates the value of the proposed dataset.We also introduce an oracle model (ContPRO) that marries the particle-based physical dynamic models with the recent large language models, which enjoy the advantages of both models, precise dynamic predictions, and interpretable reasoning.ContPhy aims to spur progress in perception and reasoning within diverse physical settings, narrowing the divide between human and machine intelligence in understanding the physical world.Project page: https://physical-reasoning-project.github.io.