Towards Physically Interpretable World Models: Meaningful Weakly Supervised Representations for Visual Trajectory Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12870v2
• Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:13:37 GMT
• Title: Towards Physically Interpretable World Models: Meaningful Weakly Supervised Representations for Visual Trajectory Prediction
• Authors: Zhenjiang Mao, Ivan Ruchkin,
• Abstract summary: Deep learning models are increasingly employed for perception, prediction, and control in complex systems. Embedding physical knowledge into these models is crucial for achieving realistic and consistent outputs. We propose Physically Interpretable World Models, a novel architecture that aligns learned latent representations with real-world physical quantities.
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• Abstract: Deep learning models are increasingly employed for perception, prediction, and control in complex systems. Embedding physical knowledge into these models is crucial for achieving realistic and consistent outputs, a challenge often addressed by physics-informed machine learning. However, integrating physical knowledge with representation learning becomes difficult when dealing with high-dimensional observation data, such as images, particularly under conditions of incomplete or imprecise state information. To address this, we propose Physically Interpretable World Models, a novel architecture that aligns learned latent representations with real-world physical quantities. Our method combines a variational autoencoder with a dynamical model that incorporates unknown system parameters, enabling the discovery of physically meaningful representations. By employing weak supervision with interval-based constraints, our approach eliminates the reliance on ground-truth physical annotations. Experimental results demonstrate that our method improves the quality of learned representations while achieving accurate predictions of future states, advancing the field of representation learning in dynamic systems.

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