PhysFire-WM: A Physics-Informed World Model for Emulating Fire Spread Dynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17152v1
• Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:16:40 GMT
• Title: PhysFire-WM: A Physics-Informed World Model for Emulating Fire Spread Dynamics
• Authors: Nan Zhou, Huandong Wang, Jiahao Li, Yang Li, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Yong Li, Xinlei Chen,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces PhysFire-WM, a Physics-informed World Model for emulating Fire spread dynamics.<n>Our approach internalizes combustion dynamics by encoding structured priors from a Physical Simulator to rectify physical discrepancies.<n>Experiments on a fine-grained multimodal fire dataset demonstrate the superior accuracy of PhysFire-WM in fire spread prediction.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Fine-grained fire prediction plays a crucial role in emergency response. Infrared images and fire masks provide complementary thermal and boundary information, yet current methods are predominantly limited to binary mask modeling with inherent signal sparsity, failing to capture the complex dynamics of fire. While world models show promise in video generation, their physical inconsistencies pose significant challenges for fire forecasting. This paper introduces PhysFire-WM, a Physics-informed World Model for emulating Fire spread dynamics. Our approach internalizes combustion dynamics by encoding structured priors from a Physical Simulator to rectify physical discrepancies, coupled with a Cross-task Collaborative Training strategy (CC-Train) that alleviates the issue of limited information in mask-based modeling. Through parameter sharing and gradient coordination, CC-Train effectively integrates thermal radiation dynamics and spatial boundary delineation, enhancing both physical realism and geometric accuracy. Extensive experiments on a fine-grained multimodal fire dataset demonstrate the superior accuracy of PhysFire-WM in fire spread prediction. Validation underscores the importance of physical priors and cross-task collaboration, providing new insights for applying physics-informed world models to disaster prediction.

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