PhysisForcing: Physics Reinforced World Simulator for Robotic Manipulation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28128v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:30:18 GMT
• Title: PhysisForcing: Physics Reinforced World Simulator for Robotic Manipulation
• Abstract summary: Video generation models can produce physically implausible manipulations, including inconsistent robot-object interactions.<n>We propose PhysisForcing, a training framework that strengthens physical consistency by focusing supervision on physics-informative regions.<n>Our experiments show that PhysisForcing consistently improves embodied video generation over strong baselines.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Video generation models have emerged as a promising paradigm for embodied world simulation. However, both general-domain video generators and robot-specific data fine-tuned models can still produce physically implausible manipulations, including discontinuous motion trajectories and inconsistent robot-object interactions, which limits their reliability as world simulators. Through extensive experiments, we find that such physical instability mainly arises from two factors: deformation of moving objects and implausible spatio-temporal correlations among interacting entities, particularly during contact. Building on this observation, we propose PhysisForcing, a scalable training framework that strengthens physical consistency by focusing supervision on physics-informative regions through joint optimization of pixel-level and semantic-level features. The framework consists of a pixel-level trajectory alignment loss, which supervises DiT features using reference point trajectories, and a semantic-level relational alignment loss, which aligns DiT features with inter-region relations extracted from a frozen video understanding encoder. Extensive experiments on R-Bench, PAI-Bench, and EZS-Bench show that PhysisForcing consistently improves embodied video generation over strong baselines, improving the Wan2.2-I2V-A14B and Cosmos3-Nano base models on R-Bench by 22.3\% and 9.2\% (7.1\% and 3.7\% over vanilla finetuning), with the Cosmos3-Nano variant attaining the best overall score. Beyond generation, as a world model under the WorldArena action-planner protocol it raises the closed-loop success rate from 16.0\% to 24.0\% and further improves downstream policy success, indicating that physically aligned video models yield stronger representations for robotic manipulation.

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