Event-Conditioned Diagnostics of Kinematic, Contact, and Object-Permanence Fields in Passive Object-State World Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28455v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:11:59 GMT
• Title: Event-Conditioned Diagnostics of Kinematic, Contact, and Object-Permanence Fields in Passive Object-State World Models
• Abstract summary: We study event-conditioned latent physical structure in passive object-state world models.<n> Protocol tests whether hidden representations encode event-regime information.<n>Results support event-conditioned organization and fixed-horizon functional sensitivity of latent physical fields.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: World models can predict future physical states, but prediction accuracy alone does not explain how physical information is organized and used inside their latent dynamics. We introduce a controlled diagnostic protocol for studying event-conditioned latent physical structure in passive object-state world models. The protocol tests whether hidden representations encode event-regime information, whether event contexts reweight non-exclusive physical field readouts, and whether field-aligned representational components have functional consequences for prediction. Using a balanced controlled-generator dataset with free-motion, collision, and occlusion events, we evaluate recurrent, attention-based, and latent state-space transition models under a fixed-horizon forecasting setup. The models learn useful predictive dynamics and their hidden states support reliable event-regime readout. Event contexts systematically reweight kinematic, contact, and object-permanence field readouts: free motion is kinematic-dominant, collision combines kinematic and contact structure, and occlusion combines motion-related and object-permanence structure. Time-aligned and directional-consistency analyses further show phase-related shifts in field emphasis. Finally, fixed-horizon projection causal field effect (CFE) shows that suppressing field-aligned directions can degrade event-relevant prediction, with strongest evidence for contact-aligned structure in collision-contact windows and more qualified evidence for object-permanence-aligned structure in hard-occlusion hidden windows. These results support event-conditioned organization and fixed-horizon functional sensitivity of latent physical fields, while not implying explicit physical modules, isolated causal circuits, or context-invariant sliding-window generalization.

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