Analytic Dynamics: Learning Physics-Grounded Representation for Fast Intrinsic Dynamics Inference from Monocular Videos

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31025v1
• Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:08:04 GMT
• Title: Analytic Dynamics: Learning Physics-Grounded Representation for Fast Intrinsic Dynamics Inference from Monocular Videos
• Abstract summary: Inferring object dynamics from visual observations is essential for intelligent agents to reason about and interact with the physical world.<n>We propose Analytic Dynamics, a feed-forward dynamics inference framework that introduces an intermediate physics-grounded dynamics representation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Inferring object dynamics from visual observations is essential for intelligent agents to reason about and interact with the physical world, yet remains challenging due to the fundamental gap between visual evidence and intrinsic dynamics. Existing methods either rely on costly per-scene optimization, limiting efficiency and scalability, or directly map visual evidence to intrinsic dynamics without intermediate physical abstractions, making them prone to appearance and geometry shortcuts. To bridge this gap, we propose Analytic Dynamics, a feed-forward dynamics inference framework that introduces an intermediate physics-grounded dynamics representation between visual observations and intrinsic dynamics. Specifically, we leverage privileged physical states, including position, displacement, and deformation gradient fields, which are available in simulation, to learn a structured dynamics representation that is difficult to discover from visual observations alone. By aligning visual representations with this space, we equip visual models with a physics-grounded inductive bias, guiding them to capture dynamics-relevant patterns for material model classification and parameter regression. To facilitate this research, we develop a dynamics data generation pipeline and benchmark containing paired physical state trajectories, rendered videos, and ground-truth material models and parameters. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Analytic Dynamics achieves efficient, accurate, and generalizable dynamics inference from monocular videos.

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