PhysOPSD: Code as Privilege for Physically Plausible Video Generation

Harold Chen, Rui Peng, Lingteng Qiu, Kejie Qiu, Chao Xu, Zilong Dong

PhysOPSD: Code as Privilege for Physically Plausible Video Generation: 8 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #18 of 39 papers on 2026-11-11. Day-by-day upvote history.

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While modern video generative models achieve remarkable visual fidelity, they remain noticeably brittle when generating physically plausible dynamics and complex interactions. Targeted post-training is crucial, yet supervised fine-tuning suffers from offline state mismatch, and reinforcement learning is hindered by sparse, ill-defined physical reward functions. On-Policy (Self-)Distillation (OPSD) reconciles on-policy rollouts with dense corrective feedback, shifting the core challenge to designing effective privileged context. However, conventional modalities fall short: text prompts are inherently declarative, whereas real reference videos heavily entangle physical laws with visual appearance without parametric control. To this end, we propose PhysOPSD, introducing executable code as privileged physical context for video generation. Unlike static visual observations, executable code instantiates an editable physical world with intrinsic abstraction and controllability. Powered by PhysOPSD-Engine, we translate real-world physical scenarios into verifiable simulation programs. PhysOPSD then incorporates (i) dual-level physical privilege to bridge the information gap via an intermediate bottleneck, alongside (ii) controlled physical variations under shared rollout noise to expose causal dynamic shifts. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PhysOPSD substantially improves physical plausibility across diverse backbones, outperforming SFT and RL baselines with only 3K samples, while preserving general video generation quality.

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