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Seeking Physics in Diffusion Noise

Chujun Tang, Lei Zhong, Fangqiang Ding · Mar 15, 2026 · Citations: 0

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Signals: Stale

What still needs checking

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Signal confidence: 0.30

Abstract

Do video diffusion models encode signals predictive of physical plausibility? We probe intermediate denoising representations of a pretrained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) and find that physically plausible and implausible videos are partially separable in mid-layer feature space across noise levels. This separability cannot be fully attributed to visual quality or generator identity, suggesting recoverable physics-related cues in frozen DiT features. Leveraging this observation, we introduce progressive trajectory selection, an inference-time strategy that scores parallel denoising trajectories at a few intermediate checkpoints using a lightweight physics verifier trained on frozen features, and prunes low-scoring candidates early. Extensive experiments on PhyGenBench demonstrate that our method improves physical consistency while reducing inference cost, achieving comparable results to Best-of-K sampling with substantially fewer denoising steps.

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Main weakness

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Trust level

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Eval-Fit Score

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Human Feedback Signal

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Evaluation Signal

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What This Page Found In The Paper

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Evidence snippet: Do video diffusion models encode signals predictive of physical plausibility?

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Evidence snippet: Do video diffusion models encode signals predictive of physical plausibility?

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Evidence snippet: Do video diffusion models encode signals predictive of physical plausibility?

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Phygenbench

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Evidence snippet: Extensive experiments on PhyGenBench demonstrate that our method improves physical consistency while reducing inference cost, achieving comparable results to Best-of-K sampling with substantially fewer denoising steps.

Reported Metrics

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Cost, Inference cost

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Evidence snippet: Extensive experiments on PhyGenBench demonstrate that our method improves physical consistency while reducing inference cost, achieving comparable results to Best-of-K sampling with substantially fewer denoising steps.

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Evidence snippet: Do video diffusion models encode signals predictive of physical plausibility?

Human Data Lens

  • Uses human feedback: No
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  • Rater population: Unknown
  • Unit of annotation: Trajectory
  • Expertise required: General
  • Signal basis: Structured extraction plus abstract evidence.

Evaluation Lens

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  • Signal confidence: 0.30
  • Known cautions: low_signal, possible_false_positive

Protocol And Measurement Signals

Benchmarks / Datasets

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Research Brief

Metadata summary

Do video diffusion models encode signals predictive of physical plausibility?

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Key Takeaways

  • Do video diffusion models encode signals predictive of physical plausibility?
  • We probe intermediate denoising representations of a pretrained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) and find that physically plausible and implausible videos are partially separable in mid-layer feature space across noise levels.
  • This separability cannot be fully attributed to visual quality or generator identity, suggesting recoverable physics-related cues in frozen DiT features.

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  • Leveraging this observation, we introduce progressive trajectory selection, an inference-time strategy that scores parallel denoising trajectories at a few intermediate checkpoints using a lightweight physics verifier trained on frozen…

Why It Matters For Eval

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Researcher Checklist

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