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Evaluating Physical Consistency and Plausibility in Generative Scenario Models for Autonomous Driving
Oct 1, 2026Manasa Mariam Mammen, Zafer Kayatas, Stefan WagnerScenario Generation Autonomous Driving
Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany · Mercedes Benz AG, Sindelfingen, Germany
PhysicsLENS: Diagnosing Physical Property Blindness in Video Generation Models
Oct 1, 2026Isaiah Milkey, Som Sagar, Aditya Taparia +3Physical Plausibility Generative Video Models
School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence Arizona State University Tempe, AZ, USA
Ego2Act: Evaluating Goal-Directed Manipulation in Egocentric Video Generation
Oct 1, 2026Patrick Amadeus Irawan, Iskandar Muda Rizky Parlambang, Rava Maulana +10Egocentric Video Video Generation
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Independent Researcher · Nanyang Technological University +1
MindWorldBench: Evaluating Mental-State-to-Behavior Reasoning in Image-to-Video Generation
Sep 30, 2026Ruiqi Li, Xuanyi Liu, Sijia Li +9Camera-Conditioned Video Generation Physical Plausibility
Peking University Beijing, China · University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing, China · City University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China +1
CRJudgeBench: Can AI Detect Plausible but Invalid Code Reviews?
Sep 29, 2026Yue Pan, Jiawei Li, Ziyuan Zhang +2Code Quality Raw Judge Outputs
University College London · Amazon · Zhejiang University
Achieve What You Imagined: Learning to Align Actions with Visual Plans
Sep 27, 2026Yuheng Qiao, Ziran Wei, Xiaohan Wang +5Contact-Rich Dexterous Manipulation Action Expert
KTH · Beihang University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) +2
Know-Your-Scene (KYS)-SLAM: Hierarchical Semantic-Motion Priors for Feature Matching in Stereo Visual SLAM
Sep 23, 2026Preeti Chatterjee, Jin Lu, Jin Sun +1Orb-Slam2 Simultaneous Localization And Mapping
School of Computing, University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602, USA
World Models for Embodied Intelligence: From Plausible to Controllable to Actionable
Sep 15, 2026Nanjie Yao, Hao Wang, Chong Cheng +10Embodied Artificial Intelligence World Models
HKUST(GZ) · University of Oxford · Princeton University +8
IMPLY: Physically Anchored Consistency for World-Model Rollouts
Sep 14, 2026Aman Mehta, Riya BaviskarSelf-Consistency World Models
Independent Researcher
Principia: Relational Physics Tests for Video Models
Sep 3, 2026Varun Varma Thozhiyoor, Shivam Tripathi, Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan +1Generative Video Models Physics-Aware Models
Indian Institute of Science · Johns Hopkins University
Common-Witness Certificates and Sharp Feature Bounds for Counterfactual Image Auditing
Sep 3, 2026Usef Faghihi, Amir SakiWitnesses Finite-Sample Certificates
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
GPS-Bench: A Governance Policy Benchmark for Automating Policy Analysis
Sep 3, 2026Linh Le, Melanie Bui, My Chiffon Nguyen +2Policy Evaluation Multi-Agent Simulations
1Lida Safety · 2ERA
VeriPhy: Agentic Physical Reasoning for World Model Evaluation and Refinement
Sep 2, 2026Wenzhuo Xu, Yuchen Zhu, Chongjian Ge +8Physical Plausibility Generation Provenance
1Carnegie Mellon University · 2Georgia Institute of Technology · 4Adobe Research +1
Autonomous discovery of new structure-plausibility laws for explainable and rapid crystal diagnosis and screening
Sep 1, 2026Zhilong Song, Lixue ChengCrystal Structure Prediction Screening
Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China. · IAS Center for AI for Scientific Discoveries, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China. · Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong 999077, China.
Physically Plausible Video Generation via Visual-Semantic Chain-of-Events Conditioning
Sep 1, 2026Zixuan Wang, Yixin Hu, Wen Li +4Camera-Conditioned Video Generation Long Video Generation
College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731 · School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, 5005, Adelaide, Australia +2
PAWBench: How Far Are We from Probabilistically Aligned World Modeling?
Aug 27, 2026Yuandong Pu, Le Zhuo, Sayak Paul +11Generative Video Models Physical Plausibility
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai AI Laboratory · Krea AI +4
STRIVE: Probing Reasoning Limits in Graded Plausibility Generation and Evaluation
Aug 5, 2026Bhiman Kumar Baghel, Anna Chrabaszcz, Tessa Warren +3Physical Plausibility Reasoning Skills
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA
Agents Catching Agents: Shortcut Cascades and Benchmark Gaming in Clinical Multi-Agent Systems
Aug 4, 2026Sebastián Andrés Cajas Ordóñez, Agastya Munnangi, Aldo Marzullo +13Clinical Decision Support Clinical
MIT Critical Data, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States · Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy +12
Beyond Epistemia: Epistemic Schizologia and Large Language Models as Techno-Semiotic Machines
Jul 28, 2026Federico Cabitza, Gianluca ColomboEpistemic Asymmetry Linguistics
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy · Digital Health and Wellbeing Center, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy · Oneofftech-UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Berlin, Germany
Physics-Informed CNN-LSTM for Street-Scale Urban Flood Prediction: Reconciling Aggregate Accuracy and Street-Level Plausibility
Jul 27, 2026Luc DCosta, Yidi Wang, Jonathan L. Goodall +1Accurate Flood Prediction Sen1Floods11
Chandra Robot Autonomy Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA · Link Lab, Multidisciplinary Research Center, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA · Hydroinformatics Research Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904, USA
Capital Markets LLM Reliability Score (CM-LRS): From Plausible to Bankable
Jul 23, 2026Prerit AhujaFinance Benchmarks Large Language Model Reliability
Independent Researcher · London-based
A Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Explainability in Media Bias Detection
Jul 22, 2026Ting Chen, Raina Zhang, Benjamin M. Ampel +1Explainability Multi-Dimensional Evaluation
Carnegie Mellon University · Indiana University · Georgia State University
Data-Poisoning Audits for Causal Effect Estimation
Jul 22, 2026Kwangho KimCausal Inferences Model Auditing
Department of Statistics, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Apple- $π$ : Benchmarking Thinking with Video Towards Law-Grounded Physical Intelligence
Jul 17, 2026Runmao Yao, Kairui Hu, Yukang Cao +11Generative Video Models Physical Plausibility
1S-Lab, Nanyang Technological University · 2The Chinese University of Hong Kong
From Plausible to Actionable: A Position on LLM Self-Explanations
Jul 17, 2026Elize Herrewijnen, Benedetta Muscato, Gizem Gezici +1Explainable Artificial Intelligence Explainable AI Methods
University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands · National Police Lab AI, Netherlands Police, Driebergen, Netherlands · Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy +1
Plausible Deniability Guarantees for Whistleblowers
Jul 15, 2026Leo Richter, Matt J. KusnerΔ)$-Differential Privacy Model Auditing
University College London · 2 ´Ecole Polytechnique de Montr´eal · 3Mila - Qu´ebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
PhysMRV: Physical Memory Retrieval and Verification for Physics Plausibility Reasoning
Jul 11, 2026Wenyuan Wang, Lianyu Hu, Hao Wang +1Physical Plausibility Video-Language Models
1Nanyang Technological University · 2Rutgers University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Alignment Plausibility: A New Standard for Assuring AI in Healthcare
Jul 8, 2026Gwydion Williams, Sara Zannone, Bilal A MateenHealthcare Clinical
PATH, United Kingdom · UCL, United Kingdom
Geometric Collapse: When Vision Models Fail to Verify Physical Causality
Jul 8, 2026Wentao Zhang, Jinhu Qi, Weiqiang Jin +3Object-Centric Cues Vision Foundation Models
Faculty of Applied Sciences, Macao Polytechnic University, Macao SAR, China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · AgentecFusion Limited +2
More Convincing, Not More Correct: Self-Play Reward Hacking of Reference-Free LLM Judges
Jul 7, 2026Chenyu ZhouLarge Language Model Judges Llm-As-A-Judge
School of Engineering, Institute of Science Tokyo
URSA: Chemistry-Aware Benchmark for Utilitarian Retrosynthesis Assessment
Jul 6, 2026Bogdan Zagribelnyy, Ivan Ilin, Nikita Bondarev +7Chemistry Drug Discovery
Insilico Medicine AI Limited, Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Independent researcher · Insilico Medicine Canada Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada +1
Belief Contraction in Dynamic Epistemic Logic
Jun 30, 2026Gaia Belardinelli, Snow ZhangDynamic Epistemic Logic Logic
Stanford University · Department of Philosophy Stanford University Stanford, USA · University of Berkeley, California +1
Accelerated Likelihood Maximization for Diffusion-based Versatile Content Generation
Jun 30, 2026Hyunsoo Lee, Inwoo Hwang, Young Min KimDiffusion Models Novel Modular Learning Framework
ECE, Seoul National University · INMC & IPAI, Seoul National University
TempAct: Advancing Temporal Plausibility in Autoregressive Video Generation via Planner-Executor RL
Jun 26, 2026Jing Wang, Xiangxin Zhou, Jiajun Liang +5Autoregressive Video Generation Autoregressive Diffusion
Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-Sen University · Tencent Hunyuan · Tsinghua University +2
Physics Question Scene Graph: Fine-grained Evaluation of Physical Plausibility in Text-to-Video Generation
Jun 24, 2026Atin Pothiraj, Jaemin Cho, Yue Zhang +2Generative Video Models Physical Plausibility
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA · AI2, USA · Johns Hopkins University, USA +1
GroundEval: A Deterministic Replacement for LLM-as-Judge in Stateful Agent Evaluation
Jun 22, 2026Jeffrey FlyntAgentic Evaluations Llm-As-A-Judge
Independent Researcher
GEOPHYS: The Geometry of Physical Plausibility
Jun 15, 2026Christian Internò, Alexander Pondaven, Habon Issa +8Physical Plausibility Physics-Aware Models
Bielefeld University · University of Oxford · Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory +5
How Should World Models Be Evaluated for Embodied Decision-Making? A Decision-Making-Centric Position
Jun 13, 2026Yang Yu, Shiyuan Zhang, Yifei Sheng +2World Models Embodied Artificial Intelligence
National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Cirquar Technologies, Nanjing, China
UnpredictaBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Distributional Randomness in LLMs
Jun 4, 2026Amirhossein Abaskohi, Amirhossein Dabiriaghdam, Liang Luo +4Distributional Information User Simulation
University of British Columbia · 2Independent Researcher
The Invisible Hand of Physics: When Video Diffusion Models Know More Than They Show
Jun 3, 2026Parsa Esmati, Somjit Nath, Katja Hofmann +3Video Diffusion Models Diffusion Transformers
University of Bristol · McGill University · Mila–Quebec AI Institute +2
NoRA: Evaluating Grounded Reasonableness in Visual First-person Normative Action Reasoning
Jun 3, 2026Sichao Li, Sai Ma, Daniel Kilov +3Social Norms Physical Plausibility
The University of Sydney · Australian National University · RMIT University +1
Synthetic Hallucinations, Real Gains: Hard Negatives from Frontier Models for FIM Hallucination Mitigation
Jun 2, 2026Mahdi Erfanian, Nelson Daniel Troncoso, Aashna Garg +4Large Language Model Hallucination Code Completion
University of Illinois Chicago · Microsoft
NDPP-Grasp: Non-Differentiable Physical Plausibility Constraint-Guided Task-Oriented Dexterous Grasp Generation
Jun 1, 2026Qiuchi Xiang, Haoxuan Qu, Hossein Rahmani +1Robotic Grasping Physical Plausibility
Lancaster University UK
Plausibility Is Not Prediction: Contrastive Evidence for LLM-Based Cellular Perturbation Reasoning
May 31, 2026Xinyu Yuan, Xixian Liu, Jianan Zhao +3Single-Cell Perturbation Prediction Transcriptomics
1Mila - Québec AI Institute · University of Montréal · University of Ottawa +3
YoCausal: How Far is Video Generation from World Model? A Causality Perspective
May 28, 2026You-Zhe Xie, Yu-Hsuan Li, Jie-Ying Lee +3Video Diffusion Models Causal Reasoning
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University · Shanda AI Research Tokyo
Proprio: Latent Self-Scoring and Inference-Time Refinement for Physically Plausible Video Generation
May 27, 2026Mariam Hassan, Kaouther Messaoud, Wuyang Li +1Generative Video Models Physical Plausibility
1 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) · Télécom Paris, IP Paris
FlyRoute: Self-Evolving Agent Profiling via Data Flywheel for Adaptive Task Routing
May 21, 2026Rongjun Li, Ziyu Zhou, Yihang WuSelf-Evolving Agents Profiling
IT Innovation and Research Center, Huawei Technologies · h-partners
Lost in Interpretation: The Plausibility-Faithfulness Trade-off in Cross-Lingual Explanations
May 19, 2026Somnath Banerjee, Pranav Jha, Rima Hazra +1Explainable AI Methods Cross-Lingual Consistency
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur · TCG Crest · National University of Singapore
Counterfactual Explanations Under Concept Drift
May 17, 2026Marcin Kostrzewa, Jerzy Stefanowski, Maciej ZiębaCounterfactual Explanation Explainable AI Methods
Wrocław University of Science and Technology · Pozna´n University of Technology · Tooploox
Mechanism Plausibility in Generative Agent-Based Modeling
May 12, 2026Patrick Zhao, David Huu Pham, Nicholas VincentAgent-Based Model Physical Plausibility
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Question Difficulty Estimation for Large Language Models via Answer Plausibility Scoring
May 12, 2026Jamshid Mozafari, Bhawna Piryani, Adam JatowtPhysical Plausibility
University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
RecoAtlas: From Semantic Plausibility to Set-Level Utility in LLM Recommendation Agents
May 11, 2026Imad Aouali, Flavian Vasile, Otmane Sakhi +2Agentic Commerce Physical Plausibility
Criteo AI Lab
PhyGround: Benchmarking Physical Reasoning in Generative World Models
May 11, 2026Juyi Lin, Arash Akbari, Yumei He +13Generative Video Models Long-Video Benchmarks
1Northeastern University · 2Tulane University · University of Washington +1
In-Context Fixation: When Demonstrated Labels Override Semantics in Few-Shot Classification
May 8, 2026Ming LiuIn-Context Automatic Labelling
Amazon
The Convergence Gap: Instruction-Tuned Language Models Stabilize Later in the Forward Pass
May 8, 2026Yifan ZhouInstruction-Tuned Models Training-Inference Mismatch
University of California, Los Angeles
Structural Ranking of the Cognitive Plausibility of Computational Models of Analogy and Metaphors with the Minimal Cognitive Grid
May 2, 2026Alessio Donvito, Antonio LietoCognitive Science Analogy
University of Bari, Italy · University of Salerno, CIIT Lab / ICAR-CNR, Italy
BRITE: A Benchmark for Reliable and Interpretable T2V Evaluation on Implausible Scenarios
Apr 24, 2026Advait Tilak, Jiwon Choi, Nazifa Mouli +1Text-To-Video Generation Model Audio-Visual Consistency
Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
HumanScore: Benchmarking Human Motions in Generated Videos
Apr 22, 2026Yusu Fang, Tiange Xiang, Tian Tan +4Generative Video Models Human Motion Generation
Stanford University · Peking University
Plausible Reasoning and First-Order Plausible Logic
Apr 21, 2026David BillingtonFirst-Order Logic Logic
School of Information and Communication Technology, Nathan campus, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland 4111, Australia.
SwanNLP at SemEval-2026 Task 5: An LLM-based Framework for Plausibility Scoring in Narrative Word Sense Disambiguation
Apr 17, 2026Deshan Sumanathilaka, Nicholas Micallef, Julian Hough +1Natural Language Processing Disambiguation
Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Wales, UK

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Evaluating Physical Consistency and Plausibility in Generative Scenario Models for Autonomous Driving

Manasa Mariam Mammen, Zafer Kayatas, Stefan Wagner

Technical University of Munich, Heilbronn, Germany · Mercedes Benz AG, Sindelfingen, Germany

Scenario Generation Autonomous Driving Vehicle Dynamics Evaluation Protocols Physical Plausibility

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Generative AI models are increasingly used for scenario generation in autonomous driving. While they can generate realistic-looking scenarios, they often provide limited transparency into learned representations and consistency with real-world vehicle dynamics. This lack of formal assurance limits their use in safety-critical validation and certification workflows. To address this aspect, we introduce a layered evaluation protocol that complements existing methods by assessing models across five layers. The first four layers inspect internal representations and network layers through kinematic alignment, statistical baseline comparison, latent controllability, and activation analysis. The fifth layer evaluates model outputs against vehicle dynamics constraints such as lateral jerk thresholds. We demonstrate the protocol on a Variational Autoencoder (VAE)-based scenario generator. Although standard output-level metrics and visualizations suggest that the generated scenarios are realistic, our protocol provides deeper insight into the extent to which the model's latent space aligns with kinematic features and whether visually plausible trajectories satisfy vehicle-dynamics constraints. We further apply the protocol to additional generative models, demonstrating its applicability beyond the VAE architecture.

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