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Hybrid pipelines can distill classical physics engine data into neural weights

Traditional simulators produce high‑fidelity trajectories and force fields that can be rendered as training targets.
By training a neural network on this synthetic data, the model learns an implicit physics prior without explicit engine code.
This approach leverages existing physics research while keeping inference fast and differentiable.
It also sidesteps the need to hand‑craft physical parameters for every new object class.

Fei-Fei LiLatent Space00:29:08

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“We can use classical physics engines to generate data for training, then distill into neural network weights.” — Fei-Fei Li

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“The AI field has a history of using GPUs originally for graphics then repurposed for AI.” — Fei-Fei Li

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Integrating Physics into World Models

Adding dynamics and force reasoning to generative 3-D models is essential for applications like architecture and robotics. The team explores two pathways: attaching physical properties directly to splats and distilling classical physics engine simulations into neural weights. Accurate physics remains a hard problem, especially when models must generalise to unseen forces.

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