Do Video Foundation Models Understand Intuitive Physics? A Layerwise Probing Analysis

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Learn how to analyze if video foundation models understand intuitive physics using layerwise probing analysis and apply this to your own models

advanced Published 9 Jun 2026
Action Steps
  1. Apply frozen-feature probing to your video foundation model using IntPhys2 and Minimal Video Pairs (MVP) datasets
  2. Compare predictive joint-embedding models (V-JEPA), masked reconstruction models (VideoMAE), and diffusion-based video generators (LTX-Video)
  3. Analyze the layerwise representations of your model to identify where intuitive-physics information is encoded
  4. Use the insights from the analysis to fine-tune your model for improved performance on intuitive physics tasks
  5. Evaluate the performance of your model on intuitive physics benchmarks using metrics such as accuracy and F1-score
Who Needs to Know This

AI researchers and engineers working on video foundation models can benefit from this analysis to improve their models' understanding of intuitive physics

Key Insight

💡 Video foundation models can encode intuitive-physics information in their frozen representations, but the extent of this encoding varies across model families, layers, and probe types

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Learn how to analyze if video foundation models understand intuitive physics using layerwise probing analysis and apply this to your own models

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Title: Do Video Foundation Models Understand Intuitive Physics? A Layerwise Probing Analysis

Abstract:
arXiv:2606.09646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study whether pretrained video foundation models encode intuitive-physics information in their frozen representations, and how this information varies across model families, layers, and probe types. Using frozen-feature probing on IntPhys2 and Minimal Video Pairs (MVP), we compare predictive joint-embedding models (V-JEPA), masked reconstruction models (VideoMAE), and a diffusion-based video generator (LTX-Video). V-JEPA achieves the strongest
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