Proprio: Latent Self-Scoring and Inference-Time Refinement for Physically Plausible Video Generation
Modern video generative models produce visually impressive results, yet frequently violate basic physical principles. We propose Proprio, a training-free framework that enables a frozen video generator to assess and improve the physical plausibility of its own outputs. Inspired by proprioception, the biological sense of one's own movement, Proprio treats the model's flow residual under controlled latent perturbations as a self-scoring signal. Samples that are better explained by the generator's learned dynamics induce smaller and more stable residuals. We aggregate this signal across timesteps and perturbations, focus it on motion-relevant regions with a dynamic spatiotemporal mask, and use it for best-of-N search, gradient-based self-refinement, or both. Across text-to-video and image-to-video benchmarks, Proprio consistently improves physical plausibility, outperforming VLM-based scoring, and external world-model baselines in several settings. With TurboWan2.2, Proprio improves Physics-IQ from 32.2 to 37.5 (+16.5%) and VideoPhy2-hard physical commonsense from 45.6 to 55.0 (+20.6%). Human evaluation further shows that raters prefer Proprio-selected or refined videos for physical plausibility in roughly two-thirds of comparisons. These results suggest that frozen video generators contain actionable internal signals for evaluating and improving the physical plausibility of their own outputs.
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