# What is VideoPhy-2, how are videos scored, how do systems score, and how far can its automatic evaluator be trusted?

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VideoPhy-2 (arXiv v1, Mar 2025) tests physical commonsense on 197 real-world actions with 3,940 LLM-written prompts. Three human annotators rate each video for semantic adherence and physical commonsense on 1-5, and the joint score counts videos with both at least 4. At v1 the best of seven models, Wan2.1-14B, reaches 32.6 percent overall and 21.9 on the hard split; momentum and mass conservation are the most violated laws (about 40 percent). Its 7B auto-rater improves on Gemini-2.0-Flash-Exp but physical-commonsense correlation is still only 0.37.

VideoPhy-2 (arXiv v1, Mar 2025) tests physical commonsense on 197 real-world actions with 3,940 LLM-written prompts. Three human annotators rate each video for semantic adherence and physical commonsense on 1-5, and the joint score counts videos with both at least 4. At v1 the best of seven models, Wan2.1-14B, reaches 32.6 percent overall and 21.9 on the hard split; momentum and mass conservation are the most violated laws (about 40 percent). Its 7B auto-rater improves on Gemini-2.0-Flash-Exp but physical-commonsense correlation is still only 0.37.

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- [sourced_fact] VideoPhy-2 (arXiv v1, Mar 2025) tests physical commonsense on 197 real-world actions with 3,940 LLM-written prompts. Three human annotators rate each video for semantic adherence and physical commonsense on 1-5, and the joint score counts videos with both at least 4. At v1 the best of seven models, Wan2.1-14B, reaches 32.6 percent overall and 21.9 on the hard split; momentum and mass conservation are the most violated laws (about 40 percent). Its 7B auto-rater improves on Gemini-2.0-Flash-Exp but physical-commonsense correlation is still only 0.37. · locator: work/2503.06800v1.html VideoPhy-2 arXiv v1 · source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06800v1

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