PH-Dreamer: A Physics-Driven World Model via Port-Hamiltonian Generative Dynamics

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Auteurs principaux: Luan, Xueyu, Shi, Chenwei
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author Luan, Xueyu
Shi, Chenwei
author_facet Luan, Xueyu
Shi, Chenwei
contents World models built on recurrent state space architectures enable efficient latent imagination, yet remain physically unstructured, producing dynamics that violate conservation and dissipative principles. We introduce a unified Port-Hamiltonian framework that remedies this through three synergistic mechanisms. First, we embed implicit physical priors into recurrent transitions by modeling projected latent evolution as action controlled energy routing governed by flow and dissipation, biasing the projected PH phase space toward a more compact and physically structured representation. Second, we develop a kinematics aware energy world model that estimates the Hamiltonian and power balance from proprioceptive observations, providing an explicit physical signal for thermodynamic reasoning. Third, leveraging these energy gradients, we establish an energy guided Actor-Critic that uses Lagrangian multipliers to regularize policy optimization toward lower energy and smoother control. Across visual control benchmarks, this paradigm not only attains superior asymptotic returns but also elevates internal simulator fidelity by establishing a tighter, lower variance alignment between imagined and real rewards, all while reducing latent phase space volume by 4.18-8.41%, energy consumption by up to 7.80%, and mean squared jerk by up to 9.38%.
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spellingShingle PH-Dreamer: A Physics-Driven World Model via Port-Hamiltonian Generative Dynamics
Luan, Xueyu
Shi, Chenwei
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
World models built on recurrent state space architectures enable efficient latent imagination, yet remain physically unstructured, producing dynamics that violate conservation and dissipative principles. We introduce a unified Port-Hamiltonian framework that remedies this through three synergistic mechanisms. First, we embed implicit physical priors into recurrent transitions by modeling projected latent evolution as action controlled energy routing governed by flow and dissipation, biasing the projected PH phase space toward a more compact and physically structured representation. Second, we develop a kinematics aware energy world model that estimates the Hamiltonian and power balance from proprioceptive observations, providing an explicit physical signal for thermodynamic reasoning. Third, leveraging these energy gradients, we establish an energy guided Actor-Critic that uses Lagrangian multipliers to regularize policy optimization toward lower energy and smoother control. Across visual control benchmarks, this paradigm not only attains superior asymptotic returns but also elevates internal simulator fidelity by establishing a tighter, lower variance alignment between imagined and real rewards, all while reducing latent phase space volume by 4.18-8.41%, energy consumption by up to 7.80%, and mean squared jerk by up to 9.38%.
title PH-Dreamer: A Physics-Driven World Model via Port-Hamiltonian Generative Dynamics
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18303