arxivcs.CVcs.AIcs.CL2026-07-20
Thinking in Video: Can Video Generators Really Reason About the Real World?
Yongheng Zhang, Guang Yang, Ruihan Hou, Qiguang Chen, Ziang Liu, Xiaolong Liu, et al.
Recent advances in world models and video generation have given rise to an emerging reasoning paradigm that leverages video generative models to simulate, predict, and reason about real-world dynamics. We redefine this paradigm as Thinking in Video, where video is not merely an o…