Pith. sign in

REVIEW 3 major objections 5 minor 4 cited by

Position: Foundation Models Need Digital Twin Representations

T0 review · 3 major / 5 minor · reviewed 2026-08-16 · deepseek-v4-flash

Pith's one-line read This paper argues that foundation models should abandon token representations for digital twin representations—outcome-driven encodings of physical entities and interactions—because tokenization's limits cannot be fixed by scaling alone.

desk verdict A clear, honest position paper whose agenda is reasonable but whose load-bearing claim that token limitations cannot be scaled away is asserted, not shown. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.03798 v1 pith:7EQON5KG submitted 2025-05-01 cs.LG cs.AI

classification cs.LGcs.AI
keywords foundationmodelstokenrepresentationsdigitaltwinmultimodallearningphysicalgroundingcausalreasoninginterpretabilityrepresentation
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This is a position paper, not an experimental study. It argues that the discrete tokens used by current multimodal foundation models—image patches, video frames, subword units—fragment continuous physical processes and force models to learn world knowledge, causality, and cross-modal semantics purely from statistical correlation. The paper's central claim is that these limitations are inherent to tokenization and cannot be overcome by scaling model size or data, so the field should adopt digital twin (DT) representations: outcome-driven digital encodings of task-specific entities, properties, and interactions, grounded in physical and domain constraints. If the claim is right, foundation models built on DT representations would be more data-efficient, physically consistent, causally reliable, and interpretable. The paper supports the position with five assumptions and existing examples, but it does not run a head-to-head comparison between token and DT representations.

What carries the argument

The carrying mechanism is the digital twin representation, formalized as a set $R=\{r_0,\dots,r_m\}$ of outcome-driven digital representations derived from raw sensor data $S=\{s_0,\dots,s_n\}$ through a pipeline $R=\Phi(P,S)=\Phi_e(S,\Phi_d(P))$, where $\Phi_d$ is outcome-driven representation design and $\Phi_e$ is representation extraction; the foundation model $\Theta$ then produces target outputs $T=\Theta(R)$. This formalization does the argument's work by contrasting explicit, physically grounded construction with token representations' 'direct vectorization' of raw data into uniform patches, frames, or subwords. The paper also leans on a cited scaling law $S(N)\approx (c/N)^\alpha$ for vision-token counts to argue that adding more tokens cannot recover fine-grained world knowledge.

What would settle it

A matched experiment on the same benchmark suite—fine-grained spatio-temporal video reasoning, counterfactual physical prediction, and cross-modal semantic alignment—with a token-based model and a DT-representation model trained on identical data and compute would settle the claim; if the token model performs comparably or better, the assertion that tokenization is the bottleneck is falsified.

Watch

Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that token representations have inherent limitations that scaling cannot repair, and that digital twin representations offer a paradigm shift. A DT representation is defined as an outcome-driven digital representation extracted from raw data that serves as a building block of a digital twin, capturing task-specific entities, their geometric and physical properties, and their interactions under domain constraints. The paper proposes that foundation models should consume DT representations rather than tokens, which would preserve the continuous nature of physical processes, encode explicit causal mechanisms and physical laws, provide a unified semantic space across modalities, and make reasoning chains transparent. It organizes this into five assumptions—better real-world knowledge encoding, practical data synthesis, causal reasoning, unified semantics, and interpretability—each illustrated with existing systems, but the paper is explicit that these are assumptions forming a position rather than demonstrated results.

Load-bearing premise

The paper assumes the failures it blames on tokens are caused by the representation itself and would not disappear with better training objectives, larger data, or new architectures; if any token-based model overcomes them, the central motivation for switching to digital twins collapses.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • If the claim is right, multimodal foundation models could be built to use physical laws and domain constraints directly, so they would not need to rediscover geometry, kinematics, or conservation laws from data.
  • DT-based synthetic data generation could produce physically valid long-tail scenarios—like adverse weather driving conditions—and close part of the sim-to-real gap for robotics and autonomous driving.
  • Encoding causal structure into representations could improve interventional, attributional, and counterfactual reasoning, reducing hallucination and spurious correlations.
  • A unified semantic space grounded in shared physical and geometric properties could make cross-modal alignment more robust than aligning visual patches with text tokens.
  • Physically grounded internal states would make model decisions traceable, improving verification and safety in medical, robotic, and industrial applications.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Editorial inference: the strongest test of the paper's position is a hybrid architecture that keeps tokens but injects structured physical or causal constraints, because if that matches DT representations, the bottleneck is the objective rather than the representation.
  • Editorial inference: DT representations are defined as outcome-driven and task-specific, which may tension with foundation-model generality; a key open question is whether one DT representation can serve many downstream tasks without being redesigned per task.
  • Editorial inference: the paper's examples mostly encode the answer into the representation (e.g., object masks plus geometry), so a fair benchmark must separate the value of the representation from the value of the task-specific information already contained in it.
  • Editorial inference: a concrete next step is to measure whether DT representations reduce the data needed to reach a given level of physical or causal reasoning, since the paper claims data efficiency but offers no quantitative comparison.
Share X Bluesky LinkedIn Reddit HN

Signed reviews

No signed human review yet.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper argues that token representations in foundation models have inherent limitations that cannot be overcome by scaling, and proposes digital twin (DT) representations as an alternative. It defines DT representations, sketches a formalization, and lists five assumptions about how DT representations would improve knowledge encoding, data synthesis, causal reasoning, semantic unification, and interpretability. The paper is an explicit position paper, with the five advantages labeled as assumptions and an 'Alternative Views' section acknowledging counterarguments.

Significance. If the central claim were established, the paper would motivate a significant reorientation of multimodal foundation model research. The paper is honest in labeling its five advantages as assumptions, and it provides concrete examples from robotics, surgery, and autonomous driving. However, the key premise that token limitations are insurmountable by scaling is asserted rather than demonstrated, and the formalization is too loose to carry the argument. As a position paper, it has the merit of opening a debate, but it currently overstates its case.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract; §1; §4.1] The central claim that token limitations 'cannot be overcome by simply scaling up model size or expanding datasets' is load-bearing but unsupported. The only cited evidence is the token-count scaling law S(N) ≈ (c/N)^α in §4.1, which concerns the number of vision tokens N, not model parameters or dataset size. This does not test the scaling claim, and no experiment controls for architecture or training objective. The Alternative Views section even concedes that token models might overcome these limitations through better architectures and training methods. The paper should either provide direct evidence against model/data scaling or reframe the claim as a hypothesis.
  2. [§3.2 and §4.1/§4.3] There is a circularity between the definition of DT representations and the claimed advantages. Definition 3.2 defines DT representations as 'outcome-driven digital representations' that capture task-specific properties such as geometric and physical constraints, and Assumptions 1 and 3 then attribute to DT representations the ability to encode exactly these physical and causal properties. The advantages are thus partly built into the definition. The paper should define DT representations in a way that does not presuppose the benefits, or the assumptions should be stated independently of the definition.
  3. [§3.2] The attempted formalization is not actually used. The equation R = Φ(P, S) = Φe(S, Φd(P)) is never employed to derive any of the five assumptions, and the functions Φd and Φe are not specified with any formal semantics. This makes the formalization decorative rather than load-bearing. Either the formalization should be developed into a framework with stated properties, or it should be removed and the position stated directly.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§2, 'Token Representation for Text'] Typo: 'Charecter-level' should be 'Character-level'; also 'WorkPiece' should be 'WordPiece'.
  2. [Figure 1 and §3.1] The figure caption contains 'Phyical Process' instead of 'Physical Process', and §3.1 refers to 'Fig. 3.1' although the figure is numbered Figure 1.
  3. [§3.2] The variables m and n are not defined; the paper should specify that m and n are the numbers of representations and raw data modalities, respectively.
  4. [Throughout] The paper alternates between 'FMs' and 'LLMs' without a clear distinction; both terms should be defined at first use and used consistently.
  5. [§5] The conclusion lists future research directions but gives no concrete evaluation benchmarks or success criteria for DT representations, which would strengthen the argument as a position paper.

Circularity Check

1 steps flagged · score 4.0 of 10

One claimed DT advantage is definitional (DT representations are stipulated to encode physical constraints, then credited with encoding world knowledge), but the paper labels its benefits as assumptions and its central recommendation does not reduce to a fitted result or self-citation chain.

  1. self definitional [Definition 3.2 / Section 3.2 formalization; Section 4.1 Assumption 1]
    "where r_i is one modality of outcome-driven digital representation of the physical process that encodes task-specific properties, such as identification, geometric property, or physical constraint of entities of interest or interactions among them ... We assume that FMs building upon DT representations can achieve higher-level reasoning by explicitly incorporating world knowledge into the representation rather than forcing them to learn from scratch as statistical patterns."

    The formalization stipulates that DT representations encode task-specific physical/geometric constraints and interactions. Assumption 1 then credits DT representations with 'explicitly encoding real-world knowledge and domain-specific constraints' and with 'explicitly incorporating world knowledge into the representation.' That property is the defining property, so the descriptive half of the claimed advantage is true by stipulation, not by empirical result. The paper mitigates this by calling it an 'assumption' and the empirical half—that FMs actually reason better when consuming such representations—is not entailed by the definition. This is therefore partial, definitional circularity rather than a forced derivation of the whole position.

full rationale

This is a position paper, not an empirical derivation chain. Its central recommendation—that the community should consider DT representations—rests on an asserted impossibility claim about token scaling plus five explicitly labeled assumptions. The impossibility claim is supported only by a token-count scaling law S(N)≈(c/N)^α (Section 4.1, ref [49]) and is weakened by the paper's own Alternative Views paragraph, but that is an evidence-quality problem, not circularity. The authors' self-citations [22,23,24,71,72] are used as illustrative examples of DT representations and are not the unique load-bearing justification for the position. The concrete circularity is the definitional overlap noted above: the formalization builds 'physical constraint' and 'interactions' into the definition of r_i, so Assumption 1's claim that DT representations encode world knowledge is partly true by construction. Because the paper labels this as an assumption and the core recommendation would stand or fall on empirical evaluation rather than on this definitional entailment, the circularity score is moderate rather than severe.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper's central position rests on unverified domain assumptions about the causal role of tokenization and the feasibility of outcome-driven representation construction. There are no free parameters because there is no empirical fitting. No entities are invented; the digital twin concept is repurposed from prior literature. The axioms below are the load-bearing premises that would need to be tested or shown for the position to be more than an agenda.

assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption Tokenization is the primary cause of the listed foundation model limitations, and scaling cannot overcome them.
    Stated in the Abstract and Section 1; supported by a cited weak scaling law S(N) approximately (c/N)^alpha for vision tokens (Section 4.1, reference 49) but not by a controlled comparison.
  • domain assumption Explicit domain knowledge (physical laws, causal mechanisms, semantic relationships) can be encoded into representations without losing information or introducing errors.
    Invoked in Section 4.1 (encode real-world knowledge) and Section 4.3 (encode causal mechanisms). No proof or example shows this is feasible for general tasks at scale.
  • ad hoc to paper An outcome-driven representation design process Phi_d exists for arbitrary tasks and produces representations that preserve task-relevant information.
    Introduced in Definition 3.2 and the formalization R = Phi_e(S, Phi_d(P)) in Section 3.2. The paper does not show how such a design process is constructed for a general domain.
  • domain assumption The five claimed advantages of DT representations (Assumptions 1 through 5) would hold in practice if the representations were adopted.
    Section 4 explicitly labels these as assumptions and provides only anecdotal or self-cited evidence (references 23, 24, 71, 72).

how reviews work

0 comments
Cite this review

Pith. "Pith review of Position: Foundation Models Need Digital Twin Representations." pith.science (2026). https://pith.science/paper/7EQON5KG

@misc{pith2026250503798,
  author       = {Pith},
  title        = {Pith review of: Position: Foundation Models Need Digital Twin Representations},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/7EQON5KG}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2505.03798}
}
read the original abstract

Current foundation models (FMs) rely on token representations that directly fragment continuous real-world multimodal data into discrete tokens. They limit FMs to learning real-world knowledge and relationships purely through statistical correlation rather than leveraging explicit domain knowledge. Consequently, current FMs struggle with maintaining semantic coherence across modalities, capturing fine-grained spatial-temporal dynamics, and performing causal reasoning. These limitations cannot be overcome by simply scaling up model size or expanding datasets. This position paper argues that the machine learning community should consider digital twin (DT) representations, which are outcome-driven digital representations that serve as building blocks for creating virtual replicas of physical processes, as an alternative to the token representation for building FMs. Finally, we discuss how DT representations can address these challenges by providing physically grounded representations that explicitly encode domain knowledge and preserve the continuous nature of real-world processes.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2505.03798 by the authors.

Figure 1
Figure 1. The illustration of the DT paradigm as well as the difference and relation between DT [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗

Discussion (0). Continue with ORCID to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 4 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. Temporally-Constrained Video Reasoning Segmentation and Automated Benchmark Construction

    cs.CV 2025-07 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    Temporally-constrained video reasoning segmentation is introduced, with an automated benchmark construction pipeline and a 52-sample dataset from the MVOR surgical videos.

  2. RVTBench: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning Tasks

    cs.CV 2025-05 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    RVTBench is a 3,896-query video visual reasoning benchmark covering segmentation, grounding, VQA, and summary tasks, built automatically from digital twin representations, with a zero-shot agent baseline.

  3. A Review of Generative AI in Aquaculture: Foundations, Applications, and Future Directions for Smart and Sustainable Farming

    cs.RO 2025-07 conditional novelty 3.0 of 10

    A review that maps generative AI to aquaculture tasks, with a marine robotics case study, but the synthesis is weakened by overstated claims and weak citation support.

  4. Reasoning Segmentation for Images and Videos: A Survey

    cs.CV 2025-05 conditional novelty 3.0 of 10

    The paper organizes the field of reasoning segmentation into image and video tracks, cataloging 26 methods, 12 metrics, and 29 datasets.

Reference graph

Works this paper leans on

105 extracted references · 34 canonical work pages · cited by 4 Pith papers

  1. [1]

    Generating Out-Of-Distribution Scenarios Using Language Models

    Erfan Aasi, Phat Nguyen, Shiva Sreeram, Guy Rosman, Sertac Karaman, and Daniela Rus. Gen- erating out-of-distribution scenarios using language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.16554, 9 2024

  2. [2]

    Phi-3 technical report: A highly capable language model locally on your phone

    Marah Abdin, Jyoti Aneja, Hany Awadalla, Ahmed Awadallah, Ammar Ahmad Awan, Nguyen Bach, Amit Bahree, Arash Bakhtiari, Jianmin Bao, Harkirat Behl, et al. Phi-3 technical report: A highly capable language model locally on your phone. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14219, 2024

  3. [3]

    Foundation models defining a new era in vision: a survey and outlook

    Muhammad Awais, Muzammal Naseer, Salman Khan, Rao Muhammad Anwer, Hisham Cholakkal, Mubarak Shah, Ming-Hsuan Yang, and Fahad Shahbaz Khan. Foundation models defining a new era in vision: a survey and outlook. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2025

  4. [4]

    Synthetic vision: Training vision-language models to understand physics

    Vahid Balazadeh, Mohammadmehdi Ataei, Hyunmin Cheong, Amir Hosein Khasahmadi, and Rahul G Krishnan. Synthetic vision: Training vision-language models to understand physics. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.08619, 2024

  5. [5]

    Physics-aware machine learning surrogates for real-time manufacturing digital twin

    Aditya Balu, Soumik Sarkar, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, and Adarsh Krishnamurthy. Physics-aware machine learning surrogates for real-time manufacturing digital twin. Manufac- turing Letters, 34:71–74, 2022

  6. [6]

    Perception tokens enhance visual reasoning in multimodal language models

    Mahtab Bigverdi, Zelun Luo, Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Ethan Shen, Dongping Chen, Linda G Shapiro, and Ranjay Krishna. Perception tokens enhance visual reasoning in multimodal language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.03548, 2024

  7. [7]

    Digital twin driven human–robot collaborative assembly

    Arne Bilberg and Ali Ahmad Malik. Digital twin driven human–robot collaborative assembly. CIRP annals, 68(1):499–502, 2019

  8. [8]

    Digital twins for large electric drive trains

    Heide Brandtstaedter, Christoph Ludwig, Lutz Hübner, Efrossini Tsouchnika, Artur Jungiewicz, and Utz Wever. Digital twins for large electric drive trains. In 2018 Petroleum and chemical industry conference Europe (PCIC Europe), pages 1–5. IEEE, 2018

Show all 105 references
  1. [9]

    Subobject-level image tokenization

    Delong Chen, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Jianfeng Liu, Baoyuan Wang, and Pascale Fung. Subobject-level image tokenization. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.14327, 2024

  2. [10]

    Multi-modal generative ai: Multi-modal llm, diffusion and beyond

    Hong Chen, Xin Wang, Yuwei Zhou, et al. Multi-modal generative ai: Multi-modal llm, diffusion and beyond. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.14993, 2024

  3. [11]

    Digital behavioral twins for safe connected cars

    Ximing Chen, Eunsuk Kang, Shinichi Shiraishi, Victor M Preciado, and Zhihao Jiang. Digital behavioral twins for safe connected cars. In Proceedings of the 21th ACM/IEEE international conference on model driven engineering languages and systems, pages 144–153, 2018

  4. [12]

    Integrated and intelligent manufacturing: Perspectives and enablers.Engineering, 3(5):588–595, 2017

    Yubao Chen. Integrated and intelligent manufacturing: Perspectives and enablers.Engineering, 3(5):588–595, 2017

  5. [13]

    Revisiting multimodal representation in contrastive learning: from patch and token embeddings to finite discrete tokens

    Yuxiao Chen, Jianbo Yuan, Yu Tian, Shijie Geng, Xinyu Li, Ding Zhou, Dimitris N Metaxas, and Hongxia Yang. Revisiting multimodal representation in contrastive learning: from patch and token embeddings to finite discrete tokens. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Comp...

  6. [14]

    Expanding performance boundaries of open-source multimodal models with model, data, and test-time scaling

    Zhe Chen, Weiyun Wang, Yue Cao, Yangzhou Liu, Zhangwei Gao, Erfei Cui, Jinguo Zhu, Shen- glong Ye, Hao Tian, Zhaoyang Liu, et al. Expanding performance boundaries of open-source multimodal models with model, data, and test-time scaling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.05271, 2024

  7. [15]

    Emerging property of masked token for effective pre-training

    Hyesong Choi, Hunsang Lee, Seyoung Joung, et al. Emerging property of masked token for effective pre-training. In European Conference on Computer Vision, pages 272–289. Springer, 2025

  8. [16]

    Modeling for (physical) biologists: an introduction to the rule-based approach

    Lily A Chylek, Leonard A Harris, James R Faeder, and William S Hlavacek. Modeling for (physical) biologists: an introduction to the rule-based approach. Physical biology , 12(4):045007, 2015

  9. [17]

    Abstract representations emerge in human hippocampal neurons during inference

    Hristos S Courellis, Juri Minxha, Araceli R Cardenas, et al. Abstract representations emerge in human hippocampal neurons during inference. Nature, 632(8026):841–849, 2024

  10. [18]

    Acdc: Automated creation of digital cousins for robust policy learning

    Tianyuan Dai, Josiah Wong, Yunfan Jiang, Chen Wang, Cem Gokmen, Ruohan Zhang, Jiajun Wu, and Li Fei-Fei. Acdc: Automated creation of digital cousins for robust policy learning. arXiv e-prints, pages arXiv–2410, 2024

  11. [19]

    T-free: Tokenizer-free generative llms via sparse representations for memory-efficient embeddings

    Björn Deiseroth, Manuel Brack, Patrick Schramowski, Kristian Kersting, and Samuel Wein- bach. T-free: Tokenizer-free generative llms via sparse representations for memory-efficient embeddings. arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19223, 2024. 10

  12. [20]

    Bert: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding

    Jacob Devlin. Bert: Pre-training of deep bidirectional transformers for language understanding. arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.04805, 2018

  13. [21]

    Digital twin: Data exploration, architecture, implementation and future

    Md Shezad Dihan, Anwar Islam Akash, Zinat Tasneem, Prangon Das, Sajal Kumar Das, Md Robiul Islam, Md Manirul Islam, Faisal R Badal, Md Firoj Ali, Md Hafiz Ahmed, et al. Digital twin: Data exploration, architecture, implementation and future. Heliyon, 2024

  14. [22]

    Digital twins as a unifying framework for surgical data science: the enabling role of geometric scene understanding

    Hao Ding, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Benjamin D Killeen, Sue Min Cho, and Mathias Unberath. Digital twins as a unifying framework for surgical data science: the enabling role of geometric scene understanding. Artificial Intelligence Surgery, 4(3):109–138, 2024

  15. [23]

    Towards robust automation of surgical systems via digital twin-based scene representations from foundation models

    Hao Ding, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, Hongchao Shu, Grayson Byrd, Han Zhang, Pu Xiao, Juan Antonio Barragan, Russell H Taylor, Peter Kazanzides, and Mathias Unberath. Towards robust automation of surgical systems via digital twin-based scene representations from foundation models....

  16. [24]

    Towards robust algorithms for surgical phase recognition via digital twin-based scene representation

    Hao Ding, Yuqian Zhang, Hongchao Shu, Xu Lian, Ji Woong Kim, Axel Krieger, and Mathias Unberath. Towards robust algorithms for surgical phase recognition via digital twin-based scene representation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.20026, 2024

  17. [25]

    Internlm-xcomposer2-4khd: A pioneering large vision-language model handling resolutions from 336 pixels to 4k hd

    Xiaoyi Dong, Pan Zhang, Yuhang Zang, Yuhang Cao, Bin Wang, Linke Ouyang, Songyang Zhang, Haodong Duan, Wenwei Zhang, Yining Li, et al. Internlm-xcomposer2-4khd: A pioneering large vision-language model handling resolutions from 336 pixels to 4k hd. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.06...

  18. [26]

    Digital twins: Understanding the added value of integrated models for through-life engineering services

    John Ahmet Erkoyuncu, Peter Butala, Rajkumar Roy, et al. Digital twins: Understanding the added value of integrated models for through-life engineering services. Procedia Manufactur- ing, 16:139–146, 2018

  19. [27]

    Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future

    Roya Firoozi, Johnathan Tucker, Stephen Tian, Anirudha Majumdar, Jiankai Sun, Weiyu Liu, Yuke Zhu, Shuran Song, Ashish Kapoor, Karol Hausman, et al. Foundation models in robotics: Applications, challenges, and the future. The International Journal of Robotics Research, page 02...

  20. [28]

    Digital twin: Enabling technologies, challenges and open research

    Aidan Fuller, Zhong Fan, Charles Day, and Chris Barlow. Digital twin: Enabling technologies, challenges and open research. IEEE access, 8:108952–108971, 2020

  21. [29]

    What prevents us from reusing medical real-world data in research

    Julia Gehrmann, Edit Herczog, Stefan Decker, and Oya Beyan. What prevents us from reusing medical real-world data in research. Scientific Data, 10(1):459, 2023

  22. [30]

    The digital twin paradigm for future nasa and us air force vehicles

    Edward Glaessgen and David Stargel. The digital twin paradigm for future nasa and us air force vehicles. In 53rd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC structures, structural dynamics and materials conference 20th AIAA/ASME/AHS adaptive structures conference 14th AIAA, page 1818, 2012

  23. [31]

    The essential role of causality in foundation world models for embodied ai

    Tarun Gupta, Wenbo Gong, Chao Ma, Nick Pawlowski, Agrin Hilmkil, Meyer Scetbon, Marc Rigter, Ade Famoti, Ashley Juan Llorens, Jianfeng Gao, et al. The essential role of causality in foundation world models for embodied ai. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.06665, 2024

  24. [32]

    Synthetic data in ai: Challenges, applications, and ethical implications

    Shuang Hao, Wenfeng Han, Tao Jiang, Yiping Li, Haonan Wu, Chunlin Zhong, Zhangjun Zhou, and He Tang. Synthetic data in ai: Challenges, applications, and ethical implications. arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.01629, 2024

  25. [33]

    Semantic-aware digital twin for metaverse: A comprehensive review

    Senthil Kumar Jagatheesaperumal, Zhaohui Yang, Qianqian Yang, Chongwen Huang, Wei Xu, Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei, and Zhaoyang Zhang. Semantic-aware digital twin for metaverse: A comprehensive review. IEEE Wireless Communications, 30(4):38–46, 2023

  26. [34]

    Towards building a digital twin of complex system using causal modelling

    Luka Jakovljevic, Dimitre Kostadinov, Armen Aghasaryan, and Themis Palpanas. Towards building a digital twin of complex system using causal modelling. In Complex Networks & Their Applications X: Volume 1, Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Complex Networks an...

  27. [35]

    Efficient long video tokenization via coordinated-based patch reconstruction

    Huiwon Jang, Sihyun Yu, Jinwoo Shin, Pieter Abbeel, and Younggyo Seo. Efficient long video tokenization via coordinated-based patch reconstruction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.14762, 2024

  28. [36]

    Can large language models infer causation from correlation? arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.05836, 2023

    Zhijing Jin, Jiarui Liu, Zhiheng Lyu, Spencer Poff, Mrinmaya Sachan, Rada Mihalcea, Mona Diab, and Bernhard Schölkopf. Can large language models infer causation from correlation? arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.05836, 2023. 11

  29. [37]

    Twinlab: a framework for data-efficient training of non-intrusive reduced-order models for digital twins

    Maximilian Kannapinn, Michael Schäfer, and Oliver Weeger. Twinlab: a framework for data-efficient training of non-intrusive reduced-order models for digital twins. Engineering Computations, 2024

  30. [38]

    Scaling laws for neural language models

    Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Henighan, et al. Scaling laws for neural language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.08361, 2020

  31. [39]

    Data- driven physics-based digital twins via a library of component-based reduced-order models

    Michael G Kapteyn, David J Knezevic, DBP Huynh, Minh Tran, and Karen E Willcox. Data- driven physics-based digital twins via a library of component-based reduced-order models. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 123(13):2986–3003, 2022

  32. [40]

    A probabilistic graphical model foundation for enabling predictive digital twins at scale

    Michael G Kapteyn, Jacob VR Pretorius, and Karen E Willcox. A probabilistic graphical model foundation for enabling predictive digital twins at scale. Nature Computational Science, 1(5):337–347, 2021

  33. [41]

    Digital twins for health: a scoping review

    Evangelia Katsoulakis, Qi Wang, Huanmei Wu, Leili Shahriyari, Richard Fletcher, Jinwei Liu, Luke Achenie, Hongfang Liu, Pamela Jackson, Ying Xiao, et al. Digital twins for health: a scoping review. NPJ Digital Medicine, 7(1):77, 2024

  34. [42]

    Digital twin in fluid power: Reviewing constituents

    Akshay Dattaprasad Khamkar and Sudhir Madhav Patil. Digital twin in fluid power: Reviewing constituents. International Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Scope (IRJMS), 5(1):750–65, 2024

  35. [43]

    Drawbacks of artificial intelligence and their potential solutions in the healthcare sector

    Bangul Khan, Hajira Fatima, Ayatullah Qureshi, Sanjay Kumar, Abdul Hanan, Jawad Hussain, and Saad Abdullah. Drawbacks of artificial intelligence and their potential solutions in the healthcare sector. Biomedical Materials & Devices, 1(2):731–738, 2023

  36. [44]

    Geometric coherence of a digital twin: A discussion

    Abdelhadi Lammini, Romain Pinquié, and Gilles Foucault. Geometric coherence of a digital twin: A discussion. In IFIP International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management , pages 227–236. Springer, 2022

  37. [45]

    Superpixel tokenization for vision transformers: Preserving semantic integrity in visual tokens

    Jaihyun Lew, Soohyuk Jang, Jaehoon Lee, Seungryong Yoo, Eunji Kim, Saehyung Lee, Jisoo Mok, Siwon Kim, and Sungroh Yoon. Superpixel tokenization for vision transformers: Preserving semantic integrity in visual tokens. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.04680, 2024

  38. [46]

    Minimax-01: Scaling foundation models with lightning attention

    Aonian Li et al. Minimax-01: Scaling foundation models with lightning attention. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.08313, 2025

  39. [47]

    Multimodal foundation models: From specialists to general-purpose assistants

    Chunyuan Li, Zhe Gan, Zhengyuan Yang, Jianwei Yang, Linjie Li, Lijuan Wang, Jianfeng Gao, et al. Multimodal foundation models: From specialists to general-purpose assistants. Foundations and Trends® in Computer Graphics and Vision, 16(1-2):1–214, 2024

  40. [48]

    Look within, why llms hallucinate: A causal perspective

    He Li, Haoang Chi, Mingyu Liu, and Wenjing Yang. Look within, why llms hallucinate: A causal perspective. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10153, 2024

  41. [49]

    Scaling capability in token space: An analysis of large vision language model

    Tenghui Li, Guoxu Zhou, Xuyang Zhao, and Qibin Zhao. Scaling capability in token space: An analysis of large vision language model. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.18387, 2024

  42. [50]

    Multi-token enhancing for vision representation learning

    Zhong-Yu Li, Yu-Song Hu, Bo-Wen Yin, and Ming-Ming Cheng. Multi-token enhancing for vision representation learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.15787, 2024

  43. [51]

    Keyvideollm: Towards large-scale video keyframe selection

    Hao Liang, Jiapeng Li, Tianyi Bai, Xijie Huang, Linzhuang Sun, Zhengren Wang, Conghui He, Bin Cui, Chong Chen, and Wentao Zhang. Keyvideollm: Towards large-scale video keyframe selection. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.03104, 2024

  44. [52]

    Few-shot adaptation of multi-modal foundation models: A survey

    Fan Liu, Tianshu Zhang, Wenwen Dai, Chuanyi Zhang, Wenwen Cai, Xiaocong Zhou, and Delong Chen. Few-shot adaptation of multi-modal foundation models: A survey. Artificial Intelligence Review, 57(10):268, 2024

  45. [53]

    The role of data fusion in predictive maintenance using digital twin

    Zheng Liu, Norbert Meyendorf, and Nezih Mrad. The role of data fusion in predictive maintenance using digital twin. In AIP conference proceedings, volume 1949. AIP Publishing, 2018

  46. [54]

    Leveraging digital twin technology in model-based systems engineering

    Azad M Madni, Carla C Madni, and Scott D Lucero. Leveraging digital twin technology in model-based systems engineering. Systems, 7(1):7, 2019

  47. [55]

    Building a digital twin for additive manufacturing through the exploitation of blockchain: A case analysis of the aircraft industry

    Claudio Mandolla, Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Gianluca Percoco, and Andrea Urbinati. Building a digital twin for additive manufacturing through the exploitation of blockchain: A case analysis of the aircraft industry. Computers in industry, 109:134–152, 2019. 12

  48. [56]

    On the challenges and opportunities in generative ai

    Laura Manduchi, Kushagra Pandey, Robert Bamler, Ryan Cotterell, Sina Däubener, Sophie Fellenz, Asja Fischer, Thomas Gärtner, Matthias Kirchler, Marius Kloft, et al. On the challenges and opportunities in generative ai. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.00025, 2024

  49. [57]

    Multimodality representation learning: A survey on evolution, pretraining and its applications

    Muhammad Arslan Manzoor, Sarah Albarri, Ziting Xian, Zaiqiao Meng, Preslav Nakov, and Shangsong Liang. Multimodality representation learning: A survey on evolution, pretraining and its applications. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications, 20(...

  50. [58]

    On the effects of modeling on the sim-to-real transfer gap in twinning the powder platform

    Maxwell McManus, Yuqing Cui, Zhaoxi Zhang, Elizabeth Serena Bentley, Michael Medley, Nicholas Mastronarde, and Zhangyu Guan. On the effects of modeling on the sim-to-real transfer gap in twinning the powder platform. arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.14465, 2024

  51. [59]

    Nerf: Representing scenes as neural radiance fields for view synthesis

    Ben Mildenhall, Pratul P Srinivasan, Matthew Tancik, Jonathan T Barron, Ravi Ramamoor- thi, and Ren Ng. Nerf: Representing scenes as neural radiance fields for view synthesis. Communications of the ACM, 65(1):99–106, 2021

  52. [60]

    Smart city digital twins

    Neda Mohammadi and John E Taylor. Smart city digital twins. In 2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), pages 1–5. IEEE, 2017

  53. [61]

    Foundation models for generalist medical artificial intelligence

    Michael Moor, Oishi Banerjee, Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, Harlan M Krumholz, Jure Leskovec, Eric J Topol, and Pranav Rajpurkar. Foundation models for generalist medical artificial intelligence. Nature, 616(7956):259–265, 2023

  54. [62]

    Twice dataset: Digital twin of test scenarios in a controlled environment

    Leonardo Novicki Neto, Fabio Reway, Yuri Poledna, Maikol Funk Drechsler, Eduardo Parente Ribeiro, Werner Huber, and Christian Icking. Twice dataset: Digital twin of test scenarios in a controlled environment. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.03895, 2023

  55. [63]

    Tokenflow: Unified image tokenizer for multimodal understanding and generation

    Liao Qu, Huichao Zhang, Yiheng Liu, Xu Wang, Yi Jiang, Yiming Gao, Hu Ye, Daniel K Du, Zehuan Yuan, and Xinglong Wu. Tokenflow: Unified image tokenizer for multimodal understanding and generation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.03069, 2024

  56. [64]

    The structure of the token space for large language models

    Michael Robinson, Sourya Dey, and Shauna Sweet. The structure of the token space for large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08993, 2024

  57. [65]

    Vision transformers with mixed-resolution tokenization

    Tomer Ronen, Omer Levy, and Avram Golbert. Vision transformers with mixed-resolution tokenization. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pages 4613–4622, 2023

  58. [66]

    Tokenlearner: Adaptive space-time tokenization for videos

    Michael Ryoo, AJ Piergiovanni, Anurag Arnab, Mostafa Dehghani, and Anelia Angelova. Tokenlearner: Adaptive space-time tokenization for videos. Advances in neural information processing systems, 34:12786–12797, 2021

  59. [67]

    Tokenization is more than compression

    Craig W Schmidt, Varshini Reddy, Haoran Zhang, Alec Alameddine, Omri Uzan, Yuval Pinter, and Chris Tanner. Tokenization is more than compression. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.18376, 2024

  60. [68]

    Design, modeling and implementation of digital twins

    Mariana Segovia and Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro. Design, modeling and implementation of digital twins. Sensors, 22(14):5396, 2022

  61. [69]

    An image is worth 16x16 words, what is a video worth? arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.13915, 2021

    Gilad Sharir, Asaf Noy, and Lihi Zelnik-Manor. An image is worth 16x16 words, what is a video worth? arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.13915, 2021

  62. [70]

    Movit: Memorizing vision transformers for medical image analysis

    Yiqing Shen, Pengfei Guo, Jingpu Wu, Qianqi Huang, Nhat Le, Jinyuan Zhou, Shanshan Jiang, and Mathias Unberath. Movit: Memorizing vision transformers for medical image analysis. In International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, pages 205–213. Springer, 2023

  63. [71]

    Oper- ating room workflow analysis via reasoning segmentation over digital twins

    Yiqing Shen, Chenjia Li, Bohan Liu, Cheng-Yi Li, Tito Porras, and Mathias Unberath. Oper- ating room workflow analysis via reasoning segmentation over digital twins. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21054, 2025

  64. [72]

    Online reasoning video segmentation with just-in-time digital twins

    Yiqing Shen, Bohan Liu, Chenjia Li, Lalithkumar Seenivasan, and Mathias Unberath. Online reasoning video segmentation with just-in-time digital twins. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21056, 2025

  65. [73]

    Twin-s: a digital twin for skull base surgery

    Hongchao Shu, Ruixing Liang, Zhaoshuo Li, Anna Goodridge, Xiangyu Zhang, Hao Ding, Nimesh Nagururu, Manish Sahu, Francis X Creighton, Russell H Taylor, et al. Twin-s: a digital twin for skull base surgery. International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery, 18(6)...

  66. [74]

    Ai models collapse when trained on recursively generated data

    Ilia Shumailov, Zakhar Shumaylov, Yiren Zhao, Nicolas Papernot, Ross Anderson, and Yarin Gal. Ai models collapse when trained on recursively generated data. Nature, 631(8022):755– 759, 2024

  67. [75]

    Using constrained-disorder principle-based systems to improve the performance of digital twins in biological systems

    Tal Sigawi and Yaron Ilan. Using constrained-disorder principle-based systems to improve the performance of digital twins in biological systems. Biomimetics, 8(4):359, 2023

  68. [76]

    Interaction with industrial digital twin using neuro-symbolic reasoning

    Aziz Siyaev, Dilmurod Valiev, and Geun-Sik Jo. Interaction with industrial digital twin using neuro-symbolic reasoning. Sensors, 23(3):1729, 2023

  69. [77]

    Reliable counterparts: efficiently testing causal relationships in digital twins

    Richard J Somers, Andrew G Clark, Neil Walkinshaw, and Robert M Hierons. Reliable counterparts: efficiently testing causal relationships in digital twins. In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedin...

  70. [78]

    A digital twin approach for the improvement of an autonomous mobile robots (amr’s) operating environment—a case study

    Paweł Staczek, Jakub Pizo´n, Wojciech Danilczuk, and Arkadiusz Gola. A digital twin approach for the improvement of an autonomous mobile robots (amr’s) operating environment—a case study. Sensors, 21(23):7830, 2021

  71. [79]

    Exploring the sim2real gap using digital twins

    Sruthi Sudhakar, Jon Hanzelka, Josh Bobillot, Tanmay Randhavane, Neel Joshi, and Vibhav Vineet. Exploring the sim2real gap using digital twins. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, pages 20418–20427, 2023

  72. [80]

    Sweettokenizer: Semantic-aware spatial-temporal tokenizer for compact visual discretization

    Zhentao Tan, Ben Xue, Jian Jia, Junhao Wang, Wencai Ye, Shaoyun Shi, Mingjie Sun, Wenjin Wu, Quan Chen, and Peng Jiang. Sweettokenizer: Semantic-aware spatial-temporal tokenizer for compact visual discretization. arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.10443, 2024

  73. [81]

    Causal semantic communication for digital twins: A generalizable imitation learning approach

    Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Walid Saad, and Yong Xiao. Causal semantic communication for digital twins: A generalizable imitation learning approach. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Information Theory, 2023

  74. [82]

    Tokenize the world into object-level knowledge to address long-tail events in autonomous driving

    Ran Tian, Boyi Li, Xinshuo Weng, Yuxiao Chen, Edward Schmerling, Yue Wang, Boris Ivanovic, and Marco Pavone. Tokenize the world into object-level knowledge to address long-tail events in autonomous driving. arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.00959, 2024

  75. [83]

    Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations

    Trieu H Trinh, Yuhuai Wu, Quoc V Le, He He, and Thang Luong. Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations. Nature, 625(7995):476–482, 2024

  76. [84]

    Neural representation of abstract task structure during generalization

    Avinash R Vaidya, Henry M Jones, Johanny Castillo, and David Badre. Neural representation of abstract task structure during generalization. ELife, 10:e63226, 2021

  77. [85]

    Digital twin for healthcare systems

    Alexandre Vallée. Digital twin for healthcare systems. Frontiers in Digital Health, 5:1253050, 2023

  78. [86]

    The geometry of tokens in internal representations of large language models

    Karthik Viswanathan, Yuri Gardinazzi, Giada Panerai, Alberto Cazzaniga, and Matteo Biagetti. The geometry of tokens in internal representations of large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.10573, 2025

  79. [87]

    A survey for large language models in biomedicine

    Chong andothers Wang. A survey for large language models in biomedicine. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.00133, 2024

  80. [88]

    A compar- ative study of discrete speech tokens for semantic-related tasks with large language models

    Dingdong Wang, Mingyu Cui, Dongchao Yang, Xueyuan Chen, and Helen Meng. A compar- ative study of discrete speech tokens for semantic-related tasks with large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.08742, 2024

  81. [89]

    A comprehensive review of multimodal large language models: Performance and challenges across different tasks

    Jiaqi Wang, Hanqi Jiang, Yiheng Liu, Chong Ma, Xu Zhang, Yi Pan, Mengyuan Liu, Peiran Gu, Sichen Xia, Wenjun Li, et al. A comprehensive review of multimodal large language models: Performance and challenges across different tasks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.01319, 2024

  82. [90]

    Omnitok- enizer: A joint image-video tokenizer for visual generation

    Junke Wang, Yi Jiang, Zehuan Yuan, Binyue Peng, Zuxuan Wu, and Yu-Gang Jiang. Omnitok- enizer: A joint image-video tokenizer for visual generation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.09399, 2024

  83. [91]

    Evaluating causal reasoning capabilities of large language models: A systematic analysis across three scenarios

    Lei Wang and Yiqing Shen. Evaluating causal reasoning capabilities of large language models: A systematic analysis across three scenarios. Electronics, 13(23):4584, 2024

  84. [92]

    Multimodal token fusion for vision transformers

    Yikai Wang, Xinghao Chen, Lele Cao, et al. Multimodal token fusion for vision transformers. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition, pages 12186–12195, 2022. 14

  85. [93]

    Mio: A foundation model on multimodal tokens

    Zekun Wang, King Zhu, Chunpu Xu, Wangchunshu Zhou, Jiaheng Liu, Yibo Zhang, Jiashuo Wang, Ning Shi, Siyu Li, Yizhi Li, et al. Mio: A foundation model on multimodal tokens. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17692, 2024

  86. [94]

    Can foundation models talk causality? arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10591, 2022

    Moritz Willig, Matej Zeˇcevi´c, Devendra Singh Dhami, and Kristian Kersting. Can foundation models talk causality? arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10591, 2022

  87. [95]

    Causality for large language models

    Anpeng Wu, Kun Kuang, Minqin Zhu, Yingrong Wang, Yujia Zheng, Kairong Han, Baohong Li, Guangyi Chen, Fei Wu, and Kun Zhang. Causality for large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15319, 2024

  88. [96]

    Towards semantic equivalence of tokenization in multimodal llm

    Shengqiong Wu, Hao Fei, Xiangtai Li, Jiayi Ji, Hanwang Zhang, Tat-Seng Chua, and Shuicheng Yan. Towards semantic equivalence of tokenization in multimodal llm. arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05127, 2024

  89. [97]

    Semantic alignment for multimodal large language models

    Tao Wu, Mengze Li, Jingyuan Chen, Wei Ji, Wang Lin, Jinyang Gao, Kun Kuang, Zhou Zhao, and Fei Wu. Semantic alignment for multimodal large language models. In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia, pages 3489–3498, 2024

  90. [98]

    Smart: Scalable multi-agent real-time simulation via next-token prediction

    Wei Wu, Xiaoxin Feng, Ziyan Gao, and Yuheng Kan. Smart: Scalable multi-agent real-time simulation via next-token prediction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.15677, 2024

  91. [99]

    Developments of digital twin technologies in industrial, smart city and healthcare sectors: A survey

    Daoguang Yang, Hamid Reza Karimi, Okyay Kaynak, and Shen Yin. Developments of digital twin technologies in industrial, smart city and healthcare sectors: A survey. Complex Engineering Systems, 1(1):N–A, 2021

  92. [100]

    A critical review of causal reasoning benchmarks for large language models

    Linying Yang, Vik Shirvaikar, Oscar Clivio, and Fabian Falck. A critical review of causal reasoning benchmarks for large language models. In AAAI 2024 Workshop on”Are Large Language Models Simply Causal Parrots?”, 2024

  93. [101]

    A deep-learning system bridging molecule structure and biomedical text with comprehension comparable to human profession- als

    Zheni Zeng, Yuan Yao, Zhiyuan Liu, and Maosong Sun. A deep-learning system bridging molecule structure and biomedical text with comprehension comparable to human profession- als. Nature communications, 13(1):862, 2022

  94. [102]

    Anygpt: Unified multimodal llm with discrete sequence modeling

    Jun Zhan, Junqi Dai, Jiasheng Ye, Yunhua Zhou, Dong Zhang, Zhigeng Liu, Xin Zhang, Ruibin Yuan, Ge Zhang, Linyang Li, et al. Anygpt: Unified multimodal llm with discrete sequence modeling. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12226, 2024

  95. [103]

    From word vectors to multimodal embeddings: Techniques, applications, and future directions for large language models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.05036, 2024

    Charles Zhang, Benji Peng, Xintian Sun, Qian Niu, Junyu Liu, Keyu Chen, Ming Li, Pohsun Feng, Ziqian Bi, Ming Liu, et al. From word vectors to multimodal embeddings: Techniques, applications, and future directions for large language models.arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.05036, 2024

  96. [104]

    Training confounder-free deep learning models for medical applications

    Qingyu Zhao, Ehsan Adeli, and Kilian M Pohl. Training confounder-free deep learning models for medical applications. Nature communications, 11(1):6010, 2020

  97. [105]

    An application framework of digital twin and its case study

    Yu Zheng, Sen Yang, and Huanchong Cheng. An application framework of digital twin and its case study. Journal of ambient intelligence and humanized computing, 10:1141–1153, 2019. 15

Pith tools

Reviewed August 16, 2026 · model on record in the stance chip above.