Lab2Sim: Turning Real-World Experiment Videos into Interactive Virtual Experiments
READ THE ORIGINAL SOURCEOpen original sourcehuggingface.co · Opens in a new tabLab2Sim is a benchmark of 218 science experiment videos paired with evidence-grounded specifications and 11,881 rubric items, aimed at turning videos into interactive virtual experiments. The authors propose EduVideo2Code, which extracts procedures hierarchically, encodes them as explicit state machines to guide code generation, and refines pages via execution-based verification. They report that existing multimodal models generate runnable pages but struggle to reconstruct apparatus faithfully, and that EduVideo2Code improves all four evaluation dimensions across two backbone models, with apparatus fidelity gains of 24.15 points.
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Lab2Sim is a benchmark of 218 science experiment videos paired with evidence-grounded specifications and 11,881 rubric items, aimed at turning videos into interactive virtual experiments. The authors propose EduVideo2Code, which extracts procedures hierarchically, encodes them as explicit state machines to guide code generation, and refines pages via execution-based verification. They report that existing multimodal models generate runnable pages but struggle to reconstruct apparatus faithfully, and that EduVideo2Code improves all four evaluation dimensions across two backbone models, with apparatus fidelity gains of 24.15 points.
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- Lab2Sim provides 218 science experiment videos with 11,881 rubric items for evaluation.
- EduVideo2Code encodes extracted procedures as explicit state machines to guide code generation.
- Existing multimodal models readily produce runnable pages but struggle to faithfully reconstruct apparatus.
- EduVideo2Code improves all four evaluation dimensions across two backbone models, with apparatus fidelity gains of 24.15 points.
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Converting passive science videos into interactive virtual labs could give learners hands-on practice. The work offers a benchmark and a method that enforces operational preconditions, addressing a gap where generated simulations look runnable but misrepresent the real apparatus.
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