DSO: Aligning 3D Generators with Simulation Feedback for Physical
  Soundness
Authors: name: Ruining Li; name: Chuanxia Zheng; name: Christian Rupprecht; name: Andrea Vedaldi
Published: 2025-03-28 17:59:53

Abstract: Most 3D object generators focus on aesthetic quality, often neglecting
physical constraints necessary in applications. One such constraint is that the
3D object should be self-supporting, i.e., remains balanced under gravity.
Prior approaches to generating stable 3D objects used differentiable physics
simulators to optimize geometry at test-time, which is slow, unstable, and
prone to local optima. Inspired by the literature on aligning generative models
to external feedback, we propose Direct Simulation Optimization (DSO), a
framework to use the feedback from a (non-differentiable) simulator to increase
the likelihood that the 3D generator outputs stable 3D objects directly. We
construct a dataset of 3D objects labeled with a stability score obtained from
the physics simulator. We can then fine-tune the 3D generator using the
stability score as the alignment metric, via direct preference optimization
(DPO) or direct reward optimization (DRO), a novel objective, which we
introduce, to align diffusion models without requiring pairwise preferences.
Our experiments show that the fine-tuned feed-forward generator, using either
DPO or DRO objective, is much faster and more likely to produce stable objects
than test-time optimization. Notably, the DSO framework works even without any
ground-truth 3D objects for training, allowing the 3D generator to self-improve
by automatically collecting simulation feedback on its own outputs.