Long-Horizon Video Generation

Overview

Long-horizon video generation studies how to extend generated videos across many scenes or minutes of streaming while preserving subjects, environments, motion, and events. Common approaches include autoregressive diffusion with compressed or retrieved memory, sparse KV-cache policies, training on model-generated rollouts, and geometry- or action-conditioned world models. These methods support multi-shot storytelling, interactive world simulation, and camera-controlled exploration, with benchmarks such as VBench-Long testing consistency, visual quality, and control over extended rollouts. A central tension is balancing persistent memory and natural motion with bounded compute, especially when models trained on short clips must remain stable far beyond their training horizon.

Latest papers

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164 papers38 papers in the last four weeks, up 280% on the four weeks before. 0.2% of all new papers.

  1. Mix Forcing: Causal Pre-Training via Mixture Attention for Interactive World Models

    Oct 24, 2026Zelin Gao, Hao Ouyang, Jiapeng Zhu +6Video GenerationCausal Video Generation

  2. Recast the Past: Stable Long Video Generation with Full Context Memory

    Oct 20, 2026Yukuo Ma, Cong Liu, Junke Wang +4Long-Horizon Video GenerationMemory-Augmented Video Generation

  3. Clean Forcing: Drift-Resistant Autoregressive Video Diffusion with a Frozen Base

    Oct 19, 2026Wenqing Wang, Joonghyuk Shin, Jonathan Tremblay +2Video Diffusion ModelsAutoregressive Video Generation

  4. SpriteStage: Long Horizon Animation Generation via Progressive Scene Programming and Replay

    Oct 17, 2026Zhaoqi Wang, Zijian Zhang, Jiamou LiuLong-Horizon Video GenerationControllable Video Generation

  5. Any Time, Any Space: A World-State-Centric Framework for Agentic Video Generation

    Oct 14, 2026Weijie Wang, Haomin Zhang, Ye Li +7Agentic Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  6. StreamErase: Towards Ultra-Fast Streaming Video Erasing

    Oct 14, 2026Zhuobai Dong, Xiaobing Tu, Xiantao Zhang +4Video EditingStreaming Video Generation

  7. StateCraft: Augmenting Video World Models with Abstract-State Reasoning

    Oct 14, 2026Lorenzo Venturoli, Nedko Savov, Xi Wang +2Video World ModelsLong-Horizon Video Generation

  8. LongForcing: Scaling Temporal Manifold Matching for Long-Horizon World Rollout

    Oct 13, 2026Ziyu Zhu, Zhaoxu Sun, Fan Jiang +5Long-Horizon Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  9. CineMem: Attention-Aligned Fine-grained Memory Retrieval for Multi-Shot Long Video Generation

    Oct 13, 2026Xiaoxue Wu, Xinyu Gao, Fang Yu +2Memory-Augmented Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  10. 4LC: 4D Latent Cache for Efficient Conditioning in Dynamic World Modeling

    Oct 13, 2026Jianhui Zhang, Zuyao Lin, Pengxin Xu +2Video World ModelsMemory-Augmented Video Generation

  11. World-T3: Test-Time Training as Persistent Memory for Real-Time Video World Models

    Oct 12, 2026Junyi Wu, Zekun Li, Chenhongyi Yang +9Video World ModelsMemory-Augmented Video Generation

  12. REEL: Learning to Retrieve, Evaluate, and Evolve Visual Memory for Any Long-Horizon Multi-Shot Video Generation

    Oct 12, 2026Hang Xu, Guohui Zhang, Xiaoxiao Ma +7Memory-Augmented Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  13. Prospective Forcing: Learning to Look Ahead for Autoregressive Long Video Diffusion

    Oct 10, 2026Yifan Shen, Yewei Xia, Gongxu Luo +6Autoregressive Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  14. Adversarial Gradient Forcing for Robust Few-Step Autoregressive Video Generation

    Oct 10, 2026Chenxi Xia, Yixuan Xu, Shan Liu +7Autoregressive Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  15. WorldGuide: Goal-Directed Video World Model for Procedural Task Execution

    Oct 8, 2026Ankan Deria, Komal Kumar, Hisham Cholakkal +2Video GenerationAgentic Video Generation

  16. Connected Self Forcing: Beyond Local Learning in Video Autoregression

    Oct 8, 2026Dongbin Zhang, Chaoda Zheng, Kangjie Chen +13Autoregressive Video GenerationStreaming Video Generation

  17. Memory Forcing: Attendable Mid-Horizon History for Streaming Video Generation

    Oct 8, 2026Jiaming Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Huafeng Shi +2Streaming Video GenerationMemory-Augmented Video Generation

  18. Learning to Retrieve: Internalizing Memory Retrieval for Video World Models

    Oct 8, 2026JiaKui Hu, Tailai Chen, Yuqi Pan +8Memory-Augmented Video GenerationVideo World Models

  19. SGF+: Decoupling Gradient Flows for Autoregressive Video Generation

    Oct 7, 2026Zihan Su, Junhao Zhuang, Yaowei Li +10Autoregressive Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  20. Keepsake: Selective Spatial Memory for Long-Horizon Video Generation

    Oct 5, 2026Abdul Mohaimen Al Radi, Kunyang Li, Yuzhang Shang +2Camera-Controlled Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  21. HLA-WM: Hybrid Linear Attention for Long-Horizon Video World Models

    Oct 5, 2026Zhuokun Chen, Feng Chen, Xi Lin +4World Model LearningLong-Horizon Video Generation

  22. LoGo: Local-Global Rewards for Consistent Long-Horizon Video Generation

    Oct 2, 2026Ziqi Ma, Shreya Sharma, Mohamed El Banani +8Camera-Controlled Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  23. Spatial Memory Intelligence: Endowing World Models with Understanding-Driven Long-Term Memory

    Oct 1, 2026Ying Yang, Guiyu Zhang, Lianghua Huang +5Memory-Augmented Video GenerationWorld Models

  24. MosaiChunk: Compositing Spatio-Temporal Memory for Autoregressive Video Generation

    Oct 1, 2026Yiwen Zhang, Haocheng Xi, Michael Tian-Yue Liu +4Image-to-Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  25. Oneira: From Open-Ended Generation to Open-World Interaction in Video World Models

    Oct 1, 2026Xindi Yang, Baolu Li, Liam Lee +8Long-Horizon Video GenerationAction-Conditioned World Models

  26. Enhancing Autoregressive Video Generation via Representation Adversarial Distillation

    Sep 30, 2026Fangyu Lin, Xingtong Ge, Lunjie Zhu +8Long-Horizon Video GenerationDiffusion Model Distillation