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. Echo-Forcing: A Scene Memory Framework for Interactive Long Video Generation

    May 15, 2026Mingqiang Wu, Weilun Feng, Zhefeng Zhang +8Video Diffusion ModelsLong-Horizon Video Generation

  2. EntityBench: Towards Entity-Consistent Long-Range Multi-Shot Video Generation

    May 14, 2026Ruozhen He, Meng Wei, Ziyan Yang +1Long-Horizon Video GenerationMemory-Augmented Video Generation

  3. Head Forcing: Long Autoregressive Video Generation via Head Heterogeneity

    May 14, 2026Jiahao Tian, Yiwei Wang, Gang Yu +1Diffusion TransformerAutoregressive Diffusion

  4. Pyramid Forcing: Head-Aware Pyramid KV Cache Policy for High-Quality Long Video Generation

    May 13, 2026Jiayu Chen, Junbei Tang, Wenbiao Zhao +6Self-AttentionLong-Horizon Video Generation

  5. HorizonDrive: Self-Corrective Autoregressive World Model for Long-horizon Driving Simulation

    May 12, 2026Conglang Zhang, Yifan Zhan, Qingjie Wang +10World Model LearningLong-Horizon Video Generation

  6. AllocMV: Optimal Resource Allocation for Music Video Generation via Structured Persistent State

    May 11, 2026Huimin Wang, Leilei Ouyang, Chang Xia +3Audio-Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  7. Mutual Forcing: Dual-Mode Self-Evolution for Fast Autoregressive Audio-Video Character Generation

    Apr 28, 2026Yupeng Zhou, Lianghua Huang, Zhifan Wu +7Audio-Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  8. Sparse Forcing: Native Trainable Sparse Attention for Real-time Autoregressive Diffusion Video Generation

    Apr 23, 2026Boxun Xu, Yuming Du, Zichang Liu +7Autoregressive DiffusionSelf-Attention

  9. DynamicRad: Content-Adaptive Sparse Attention for Long Video Diffusion

    Apr 22, 2026Yongji Long, Shijun Liang, Jintao Li +1Video Diffusion ModelsLong-Horizon Video Generation

  10. AutoAWG: Adverse Weather Generation with Adaptive Multi-Controls for Automotive Videos

    Apr 21, 2026Jiagao Hu, Daiguo Zhou, Danzhen Fu +6Synthetic Data AugmentationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  11. Memorize When Needed: Decoupled Memory Control for Spatially Consistent Long-Horizon Video Generation

    Apr 20, 2026Yanjun Guo, Zhengqiang Zhang, Pengfei Wang +3Camera-Conditioned Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  12. Lyra 2.0: Explorable Generative 3D Worlds

    Apr 14, 2026Tianchang Shen, Sherwin Bahmani, Kai He +123D Scene Generation3D-Aware Video Generation

  13. Long-Horizon Streaming Video Generation via Hybrid Attention with Decoupled Distillation

    Apr 11, 2026Ruibin Li, Tao Yang, Fangzhou Ai +4Long-Horizon Video GenerationStreaming Video Generation

  14. OmniRoam: World Wandering via Long-Horizon Panoramic Video Generation

    Mar 31, 2026Yuheng Liu, Xin Lin, Xinke Li +9Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  15. KV Cache Quantization for Self-Forcing Video Generation: A 33-Method Empirical Study

    Mar 29, 2026Suraj Ranganath, Vaishak Menon, Anish PatnaikKV-Cache QuantizationKV-Cache Compression

  16. MemCam: Memory-Augmented Camera Control for Consistent Video Generation

    Mar 27, 2026Xinhang Gao, Junlin Guan, Shuhan Luo +3Video GenerationCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  17. DCARL: A Divide-and-Conquer Framework for Autoregressive Long-Trajectory Video Generation

    Mar 25, 2026Junyi Ouyang, Wenbin Teng, Gonglin Chen +2Long-Horizon Video GenerationAutoregressive Video Generation

  18. Relax Forcing: Relaxed KV-Memory for Consistent Long Video Generation

    Mar 22, 2026Zengqun Zhao, Yanzuo Lu, Ziquan Liu +3Long-Horizon Video GenerationAutoregressive Video Generation

  19. MosaicMem: Hybrid Spatial Memory for Controllable Video World Models

    Mar 17, 2026Wei Yu, Runjia Qian, Yumeng Li +8Memory-Augmented Video GenerationVideo World Models

  20. Grounding World Simulation Models in a Real-World Metropolis

    Mar 16, 2026Junyoung Seo, Hyunwook Choi, Minkyung Kwon +10Retrieval-Augmented Video GenerationVideo World Models

  21. SoulX-LiveAct: Towards Hour-Scale Real-Time Human Animation with Neighbor Forcing and ConvKV Memory

    Mar 12, 2026Dingcheng Zhen, Xu Zheng, Ruixin Zhang +4Autoregressive DiffusionReal-Time Interactive Video Generation