Overview

Video diffusion models synthesize or transform frame sequences by denoising video latents, often in diffusion transformers, conditioned on text, images, reference clips, or structured controls. Researchers use temporal attention, autoregressive chunking, and pose, camera, depth, or physics cues to improve motion, identity, geometry, and interaction; related systems support editing, restoration, avatars, and world-model prediction. Evaluation spans prompt alignment and visual quality, using benchmarks such as VBench and FVD, as well as controllability, physical plausibility, and downstream action performance. A central challenge is balancing fidelity and precise control over long videos with the speed and memory needed for streaming, while limiting drift and physically implausible events.

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738 papers122 papers in the last four weeks, up 171% on the four weeks before. 0.7% of all new papers.

  1. Climate Prompting: Generating the Madden-Julian Oscillation using Video Diffusion and Low-Dimensional Conditioning

    Mar 23, 2026Sulian Thual, Feiyang Cai, Jingjing Wang +1Climate ModelingConditional Diffusion Models

  2. Pretrained Video Models as Differentiable Physics Simulators for Urban Wind Flows

    Mar 22, 2026Janne Perini, Rafael Bischof, Moab Arar +4Video Diffusion ModelsPDE Surrogate Modeling

  3. LumosX: Relate Any Identities with Their Attributes for Personalized Video Generation

    Mar 20, 2026Jiazheng Xing, Fei Du, Hangjie Yuan +7Video GenerationControllable Video Generation

  4. Making Video Models Adhere to User Intent with Minor Adjustments

    Mar 20, 2026Daniel Ajisafe, Eric Hedlin, Helge Rhodin +1Controllable Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  5. OrbitNVS: Harnessing Video Diffusion Priors for Novel View Synthesis

    Mar 20, 2026Jinglin Liang, Zijian Zhou, Rui Huang +2Novel View SynthesisSingle-View 3D Reconstruction

  6. VAMPO: Policy Optimization for Improving Visual Dynamics in Video Action Models

    Mar 19, 2026Zirui Ge, Pengxiang Ding, Baohua Yin +16Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Prediction

  7. 6Bit-Diffusion: Inference-Time Mixed-Precision Quantization for Video Diffusion Models

    Mar 19, 2026Rundong Su, Jintao Zhang, Zhihang Yuan +3Diffusion Model QuantizationMixed-Precision Quantization

  8. Attention Sparsity is Input-Stable: Training-Free Sparse Attention for Video Generation via Offline Sparsity Profiling and Online QK Co-Clustering

    Mar 19, 2026Jiayi Luo, Jiayu Chen, Jiankun Wang +6Efficient Video GenerationVideo Generation

  9. 3DreamBooth: High-Fidelity 3D Subject-Driven Video Generation Model

    Mar 19, 2026Hyun-kyu Ko, Jihyeon Park, Younghyun Kim +23D-Aware Video GenerationControllable Video Generation

  10. TransText: Alpha-as-RGB Representation for Transparent Text Animation

    Mar 18, 2026Fei Zhang, Zijian Zhou, Bohao Tang +9Image-to-Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  11. Steering Video Diffusion Transformers with Massive Activations

    Mar 18, 2026Xianhang Cheng, Yujian Zheng, Zhenyu Xie +2Massive ActivationsVideo Diffusion Models

  12. SHIFT: Motion Alignment in Video Diffusion Models with Adversarial Hybrid Fine-Tuning

    Mar 18, 2026Xi Ye, Wenjia Yang, Yangyang Xu +4Diffusion Model AlignmentVideo Diffusion Models

  13. Motion-Adaptive Temporal Attention for Lightweight Video Generation with Stable Diffusion

    Mar 18, 2026Rui Hong, Shuxue QuanVideo Diffusion ModelsTemporal Attention

  14. Demystifying Video Reasoning

    Mar 17, 2026Ruisi Wang, Zhongang Cai, Fanyi Pu +11Video ReasoningVideo Diffusion Models

  15. VIGOR: VIdeo Geometry-Oriented Reward for Temporal Generative Alignment

    Mar 17, 2026Tengjiao Yin, Jinglei Shi, Heng Guo +1Diffusion Model AlignmentMulti-View Consistency

  16. ViFeEdit: A Video-Free Tuner of Your Video Diffusion Transformer

    Mar 16, 2026Ruonan Yu, Zhenxiong Tan, Zigeng Chen +2Diffusion-Based Video EditingVideo Editing

  17. AnyCrowd: Instance-Isolated Identity-Pose Binding for Arbitrary Multi-Character Animation

    Mar 16, 2026Zhenyu Xie, Ji Xia, Michael Kampffmeyer +9Identity-Preserving Video GenerationHuman Motion Generation

  18. GeoNVS: Geometry Grounded Video Diffusion for Novel View Synthesis

    Mar 16, 2026Minjun Kang, Inkyu Shin, Taeyeop Lee +3Camera-Controlled Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  19. LatSearch: Latent Reward-Guided Search for Faster Inference-Time Scaling in Video Diffusion

    Mar 15, 2026Zengqun Zhao, Ziquan Liu, Yu Cao +5Video Diffusion ModelsInference-Time Scaling

  20. AvatarForcing: One-Step Streaming Talking Avatars via Local-Future Sliding-Window Denoising

    Mar 15, 2026Liyuan Cui, Wentao Hu, Wenyuan Zhang +3Audio-Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  21. Early Failure Detection and Intervention in Video Diffusion Models

    Mar 15, 2026Kwon Byung-Ki, Sohwi Lim, Nam Hyeon-Woo +2Video Diffusion ModelsT2V Generation

  22. Seeking Physics in Diffusion Noise

    Mar 15, 2026Chujun Tang, Lei Zhong, Fangqiang DingPhysical Consistency in Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  23. CamLit: Unified Video Diffusion with Explicit Camera and Lighting Control

    Mar 15, 2026Zhiyi Kuang, Chengan He, Egor Zakharov +6Video RelightingCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  24. MotionCFG: Boosting Motion Dynamics via Stochastic Concept Perturbation

    Mar 14, 2026Byungjun Kim, Soobin Um, Jong Chul YeT2V GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  25. PhysAlign: Physics-Coherent Image-to-Video Generation through Feature and 3D Representation Alignment

    Mar 14, 2026Zhexiao Xiong, Yizhi Song, Liu He +4Physical Consistency in Video GenerationImage-to-Video Generation

  26. LibraGen: Playing a Balance Game in Subject-Driven Video Generation

    Mar 13, 2026Jiahao Zhu, Shanshan Lao, Lijie Liu +10Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models