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.

Latest papers

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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. DiffCVE: Diffusion-based Compressed Video Enhancement

    Jul 8, 2026Wenqiang Xiao, Wenzhuo Ma, Junxi Zhang +1Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Compression

  2. Gen4U: Unifying Video Generation and Understanding via Diffusion

    Jul 7, 2026Michael King, Aravindh Mahendran, Matthew Koichi Grimes +5Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Representation Learning

  3. Prompt-Adapter Context Routing for Parameter-Efficient Multi-Shot Long Video Extrapolation

    Jul 7, 2026Anna Córdoba, Adam Puente Tercero, Nerea Angulo Hijo +4Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Prediction

  4. FADRA: Frequency-Aware Diffusion with Residual Adaptation for Video Face Restoration

    Jul 7, 2026Jin Jiang, Jia Wang, Panwen Hu +2Diffusion Model AdaptationVideo Diffusion Models

  5. Dynamic-in-Few-Step: Unifying Dynamic Computation and Few-Step Distillation for Efficient Video Generation

    Jul 7, 2026Yu Cheng, Siyue Yao, Zhongang Qi +3Video Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Model Distillation

  6. MobileWan: Closing the Quality Gap for Mobile Video Diffusion

    Jul 7, 2026Mohsen Ghafoorian, Denis Korzhenkov, Adil Karjauv +9Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Generation

  7. MV-Forcing: Long Multi-View Video Generation via 4D-Grounded Spatio-Temporal Self-Forcing

    Jul 6, 2026Gal Fiebelman, Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Sagie BenaimMulti-View ConsistencyVideo Diffusion Models

  8. UNIVERSE: Unified Video Action Models for Autonomous Driving with Flexible Mask-Modulated Modality Generation

    Jul 6, 2026Mengmeng Liu, Diankun Zhang, Jiuming Liu +7Action-Conditioned Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  9. Consistent and Editable: A Balanced Framework for Text-Guided Video Editing

    Jul 6, 2026Tao Jin, Li XiaoVideo Diffusion ModelsVideo Editing

  10. Video Generation Models Are Inherent Lighting Estimators

    Jul 6, 2026Ziqi Cai, Shuchen Weng, Kaiqi Liu +5Video Diffusion ModelsHDR Imaging

  11. Enhancing Video Physical Consistency via Role-aware Joint Training and Modality-decoupled Denoising

    Jul 6, 2026Guangting Zheng, Haojing Chen, Hao Li +6Physical Consistency in Video GenerationDiffusion Model Guidance

  12. Lights, Camera, Carbon: Architectural Scaling Laws for Video Generation Energy Consumption

    Jul 5, 2026Nidhal Jegham, Boris Gamazaychikov, Sasha LuccioniVideo Diffusion ModelsVideo Generation

  13. ProxyUp: Training-Free Proxy-Conditioned Video Generation for Controllable Dynamics

    Jul 4, 2026Zanwei Zhou, Jiazhong Cen, Jiemin Fang +7Physical Consistency in Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  14. Flex-Forcing: Towards a Unified Autoregressive and Bidirectional Video Diffusion Model

    Jul 3, 2026Xinyin Ma, Julius Berner, Chao Liu +3Video Diffusion ModelsAutoregressive Diffusion

  15. Vidu S1: A Real-Time Interactive Video Generation Model

    Jul 3, 2026Jintao Zhang, Kai Jiang, Jintao Chen +24Streaming Video GenerationReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  16. Track the Noise, Move the World:3D-Grounded Motion-Consistent Noise for Controllable Video Generation

    Jul 2, 2026Long Vu, Tan Ngo, Animesh Karnewar +5Camera-Controlled Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  17. OrbitQuant: Data-Agnostic Quantization for Image and Video Diffusion Transformers

    Jul 2, 2026Donghyun Lee, Jitesh Chavan, Duy Nguyen +5Video Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Transformer

  18. NeoMap: Training-free Novel-View Synthesis from Single Images and Videos

    Jul 2, 2026Jinxi Li, Tianyi Zhang, Yafei Yang +4Multi-View ConsistencyVideo Diffusion Models

  19. ICDepth: Taming Video Diffusion Models for Video Depth Estimation via In-Context Conditioning

    Jul 2, 2026Xuanhua He, Jiaxin Xie, Mingzhe Zheng +1Video Diffusion ModelsDepth Estimation

  20. TrajLoc: Trajectory-Attention Localization for Multi-Object Motion Control

    Jul 1, 2026Omer Sela, Inbar Huberman-Spiegelglas, Michael Rotman +2Image-to-Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  21. RotateAttention: RoPE-Aware Rotation and Range Rectification for INT4 Quantized Attention in Video Generation

    Jul 1, 2026Yaofu Liu, Wanli Lan, Jinxi Li +2Mixed-Precision QuantizationRotary Positional Embeddings

  22. EcoVideo: Entropy-Orchestrated Video Generation Paradigm in Cloud-Edge Dynamics

    Jun 29, 2026Jiayu Chen, Hengyi Zhang, Maoliang Li +5Video Diffusion ModelsEdge Computing

  23. The Surprising Effectiveness of Video Diffusion Models for Hand Motion Reconstruction

    Jun 29, 2026Yuxi Wang, Chengkai Jin, Yufei Liu +6Articulated Object ReconstructionVideo Diffusion Models

  24. Your Data Manifold is Secretly a Reward Model: Shell-LCC for Text-to-Video Generation

    Jun 29, 2026Shihao Zhang, Yunzhi Li, Yuguang Yan +4Reward ModelingDiffusion Model Guidance

  25. SATB-VR: Training Few-Step Video Restoration Diffusion Model using SNR-Aware Trajectory Blending

    Jun 27, 2026Haoran Bai, Xiaoxu Chen, Xiaoyu Liu +4Video Diffusion ModelsFew-Step Diffusion Sampling