Overview

Video generation models synthesize or edit sequences while aiming to keep content, motion, and scene structure coherent over time. Common approaches use diffusion or flow-matching Transformers, autoregressive models, and conditioning from text, reference images or videos, audio, camera paths, and 3D geometry. Researchers also use memory, physical simulation, reward-based post-training, and inference-time guidance to improve identity, controllability, and long-horizon consistency, while distillation and sparse attention reduce generation costs. A central challenge is that visual quality and prompt alignment do not guarantee physical or geometric coherence, so evaluation is expanding beyond perceptual scores to test consistency, reasoning, safety, and task outcomes.

Latest papers

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365 papers65 papers in the last four weeks, up 132% on the four weeks before. 0.4% of all new papers.

  1. DATAREEL: Automated Data-Driven Video Story Generation with Animations

    Apr 28, 2026Ridwan Mahbub, Syem Aziz, Mahir Ahmed +4Data VisualizationVideo Generation

  2. MuSS: A Large-Scale Dataset and Cinematic Narrative Benchmark for Multi-Shot Subject-to-Video Generation

    Apr 26, 2026Haojie Zhang, Di Wu, Bingyan Liu +5Video GenerationMulti-Shot Video Generation

  3. PhysLayer: Language-Guided Layered Animation with Depth-Aware Physics

    Apr 26, 2026Tianyidan Xie, Zhentao Huang, Mingjie Wang +4Physical Consistency in Video GenerationImage-to-Video Generation

  4. EAD-Net: Emotion-Aware Talking Head Generation with Spatial Refinement and Temporal Coherence

    Apr 25, 2026Yahui Li, Yinfeng Yu, Liejun Wang +1Video Diffusion ModelsLip Synchronization

  5. KD-CVG: A Knowledge-Driven Approach for Creative Video Generation

    Apr 23, 2026Linkai Liu, Wei Feng, Xi Zhao +9Multimodal RAGT2V Generation

  6. Building a Precise Video Language with Human-AI Oversight

    Apr 22, 2026Zhiqiu Lin, Chancharik Mitra, Siyuan Cen +13Human-in-the-Loop AnnotationVideo Captioning

  7. ReImagine: Rethinking Controllable High-Quality Human Video Generation via Image-First Synthesis

    Apr 21, 2026Zhengwentai Sun, Keru Zheng, Chenghong Li +7Camera-Controlled Video GenerationVideo Generation

  8. TS-Attn: Temporal-wise Separable Attention for Multi-Event Video Generation

    Apr 21, 2026Hongyu Zhang, Yufan Deng, Zilin Pan +6Image-to-Video GenerationT2V Generation

  9. 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

  10. OmniHuman: A Large-scale Dataset and Benchmark for Human-Centric Video Generation

    Apr 20, 2026Lei Zhu, Xing Cai, Yingjie Chen +6Audio-Video GenerationVideo Generation

  11. FlowC2S: Flowing from Current to Succeeding Frames for Fast and Memory-Efficient Video Continuation

    Apr 19, 2026Hovhannes Margaryan, Quentin Bammey, Christian SandorFlow MatchingT2V Generation

  12. DreamShot: Personalized Storyboard Synthesis with Video Diffusion Prior

    Apr 19, 2026Junjia Huang, Binbin Yang, Pengxiang Yan +6Video Diffusion ModelsVideo Generation

  13. ANVIL: Analogies and Videos for Lecturers

    Apr 15, 2026Yuri Noviello, Anastasiia Birillo, Gosia MigutGenerative AI in EducationVideo Generation

  14. Prompt Relay: Inference-Time Temporal Control for Multi-Event Video Generation

    Apr 11, 2026Gordon Chen, Ziqi Huang, Ziwei LiuVideo GenerationControllable Video Generation

  15. Camera Artist: A Multi-Agent Framework for Cinematic Language Storytelling Video Generation

    Apr 10, 2026Haobo Hu, Qi Mao, Yuanhang Li +1Agentic Video GenerationVideo Generation

  16. ELT: Elastic Looped Transformers for Visual Generation

    Apr 10, 2026Sahil Goyal, Swayam Agrawal, Gautham Govind Anil +3Image GenerationTransformer

  17. Uni-ViGU: Towards Unified Video Generation and Understanding via A Diffusion-Based Video Generator

    Apr 9, 2026Luozheng Qin, Jia Gong, Qian Qiao +6Unified Multimodal ModelsVideo Generation

  18. MotionScape: A Motion-Stratified UAV Video Benchmark for World Modeling and Future Video Generation

    Apr 9, 2026Zile Guo, Zhan Chen, Xiaoxuan Liu +5Aerial RoboticsVideo Generation

  19. MoRight: Motion Control Done Right

    Apr 8, 2026Shaowei Liu, Xuanchi Ren, Tianchang Shen +5Causal Video GenerationControllable Video Generation

  20. OmniCamera: A Unified Framework for Multi-task Video Generation with Arbitrary Camera Control

    Apr 7, 2026Yukun Wang, Ruihuang Li, Jiale Tao +7Camera-Controlled Video GenerationVideo Generation

  21. OP-GRPO: Efficient Off-Policy GRPO for Flow-Matching Models

    Apr 5, 2026Liyu Zhang, Kehan Li, Tingrui Han +4RL for Generative ModelsOff-Policy RL

  22. Salt: Self-Consistent Distribution Matching with Cache-Aware Training for Fast Video Generation

    Apr 3, 2026Xingtong Ge, Yi Zhang, Yushi Huang +6Diffusion Model DistillationVideo Generation

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

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

  24. Gloria: Consistent Character Video Generation via Content Anchors

    Mar 31, 2026Yuhang Yang, Fan Zhang, Huaijin Pi +5Video GenerationIdentity-Preserving Video Generation

  25. VecAttention: Vector-wise Sparse Attention for Accelerating Long Context Inference

    Mar 31, 2026Anmin Liu, Ruixuan Yang, Huiqiang Jiang +5Transformer AttentionSparse Attention