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. HECTOR: Hybrid Editable Compositional Object References for Video Generation

    Mar 9, 2026Guofeng Zhang, Angtian Wang, Jacob Zhiyuan Fang +4Trajectory-Guided Video GenerationCompositional Video Generation

  2. EmbedTalk: Talking Head Synthesis using Gaussian Embeddings

    Mar 8, 2026Arpita Saggar, Jonathan C. Darling, Duygu Sarikaya +13D Gaussian SplattingLip Synchronization

  3. FastSTAR: Spatiotemporal Token Pruning for Efficient Autoregressive Video Synthesis

    Mar 7, 2026Sungwoong Yune, Suheon Jeong, Joo-Young KimVideo GenerationAutoregressive Video Generation

  4. Physical Simulator In-the-Loop Video Generation

    Mar 6, 2026Lin Geng Foo, Mark He Huang, Alexandros Lattas +3Physics-Guided Video GenerationPhysical Consistency in Video Generation

  5. Video Compression Meets Video Generation: Latent Inter-Frame Pruning with Attention Recovery

    Mar 6, 2026Dennis Menn, Yuedong Yang, Bokun Wang +6Video GenerationVideo Token Compression

  6. FaceCam: Portrait Video Camera Control via Scale-Aware Conditioning

    Mar 5, 2026Weijie Lyu, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Zhixin ShuCamera-Controlled Video GenerationVideo Generation

  7. RealWonder: Real-Time Physical Action-Conditioned Video Generation

    Mar 5, 2026Wei Liu, Ziyu Chen, Zizhang Li +3Physics-Guided Video GenerationAction-Conditioned Video Generation

  8. CubeComposer: Spatio-Temporal Autoregressive 4K 360° Video Generation from Perspective Video

    Mar 4, 2026Lingen Li, Guangzhi Wang, Xiaoyu Li +5High-Resolution Video GenerationVideo Generation

  9. FastLightGen: Fast and Light Video Generation with Fewer Steps and Parameters

    Mar 2, 2026Shitong Shao, Yufei Gu, Zeke XieVideo GenerationDiffusion Model Acceleration

  10. WildActor: Unconstrained Identity-Preserving Video Generation

    Feb 28, 2026Qin Guo, Tianyu Yang, Xuanhua He +5Identity-Preserving Video GenerationVideo Generation

  11. MicroVerse: A Preliminary Exploration Toward a Micro-World Simulation

    Feb 28, 2026Rongsheng Wang, Minghao Wu, Hongru Zhou +4Video GenerationVideo Generation Evaluation

  12. SwitchCraft: Training-Free Multi-Event Video Generation with Attention Controls

    Feb 27, 2026Qianxun Xu, Chenxi Song, Yujun Cai +1Video GenerationControllable Video Generation

  13. ColoDiff: Integrating Dynamic Consistency With Content Awareness for Colonoscopy Video Generation

    Feb 26, 2026Junhu Fu, Shuyu Liang, Wutong Li +9Video GenerationControllable Video Generation

  14. UCM: Unified Modeling of Camera Control and Memory with Time-aware Positional Encoding Warping for World Models

    Feb 26, 2026Tianxing Xu, Zixuan Wang, Guangyuan Wang +5Camera-Controlled Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  15. Human Video Generation from a Single Image with 3D Pose and View Control

    Feb 24, 2026Tiantian Wang, Chun-Han Yao, Tao Hu +3Image-to-Video GenerationVideo Generation

  16. GA-Drive: Geometry-Appearance Decoupled Modeling for Free-viewpoint Driving Scene Generation

    Feb 24, 2026Hao Zhang, Lue Fan, Qitai Wang +5Autonomous Driving SimulationDynamic Novel View Synthesis

  17. ExpPortrait: Expressive Portrait Generation via Personalized Representation

    Feb 23, 2026Junyi Wang, Yudong Guo, Boyang Guo +2Video GenerationIdentity-Preserving Video Generation

  18. PedaCo-Gen: Scaffolding Pedagogical Agency in Human-AI Collaborative Video Authoring

    Feb 23, 2026Injun Baek, Yearim Kim, Nojun KwakHuman-AI Co-CreationGenerative AI in Education

  19. Consistency-Preserving Diverse Video Generation

    Feb 17, 2026Xinshuang Liu, Runfa Blark Li, Truong NguyenVideo GenerationT2V Generation

  20. AnchorWeave: World-Consistent Video Generation with Retrieved Local Spatial Memories

    Feb 16, 2026Zun Wang, Han Lin, Jaehong Yoon +3Video GenerationCamera-Controlled Video Generation

  21. PISCES: Annotation-free Text-to-Video Post-Training via Optimal Transport-Aligned Rewards

    Feb 2, 2026Minh-Quan Le, Gaurav Mittal, Cheng Zhao +3T2V GenerationVideo Generation

  22. Slot-ID: Identity-Preserving Video Generation from Reference Videos via Slot-Based Temporal Identity Encoding

    Jan 4, 2026Yixuan Lai, He Wang, Kun Zhou +1Video Diffusion ModelsT2V Generation

  23. GeCo: Evaluating Geometric Consistency for Video Generation via Motion and Structure

    Dec 25, 2025Leslie Gu, Junhwa Hur, Charles Herrmann +4Physical Consistency in Video GenerationVideo Generation

  24. CustomX: Unified Character, Action, and Scene Customization in Video World Models

    Dec 18, 2025Yitong Wang, Fangyun Wei, Hongyang Zhang +2HOI GenerationAction-Conditioned Video Generation

  25. Transform Trained Transformer for Accelerating Native 4K Video Generation

    Dec 15, 2025Jiangning Zhang, Junwei Zhu, Teng Hu +9Efficient Transformer InferenceHigh-Resolution Video Generation

  26. Rethinking Reward Signals in Video GRPO: When Scores Become Targets

    Nov 24, 2025Rui Li, Yuanzhi Liang, Ziqi Ni +3Reward HackingRL for Video Generation

  27. UniVideo: Unified Understanding, Generation, and Editing for Videos

    Oct 9, 2025Cong Wei, Quande Liu, Zixuan Ye +5Video GenerationUnified Multimodal Models

  28. What Drives Compositional Generalization in Visual Generative Models? The Importance of Continuous Training Objectives

    Oct 3, 2025Karim Farid, Rajat Sahay, Yumna Ali Alnaggar +4Compositional Image GenerationGenerative Modeling