Papers with video generation
Text Diffusion Model with Encoder-Decoder Transformers for Sequence-to-Sequence Generation (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing diffusion models are applied to continuous feature space while texts are sequences of discrete categorical tokens. |
| Approach: | They propose to use an encoder-decoder Transformer architecture to approach sequence-to-sequence text generation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on five sequence-to-sequence generation tasks compared to other diffusion-based models regarding text quality and inference time. |
TeachMaster: Generative Teaching via Code (2026.acl-industry)
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Yuheng Wang, Runde Yang, Lin Wu, Jie Zhang, Jingru Fan, Tianle Zhou, Ruoyu Fu, Huatao Li, Ruijie Shi, Siheng Chen, Weinan E, Chen Qian
| Challenge: | Existing methods for creating video content are limited by high costs and slow update cycles. |
| Approach: | They propose a paradigm shifting educators from manual creators to high-level directors who focus on pedagogical intents while agents handle execution. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework reduces production costs to 0.3% of traditional course videos and provides a robust solution for scalable education. |
VChain: Chain-of-Visual-Thought for Reasoning in Video Generation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent video generation models struggle to synthesize complex dynamics with a coherent chain of consequences. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that injects visual reasoning signals from multimodal models into video generation. |
| Outcome: | a new framework that leverages multimodal models to generate sparse keyframes significantly improves quality of generated videos. |
Multimodal Generation with Consistency Transferring (2025.findings-naacl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for multimodal content generation are limited to unimodal content production due to high training complexity, significant costs, and inadequate emphasis on model constraints. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to generate multimodal content with constraints on adjacent steps and a layer-based layer-constrained transfer between adjacent steps to improve denoising capabilities. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the model’s ability to capture actions and depict backgrounds more effectively and improves video generation speed by approximately 40% and quality by about 39.3%. |
VC4VG: Optimizing Video Captions for Text-to-Video Generation (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in text-to-video generation highlight the critical role of high-quality video-text pairs in training models capable of producing coherent and instruction-aligned videos. |
| Approach: | They propose a caption optimization framework tailored to the needs of T2V models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves video caption quality and video generation performance. |
VideoScore: Building Automatic Metrics to Simulate Fine-grained Human Feedback for Video Generation (2024.emnlp-main)
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Xuan He, Dongfu Jiang, Ge Zhang, Max Ku, Achint Soni, Sherman Siu, Haonan Chen, Abhranil Chandra, Ziyan Jiang, Aaran Arulraj, Kai Wang, Quy Do, Yuansheng Ni, Bohan Lyu, Yaswanth Narsupalli, Rongqi Fan, Zhiheng Lyu, Bill Yuchen Lin, Wenhu Chen
| Challenge: | Existing video metrics are lagging behind in providing reliable scores over generated videos due to lack of large-scale human-annotated dataset. |
| Approach: | They propose to use VideoFeedback to train a human-annotated multi-aspect score over 37.6K synthesized videos from 11 existing video generative models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms the prior best metrics by 50 points in the test. |
AsymKV: Enabling 1-Bit Quantization of KV Cache with Layer-Wise Asymmetric Quantization Configurations (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Large language models require substantial storage space to perform tasks such as text generation and video generation. |
| Approach: | They propose to compress large language models using integer replacements for floating-point numbers, in a process known as Quantization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model allows for quantization of up to 75% decoder layers with 1 bit while maintaining performance levels comparable to those of the models with floating parameters. |
Evaluation Agent: Efficient and Promptable Evaluation Framework for Visual Generative Models (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing evaluation methods rely on rigid pipelines that overlook user needs and provide numerical results without clear explanations. |
| Approach: | They propose an evaluation framework that employs human-like strategies for efficient, dynamic, multi-round evaluations using only a few samples per round. |
| Outcome: | The evaluation agent framework reduces evaluation time to 10% of traditional methods while delivering comparable results. |
Beyond the Last Frame: Process-aware Evaluation for Generative Video Reasoning (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing evaluation frameworks often rely on single-frame assessments, which can lead to outcome-hacking. |
| Approach: | They propose a process-aware evaluation paradigm that uses a hierarchical rubric to evaluate the validity of the intermediate steps and the final result. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves POC@1.0 only about 20% and exhibits significant outcome-hacking. |
VF-Eval: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs for Generating Feedback on AIGC Videos (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are used for video quality assessment, image captioning and video analysis. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark to evaluate MLLMs on AIGC videos using coherence validation, error awareness, error type detection and reasoning evaluation tasks. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark evaluates 13 frontier MLLMs on AIGC videos. |
MSVBench: Towards Human-Level Evaluation of Multi-Shot Video Generation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing evaluation methods for complex multi-shot video are anchored to single-shot paradigms, lacking comprehensive story assets and cross-shot metrics. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that synergizes the high-level semantic reasoning of Large Multimodal Models with the fine-grained perceptual rigor of domain-specific expert models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework synergizes the high-level semantic reasoning of Large Multimodal Models with the fine-grained perceptual rigor of domain-specific expert models. |
Accelerating Training of Autoregressive Video Generation Models via Local Optimization with Representation Continuity (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing autoregressive models have shown superior performance and efficiency in image generation, but are constrained by high computational costs and prolonged training times in video generation. |
| Approach: | They propose a Local Optimization method which optimizes tokens within localized windows while leveraging contextual information to reduce error propagation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves superior performance to the baseline while halving the training cost without sacrificing quality. |