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Omnivbench advances benchmarks for general reference to video creation

OmniVBench: A Benchmark and Large-Scale Dataset for Omni Reference-to-Video Generation

Abstract: Reference-to-video (R2V) generation is evolving toward increasingly general and versatile reference control, giving rise to the emerging paradigm of omni R2V generation. However, existing benchmarks fall short of these emerging capabilities: their test cases cover limited reference types and compositions, and their evaluation protocols largely assess holistic reference consistency, overlooking whether reference factors are properly preserved, disentangled, and routed. Meanwhile, the high cost of constructing omni R2V training data makes suitable training resources scarce. To address these gaps, we introduce OmniVBench and the Omni-R2V Dataset for evaluating and training omni R2V models. OmniVBench expands R2V evaluation across broader reference types, fine-grained control tasks, and richer reference compositions, covering 7 task families and 18 fine-grained tasks spanning content, motion, style, structure, narrative, and multi-reference settings. We introduce factor-grounded evaluation with 12,172 case-specific checklist items, assessing whether intended reference factors are faithfully preserved, correctly disentangled and bound to their targets, and properly realized according to the instruction. We further introduce the Omni-R2V Dataset, bringing industrial-grade training resources for diverse R2V tasks to the broader research community. Drawing primarily on a large-scale corpus of professional video footage, it comprises 340K processed training samples spanning diverse reference types and multi-reference compositions. We develop task-specific pipelines for reference-target pair construction, offering a practical and scalable recipe for omni R2V data construction. Extensive evaluation of advanced open- and closed-source R2V models reveals clear performance gaps across task families and evaluation dimensions on OmniVBench, highlighting remaining limitations of current R2V models.

Fri 18 SeptComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The gist
Generating videos guided by example references is becoming more flexible, but current tests are limited and don't check if each part of the reference is handled correctly. The paper’s authors created a new benchmark called OmniVBench with many detailed tasks and a large dataset to better evaluate and train video generation systems. Their new dataset includes hundreds of thousands of video samples and covers various ways to control video output using different references. Testing current advanced models shows there’s still plenty of room for improvement.
Open 2609.22069v1

Autoregressive video models generate longer videos with improved context retention

Recency Forcing: Bridging the Long-Horizon Gap in Autoregressive Video Generation

Abstract: Autoregressive (AR) video generation degrades over long horizons due to an overlooked train-inference discrepancy we term KV eviction mismatch: models train on short clips where all context frames reside in the KV cache, but at inference, memory constraints force distant frames to be evicted from the KV cache - removing context the model was conditioned on. Rather than simulating eviction via context truncation - which discards temporal information the model still needs and degrades motion coherence - we keep the context but while progressively reducing the influence of distant frames, making their eventual eviction negligible. To guide this design, we introduce the positional response $R( Δ, \, t_{\text{denoise}})$, a perturbation-based sensitivity measure revealing that context influence decays steeply with temporal distance and varies systematically across denoising steps. Motivated by this analysis, we propose Recency Forcing, which applies a non-positive, timestep-dependent bias, termed Temporal Response Bias (TRB), on pre-softmax attention logits derived directly from $R$, closing the train-inference gap without modifying context length or training objectives. We further introduce Biased Attention Reparameterization (BAR), an exact reformulation that moves the bias outside the softmax, making TRB a standard FlashAttention call at zero overhead. Recency Forcing operates in both training-free mode and training-based mode. Experiments on VBench and VBench-Long demonstrate state-of-the-art long-horizon generation quality at no additional inference cost.

Thu 17 SeptComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The gist
Many video generation methods struggle to keep details consistent over long videos because they forget parts of the earlier frames due to memory limits during generation. The authors found this happens because models are trained on short sequences but have to generate long sequences at test time, causing important context to be lost. They propose a way to gently reduce how much older frames influence prediction instead of abruptly cutting them off, which helps the model remember longer histories without losing motion continuity. Their method works without changing training or needing extra memory, leading to better long video generations.
Open 2609.19729v1