video generation teams

Abstract: Video reward models are trained and evaluated on human preferences between videos that often differ simultaneously on properties such as prompt alignment, visual fidelity, motion, and generator identity. As a result, aggregate accuracy does not reveal which video properties a reward model can reliably distinguish. We construct preference pairs by controlled interventions that change one property of a generated video while holding the rest fixed. The resulting pairs, by construction, provide preferences for how the videos differ along a specific dimension, without requiring any human annotation. We propose IsoVRBench, a video generation reward modeling benchmark of 8,000 such pairs across eight interventions, and show that state-of-the-art models separate broad quality differences between generators but miss important features such as temporal order. The best reward model reaches only 60.8% on reordered frames against 100% for humans, and rankings on existing benchmarks do not predict this failure. Using the synthetic isolated intervation pairs as training data leads to 1) IsoVRM, a reward model outperforming its counterpart trained with a larger human labeled preference dataset by 3.8 points on VBench-2.0, 2) IsoWan, the video generator post-trained with IsoVRM, outperforming its human-data counterpart in human preferences, and 3) gains that stack when combined with human data. Because intervention pairs are automatically generated rather than collected, the benchmark and training data can be easily extended as generators evolve.

Abstract: Regression-based RL for flow models mandates sampling \emph{without} classifier-free guidance (CFG) to align the rectification target with the reference marginal velocity. Extending Advantage-Weighted Rectification (AWR), which dynamically scales this regression target based on reward, to video generation encounters a cold-start pathology: unguided rollouts collapse into low-fidelity regions where intra-group reward gaps remain wide but no longer track perceptual quality, rendering the optimization target arbitrary. Conversely, utilizing guided rollouts to restore fidelity, while keeping the regression target tied to the guided sampling distribution, provably triggers a geometric guidance blow-up under exponential-moving-average (EMA) updates. We propose \textbf{VideoAWR}, which resolves this tension by untying sampling from the optimization anchor. An EMA reference policy generates \emph{guided} rollouts to restore reward separability, while the trainable policy is rectified against the \emph{unguided} conditional anchor. We prove this decoupled objective is mathematically exact: the centered advantage cancels the anchor in expectation, filtering out the reward-neutral guidance offset and retaining only the reward-correlated covariance increment. Consequently, inference runs single-branch and CFG-free, yet inference-time CFG preserves its original semantics. Furthermore, we introduce \emph{Decoupled Timestep Rectification}, supervising each rollout at an independently sampled timestep without bias to improve sample efficiency. Experiments on Wan2.1-1.3B and 14B demonstrate stable optimization and superior visual and motion quality in \emph{both} CFG-free and CFG-enabled regimes. Code is available at \pdfstartlink attr{/Border [0 0 0]} user{/Subtype /Link /A << /S /URI /URI (https://github.com/Fuzm7/FlowAWR) >>}% \textcolor{pearDark}{VideoAWR}\pdfendlink.

Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve remarkable performance in video synthesis, but their iterative denoising process suffers from high inference latency. To address this, caching has emerged as an effective acceleration strategy by capitalizing on inter-step redundancy during denoising. Existing dynamic caching methods typically estimate the error that cache reuse would introduce at each denoising step (step error) to guide cache decisions, whereas our concern is how much quality loss cache reuse would cause in the final generated video (terminal error). We show that step error does not directly correspond to terminal error and that latent information helps capture their relationship, thereby informing cache decisions. Moreover, existing threshold-based methods cannot provide precise speedup control, making it difficult to meet practical requirements for user-specified acceleration targets. To address these limitations, we introduce MORCA, a cache scheduling framework trained through offline-to-online reinforcement learning to make latent-aware reuse/recompute decisions under user-specified acceleration targets. Extensive experiments on different video generation models across multiple target acceleration ratios demonstrate that MORCA achieves better generation fidelity than state-of-the-art caching methods under comparable computational budgets. Code is available at https://github.com/x10ngyx/MORCA.

Abstract: Video generation has advanced to produce visually compelling and temporally coherent results. Yet, whether these models can genuinely think with video--executing symbolic rules, respecting physical laws, and pursuing intentional goals--remains an open question. Existing benchmarks only partially address this, often conflating visual quality with cognitive correctness. We introduce VWG-Bench (Video World Generalist Benchmark), a comprehensive benchmark spanning 9 reasoning dimensions and 38 fine-grained tasks. To enable precise diagnosis, we design a three-level VLM-as-Judge protocol that independently assesses video-level fluency, task-level rule adherence, and sample-level goal realization. Evaluations of leading models reveal a striking gap: while models achieve strong rendering scores, they consistently fail on logic-heavy and rule-constrained tasks. To address this, we propose Vid-PRE (Video Prompt Reasoner and Enhancer), a model-agnostic prompt rewriter that offloads the cognitive burden of reasoning to a dedicated VLM. Trained via reinforcement learning with purely text-based rewards, Vid-PRE produces concise, constraint-aware prompts without the instability of video-level reward signals. Experiments show that Vid-PRE yields substantial reasoning improvements across multiple generators without architectural modifications. Together, VWG-Bench and Vid-PRE offer a rigorous diagnostic lens and a scalable path toward true think-with-video capabilities. All data and code are publicly available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/KlingTeam/VWG-Bench.