arXiv:2610.17234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video reward models are trained and evaluated on human preferences between videos that often differ simultaneously on properties such as prompt alignme...
arXiv:2609.22947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is vital for optimizing video generation models, with a robust reward model (RM) serving as the cornerstone. However, exist...
arXiv:2608. 18607v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Using reinforcement learning to post-train joint video-audio generation models requires a reward signal.
arXiv:2605.07872v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal reward models have advanced substantially in text and image domains, yet progress in video understanding reward modeling remains s...
Reinforcement learning (RL) is vital for optimizing video generation models, with a robust reward model (RM) serving as the cornerstone. However, existing video reward models often produce unstable sc...
CoRe introduces a co‑evolving reward framework to mitigate latent reward hacking in video diffusion models. By continuously refitting the latent‑reward model on the generator’s current samples and anchoring it to real‑video preferences, CoRe prevents the generator from drifting outside the reward model’s training support. Experiments on Wan2.1‑T2V‑1.3B demonstrate that CoRe improves generation quality over pretrained models and prior alignment methods while avoiding quality collapse.
WorldReward introduces a vision‑language model–based reward system for camera‑conditioned world models, combining action consistency and visual quality evaluation. It processes paired videos by splitting them into action‑aligned chunks, structuring visual evidence, and aggregating decisions through voting. The model is trained on a large, reasoning‑augmented preference dataset and outperforms GPT‑5.5 on a human‑annotated benchmark, improving both action execution and visual quality when applied to RL post‑training.
The paper introduces Objective-aware Trajectory Credit Assignment (OTCA), a framework that refines reinforcement learning for diffusion-based visual generation. OTCA decomposes credit across denoising steps and allocates multiple reward signals adaptively, addressing the coarse, uniform reward assignment of existing GRPO pipelines. Experiments demonstrate that OTCA consistently enhances image and video generation quality across various metrics.
PreResQ‑R1 introduces a Preference‑Response Disentangled Reinforcement Learning framework for Visual Quality Assessment that jointly optimizes absolute score regression and relative ranking consistency. It employs a dual‑branch reward system—modeling intra‑sample response coherence and inter‑sample preference alignment—trained with Group Relative Policy Optimization. The method extends to video quality assessment via a global‑temporal and local‑spatial data flow strategy, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on 10 IQA and 5 VQA benchmarks with only 6K images and 28K videos, and provides human‑aligned reasoning traces.
VideoGen-Agent is a multimodal agent that uses multitask agentic reinforcement learning to coordinate external tools for video generation. It learns to augment, generate, and verify videos through multi‑turn interactions, guided by prompts and intermediate observations. On the new VABench benchmark, the agent improves base text‑to‑video performance by 19.1 points, and further upgrades to generation tools raise the score to 86.1, with human raters favoring the upgraded configuration in 84.3% of comparisons.
Recent advances in video generative models have enabled high-fidelity, temporally coherent video generation. However, these models often struggle to satisfy prompts requiring specialized knowledge, sp...
The paper introduces DM-Align, a single-stage optimization framework that jointly performs distribution matching for distillation and aligns video generative models with human preferences. By deriving complementary gradient directions—one minimizing the gap between real and fake models and another guiding the model toward preferred samples—the method eliminates the need for separate reinforcement learning and distillation stages. Experiments on multiple foundational video models show that this sample-guided approach consistently outperforms both standalone variants and traditional two-stage pipelines.