Latent video generation relies on autoencoders to define a compact space in which generative models operate. Although video autoencoder architectures have evolved substantially, their latent spaces are still optimized primarily for pixel-level reconstruction and provide limited high-level semantic organization.
arXiv:2608.24293v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Latent diffusion models have emerged as a dominant framework for high-fidelity image and video synthesis, operating in compact latent spaces with varia...
By Yeonkyeong Lee, Hyunsung Go, Jongmin Kim, Sewoong Lim, Donghoon Lee
arXiv:2606. 09056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generative models have become increasingly powerful, but long-range consistency remains challenging to achieve because even a few dozen frames require impractically long transformer sequence lengths.
By Ishaan Preetam Chandratreya, David Charatan, Basile Van Hoorick, Sergey Zakharov, Vitor Guizilini, Phillip Isola, Vincent Sitzmann
Built on pretrained vision foundation models (VFMs), representation autoencoders (RAEs) have recently emerged as a promising approach for constructing semantically rich latent spaces for image generation. However, their reconstruction quality often remains suboptimal, largely because deep VFM representations do not preserve sufficient fine-grained visual detail.
4D generation synthesizes dynamic 3D scenes from conditions such as text or images. Existing methods either reconstruct generated RGB videos with a separate 4D model or adapt a particular video generator to predict geometry directly.
arXiv:2607. 29180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-motion generation must produce motions that are semantically correct, temporally coherent, and physically plausible.
By Yifei Zhu, Mingyi Shi, Yangyang Cai, Miao Cheng, Yoshifumi Kitamura, Taku Komura
arXiv:2607. 06856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prior work suggests that diffusion representations capture low-level geometry but struggle with high-level semantics.
By Michael King, Aravindh Mahendran, Matthew Koichi Grimes, Fedor Kitashov, Adham Elarabawy, Pedro Velez, Maks Ovsjanikov, Viorica P\u{a}tr\u{a}ucean
arXiv:2607. 27036v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video diffusion-based world models enable long autoregressive video generation for robotics, autonomous driving and simulation tasks, yet sliding-window autoregressive inference suffers from severe error accumulation that degrades frame quality over time.
By Taiye Chen, Qi Zhang, Yisen Wang
The paper introduces VoRTeC, a video compression framework that leverages a foundational flow model to encode latent video representations compactly and predict their positions along flow trajectories. By integrating multi‑scale priors and avoiding access to flow‑matching network parameters, VoRTeC achieves one‑step decoding with high perceptual fidelity, while maintaining temporal consistency through tail‑frame reuse and prior caching. Experiments show a 58% reduction in bit consumption compared to prior diffusion‑based methods and a decoding speed increase ranging from 3 to 197 times, reaching 13 FPS at 720p and 32 FPS at 480p.
By Yichong Xia, Qinhong Wu, Qinhong Wu, Jinpeng Wang, Zeyuan Chen, Haoqian Wang
arXiv:2512. 05672v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent approaches in controllable novel view video generation often rely on fine-tuning pre-trained Video Diffusion Models (VDMs).
By Yeobin Hong, Suhyeon Lee, Hyungjin Chung, Jong Chul Ye
Unified image restoration (UIR) aims to recover high-quality (HQ) content from low-quality (LQ) images with different degradations using a single model. Most recent methods adapt large pretrained text-to-image (T2I) latent diffusion models for their strong capacity and generative priors.
arXiv:2606. 07687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video world models are increasingly used to provide predictive visual representations, yet it remains unclear which pretraining signals induce action-relevant structure in their latent spaces.
By Jewon Yeom, Hanseul Kim, Jeongjae Park, Sungmok Jung, Jaejin Lee, Taesup Kim