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When Cultures Move: Measuring and Improving Multicultural Text-to-Video Generation

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arXiv:2605. 16716v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-video (T2V) generation has rapidly progressed in visual fidelity, yet its ability to faithfully represent multiple cultures within a single prompt remains underexplored.

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