Hy-Nomas combines text commands and camera control across generated video worlds

The authors report that an eight-billion-parameter video model supports successive instructions and minute-scale generation by separating persistent scene descriptions from time-limited actions.

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Qiaoling Chen · Jiaxiang Cheng · Xueqing Deng · Tiankai Hang · Ji Hou · Jiaqi Li · +32 more

Tencent Hy Visual Generation Team

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Illustration: Hy-Nomas combines text commands and camera control across generated video worlds

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Hy-Nomas is a video world model that generates interactive visual worlds from free-form text and camera instructions across multiple turns.

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Interactive worlds that respond to typed commands and camera moves are hard to build. Existing models often forget what happened or fail to follow a series of instructions.

Hy-Nomas uses a diffusion model, a type of generative AI that creates video from random noise, with a special attention mechanism. This mechanism keeps descriptive context (like 'the room has red walls') available across turns, while action instructions (like 'move the chair left') apply only to the moment they are given.

In human evaluations, Hy-Nomas outperformed other world models on consistency and instruction following. This means smoother, more natural interactions in virtual environments for gaming, design, and training.

How it works

stage by stage
HY-NOMAS INFERENCE PIPELINEtext commands &camerastructuredconditionsrestricted action contextdenoisedsegmentsText & Camera Input: user instructions and controlsText & CameraInputuser instructions andcontrolsPrompt Enhancer: converts requests to conditionsPrompt Enhancerconverts requests toconditionsAction-Aware Attention: restricts action text to segmentsAction-AwareAttentionrestricts action textto segmentsHy-Nomas Diffusion: 8B parameter generatorHy-Nomas Diffusion8B parameter generatorGenerated Video: variable-length segmentsGenerated Videovariable-length segmentsThe Prompt Enhancer is a vision-language model trained on structured captions and camera trajectories.
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