Multi-agent framework coordinates narrative and visual consistency for long-form video

ViMax uses specialized agent collaboration to generate multi-scene video with coherent story and consistent characters across temporal boundaries.

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Lingxuan Huang · Sizhe He · Hengji Zhou · Liqiang Nie · Lianghao Xia · Chao Huang

The University of Hong Kong · South China University of Technology · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen

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ViMax uses coordinated multi-agent collaboration to generate long-form videos with consistent narrative and visual coherence across scenes.

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Long-form video generation struggles with narrative planning and visual consistency across scenes. ViMax is a multi-agent framework that decomposes the pipeline into specialized agents for screenwriting, shot planning, character styling, video generation, and VLM-based quality control. These agents collaborate to maintain storytelling integrity and visual coherence.

The framework uses a hierarchical narrative engine with retrieval-augmented generation to keep local decisions grounded in global story context. For visual consistency, ViMax employs graph-based dependency tracking to preserve character and object identity across shots, and generates transition videos to maintain spatial coherence between camera angles. This agentic approach addresses two fundamental challenges in long-form video: multi-shot visual consistency and narrative planning over dozens of shots.

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