Three-stage training makes MLLM latents effective for cinematic video generation

Factor-Aware Predictive Learning uses latent grounding, factor-span replacement, and fixed-generator optimization to bridge multimodal understanding and controllable generation.

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Songlin Yang · Zhe Wang · Xiaotong Zhao · Xi Wang · Ran Zhang · Shuai Li · +5 more

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Tencent Video · École Polytechnique

Research Digest··3 min read
The authors propose Factor-Aware Predictive Learning (FAPL), a three-stage training procedure that makes the representations of a frozen multimodal large language model directly actionable for a Video Diffusion Transformer in cinematic generation.

, a script and a few visual references) and factor-aware control over character, scene, action, and camera.

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