Video generators improve longer clips by revisiting earlier generation steps

Wang and colleagues report better video benchmark results when each new chunk draws on intermediate versions of earlier chunks, rather than just their finished frames.

Chinese Tech
Bohan Wang · Shuo Chen · Yunzhi Li · Zhaozheng Chen · Junzhe Zhang · Hanwang Zhang

Huawei Noah Research Institute

Research Digest··2 min read
Illustration: Video generators improve longer clips by revisiting earlier generation steps

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Using the intermediate denoising trajectory of prior chunks as context improves autoregressive long video generation quality.

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Generating long AI videos is hard. Models are trained on short clips and build videos chunk by chunk. Each chunk goes through many refinement steps, but existing methods discard all intermediate predictions. This throws away useful context and lets errors accumulate.

Trajectory Forcing preserves the full history of these predictions as context for the next chunk. It learns this by first simulating the steps on training data, then using its own predictions during a practice phase.

This technique achieved the highest quality score of 85.15 on a standard benchmark. For videos six times longer than its training data, it showed the best quality and lowest drift, proving that using the full generation history stabilizes long-form video.

How it works

before and after
STANDARD EXTENSIONGenerate ChunkGenerate ChunkGenerate Next ChunkGenerate Next ChunkTRAJECTORY FORCINGstore trajectorycondition onrepeat for nextchunkDenoise ChunkDenoise ChunkSelect Intermediate: from prior trajectoriesSelectIntermediatefrom prior trajectoriesDenoise Next ChunkDenoise Next ChunkTwo training stages: supervised on ground-truth trajectories, then RL on self-rollouts.
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