Optical-Flow Guided Prompt Optimization for Coherent Video Generation
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Abstract (arXiv)
While text-to-video diffusion models have made significant strides, many still face challenges in generating videos with temporal consistency. Within diffusion frameworks, guidance techniques have proven effective in enhancing output quality during inference; however, applying these methods to video diffusion models introduces additional complexity of handling computations across entire sequences. To address this, we propose a novel framework called MotionPrompt that guides the video generation process via optical flow. Specifically, we train a discriminator to distinguish optical flow between random pairs of frames from real videos and generated ones. Given that prompts can influence the entire video, we optimize learnable token embeddings during reverse sampling steps by using gradients from a trained discriminator applied to random frame pairs. This approach allows our method to generate visually coherent video sequences that closely reflect natural motion dynamics, without compromising the fidelity of the generated content. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach across various models.
Key facts. Cited by 17 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Video generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 38 of its 42 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 23 Nov 2024.
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- 2018Animating Arbitrary Objects via Deep Motion Transfercited by 208
- 2023Prompt-tuning latent diffusion models for inverse problemscited by 70
- 2018Flow-Grounded Spatial-Temporal Video Prediction from Still Imagescited by 55
- 2019Video Generation from Single Semantic Label Mapcited by 54
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- 2023Energy-Based Cross Attention for Bayesian Context Update in Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 30
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- 2026MotionSpec: Spectral Trajectory Supervision for Motion-Consistent Video Generationcited by 1
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- 2026Latent Temporal Discrepancy as Motion Prior: A Loss-Weighting Strategy for Dynamic Fidelity in T2V28 Jan 2026
- 2025GeCo: Evaluating Geometric Consistency for Video Generation via Motion and Structure25 Dec 2025
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