# MotionShop: Zero-Shot Motion Transfer in Video Diffusion Models with Mixture of Score Guidance

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05355 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.05355/

## Key facts

- Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Video generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models.
- Builds on 24 of its 40 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 6 Dec 2024.

## Placed in

- Diffusion models / [Video generation](https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/video-generation/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 24 of 24)

- [Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2011.13456/) (2020)
- [Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12598/) (2022)
- [Stable Video Diffusion: Scaling Latent Video Diffusion Models to Large Datasets](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.15127/) (2023)
- [CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.06072/) (2024)
- [Make-A-Video: Text-to-Video Generation without Text-Video Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14792/) (2022)
- [AnimateDiff: Animate Your Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Specific Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.04725/) (2023)
- [CogVideo: Large-scale Pretraining for Text-to-Video Generation via Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.15868/) (2022)
- [ModelScope Text-to-Video Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.06571/) (2023)
- [Latte: Latent Diffusion Transformer for Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.03048/) (2024)
- [FateZero: Fusing Attentions for Zero-shot Text-based Video Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.09535/) (2023)
- [TokenFlow: Consistent Diffusion Features for Consistent Video Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.10373/) (2023)
- [ControlVideo: Training-free Controllable Text-to-Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.13077/) (2023)
- [DragNUWA: Fine-grained Control in Video Generation by Integrating Text, Image, and Trajectory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.08089/) (2023)
- [Rerender A Video: Zero-Shot Text-Guided Video-to-Video Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.07954/) (2023)
- [VideoDirectorGPT: Consistent Multi-scene Video Generation via LLM-Guided Planning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.15091/) (2023)
- [Boximator: Generating Rich and Controllable Motions for Video Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.01566/) (2024)
- [Motion-Conditioned Diffusion Model for Controllable Video Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.14404/) (2023)
- [TrailBlazer: Trajectory Control for Diffusion-Based Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.00896/) (2023)
- [LLM-grounded Video Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.17444/) (2023)
- [Customize-A-Video: One-Shot Motion Customization of Text-to-Video Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.14780/) (2024)
- [Efficient Video Diffusion Models via Content-Frame Motion-Latent Decomposition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.14148/) (2024)
- [Motion Inversion for Video Customization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.20193/) (2024)
- [MotionCrafter: One-Shot Motion Customization of Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.05288/) (2023)
- [Animate Your Motion: Turning Still Images into Dynamic Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10179/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 14 of 14)

- [Follow-Your-Motion: Video Motion Transfer via Efficient Spatial-Temporal Decoupled Finetuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.05207/) (2025)
- [FastVMT: Eliminating Redundancy in Video Motion Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.05551/) (2026)
- [LoRAShop: Training-Free Multi-Concept Image Generation and Editing with Rectified Flow Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.23758/) (2025)
- [Dynamic View Synthesis as an Inverse Problem](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.08004/) (2025)
- [SynMotion: Semantic-Visual Adaptation for Motion Customized Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.23690/) (2025)
- [JointTuner: Appearance-Motion Adaptive Joint Training for Customized Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.23951/) (2025)
- [DreamVideo-Omni: Omni-Motion Controlled Multi-Subject Video Customization with Latent Identity Reinforcement Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.12257/) (2026)
- [MultiMotion: Multi Subject Video Motion Transfer via Video Diffusion Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.07500/) (2025)
- [Towards Efficient Real-Time Video Motion Transfer via Generative Time Series Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.05537/) (2025)
- [FlowMotion: Training-Free Flow Guidance for Video Motion Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.06289/) (2026)
- [DTG-Restore: Training-Free Diffusion Refinement for Generative Video Super-Resolution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.30431/) (2026)
- [QWERTY: Training-Free Motion Control via Query-Warped Video Diffusion Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.01869/) (2026)
- [Motion Beyond Morphology: Bootstrapping Cross-Category Motion Transfer from Abstract Motion Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.01628/) (2026)
- [Diverse Motion Customization via Control-based Dynamic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.07911/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this work, we propose the first motion transfer approach in diffusion transformer through Mixture of Score Guidance (MSG), a theoretically-grounded framework for motion transfer in diffusion models. Our key theoretical contribution lies in reformulating conditional score to decompose motion score and content score in diffusion models. By formulating motion transfer as a mixture of potential energies, MSG naturally preserves scene composition and enables creative scene transformations while maintaining the integrity of transferred motion patterns. This novel sampling operates directly on pre-trained video diffusion models without additional training or fine-tuning. Through extensive experiments, MSG demonstrates successful handling of diverse scenarios including single object, multiple objects, and cross-object motion transfer as well as complex camera motion transfer. Additionally, we introduce MotionBench, the first motion transfer dataset consisting of 200 source videos and 1000 transferred motions, covering single/multi-object transfers, and complex camera motions.