# Bring Your Dreams to Life: Continual Text-to-Video Customization

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05802 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.05802/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 37 of its 51 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 5 Dec 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 37)

- [Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.02502/) (2020)
- [Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12598/) (2022)
- [Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.00796/) (2016)
- [Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.20314/) (2025)
- [Learning without Forgetting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.09282/) (2016)
- [CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.06072/) (2024)
- [An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01618/) (2022)
- [Gradient Episodic Memory for Continual Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.08840/) (2017)
- [Tune-A-Video: One-Shot Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Text-to-Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.11565/) (2022)
- [Text2Video-Zero: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Zero-Shot Video Generators](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.13439/) (2023)
- [ModelScope Text-to-Video Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.06571/) (2023)
- [VideoComposer: Compositional Video Synthesis with Motion Controllability](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.02018/) (2023)
- [CODA-Prompt: COntinual Decomposed Attention-based Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.13218/) (2022)
- [Pix2Video: Video Editing using Image Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.12688/) (2023)
- [Video-P2P: Video Editing with Cross-attention Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.04761/) (2023)
- [DyTox: Transformers for Continual Learning with DYnamic TOken eXpansion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.11326/) (2021)
- [Inversion-Based Style Transfer with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.13203/) (2022)
- [Mix-of-Show: Decentralized Low-Rank Adaptation for Multi-Concept Customization of Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.18292/) (2023)
- [DreamVideo: Composing Your Dream Videos with Customized Subject and Motion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.04433/) (2023)
- [Learning to Remember: A Synaptic Plasticity Driven Framework for Continual Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.03137/) (2019)
- [Direct-a-Video: Customized Video Generation with User-Directed Camera Movement and Object Motion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.03162/) (2024)
- [Continual Diffusion: Continual Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion with C-LoRA](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.06027/) (2023)
- [VideoBooth: Diffusion-based Video Generation with Image Prompts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.00777/) (2023)
- [SimDA: Simple Diffusion Adapter for Efficient Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.09710/) (2023)
- [Coherent Online Video Style Transfer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.09211/) (2017)
- [MotionBooth: Motion-Aware Customized Text-to-Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.17758/) (2024)
- [SkyReels-A2: Compose Anything in Video Diffusion Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.02436/) (2025)
- [VideoSwap: Customized Video Subject Swapping with Interactive Semantic Point Correspondence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.02087/) (2023)
- [ConceptMaster: Multi-Concept Video Customization on Diffusion Transformer Models Without Test-Time Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.04698/) (2025)
- [CustomCrafter: Customized Video Generation with Preserving Motion and Concept Composition Abilities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.13239/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [All-day Multi-scenes Lifelong Vision-and-Language Navigation with Tucker Adaptation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.14276/) (2026)
- [Discrete Diffusion Bridges for Spatiotemporally Aligned Image Translation and Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.29997/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Customized text-to-video generation (CTVG) has recently witnessed great progress in generating tailored videos from user-specific text. However, most CTVG methods assume that personalized concepts remain static and do not expand incrementally over time. Additionally, they struggle with forgetting and concept neglect when continuously learning new concepts, including subjects and motions. To resolve the above challenges, we develop a novel Continual Customized Video Diffusion (CCVD) model, which can continuously learn new concepts to generate videos across various text-to-video generation tasks by tackling forgetting and concept neglect. To address catastrophic forgetting, we introduce a concept-specific attribute retention module and a task-aware concept aggregation strategy. They can capture the unique characteristics and identities of old concepts during training, while combining all subject and motion adapters of old concepts based on their relevance during testing. Besides, to tackle concept neglect, we develop a controllable conditional synthesis to enhance regional features and align video contexts with user conditions, by incorporating layer-specific region attention-guided noise estimation. Extensive experimental comparisons demonstrate that our CCVD outperforms existing CTVG baselines on both the DreamVideo and Wan 2.1 backbones. The code is available at https://github.com/JiahuaDong/CCVD.