# IdentityStory: Taming Your Identity-Preserving Generator for Human-Centric Story Generation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23519 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.23519/

## Key facts

- Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 27 of its 52 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 29 Dec 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 27 of 27)

- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.02502/) (2020)
- [SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.01952/) (2023)
- [DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.12242/) (2022)
- [Multi-Concept Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.04488/) (2022)
- [MultiDiffusion: Fusing Diffusion Paths for Controlled Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.08113/) (2023)
- [Q-Align: Teaching LMMs for Visual Scoring via Discrete Text-Defined Levels](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.17090/) (2023)
- [InstantID: Zero-shot Identity-Preserving Generation in Seconds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.07519/) (2024)
- [OminiControl: Minimal and Universal Control for Diffusion Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.15098/) (2024)
- [PhotoMaker: Customizing Realistic Human Photos via Stacked ID Embedding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.04461/) (2023)
- [FastComposer: Tuning-Free Multi-Subject Image Generation with Localized Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.10431/) (2023)
- [Deep Face Recognition: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.06655/) (2018)
- [StoryDiffusion: Consistent Self-Attention for Long-Range Image and Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.01434/) (2024)
- [Grounded Text-to-Image Synthesis with Attention Refocusing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.05427/) (2023)
- [PuLID: Pure and Lightning ID Customization via Contrastive Alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.16022/) (2024)
- [StoryGAN: A Sequential Conditional GAN for Story Visualization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02784/) (2018)
- [Face Forensics in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.16076/) (2021)
- [Ranni: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Accurate Instruction Following](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.17002/) (2023)
- [StoryDALL-E: Adapting Pretrained Text-to-Image Transformers for Story Continuation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.06192/) (2022)
- [TaleCrafter: Interactive Story Visualization with Multiple Characters](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.18247/) (2023)
- [OMG: Occlusion-friendly Personalized Multi-concept Generation in Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10983/) (2024)
- [One-Prompt-One-Story: Free-Lunch Consistent Text-to-Image Generation Using a Single Prompt](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.13554/) (2025)
- [Diffusion Self-Distillation for Zero-Shot Customized Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.18616/) (2024)
- [StableIdentity: Inserting Anybody into Anywhere at First Sight](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.15975/) (2024)
- [Personalized Image Generation with Deep Generative Models: A Decade Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.13081/) (2025)
- [DisEnvisioner: Disentangled and Enriched Visual Prompt for Customized Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.02067/) (2024)
- [Story-Iter: A Training-free Iterative Paradigm for Long Story Visualization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.06244/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [OmniShow: Unifying Multimodal Conditions for Human-Object Interaction Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.11804/) (2026)
- [InnoAds-Composer: Efficient Condition Composition for E-Commerce Poster Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.05898/) (2026)
- [HiFi-Inpaint: Towards High-Fidelity Reference-Based Inpainting for Generating Detail-Preserving Human-Product Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.02210/) (2026)
- [MTVDiff: Multimodal Conditional Latent Diffusion for Enhanced Thermal-to-Visible Face Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.19886/) (2026)
- [ThinkV2V: Unleashing the Reasoning Capability of MLLMs for Instruction-Guided Video Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.38541/) (2026)
- [Memory-Guided B-Roll Generation from User Video Collections](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.01884/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Recent visual generative models enable story generation with consistent characters from text, but human-centric story generation faces additional challenges, such as maintaining detailed and diverse human face consistency and coordinating multiple characters across different images. This paper presents IdentityStory, a framework for human-centric story generation that ensures consistent character identity across multiple sequential images. By taming identity-preserving generators, the framework features two key components: Iterative Identity Discovery, which extracts cohesive character identities, and Re-denoising Identity Injection, which re-denoises images to inject identities while preserving desired context. Experiments on the ConsiStory-Human benchmark demonstrate that IdentityStory outperforms existing methods, particularly in face consistency, and supports multi-character combinations. The framework also shows strong potential for applications such as infinite-length story generation and dynamic character composition.