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SymRegFlow: Symmetry-Regularized Flow Matching for Video World Models

arXiv 2610.02726 ↗First posted 2 Oct 2026cs.CVcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Flow-matching-based multi-view world models generate realistic videos, but are commonly restricted to fixed camera rigs. Extending them to continuously varying camera poses requires paired pose--video observations with dense pose coverage, which are costly to acquire. We introduce SymRegFlow, a symmetry-regularized flow-matching framework for multi-view-consistent video generation across continuous viewpoints without ground-truth novel-view RGB supervision. For each target pose, SymRegFlow geometrically warps source views into noisy anchors and combines masked dual-anchor supervision with cross-anchor denoising-output consistency to mitigate anchor-specific errors. Under an affine Gaussian surrogate, we prove that suitable consistency regularization recovers the clean-reference optimum at fixed noise levels, strictly outperforming single- and merged-anchor baselines. Experiments on Cosmos-Drive-Dreams and nuScenes demonstrate high-quality, multi-view-consistent autonomous-driving video generation: on nuScenes, SymRegFlow achieves the lowest FVD and FVMD among the evaluated baselines, reducing FVD by over 31% relative to the best baseline, and source-conditioned inference also attains the best FID and instance preservation.

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