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FAPL makes MLLM latents usable for cinematic video

Factor-Aware Predictive Learning (FAPL) trains a Video Diffusion Transformer (DiT) to use multimodal large language model (MLLM) latents for cinematic video generation. Its target is twofold: infer action and camera details from sparse text or references, and change a requested factor—character, scene, action, or camera—while preserving the others. The central claim is that MLLM features need generation-specific training to become actionable.

The problem is that a DiT can minimize its video-generation loss through familiar text-encoder or VAE-reference pathways while largely ignoring MLLM features. Even when MLLM latents are used, ordinary video-level supervision does not teach the generator which output changes should follow a particular factor edit. FAPL therefore first grounds the DiT in MLLM-only conditioning, then trains factor interventions and sparse-input prediction. FAPL addresses a different bottleneck from representation-compression work such as four-plane video autoencoders: it trains the MLLM–DiT conditioning pathway rather than replacing the video latent architecture....

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