AlcheMinT: Fine-grained Temporal Control for Multi-Reference Consistent Video Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10943v1
• Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:59:34 GMT
• Title: AlcheMinT: Fine-grained Temporal Control for Multi-Reference Consistent Video Generation
• Authors: Sharath Girish, Viacheslav Ivanov, Tsai-Shien Chen, Hao Chen, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Sergey Tulyakov,
• Abstract summary: We propose AlcheMinT, a unified framework that introduces explicit timestamps conditioning for subject-driven video generation.<n>Our approach introduces a novel positional encoding mechanism that unlocks the encoding of temporal intervals, associated in our case with subject identities.<n>We incorporate subject-descriptive text tokens to strengthen binding between visual identity and video captions, mitigating ambiguity during generation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in subject-driven video generation with large diffusion models have enabled personalized content synthesis conditioned on user-provided subjects. However, existing methods lack fine-grained temporal control over subject appearance and disappearance, which are essential for applications such as compositional video synthesis, storyboarding, and controllable animation. We propose AlcheMinT, a unified framework that introduces explicit timestamps conditioning for subject-driven video generation. Our approach introduces a novel positional encoding mechanism that unlocks the encoding of temporal intervals, associated in our case with subject identities, while seamlessly integrating with the pretrained video generation model positional embeddings. Additionally, we incorporate subject-descriptive text tokens to strengthen binding between visual identity and video captions, mitigating ambiguity during generation. Through token-wise concatenation, AlcheMinT avoids any additional cross-attention modules and incurs negligible parameter overhead. We establish a benchmark evaluating multiple subject identity preservation, video fidelity, and temporal adherence. Experimental results demonstrate that AlcheMinT achieves visual quality matching state-of-the-art video personalization methods, while, for the first time, enabling precise temporal control over multi-subject generation within videos. Project page is at https://snap-research.github.io/Video-AlcheMinT

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