TIE: Time Interval Encoding for Video Generation over Events

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10543v1
• Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 13:23:14 GMT
• Title: TIE: Time Interval Encoding for Video Generation over Events
• Abstract summary: Director-style prompting, robotic action prediction, and interactive video agents demand temporal grounding over concurrent events.<n>Modern video generators represent time as discrete points through point-wise positional encodings.<n>Time Interval TIE is a principled, plug-and-play interval-aware generalization.
• Score: 50.66585165263848
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Director-style prompting, robotic action prediction, and interactive video agents demand temporal grounding over concurrent events -- a regime in which 68% of general clips and over 99% of robotics/gameplay clips contain overlapping events, yet existing multi-event generators rest on a single-active-prompt assumption. However, modern video generators, such as Diffusion Transformers (DiT), represent time as discrete points through point-wise positional encodings. This formulation creates a fundamental dimension mismatch: temporally extended intervals and overlapping events are mathematically unrepresentable to the attention mechanism. In this paper, we propose Time Interval Encoding (TIE), a principled, plug-and-play interval-aware generalization of rotary embeddings that elevates time intervals to first-class primitives inside DiT cross-attention. Rather than introducing another heuristic interval embedding, we show that, within RoPE-compatible bilinear attention, TIE is characterized by two basic principles: Temporal Integrability, which requires an event to aggregate positional evidence over its full duration, and Duration Invariance, which removes the trivial bias toward longer intervals. Under a uniform kernel, this characterization yields an efficient closed-form sinc-based solution that preserves the standard attention interface and naturally attenuates boundary noise through interval integration. Empirically, TIE preserves the visual quality of the base DiT model while substantially improving temporal controllability. In our experiments on the OmniEvents dataset, it improves human-verified Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Rate from 77.34% to 96.03% and reduces temporal boundary error from 0.261s to 0.073s, while also improving trajectory-level temporal alignment metrics. The code and dataset are available at https://github.com/MatrixTeam-AI/TIE.

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