DiVA: Enabling Interactive Digital Life Simulation via Video Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13830v1
• Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:33:15 GMT
• Title: DiVA: Enabling Interactive Digital Life Simulation via Video Models
• Abstract summary: DiVA is an interactive digital life simulator pioneering a new paradigm for long-term, open-ended interactive experiences.<n>It maintains long-term visual quality and realism, validating its effectiveness as a sustainable, interactive simulation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We present DiVA, a deeply interactive digital life simulator pioneering a new paradigm for long-term, open-ended interactive experiences within digital character worlds. DiVA's architecture pairs a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) as a router with a meticulously designed stacked video pipeline for seamless, multi-turn interactions with action and audio response. To maintain continuity and avoid degradation, we model generation as a three-part coupled system: waiting video, action video, and the transitions between them. These transitions are critically handled by our Anchored Video Continuation (AVC) module, which returns the character to stable states to prevent degradation. By encoding information from the preceding action video segment, AVC ensures smooth transitions, significantly reducing camera jitter and inconsistencies common in current video transition methods. This design also enables complex pose changes (e.g., sitting to standing) typically difficult for audio-driven models. These system designs together ensure high-fidelity identity, coherence, and dynamics for extended experiences. To validate our pipeline design, we comprehensively compare our system against alternatives by replacing our core generation module with mainstream long-video, continuation, and interpolation methods. We further analyze the necessity of the three-stage design, anchor-state selection, transition naturalness, spatial grounding, and the quality-latency trade-off, and we expand the comparison to additional long-form audio-driven avatar models. Results confirm DiVA is markedly superior in maintaining long-term visual quality and realism, validating its effectiveness as a sustainable, interactive simulation.

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