Lavieid: Local autoregressive diffusion transformers for identity-preserving video creation

Wenhui Song, Hanhui Li, Jiehui Huang, Panwen Hu, Yuhao Cheng, Yiqiang Yan, Xiaodan Liang

Abstract: In this paper, we present LaVieID, a novel local a utoregressive vi deo diffusion framework designed to tackle the challenging id entity-preserving text-to-video task. The key idea of LaVieID is to mitigate the loss of identity information inherent in the stochastic global generation process of diffusion transformers (DiTs) from both spatial and temporal perspectives. Specifically, unlike the global and unstructured modeling of facial latent states in existing DiTs, LaVieID introduces a local router to explicitly represent latent states by weighted combinations of fine-grained local facial structures. This alleviates undesirable feature interference and encourages DiTs to capture distinctive facial characteristics. Furthermore, a temporal autoregressive module is integrated into LaVieID to refine denoised latent tokens before video decoding. This module divides latent tokens temporally into chunks, exploiting their long-range