ReactID: Synchronizing Realistic Actions and Identity in Personalized Video Generation

ICLR 2026 Conference Submission18647 Authors

Keywords: Video Generation; Identity Preserving; Diffusion Models

Abstract: Personalized video generation faces a fundamental trade-off between identity consistency and action realism: overly rigid identity preservation often leads to unnatural motion, while emphasis on action dynamics can compromise subject fidelity. This tension stems from three interrelated challenges: imprecise subject-video alignment, unstable training due to varying sample difficulties, and inadequate modeling of fine-grained actions. To address this, we propose ReactID, a comprehensive framework that harmonizes identity accuracy and motion naturalness through coordinated advances in data, training, and action modeling. First, we construct ReactID-Data, a large-scale dataset annotated with a high-precision pipeline combining vision-based entity label extraction, MLLM-based subject detection, and post-verification to ensure reliable subject-video correspondence. Second, we analyze learning difficulty along dimensions such as subject size, appearance similarity, and sampling strategy, and devise a progressive training curriculum that evolves from easy to hard samples, ensuring stable convergence while avoiding identity overfitting and copy-paste artifacts. Third, ReactID introduces a novel timeline-based conditioning mechanism that supplements monolithic text prompts with structured multi-action sequences. Each sub-action is annotated with precise timestamps and descriptions, and integrated into the diffusion model via two novel components: subject-aware cross-attention module to bind sub-action to the specific subject of interest and temporally-adaptive RoPE to embed the rescaled temporal coordinates invariant to action duration. Experiments show that ReactID achieves state-of-the-art performance in both identity preservation and action realism, effectively balancing the two objectives.

Primary Area: generative models

Submission Number: 18647