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MLV-Edit: Towards Consistent and Highly Efficient Editing for Minute-Level Videos

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-03-04 v2

Abstract

We propose MLV-Edit, a training-free, flow-based framework that address the unique challenges of minute-level video editing. While existing techniques excel in short-form video manipulation, scaling them to long-duration videos remains challenging due to prohibitive computational overhead and the difficulty of maintaining global temporal consistency across thousands of frames. To address this, MLV-Edit employs a divide-and-conquer strategy for segment-wise editing, facilitated by two core modules: Velocity Blend rectifies motion inconsistencies at segment boundaries by aligning the flow fields of adjacent chunks, eliminating flickering and boundary artifacts commonly observed in fragmented video processing; and Attention Sink anchors local segment features to global reference frames, effectively suppressing cumulative structural drift. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments demonstrate that MLV-Edit consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of temporal stability and semantic fidelity.

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@article{arxiv.2602.02123,
  title  = {MLV-Edit: Towards Consistent and Highly Efficient Editing for Minute-Level Videos},
  author = {Yangyi Cao and Yuanhang Li and Lan Chen and Qi Mao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.02123},
  year   = {2026}
}
R2 v1 2026-07-01T09:31:54.082Z