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UnityVideo: Unified Multi-Modal Multi-Task Learning for Enhancing World-Aware Video Generation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-12-09 v1

Abstract

Recent video generation models demonstrate impressive synthesis capabilities but remain limited by single-modality conditioning, constraining their holistic world understanding. This stems from insufficient cross-modal interaction and limited modal diversity for comprehensive world knowledge representation. To address these limitations, we introduce UnityVideo, a unified framework for world-aware video generation that jointly learns across multiple modalities (segmentation masks, human skeletons, DensePose, optical flow, and depth maps) and training paradigms. Our approach features two core components: (1) dynamic noising to unify heterogeneous training paradigms, and (2) a modality switcher with an in-context learner that enables unified processing via modular parameters and contextual learning. We contribute a large-scale unified dataset with 1.3M samples. Through joint optimization, UnityVideo accelerates convergence and significantly enhances zero-shot generalization to unseen data. We demonstrate that UnityVideo achieves superior video quality, consistency, and improved alignment with physical world constraints. Code and data can be found at: https://github.com/dvlab-research/UnityVideo

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@article{arxiv.2512.07831,
  title  = {UnityVideo: Unified Multi-Modal Multi-Task Learning for Enhancing World-Aware Video Generation},
  author = {Jiehui Huang and Yuechen Zhang and Xu He and Yuan Gao and Zhi Cen and Bin Xia and Yan Zhou and Xin Tao and Pengfei Wan and Jiaya Jia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.07831},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Project Website https://jackailab.github.io/Projects/UnityVideo

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