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This article introduces EditVid, a novel training-free framework that unifies diverse video editing tasks—from style transfer to object insertion—using advanced techniques like sparse causal memory and soft latent blending. By achieving superior accuracy on the FiVE benchmark and winning over 50% of user preferences against seven competing methods, it demonstrates significant progress in instruction-guided generative video capabilities without requiring model retraining.
One Editor, Many Edits: A Unified Training-Free Framework for Diverse Video Editing
arXiv:2609.04190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video editing spans diverse editing paradigms, yet achieving high-quality instruction-guided and subject-guided editing within a single unified framework remains challenging. We introduce EditVid, a training-free framework combining sparse causal memory for local coherence, correspondence-based post-attention token injection for long-range identity preservation, and soft latent blending for edit locality. The same framework supports instruction-guided and reference-guided edits, including style transfer, attribute modification, object insertion, part-level editing, and subject replacement. On FiVE, EditVid achieves 78.16 FiVE-Acc, compared with 58.95 for the strongest evaluated training-free baseline, while obtaining competitive results on IVEBench. A user study further shows a 51.8\% overall preference for EditVid over 7 competing methods.
Abstract:Video editing spans diverse editing paradigms, yet achieving high-quality instruction-guided and subject-guided editing within a single unified framework remains challenging. We introduce EditVid, a training-free framework combining sparse causal memory for local coherence, correspondence-based post-attention token injection for long-range identity preservation, and soft latent blending for edit locality. The same framework supports instruction-guided and reference-guided edits, including style transfer, attribute modification, object insertion, part-level editing, and subject replacement. On FiVE, EditVid achieves 78.16 FiVE-Acc, compared with 58.95 for the strongest evaluated training-free baseline, while obtaining competitive results on IVEBench. A user study further shows a 51.8\% overall preference for EditVid over 7 competing methods.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2609.04190 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2609.04190v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
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