{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/synthesizing-coherent-story-with-auto","title":"Synthesizing Coherent Story with Auto-Regressive Latent Diffusion Models","arxiv_id":"2211.10950","date":"2022-11-20","proceeding":null,"authors":["Xichen Pan","Pengda Qin","Yuhong Li","Hui Xue","Wenhu Chen"],"abstract":"Conditioned diffusion models have demonstrated state-of-the-art text-to-image synthesis capacity. Recently, most works focus on synthesizing independent images; While for real-world applications, it is common and necessary to generate a series of coherent images for story-stelling. In this work, we mainly focus on story visualization and continuation tasks and propose AR-LDM, a latent diffusion model auto-regressively conditioned on history captions and generated images. Moreover, AR-LDM can generalize to new characters through adaptation. To our best knowledge, this is the first work successfully leveraging diffusion models for coherent visual story synthesizing. Quantitative results show that AR-LDM achieves SoTA FID scores on PororoSV, FlintstonesSV, and the newly introduced challenging dataset VIST containing natural images. Large-scale human evaluations show that AR-LDM has superior performance in terms of quality, relevance, and consistency.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10950v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.10950v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"synthesizing-coherent-story-with-auto","repo_url":"https://github.com/xichenpan/ARLDM","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"story-continuation","task_name":"Story Continuation"},{"task_slug":"story-visualization","task_name":"Story Visualization"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"diffusion","method_name":"Diffusion"},{"method_slug":"latent-diffusion-model","method_name":"Latent Diffusion Model"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[{"leaderboard":"/sota/story-continuation-on-flintstonessv","task":"Story Continuation","dataset":"FlintstonesSV","model":"AR-LDM","rank_in_archive_order":2,"of":6,"metrics":{"FID":"19.28"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/story-continuation-on-pororosv","task":"Story Continuation","dataset":"PororoSV","model":"AR-LDM","rank_in_archive_order":2,"of":6,"metrics":{"FID":"17.4"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/story-continuation-on-vist","task":"Story Continuation","dataset":"VIST","model":"AR-LDM (SIS captions)","rank_in_archive_order":1,"of":2,"metrics":{"FID":"16.95"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/story-continuation-on-vist","task":"Story Continuation","dataset":"VIST","model":"AR-LDM (DII captions)","rank_in_archive_order":2,"of":2,"metrics":{"FID":"17.03"},"uses_additional_data":false},{"leaderboard":"/sota/story-visualization-on-pororo","task":"Story Visualization","dataset":"Pororo","model":"AR-LDM","rank_in_archive_order":2,"of":5,"metrics":{"FID":"16.59"},"uses_additional_data":false}],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2211.10950","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2211.10950","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}