More Memory, Better Videos? A Controlled Study of Visual Memory in Long-Video Generation
VMem-Bench is a two-track diagnostic study of whether retrieving past visual observations improves long-video generation. Track-A measures reference selection on 92 real films (16,548 segments). Track-B compares four retrieval policies against no-memory and gold-informed controls on 30 generated stories (2,824 segments) with a shared generator. Retrieval raised entity recall from 0.559 to 0.628-0.693 but lowered precision from 0.977 to 0.915-0.938 and forbidden-entity avoidance from 0.968 to 0.845-0.898. The authors conclude that historical fidelity can conflict with current-story correctness.
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VMem-Bench is a two-track diagnostic study of whether retrieving past visual observations improves long-video generation. Track-A measures reference selection on 92 real films (16,548 segments). Track-B compares four retrieval policies against no-memory and gold-informed controls on 30 generated stories (2,824 segments) with a shared generator. Retrieval raised entity recall from 0.559 to 0.628-0.693 but lowered precision from 0.977 to 0.915-0.938 and forbidden-entity avoidance from 0.968 to 0.845-0.898. The authors conclude that historical fidelity can conflict with current-story correctness.
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- Retrieval raised entity recall from 0.559 to 0.628-0.693 across the tested policies.
- The same retrieval policies lowered precision from 0.977 to 0.915-0.938.
- Forbidden-entity avoidance fell from 0.968 to 0.845-0.898 with retrieval.
- Retrieval can reinforce obsolete appearances after the story changes them.
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Long-video generators often add memory to prevent identity drift, assuming more history means better consistency. This study suggests retrieval can improve recall of past appearances while harming correctness for the current story, so memory utility should not be judged by retrieval relevance or final-video consistency alone.
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