EverAnimate: Minute-Scale Human Animation via Latent Flow Restoration
We propose EverAnimate, an efficient post-training method for long-horizon animated video generation that preserves visual quality and character identity. Long-form animation remains challenging because highly dynamic human motion must be synthesized against relatively static environments, making chunk-based generation prone to accumulated drift: (i) low-level quality drift, such as progressive degradation of static backgrounds, and (ii) high-level semantic drift, such as inconsistent character identity and view-dependent attributes. To address this issue, EverAnimate restores drifted flow trajectories by anchoring generation to a persistent latent context memory, consisting of two complementary mechanisms. (i) Persistent Latent Propagation maintains a context memory across chunks to propagate identity and motion in latent space while mitigating temporal forgetting. (ii) Restorative Flow Matching introduces an implicit restoration objective during sampling through velocity adjustment, improving within-chunk fidelity. With only lightweight LoRA tuning, EverAnimate outperforms state-of-the-art long-animation methods in both short- and long-horizon settings: at 10 seconds, it improves PSNR/SSIM by 8%/7% and reduces LPIPS/FID by 22%/11%; at 90 seconds, the gains increase to 15%/15% and 32%/27%, respectively.
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Li, W., Gao, Y., Hassan, M., Feng, L., Wentao Pan, Luan, P.-C., & Alahi, A. (2026, December 6). EverAnimate: Minute-Scale Human Animation via Latent Flow Restoration. The Fortieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, December 6, 2026. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/267771
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