Instilling an Active Mind in Avatars via Cognitive Simulation

ICLROral2026

Authors
Jianwen Jiang, Weihong Zeng, Zerong Zheng, Jiaqi Yang, Chao Liang, Wang Liao, Han Liang, Weifeng Chen, XING WANG, Yuan Zhang, Mingyuan Gao
Venue
ICLR 2026
Track
Oral

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel framework that uses a Large Language Model (LLM) for semantic guidance and a Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (DiT) for fusion to generate expressive, context-aware video avatars, demonstrating competitive performance…

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Topics

large language model language model transformer multimodal diffusion video llm

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