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Any Time, Any Space: A World-State-Centric Framework for Agentic Video Generation

Long-form agentic video generation must turn a screenplay into shots that remain spatially and temporally consistent across nonconsecutive requests.

By Wang, Zhang, Li +7

Score██████░░░░6.0

Caveats

  • Preprint; not yet peer reviewed.

VerdictCompetent work. Briefs at most.

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Abstract

Long-form agentic video generation must turn a screenplay into shots that remain spatially and temporally consistent across nonconsecutive requests. Passing prompts or recent frames between shots does not provide a shared spatial frame for revisiting a scene or a time-indexed record for replaying an earlier event. We present Any Time, Any Space (ATAS), which compiles a screenplay into shot requests with explicit location, camera, and event-time references. Before generation, it retrieves relevant evidence from a scene memory of registered static geometry and an event memory of dynamic observations indexed by scene, event, and time. After generation, ATAS reconstructs and registers the clip. It updates memory only when review and state checks accept the observation, while film delivery remains independent of memory admission. Across four video generators, ATAS improves all reported cross-shot consistency measures and achieves the highest aggregate benchmark score for each backbone. It also outperforms the compared agents and 3D-guided methods on target-image spatial revisit, leads three event-recapture criteria, and receives the highest human ratings on all six criteria. The video results and code are available on our project page: https://lhmd.top/atas/.

Weijie Wang, Haomin Zhang, Ye Li, Akide Liu, Zeyu Zhang, Haoyu Zhao, Yefei He, Donny Y. Chen, Feng Chen, Bohan Zhuang

The editor's rubric

Heuristic review

DimensionLevelWeightWhat that level means
Leverage███░░ 324%A method or resource many groups across the field will adopt within a year.
Magnitude███░░ 318%Large gain: roughly 2x, or a clear new state of the art on a hard, unsaturated problem.
Evidence███░░ 314%Solid: multiple benchmarks or cohorts, ablations, fair baselines, released code or data.
Novelty██░░░ 216%A new combination of known ideas.
Trajectory██░░░ 218%Some room to improve with obvious engineering.
Stakes██░░░ 210%Benefits a professional community (practitioners, clinicians, engineers).

Editor’s rationale

Heuristic triage from title and abstract text only, not a reading of the paper. Cues found: method (we propose); gains (outperforms); verification (independent replication, code released); stakes (general AI).

How the score was computed

rank-2026-10-07

Score██████░░░░6.0

Score = 10 × (65% × adjusted merit / 10 + 25% × attention + 10% × freshness)

Merit
5.1 / 10
Weighted rubric, evidence-gated.
Adjusted merit
4.4 / 10
Shrunk toward the desk prior by editor confidence (38%).
Attention
91%
Citations, upvotes, points, mentions.
Freshness
79%
Half-life decay since publication.
  • Hugging Face upvotes238 (reference 25, via hf-daily, Oct 15, 2026, 13:49 UTC)
  • GitHub stars65 (reference 250, via hf-daily, Oct 15, 2026, 13:49 UTC)

The record

  • Reviewed by heuristic-v6 on Oct 15, 2026, 02:05 UTC. Paper type: method.
  • Categories: cs.CV
  • LEAD, No.1 in the Artificial Intelligence edition of October 15, 2026.