InfinityEdit: Infinite Video Editing with a Lightweight Edit-Ignition Adapter

Alibaba (Tongyi)

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Formalizes 'infinite video editing': given a preceding segment and an edit request, the model must generate the next segment that continues the stream under that edit, repeating indefinitely. A lightweight adapter with three attention blocks (history cross-attention, causal temporal self-attention, edit cross-attention) is selectively activated only in the chunk where an edit arrives; later chunks revert to the base model with a reset anchor.

Why it matters

Moves video editing from per-clip 'in-place' assumption to a streaming formulation, opening up long-form and live-editing workflows. HF Daily paper with 33 upvotes on Aug 24; 12-author Alibaba/Taobao team.

Importance: 2/5

HF Daily 33 upvotes

Sources

official arXiv abstract