Jinzhuo Liu1, Jiangning Zhang1✉, Wencan Jiang1, Yabiao Wang2, Dingkang Liang3, Zhucun Xue1, Ran Yi4, Yong Liu1
1Zhejiang University,
2Tencent Youtu Lab,
3Huazhong University of Science and Technology,
4Shanghai Jiao Tong University
✉Corresponding author
- [2026.05.19]: We release the github repo, the project page, the quantized model checkpoints, the NarraStream-Bench, and the paper.
💡TL;DR: IAMFlow uses explicit identity-aware memory to keep identities consistent across evolving narrative prompts, achieving faster and stronger long video generation on NarraStream-Bench.
- We introduce IAMFlow, a training-free identity-aware memory framework that explicitly organizes historical information around persistent entities and attributes, enabling reliable identity preservation across evolving prompt transitions.
- We design a systematic inference acceleration pipeline to make the framework computationally practical, combining asynchronous visual verification, adaptive prompt transition, and model quantization to preserve long-term consistency without sacrificing generation speed.
- We introduce NarraStream-Bench, a modern benchmark suite for assessing long-term consistency in narrative streaming video generation. Extensive experiments and ablation studies demonstrate that IAMFlow achieves superior performance across various metrics while enabling more efficient inference.
git clone git@github.com:Eddie0521/IAMFlow.git
cd IAMFlow
conda create -n iamflow python=3.12 -y
conda activate iamflow
# Install PyTorch first according to your CUDA environment.
python -m pip install torch==2.9.1 torchvision==0.24.1
python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install flash-attn --no-build-isolation
Download models using hf:
pip install "huggingface_hub[cli]"
hf download Wan-AI/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B --local-dir pretrained/Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B
hf download Eddie0521/IAMFlow --local-dir pretrained/iamflow_models
hf download Qwen/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct --local-dir pretrained/Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct
hf download Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 --local-dir pretrained/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507We deploy DiT, TextEncoder, and LLM on one GPU, while VAE and VLM are deployed on another GPU.
bash ./scripts/run_iamflow.shSee the NarraStream-Bench.
- MemFlow: the codebase we built upon. Thanks for their wonderful work.
- Self-Forcing: the algorithm we built upon. Thanks for their wonderful work.
- Wan: the base model we built upon. Thanks for their wonderful work.
Please leave us a star 🌟 and cite our paper if you find our work helpful.
@misc{liu2026advancingnarrativelongvideo,
title={Advancing Narrative Long Video Generation via Training-Free Identity-Aware Memory},
author={Jinzhuo Liu and Jiangning Zhang and Wencan Jiang and Yabiao Wang and Dingkang Liang and Zhucun Xue and Ran Yi and Yong Liu},
year={2026},
eprint={2605.18733},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18733},
}