Qizhen Lan

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2026

AI-generated content has progressed from monolithic models to modular workflows, especially on platforms like ComfyUI, allowing users to customize complex creative pipelines. However, the large number of components in ComfyUI and the difficulty of maintaining long-horizon structural consistency under strict graph constraints frequently lead to low pass rates and workflows of limited quality. To tackle these limitations, we present ComfySearch, an agentic framework that can effectively explore the component space and generate functional ComfyUI pipelines via validation-guided workflow construction. Experiments demonstrate that ComfySearch substantially outperforms existing methods on complex and creative tasks, achieving higher executability (pass) rates, higher solution rates, and stronger generalization.
Questions about a recurring person in long videos are rarely answered from a single moment. They require evidence that is sufficient for the claim, comparisons across episodes, synthesis over recurring audiovisual patterns, and refusal when the source material does not support an answer. Existing long-video benchmarks do not isolate these requirements. We introduce KnowMeBenchV2, an evaluation-only benchmark over five public multi-episode video series, with 327 videos and 3,061 questions covering four evidence scopes: single-clip extraction, temporal and event relations, cross-episode ordering, and cross-episode persona synthesis. A separate grounded-abstention task serves as a contrastive support check: its questions are surface-similar to supported person-linked questions but are not licensed by the source evidence. The most interpretive synthesis items are human-authored and quality-audited by trained annotators with full source access. A matched human reference reaches 78.0 on cross-episode synthesis. To diagnose failures, we compare evidence routes under a fixed Qwen3.5-9B answerer and a task-matched pre-tokenization character routing budget. ASR-Retrieval reaches 2.7 on synthesis, while KnowMe reaches 64.9. In this diagnostic, the final answerer reasons over textualized evidence constructed from audiovisual sources rather than raw video tokens. The gap therefore isolates the importance of audiovisual evidence construction and cross-episode organization before answer generation.
Existing long-horizon memory benchmarks mostly use multi-turn dialogues or synthetic user histories, which makes retrieval performance an imperfect proxy for person understanding. We present Knowme-Bench, a publicly releasable benchmark built from long-form autobiographical narratives, where actions, context, and inner thoughts provide dense evidence for inferring stable motivations and decision principles. Knowme-Bench reconstructs each narrative into a flashback-aware, time-anchored stream and evaluates models with evidence-linked questions spanning factual recall, subjective state attribution, and principle-level reasoning. Across diverse narrative sources, retrieval-augmented systems mainly improve factual accuracy, while errors persist on temporally grounded explanations and higher-level inferences, highlighting the need for memory mechanisms beyond retrieval.
Recent diffusion and autoregressive video generators have substantially improved short-form synthesis, yet composing multiple independently generated clips into a coherent audiovisual story remains challenging. Character identities may drift across scenes, narrative events can become inconsistent, and dialogue or sound may not align with the evolving visual context. We present **DramaAgent**, a hierarchical, agentic, and model-agnostic framework for multi-scene long-horizon audiovisual story generation. Rather than modifying the underlying video backbone, DramaAgent introduces a stateful control layer that combines hierarchical story planning, persistent character conditioning, scene-wise generation, and reflection-guided targeted repair. The framework maintains reusable story and character states across scenes, diagnoses failures along identity, semantic, temporal, and audio-visual dimensions, and maps each diagnosed failure to a corresponding localized repair operation. Experiments on 50 narrative scripts across five video-generation backbones show consistent improvements in semantic alignment, character consistency, narrative fidelity, and scene-level audio-visual compatibility. Controlled same-backbone comparisons further show that these gains cannot be explained solely by stronger generators or additional sampling. Our results suggest that persistent state, failure diagnosis, and targeted repair provide a practical control paradigm for coherent multi-scene audiovisual generation.