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Published as a conference paper at NeurIPS 2026

SPIRAL: Self-Evolving Action-Conditioned Video Generation via Reflective Planning Agents

Yu Yang, Yue Liao, Jianbiao Mei, Baisen Wang, Jiangning Zhang, Xiangtai Li, Liang Lv, Hanlin Chen, Yong Liu, Shuicheng Yan, Gim Hee Lee

Abstract

Long-horizon action-conditioned video generation aims to synthesize temporally coherent videos that follow complex action instructions over extended horizons. Existing single-shot video generation models typically operate in an open-loop manner, leading to incomplete action execution, hallucinated motions, and temporal drift. To address this, we propose SPIRAL , a closed-loop framework that performs sequential planning and iterative reflection for action-conditioned long-horizon video generation. Specifically, a PlanAgent decomposes a high-level goal into sub-actions that condition video generation, while a CriticAgent evaluates intermediate video segments and provides corrective feedback for iterative refinement. This closed-loop design further supports self-evolving, utilizing planning and verification signals for GRPO-based post-training to enhance the video generator's consistency and action quality over extended horizons. Moreover, we introduce ActVideoGen-Dataset and ActVideoGen-Bench for training and evaluation. Experiments across multiple TI2V backbones with self-evolving show consistent gains on ActVideoGen-Bench and VBench, demonstrating the effectiveness of SPIRAL.

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