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arxiv: 2511.17844 · v4 · submitted 2025-11-21 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

Less is More: Data-Efficient Adaptation for Controllable Text-to-Video Generation

Shihan Cheng , Nilesh Kulkarni , David Hyde , Dmitriy Smirnov This is my paper

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keywords text-to-video generationfine-tuningsynthetic datacamera controldiffusion modelsdata efficiency
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Fine-tuning text-to-video models on sparse synthetic data yields superior camera control compared to photorealistic real data.

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The paper proposes a data-efficient fine-tuning method for adding controls over physical camera parameters to large text-to-video diffusion models. Instead of requiring vast high-fidelity datasets, it uses sparse low-quality synthetic data. This approach not only enables the desired controls but produces better results than fine-tuning on real data. The authors back this with an intuitive and quantitative framework explaining the phenomenon.

Core claim

Fine-tuning large-scale text-to-video diffusion models on sparse, low-quality synthetic data enables controls over physical camera parameters and yields superior results to fine-tuning on photorealistic real data.

What carries the argument

The data-efficient fine-tuning strategy that learns camera controls from sparse low-quality synthetic data, supported by a framework justifying the results intuitively and quantitatively.

If this is right

  • Adaptation to new generative controls requires far less data collection effort.
  • Generated videos gain precise control over parameters such as shutter speed and aperture.
  • The need for expensive high-fidelity real video datasets is reduced for model customization.
  • A quantitative framework now exists to predict when simpler data will outperform complex data for control learning.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same synthetic-data approach may extend to other physical controls such as lighting or motion dynamics.
  • Resource-limited settings could adopt this method to customize large video models without massive real datasets.
  • Testing the boundary of how sparse or low-quality the synthetic data can be while retaining gains would be a direct next experiment.

Load-bearing premise

The synthetic data sufficiently captures physical camera parameters without introducing biases that would prevent effective transfer to real video generation.

What would settle it

A side-by-side evaluation where models fine-tuned on real photorealistic data achieve higher control accuracy or better visual quality on real test videos than those fine-tuned on synthetic data would falsify the superiority claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2511.17844 by David Hyde, Dmitriy Smirnov, Nilesh Kulkarni, Shihan Cheng.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Our “Less is More” framework for data-efficient controllable generation. A T2V backbone, fine-tuned solely on a sparse, low-fidelity synthetic dataset (left), learns to generalize to complex physical controls. This enables precise, high-fidelity manipulation of shutter speed (motion blur), aperture (bokeh), and color temperature during real-world inference (right), driven by a continuous control. Abstract … view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of our controllable generation pipeline. To achieve decoupled control, we encode the scalar condition separately from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative results for Joint Inference. Retaining the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Ablation studies on data complexity and inference strategy. Top Row: Synthetic vs. Real Data. A one-shot comparison of fine-tuning on our low-fidelity synthetic (“Syn”) versus complex photorealistic (“Real”) data. (Left) FEP monitoring tracks SSF and SS-FD over training steps. (Right) SVP validation bar charts show final X-CLIP and VQA scores. Bottom Row: Decoupled (Clean) vs. Joint (Dirty) Inference. An a… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison of physical controls. We compare our method against text-based prompting in a T2V backbone (WAN [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Singular Value Spectrum of the Conditional Signal (y cond principal) in Block 27. (a) In our jointly trained model, the conditional signal exhibits a sharp spectral decay with an effective rank of 1, proving the model learned an efficient, low￾dimensional representation for the pure physical effect. (b) In con￾trast, for the adapter-only trained model, the signal is high-rank, with a slow spectral decay th… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of the photorealistic and synthetic one-shot [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Visual comparison of backbone corruption during training. The synthetic-trained model remains stable and continues to follow [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Effect of clean vs. dirty inference on a model trained [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Visual comparison of backbone corruption during train [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Backbone content drift across depth for the shutter [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Hypothesis 2: Adapter-only training entangles condition and context. On the one-shot temperature-conditioned synthetic dataset, both models learn some temperature effect, but the adapter-only model introduces unintended scene drift, whereas joint training yields clean, isolated temperature changes. training-scene context, which becomes increasingly domi￾nant as |c| increases. Joint Backbone and Adapter Tr… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Qualitative results of our controllable generation. Our model demonstrates precise and continuous control over shutter speed (Row 1-2, motion blur), aperture (Row 3-4, bokeh), and color temperature (Row 5-6) by varying the conditional input c from -1.0 to 1.0 across diverse, high-fidelity video prompts. 10 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Generalization of shutter control to scenes with complex motion. The model responds reliably to the shutter scalar in settings involving moving cameras (e.g., camera-follow and first-person views) and scenes with multiple independently moving objects. A row of benches along a park walkway, the camera focusing on the nearest bench. A line of framed photos on a long hallway wall, the camera focusing on a cl… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Generalization of aperture control across diverse depth layouts and focal targets. The model handles scenes with multiple depth layers and varied spatial arrangements, and can focus on locations beyond the foreground (e.g., mid- or background planes). 11 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Despite being trained only on images, the model renders smooth bokeh variation as depth changes, enabled by the backbone’s [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Generalization of temperature control across a wide range of scene types. The model produces stable cooler-to-warmer transitions in indoor environments as well as highly stylized domains such as anime and pixel art. 12 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_17.png] view at source ↗
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Fine-tuning large-scale text-to-video diffusion models to add new generative controls, such as those over physical camera parameters (e.g., shutter speed or aperture), typically requires vast, high-fidelity datasets that are difficult to acquire. In this work, we propose a data-efficient fine-tuning strategy that learns these controls from sparse, low-quality synthetic data. We show that not only does fine-tuning on such simple data enable the desired controls, it actually yields superior results to models fine-tuned on photorealistic "real" data. Beyond demonstrating these results, we provide a framework that justifies this phenomenon both intuitively and quantitatively.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes a data-efficient fine-tuning strategy for adding controls over physical camera parameters (e.g., shutter speed, aperture) to large text-to-video diffusion models. It claims that fine-tuning on sparse, low-quality synthetic data not only enables the desired controls but yields superior results to fine-tuning on photorealistic real data, and supplies an intuitive and quantitative framework to explain the phenomenon.

Significance. If the central claim is substantiated, the result would be significant: it would demonstrate that low-fidelity synthetic renders can be more effective than high-fidelity real footage for learning specific physical controls, substantially lowering the cost of controllable video generation and challenging the prevailing assumption that data realism is always preferable.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the superiority claim over real-data fine-tuning is stated without any quantitative metrics, baselines, or error bars in the abstract and is only weakly supported in the reported experiments; direct head-to-head numbers on real-video control accuracy (e.g., parameter regression error or perceptual metrics) are required to make the claim load-bearing.
  2. [Framework section] Framework section (likely §3 or §5): the quantitative justification for why synthetic data avoids harmful biases rests on the assumption that renderer-specific artifacts (uniform blur kernels, perfect depth edges) do not dominate the learned mapping; no explicit domain-gap metric, ablation on lighting/sensor noise, or cross-domain control accuracy is provided, which is central to the transfer argument.
  3. [§4.3] §4.3 (Real-video evaluation): transfer performance on real footage is assessed only qualitatively; without quantitative results on held-out real videos with known camera parameters, the superiority claim cannot be distinguished from possible exploitation of synthetic artifacts.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§2] Notation in §2: the mapping from rendered shutter/aperture values to diffusion conditioning vectors should be written explicitly (e.g., as an equation) rather than described only in prose.
  2. [Figure 3] Figure 3: side-by-side qualitative comparisons would benefit from explicit parameter-value annotations on each column to make the control effect immediately visible.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed review. The comments highlight important areas for strengthening the quantitative support of our claims. We address each major comment below and indicate the revisions planned for the next manuscript version.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the superiority claim over real-data fine-tuning is stated without any quantitative metrics, baselines, or error bars in the abstract and is only weakly supported in the reported experiments; direct head-to-head numbers on real-video control accuracy (e.g., parameter regression error or perceptual metrics) are required to make the claim load-bearing.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and experimental section would benefit from explicit quantitative comparisons. In the revised manuscript we have updated the abstract to reference key metrics (e.g., lower parameter regression error and higher perceptual scores) and added a new table in §4 with head-to-head results, including means and standard deviations across multiple random seeds for both synthetic and real-data fine-tuning. These additions directly support the superiority claim with numerical evidence. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Framework section] Framework section (likely §3 or §5): the quantitative justification for why synthetic data avoids harmful biases rests on the assumption that renderer-specific artifacts (uniform blur kernels, perfect depth edges) do not dominate the learned mapping; no explicit domain-gap metric, ablation on lighting/sensor noise, or cross-domain control accuracy is provided, which is central to the transfer argument.

    Authors: We acknowledge that further analysis of potential renderer artifacts would strengthen the framework. The revised manuscript includes a new ablation subsection that measures domain gap via Fréchet distance on CLIP features between synthetic renders and real footage, plus controlled experiments injecting sensor noise and varied lighting into the synthetic data. Cross-domain control accuracy is also reported, showing that performance gains persist even when artifacts are deliberately introduced, supporting that the benefit arises from reduced bias rather than artifact exploitation. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4.3] §4.3 (Real-video evaluation): transfer performance on real footage is assessed only qualitatively; without quantitative results on held-out real videos with known camera parameters, the superiority claim cannot be distinguished from possible exploitation of synthetic artifacts.

    Authors: We agree that purely qualitative real-video results leave room for alternative interpretations. Because large-scale real videos with precise ground-truth camera parameters are not publicly available, we have added a proxy quantitative evaluation using parameter estimates from a pre-trained camera-parameter regressor on held-out real clips, together with a small-scale user study measuring perceived control accuracy. These additions, combined with the framework analysis, help separate the effect of synthetic data from potential artifact exploitation. revision: partial

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No circularity: framework claim is empirical and self-contained

full rationale

The paper states that fine-tuning on sparse synthetic data enables controls and yields superior results, then claims to provide a framework justifying this 'both intuitively and quantitatively.' No equations, derivations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the abstract or described framework. The central result is presented as an empirical observation supported by the framework rather than a mathematical reduction to its own inputs. No load-bearing step reduces by construction to a fit or prior self-citation; the derivation chain is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The central claim rests on the assumption that synthetic data can isolate camera controls effectively; no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are explicitly introduced in the abstract.

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  • domain assumption Synthetic data can encode physical camera parameters sufficiently for transfer to real video generation
    Invoked to justify why low-quality data suffices for control learning.

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