UniVerse-1: Unified Audio-Video Generation via Stitching of Experts

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Main Authors: Wang, Duomin, Zuo, Wei, Li, Aojie, Chen, Ling-Hao, Liao, Xinyao, Zhou, Deyu, Yin, Zixin, Dai, Xili, Jiang, Daxin, Yu, Gang
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author Wang, Duomin
Zuo, Wei
Li, Aojie
Chen, Ling-Hao
Liao, Xinyao
Zhou, Deyu
Yin, Zixin
Dai, Xili
Jiang, Daxin
Yu, Gang
author_facet Wang, Duomin
Zuo, Wei
Li, Aojie
Chen, Ling-Hao
Liao, Xinyao
Zhou, Deyu
Yin, Zixin
Dai, Xili
Jiang, Daxin
Yu, Gang
contents We introduce UniVerse-1, a unified, Veo-3-like model capable of simultaneously generating coordinated audio and video. To enhance training efficiency, we bypass training from scratch and instead employ a stitching of experts (SoE) technique. This approach deeply fuses the corresponding blocks of pre-trained video and music generation experts models, thereby fully leveraging their foundational capabilities. To ensure accurate annotations and temporal alignment for both ambient sounds and speech with video content, we developed an online annotation pipeline that processes the required training data and generates labels during training process. This strategy circumvents the performance degradation often caused by misalignment text-based annotations. Through the synergy of these techniques, our model, after being finetuned on approximately 7,600 hours of audio-video data, produces results with well-coordinated audio-visuals for ambient sounds generation and strong alignment for speech generation. To systematically evaluate our proposed method, we introduce Verse-Bench, a new benchmark dataset. In an effort to advance research in audio-video generation and to close the performance gap with state-of-the-art models such as Veo3, we make our model and code publicly available. We hope this contribution will benefit the broader research community. Project page: https://dorniwang.github.io/UniVerse-1/.
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spellingShingle UniVerse-1: Unified Audio-Video Generation via Stitching of Experts
Wang, Duomin
Zuo, Wei
Li, Aojie
Chen, Ling-Hao
Liao, Xinyao
Zhou, Deyu
Yin, Zixin
Dai, Xili
Jiang, Daxin
Yu, Gang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We introduce UniVerse-1, a unified, Veo-3-like model capable of simultaneously generating coordinated audio and video. To enhance training efficiency, we bypass training from scratch and instead employ a stitching of experts (SoE) technique. This approach deeply fuses the corresponding blocks of pre-trained video and music generation experts models, thereby fully leveraging their foundational capabilities. To ensure accurate annotations and temporal alignment for both ambient sounds and speech with video content, we developed an online annotation pipeline that processes the required training data and generates labels during training process. This strategy circumvents the performance degradation often caused by misalignment text-based annotations. Through the synergy of these techniques, our model, after being finetuned on approximately 7,600 hours of audio-video data, produces results with well-coordinated audio-visuals for ambient sounds generation and strong alignment for speech generation. To systematically evaluate our proposed method, we introduce Verse-Bench, a new benchmark dataset. In an effort to advance research in audio-video generation and to close the performance gap with state-of-the-art models such as Veo3, we make our model and code publicly available. We hope this contribution will benefit the broader research community. Project page: https://dorniwang.github.io/UniVerse-1/.
title UniVerse-1: Unified Audio-Video Generation via Stitching of Experts
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06155