Harmony: Harmonizing Audio and Video Generation through Cross-Task Synergy

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Main Authors: Hu, Teng, Yu, Zhentao, Zhang, Guozhen, Su, Zihan, Zhou, Zhengguang, Zhang, Youliang, Zhou, Yuan, Lu, Qinglin, Yi, Ran
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author Hu, Teng
Yu, Zhentao
Zhang, Guozhen
Su, Zihan
Zhou, Zhengguang
Zhang, Youliang
Zhou, Yuan
Lu, Qinglin
Yi, Ran
author_facet Hu, Teng
Yu, Zhentao
Zhang, Guozhen
Su, Zihan
Zhou, Zhengguang
Zhang, Youliang
Zhou, Yuan
Lu, Qinglin
Yi, Ran
contents The synthesis of synchronized audio-visual content is a key challenge in generative AI, with open-source models facing challenges in robust audio-video alignment. Our analysis reveals that this issue is rooted in three fundamental challenges of the joint diffusion process: (1) Correspondence Drift, where concurrently evolving noisy latents impede stable learning of alignment; (2) inefficient global attention mechanisms that fail to capture fine-grained temporal cues; and (3) the intra-modal bias of conventional Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG), which enhances conditionality but not cross-modal synchronization. To overcome these challenges, we introduce Harmony, a novel framework that mechanistically enforces audio-visual synchronization. We first propose a Cross-Task Synergy training paradigm to mitigate drift by leveraging strong supervisory signals from audio-driven video and video-driven audio generation tasks. Then, we design a Global-Local Decoupled Interaction Module for efficient and precise temporal-style alignment. Finally, we present a novel Synchronization-Enhanced CFG (SyncCFG) that explicitly isolates and amplifies the alignment signal during inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Harmony establishes a new state-of-the-art, significantly outperforming existing methods in both generation fidelity and, critically, in achieving fine-grained audio-visual synchronization.
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spellingShingle Harmony: Harmonizing Audio and Video Generation through Cross-Task Synergy
Hu, Teng
Yu, Zhentao
Zhang, Guozhen
Su, Zihan
Zhou, Zhengguang
Zhang, Youliang
Zhou, Yuan
Lu, Qinglin
Yi, Ran
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The synthesis of synchronized audio-visual content is a key challenge in generative AI, with open-source models facing challenges in robust audio-video alignment. Our analysis reveals that this issue is rooted in three fundamental challenges of the joint diffusion process: (1) Correspondence Drift, where concurrently evolving noisy latents impede stable learning of alignment; (2) inefficient global attention mechanisms that fail to capture fine-grained temporal cues; and (3) the intra-modal bias of conventional Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG), which enhances conditionality but not cross-modal synchronization. To overcome these challenges, we introduce Harmony, a novel framework that mechanistically enforces audio-visual synchronization. We first propose a Cross-Task Synergy training paradigm to mitigate drift by leveraging strong supervisory signals from audio-driven video and video-driven audio generation tasks. Then, we design a Global-Local Decoupled Interaction Module for efficient and precise temporal-style alignment. Finally, we present a novel Synchronization-Enhanced CFG (SyncCFG) that explicitly isolates and amplifies the alignment signal during inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Harmony establishes a new state-of-the-art, significantly outperforming existing methods in both generation fidelity and, critically, in achieving fine-grained audio-visual synchronization.
title Harmony: Harmonizing Audio and Video Generation through Cross-Task Synergy
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21579