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· Lean TheoremOpenVid-1M: A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset for Text-to-video Generation
Pith reviewed 2026-05-14 20:30 UTC · model grok-4.3
The pith
OpenVid-1M supplies over a million precise text-video pairs with expressive captions to improve text-to-video generation.
A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.
Core claim
We introduce OpenVid-1M, a precise high-quality dataset with expressive captions. This open-scenario dataset contains over 1 million text-video pairs, facilitating research on T2V generation. Furthermore, we curate 433K 1080p videos from OpenVid-1M to create OpenVidHD-0.4M, advancing high-definition video generation. Additionally, we propose a novel Multi-modal Video Diffusion Transformer (MVDiT) capable of mining both structure information from visual tokens and semantic information from text tokens.
What carries the argument
The Multi-modal Video Diffusion Transformer (MVDiT), which extracts structure from visual tokens and semantics from text tokens through joint multi-modal processing.
If this is right
- OpenVid-1M enables smaller research groups to train competitive text-to-video models without relying on proprietary or oversized collections.
- OpenVidHD-0.4M directly supports experiments in 1080p video generation.
- MVDiT improves semantic fidelity in generated videos by moving beyond simple cross-attention for text prompts.
- Ablation studies in the paper link the joint visual-text processing in MVDiT to measurable performance lifts.
Where Pith is reading between the lines
- The curation approach could be adapted to create similarly precise datasets for other video tasks such as action recognition or video captioning.
- Wider adoption of OpenVid-1M might standardize evaluation protocols across text-to-video papers.
- Extensions of MVDiT to longer sequences or additional conditioning signals remain open for follow-up work.
Load-bearing premise
The newly collected videos and captions in OpenVid-1M are verifiably higher quality and more precise than those in prior datasets such as WebVid-10M and Panda-70M.
What would settle it
A controlled training run showing no measurable gains in video quality or text alignment metrics when models use OpenVid-1M instead of WebVid-10M would falsify the dataset superiority claim.
read the original abstract
Text-to-video (T2V) generation has recently garnered significant attention thanks to the large multi-modality model Sora. However, T2V generation still faces two important challenges: 1) Lacking a precise open sourced high-quality dataset. The previous popular video datasets, e.g. WebVid-10M and Panda-70M, are either with low quality or too large for most research institutions. Therefore, it is challenging but crucial to collect a precise high-quality text-video pairs for T2V generation. 2) Ignoring to fully utilize textual information. Recent T2V methods have focused on vision transformers, using a simple cross attention module for video generation, which falls short of thoroughly extracting semantic information from text prompt. To address these issues, we introduce OpenVid-1M, a precise high-quality dataset with expressive captions. This open-scenario dataset contains over 1 million text-video pairs, facilitating research on T2V generation. Furthermore, we curate 433K 1080p videos from OpenVid-1M to create OpenVidHD-0.4M, advancing high-definition video generation. Additionally, we propose a novel Multi-modal Video Diffusion Transformer (MVDiT) capable of mining both structure information from visual tokens and semantic information from text tokens. Extensive experiments and ablation studies verify the superiority of OpenVid-1M over previous datasets and the effectiveness of our MVDiT.
Editorial analysis
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Referee Report
Summary. The paper introduces OpenVid-1M, an open dataset of over 1 million text-video pairs with expressive captions for text-to-video (T2V) generation, along with a 433K 1080p high-definition subset (OpenVidHD-0.4M). It also proposes the Multi-modal Video Diffusion Transformer (MVDiT) that jointly processes visual tokens for structure and text tokens for semantics. The central claims are that OpenVid-1M is superior in quality and precision to prior datasets such as WebVid-10M and Panda-70M, and that MVDiT is more effective than existing T2V methods, as verified by experiments and ablations.
Significance. If the dataset curation claims can be supported by objective, reproducible quality metrics independent of downstream performance and if the experimental comparisons properly isolate the contributions of data and architecture, this would supply a much-needed large-scale open resource for T2V research and a practical architecture improvement for better text conditioning in diffusion transformers.
major comments (2)
- [§3] §3: The curation pipeline (source selection, filtering, and captioning) is described in detail, yet no quantitative validation is provided—no automated caption fidelity metrics (CIDEr, SPICE, or similar against human references), no standardized video quality scores (BRISQUE, NIQE, motion coherence), and no controlled human preference study with statistical reporting. This leaves the repeated claim of 'precise high-quality' and 'expressive captions' superior to WebVid-10M and Panda-70M without independent evidence.
- [§4] §4: The reported experiments and ablations compare MVDiT trained on OpenVid-1M against baselines, but do not fix model architecture, optimizer, learning-rate schedule, and compute budget while swapping only the training dataset. Consequently, observed gains cannot be attributed specifically to dataset quality rather than differences in scale, diversity, or training procedure.
minor comments (2)
- [Abstract] Abstract: The superiority claim is stated without any numerical metrics or baseline names, which reduces immediate readability; adding one or two key quantitative results would strengthen the summary.
- [§1] §1: A compact comparison table of prior datasets (size, resolution, caption quality indicators, public availability) would help readers quickly situate OpenVid-1M relative to WebVid-10M and Panda-70M.
Simulated Author's Rebuttal
We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major point below and indicate planned revisions to improve the manuscript.
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Referee: [§3] §3: The curation pipeline (source selection, filtering, and captioning) is described in detail, yet no quantitative validation is provided—no automated caption fidelity metrics (CIDEr, SPICE, or similar against human references), no standardized video quality scores (BRISQUE, NIQE, motion coherence), and no controlled human preference study with statistical reporting. This leaves the repeated claim of 'precise high-quality' and 'expressive captions' superior to WebVid-10M and Panda-70M without independent evidence.
Authors: We agree that independent quantitative validation would strengthen the quality claims. The manuscript primarily demonstrates superiority via downstream T2V performance gains. In revision we will add no-reference metrics (NIQE, BRISQUE) computed on sampled frames from OpenVid-1M versus WebVid-10M and Panda-70M, plus CLIP text-video alignment scores as a proxy for caption fidelity. A full human preference study with statistical reporting is not feasible at this scale without new resources, so we will instead expand qualitative examples and report caption statistics (length, vocabulary diversity). revision: partial
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Referee: [§4] §4: The reported experiments and ablations compare MVDiT trained on OpenVid-1M against baselines, but do not fix model architecture, optimizer, learning-rate schedule, and compute budget while swapping only the training dataset. Consequently, observed gains cannot be attributed specifically to dataset quality rather than differences in scale, diversity, or training procedure.
Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this isolation issue. Our current ablations vary data scale within OpenVid but do not fully control hyperparameters across all external baselines. In the revised manuscript we will add a controlled experiment that trains the identical MVDiT architecture on OpenVid-1M and a size-matched WebVid subset using the same optimizer, learning-rate schedule, and compute budget, allowing direct attribution of gains to dataset differences. revision: yes
Circularity Check
No significant circularity; contributions are new dataset curation and architecture proposal
full rationale
The paper introduces OpenVid-1M via a curation pipeline and proposes MVDiT as a new architecture, then reports experimental comparisons. No load-bearing steps reduce by construction to fitted parameters, self-citations, or self-definitions. Claims of dataset superiority rest on described filtering and captioning processes rather than any equation or prediction that loops back to its own inputs. Experiments in section 4 compare models but do not invoke uniqueness theorems or ansatzes from prior self-work as forcing functions. This is a standard empirical contribution with independent content.
Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger
axioms (1)
- domain assumption High-quality text-video pairs can be reliably collected and captioned at scale from open sources
Lean theorems connected to this paper
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IndisputableMonolith.Foundation.LawOfExistencedefect_zero_iff_one unclear?
unclearRelation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.
we introduce OpenVid-1M, a precise high-quality dataset with expressive captions... propose a novel Multi-modal Video Diffusion Transformer (MVDiT) capable of mining both structure information from visual tokens and semantic information from text tokens
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IndisputableMonolith.Foundation.DimensionForcingdimension_forced unclear?
unclearRelation between the paper passage and the cited Recognition theorem.
Our OpenVid-1M has several characteristics: 1) Superior in quantity... 2) Superior in visual quality... 3) Expressive in caption
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