arxiv: 2604.05489 · v4 · submitted 2026-04-07 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.MA

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SCMAPR: Self-Correcting Multi-Agent Prompt Refinement for Complex-Scenario Text-to-Video Generation

Aimin Zhou, Chengyi Yang, Jiayin Qi, Ji Liu, Ji Wu, Pengzhen Li

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keywords prompt refinementmulti-agent systemstext-to-video generationcomplex scenariossemantic verificationself-correctionbenchmark

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The pith

A multi-agent system routes prompts to scenarios, rewrites them with policies, and self-corrects via semantic checks to improve text-to-video generation in complex cases.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper sets out to show that prompt ambiguity limits current text-to-video systems when handling complex scenes with multiple objects, actions, or conditions, and that a staged multi-agent process can resolve this by first classifying each prompt into a scenario type, then generating and applying targeted rewriting rules, and finally verifying the result for semantic violations before revising. A sympathetic reader would care because better prompts would let existing video generators produce more faithful outputs without any change to their training or architecture. The authors support this by introducing a dedicated benchmark of only complex prompts and by running the framework against three baselines on both standard and new test sets.

Core claim

SCMAPR coordinates specialized agents to route each prompt to a taxonomy-grounded scenario for strategy selection, synthesize scenario-aware rewriting policies and perform policy-conditioned refinement, and conduct structured semantic verification that triggers conditional revision when violations are detected, yielding consistent gains in alignment and quality on existing benchmarks plus the new T2V-Complexity set.

What carries the argument

The stage-wise multi-agent refinement process that performs scenario routing, policy-conditioned rewriting, and structured semantic verification with conditional revision.

If this is right

Existing text-to-video models produce higher alignment and quality scores on complex prompts without any retraining.
Evaluation becomes more rigorous once a benchmark limited to complex scenarios is available.
Prompt refinement can be treated as a separable, reusable stage rather than an ad-hoc user task.
Self-correction loops reduce the chance that a single flawed rewrite harms the final output.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

The same routing-plus-verification pattern could be tested on image or audio generators that also suffer from underspecified prompts.
If the taxonomy proves stable, it might serve as a shared reference for comparing different refinement methods across papers.
Practitioners could embed the agent pipeline inside creative tools so that users receive automatic prompt upgrades before generation begins.

Load-bearing premise

The scenario taxonomy and verification rules can detect real prompt violations and produce corrections that improve the downstream video without introducing fresh inconsistencies.

What would settle it

On the T2V-Complexity benchmark, videos generated from SCMAPR-refined prompts show no gain or a drop in text-video alignment metrics relative to the same generators run on the original unrefined prompts.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.05489 by Aimin Zhou, Chengyi Yang, Jiayin Qi, Ji Liu, Ji Wu, Pengzhen Li.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Self-Correcting Multi-Agent Prompt Refinement Framework (SCMAPR). SCMAPR organizes prompt refinement as a stage-wise multi-agent collaboration involving six specialized agents. The framework proceeds through five functional stages: (I) Scenario Routing, where Scenario Router assigns a scenario tag to the input prompt. (II) Policy Synthesis, where a Policy Generator generates a scenario-conditioned rewritin… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Illustration of the Semantic Verification Stage in SCMAPR. Given a user input and the corresponding refined prompt, semantic verification is performed in four steps. (1) Atomic Extraction decomposes the user input into atom elements. (2) Chunking segments the refined prompt into semantically coherent evidence units. (3) Atom-Chunk Matching retrieves the most relevant evidence chunk for each atom. (4) Entai… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Comparisons of videos generated using Wan ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Text-to-Video (T2V) generation has benefited from recent advances in diffusion models, yet current systems still struggle under complex scenarios, which are generally exacerbated by the ambiguity and underspecification of text prompts. In this work, we formulate complex-scenario prompt refinement as a stage-wise multi-agent refinement process and propose SCMAPR, i.e., a scenario-aware and Self-Correcting Multi-Agent Prompt Refinement framework for T2V prompting. SCMAPR coordinates specialized agents to (i) route each prompt to a taxonomy-grounded scenario for strategy selection, (ii) synthesize scenario-aware rewriting policies and perform policy-conditioned refinement, and (iii) conduct structured semantic verification that triggers conditional revision when violations are detected. To clarify what constitutes complex scenarios in T2V prompting, provide representative examples, and enable rigorous evaluation under such challenging conditions, we further introduce T2V-Complexity, which is a complex-scenario T2V benchmark consisting exclusively of complex-scenario prompts. Extensive experiments on 3 existing benchmarks and our T2V-Complexity benchmark demonstrate that SCMAPR consistently improves text-video alignment and overall generation quality under complex scenarios, achieving up to 2.67% and 3.28 gains in average score on VBench and EvalCrafter, and up to 0.028 improvement on T2V-CompBench over 3 State-Of-The-Art baselines. The codes of SCMAPR are publicly available at https://github.com/HiThink-Research/SCMAPR.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

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SCMAPR adds a multi-agent pipeline with scenario routing, policy rewriting, and LLM-based semantic verification to improve complex T2V prompts, plus a new benchmark, but the reported gains are small and the correction step lacks supporting checks.

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This paper's main contribution is SCMAPR, a framework that breaks prompt refinement into a multi-agent process: routing the input to a scenario type, applying policy-conditioned rewriting, and then running structured semantic verification to catch and fix issues before generation. They back this with a new benchmark called T2V-Complexity made up of complex prompts, and report improvements over three baselines on VBench, EvalCrafter, and their own test set. The code is released, which helps. The approach is sensible for an engineering fix. Current T2V models often fail on ambiguous or multi-part prompts, so adding layers to clarify them makes sense. The taxonomy and verification step add some structure that plain prompt engineering lacks. That said, the gains look modest at best, and the abstract gives little on how the verification works in practice. No accuracy numbers for the violation detection, no ablations isolating that component, and the new benchmark shares the taxonomy used in the system. This makes it hard to know if the self-correction is truly effective or if results are boosted by design choices. Full details on baselines and variability controls would help too. For readers, this is useful for teams building T2V applications who want better prompt handling without model changes. It won't interest theorists much. I think it deserves peer review. The setup is novel enough in its combination of agents and benchmark, and with code available, referees can dig into whether the claims hold.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes SCMAPR, a scenario-aware self-correcting multi-agent prompt refinement framework for text-to-video generation under complex scenarios. It coordinates agents for taxonomy-grounded scenario routing, policy-conditioned rewriting, and structured semantic verification that triggers conditional revisions when violations are detected. The authors introduce the T2V-Complexity benchmark of complex-scenario prompts and report consistent improvements in text-video alignment and generation quality over three SOTA baselines, with gains of up to 2.67% and 3.28 in average scores on VBench and EvalCrafter plus 0.028 on T2V-CompBench; code is released publicly.

Significance. If the gains prove robust and specifically due to the targeted self-correction rather than generic prompt elaboration, SCMAPR would provide a structured, reproducible approach to mitigating prompt underspecification in T2V models. The public code at https://github.com/HiThink-Research/SCMAPR is a clear strength for reproducibility. The T2V-Complexity benchmark addresses a real evaluation gap. However, the modest effect sizes limit immediate practical impact absent stronger validation that the multi-agent pipeline outperforms simpler alternatives.

major comments (3)

[Methodology (structured semantic verification)] Methodology, semantic verification component: the LLM-based violation detection and conditional revision lack any reported precision/recall, inter-annotator agreement, or human validation metrics. This is load-bearing for the self-correction claim, as the modest deltas could arise from non-specific prompt changes rather than reliable violation correction.
[Experiments] Experiments section: no ablation isolating the semantic verification agent from the routing and rewriting agents is presented. Without it, the reported improvements (e.g., 0.028 on T2V-CompBench) cannot be attributed to the self-correcting mechanism rather than increased prompt length or detail.
[T2V-Complexity benchmark] T2V-Complexity benchmark construction: prompts are selected using the same taxonomy as the routing agent, creating a potential selection bias that weakens claims of independent evaluation on this new benchmark (even though gains are also shown on existing benchmarks).

minor comments (2)

[Abstract and Experiments] Abstract and experiments lack explicit details on baseline implementations, statistical significance testing, number of runs, and controls for prompt variability, which are needed to assess robustness of the quantitative gains.
[Methodology] Notation for agent roles and policy conditioning could be clarified with a diagram or pseudocode to improve readability of the multi-agent pipeline.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below, providing the strongest honest defense of our work while outlining revisions to address valid concerns about attribution and validation.

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Referee: Methodology, semantic verification component: the LLM-based violation detection and conditional revision lack any reported precision/recall, inter-annotator agreement, or human validation metrics. This is load-bearing for the self-correction claim, as the modest deltas could arise from non-specific prompt changes rather than reliable violation correction.

Authors: We acknowledge that the manuscript does not report quantitative metrics such as precision/recall or inter-annotator agreement for the LLM-based violation detection. The verification component is designed to be structured, relying on explicit taxonomy-derived rules and semantic constraints rather than open-ended LLM judgment, which reduces the risk of non-specific changes. To directly address the concern, we will revise the paper to include a human validation study on a sampled set of detections and revisions, reporting agreement metrics and error analysis. This will provide evidence that corrections target specific violations. revision: yes
Referee: Experiments section: no ablation isolating the semantic verification agent from the routing and rewriting agents is presented. Without it, the reported improvements (e.g., 0.028 on T2V-CompBench) cannot be attributed to the self-correcting mechanism rather than increased prompt length or detail.

Authors: We agree that an explicit ablation isolating the semantic verification agent is necessary to attribute gains specifically to self-correction rather than general prompt elaboration. The current experiments compare the full pipeline against baselines but do not break down the verification step. In the revised manuscript, we will add targeted ablations on all benchmarks, including a no-verification variant (routing + rewriting only), to quantify the incremental contribution of the conditional revision mechanism. revision: yes
Referee: T2V-Complexity benchmark construction: prompts are selected using the same taxonomy as the routing agent, creating a potential selection bias that weakens claims of independent evaluation on this new benchmark (even though gains are also shown on existing benchmarks).

Authors: The taxonomy is a general classification of complex T2V scenarios derived from prior literature on prompt underspecification, not a method-specific construct. Benchmark prompts were curated separately to represent challenging real-world cases, with the taxonomy applied only for categorization. We will revise the benchmark section to explicitly detail the independent curation process, provide additional examples, and clarify the distinction from routing usage. The reported gains on VBench and EvalCrafter, which use unrelated prompts, already mitigate concerns about benchmark-specific bias. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical framework with independent benchmarks

full rationale

The paper presents a procedural multi-agent system (taxonomy routing, policy synthesis, semantic verification) for prompt refinement, with performance measured on external public benchmarks (VBench, EvalCrafter) plus a new T2V-Complexity set. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivations exist that could reduce claims to inputs by construction. No self-citations are load-bearing, and no uniqueness theorems or ansatzes are invoked. Gains are reported as empirical deltas against baselines, not tautological outputs. The new benchmark uses the taxonomy for selection, but this does not create circularity in the reported results on independent metrics.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

This is an applied systems paper with no mathematical derivations, free parameters fitted in the reported results, domain axioms, or newly postulated entities; it builds on existing LLM and multi-agent capabilities.

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SCMAPR coordinates specialized agents to (i) route each prompt to a taxonomy-grounded scenario... (iii) conduct structured semantic verification that triggers conditional revision when violations are detected.
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Complex Spatial Relations
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Multi - Element Scenes
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Fine - Grained Appearance
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Temporal Consistency
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## Diagnostic definitions ( brief ) - Abstract Descriptions : metaphorical / symbolic / abstract intent ; requires semantic grounding beyond literal objects

Non - difficult ## Task Given a short English prompt P_in , decide which SINGLE tag best describes the dominant difficulty a T2V model would face when generating a video . ## Diagnostic definitions ( brief ) - Abstract Descriptions : metaphorical / symbolic / abstract intent ; requires semantic grounding beyond literal objects . - Complex Spatial Relation...
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Abstract intent dominates -> Abstract Descriptions
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Explicit spatial constraints dominate -> Complex Spatial Relations
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Many entities / dense scene dominates -> Multi - Element Scenes
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Fine - grained / identity / textural constraints dominate -> Fine - Grained Appearance
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Temporal evolution / continuity dominates -> Temporal Consistency
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Style blending dominates -> Stylistic Hybrids
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Cause - effect / physical plausibility dominates -> Causality & Physics 22
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Camera trajectory dominates -> Camera Motion
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Contact - driven interaction dominates -> Object Interaction
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Multi - shot transitions dominates -> Scene Transitions
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Hope dances in a field of forgotten dreams

Otherwise choose -> non - difficult ## Few - Shot Examples - " Hope dances in a field of forgotten dreams ." -> Abstract Descriptions - " A cat sits between a dog and a parrot hovering above them ." -> Complex Spatial Relations - " Ten performers dance under fireworks in a crowded plaza ." -> Multi - Element Scenes - " A close - up of a cracked porcelain ...
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Only output atoms that appear verbatim in the given prompt ( exact surface spans )
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Do NOT paraphrase , generalize , translate , lemmatize , or infer missing items
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If you cannot find it exactly , do NOT output it

Each atom must be a substring of the prompt . If you cannot find it exactly , do NOT output it
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Keep the original casing and wording as in the prompt
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Output ONLY valid JSON with keys : characters , objects , actions , locations , scenery
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Hope " ,

If an abstract concept is explicitly used as an entity / actor in the prompt ( e . g . , " Hope " , " Time " , " Love ") , it is allowed to be included in atoms list ( see example 2)
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Each list item is 1 -4 words copied from the prompt ( no extra punctuation ) . ## Example 1 User input : A cat plays chess with a dog while a parrot referees in a steampunk library . Output : { " characters ": [" cat " , " dog " , " parrot "] , " objects ": [" chess "] , " actions ": [" plays " , " referees "] , " locations ": [" library "] , " scenery ":...
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Fix ALL MS constraints by making them explicit in the refined prompt
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Fix ALL CT issues by removing or rewriting conflicting statements in the refined prompt
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Preserve everything in the refined prompt that does NOT conflict with the original prompt
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Do NOT add new facts / entities not present in the original prompt
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Prefer adding a compact'Constraints': block at the end for MS

Apply minimal edits . Prefer adding a compact'Constraints': block at the end for MS
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trying” action; describes result, not effort. 2 actions bloom ET Evidence mentions “small bloom

For CT , prefer deleting or rewriting the conflicting phrases ; the original prompt has priority . ## Output rules - Output ONLY the revised prompt text . - Do NOT output JSON unless asked . - Do NOT add explanations . ORIGINAL PROMPT : { original_prompt } CURRENT REFINED PROMPT : { refined_prompt } VERIFICATION ISSUES ( MS / CT ) : { json . dumps ( paylo...