arxiv: 2605.01896 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-03 · 💻 cs.CV

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Divide and Conquer: Decoupled Representation Alignment for Multimodal World Models

Junyuan Xiao , Dingkang Liang , Xin Zhou , Yixuan Ye , Tongtong Su , Guangmo Yi , Bin Xia , Qiang Lyu , Shurui Shi , Jun Huang , Jianlou Si , Wenming Yang

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The pith

Decoupling modality features in a diffusion model allows each to align with a separate foundation model expert for improved multi-modal video generation.

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

The paper introduces M2-REPA, a representation alignment technique for multi-modal world models that generate videos across modalities such as RGB, depth, and masks. It claims that foundation models trained on single modalities hold distinct priors that act as complementary experts, and that these can be fully used by first separating modality-specific features from the diffusion model's intermediate layers and then aligning each feature set to its matching expert. Two objectives support this: an alignment loss that matches features to experts and a decoupling regularization that preserves complementarity across modalities. The result is joint optimization that avoids conflicts and yields better visual quality plus longer-term consistency than prior approaches.

Core claim

The central claim is that decoupling modality-specific features from the diffusion model's intermediate representations and aligning each decoupled feature to its corresponding expert foundation model via a multi-modal representation alignment loss together with a modality-specific decoupling regularization enables joint optimization that fully exploits the distinct domain-specific priors from multiple foundation models.

What carries the argument

The M2-REPA method, which decouples modality-specific features from diffusion representations and aligns them individually to expert foundation models using alignment and regularization losses.

If this is right

Multi-modal videos achieve higher visual quality by drawing on specialized priors from individual foundation models.
Long-term consistency improves because complementary expert knowledge is preserved across frames.
Joint training of the diffusion model becomes feasible while retaining the benefits of modality-specific pre-training.
The approach outperforms standard baselines across metrics for quality and temporal coherence in experiments.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

The same separation-and-align strategy could apply to other multi-modal generation tasks such as audio-video or text-image synthesis.
It offers a route to combine many existing single-modality experts without retraining a single giant model from scratch.
Adding further modalities might scale the quality gains without proportional increases in training cost.

Load-bearing premise

That foundation models for different modalities each carry distinct complementary information and that a decoupling step can isolate their features without erasing useful shared structure between modalities.

What would settle it

An ablation experiment that removes the decoupling regularization and measures whether performance on visual quality and long-term consistency drops compared to the full method, or whether aligning all modalities to a single mismatched expert still matches the reported gains.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.01896 by Bin Xia, Dingkang Liang, Guangmo Yi, Jianlou Si, Jun Huang, Junyuan Xiao, Qiang Lyu, Shurui Shi, Tongtong Su, Wenming Yang, Xin Zhou, Yixuan Ye.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Visualization of M2 -REPA. The features extracted from the backbones of DINOv2, DepthAnythingV2, and SAM2 exhibit pronounced differences, validating their distinct modality-specific characteristics. After applying our M2 -REPA, the extracted diffusion features align more closely with the rich semantic information from the foundation models. Meanwhile, recent work [27, 31, 46, 56, 60] has demonstrated t… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overview of M2 -REPA. To mitigate feature conflicts, M2 -REPA decouples multi-modal features into modality-specific representations and aligns them with corresponding expert foundation models. The framework is optimized by two synergistic objectives: (1) a cosine similarity-based multi-modal alignment loss for joint representation alignment, and (2) a CKA [23] similarity-driven modality-specific decoupli… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Qualitative comparison of camera view-conditioned video generation under fullcircle rotation. Videos are generated from a input frame and corresponding perframe camera poses simulating a full 360° rotation. 5.1 Quantitative comparisons Real-world Scene Generation. We conduct comprehensive quantitative evaluations on the RealEstate10K dataset [62], covering both short-term (8-frame) and long-term (200-fra… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Qualitative comparison in ablation study. Under the 200-frame long video setting, we compare our method (M2 -REPA) against baseline and REPA methods. Effectiveness of Modality-Specific Decoupling Regularization. The results demonstrate that incorporating modality-specific decoupling regularization yields substantial performance improvements compared to the naive direct alignment of multiple foundation m… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Ablation on alignment layer depth. FVD-200 and FVD-8 scores across different alignment layers of the diffusion backbone. Robustness to Supervision Bias. To preclude potential “self-fulfilling” effects—where the model might merely distill the same teacher used for label generation—we conduct a cross-source robustness study. Specifically, we train the baseline using depth labels from Video-Depth-Anything [5… view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Illustration of M2 -REPA based on the DiT backbone. We retain the original RGB projector and design new output projectors for depth and mask. Transformer-based projectors is both redundant and computationally inefficient. Third, the compact nature of MLPs facilitates superior training stability and efficiency—a critical property when serving as an auxiliary regularization term. As shown in Tab. 6, we empi… view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Qualitative comparison of long-horizon action-conditioned video generation (150 frames) in the Minecraft environment. Each video is generated from an initial frame observation and the corresponding per-frame action sequence. Our M2 -REPA maintains stable scene coherence and temporal consistency throughout the generation horizon. †D+S+DA denotes the naive combination of DINOv2, SAM2, and DepthAnythingV2 [… view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Emerging multi-modal world models attempt to jointly generate videos across diverse modalities (e.g., RGB, depth, and mask), yet they fail to fully exploit the rich priors of existing foundation models. We propose $M^2$-REPA, the first representation alignment method tailored for multi-modal video generation. Our key insight is that foundation models trained on different modality spaces naturally capture distinct domain-specific priors, acting as complementary "experts." Specifically, we first decouple modality-specific features from the diffusion model's intermediate representations, then align each with its corresponding expert foundation model. To this end, we design two synergistic objectives: a multi-modal representation alignment loss that enforces feature-to-expert matching, and a modality-specific decoupling regularization that encourages complementarity across different modalities. This design enables joint optimization, fully exploiting priors from multiple foundation models. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms baselines in visual quality and long-term consistency.

Editorial analysis

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The paper's decoupling regularizer for multi-modal expert alignment in diffusion models is a plausible but unproven addition that may not actually prevent the optimization conflicts it claims to solve.

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The main thing here is a method called M2-REPA that decouples features inside a diffusion U-Net for multi-modal video, aligns each slice to its own foundation-model expert, and adds a complementarity regularizer on top. That specific pairing of intra-U-Net splitting plus the two losses is not in the prior alignment literature, so the combination counts as new. It also makes a practical point: you can reuse separate RGB, depth, and mask models without retraining a giant joint backbone from scratch, which matters for world-model work where data is expensive. The framing is clean and the motivation is clear. Experiments are said to show gains in quality and consistency, and the abstract cites standard baselines, so the setup is at least reproducible in principle. The soft spot is the regularizer itself. The paper treats it as the piece that keeps the experts complementary during joint training, yet nothing isolates whether it actually separates features or simply adds an orthogonality penalty that could throw away useful cross-modal signal or create gradient clashes. Without a targeted ablation showing the regularizer's isolated effect on complementarity, the joint-optimization claim rests on an assumption rather than evidence. The rest of the method is standard alignment plus the decoupling step, so the performance edge could come from tuning rather than the new term. This is aimed at groups already running multi-modal video or world-model pipelines who have access to off-the-shelf experts. A reader who wants a reusable recipe for stitching modalities could try the idea quickly. It is coherent enough and the problem is timely, so it deserves a serious referee who can ask for the missing ablation and check the numbers. I would send it to review with that request rather than desk-reject.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes M²-REPA, a decoupled representation alignment method for multimodal world models in video generation. It decouples modality-specific features from the diffusion model's intermediate representations, then aligns each with its corresponding expert foundation model via a multi-modal representation alignment loss and a modality-specific decoupling regularization. The design is claimed to enable joint optimization that fully exploits complementary priors from multiple foundation models, with experiments showing significant gains in visual quality and long-term consistency over baselines.

Significance. If the central claims hold, this work could meaningfully advance multimodal video generation by offering a practical way to integrate diverse foundation-model priors without optimization conflicts. The decoupling regularization addresses a recognized challenge in joint multi-expert training and, if shown to preserve complementarity, would provide a reusable template for other multimodal synthesis tasks.

major comments (2)

[Method] Method section (description of the two synergistic objectives): the modality-specific decoupling regularization is presented as encouraging complementarity across modalities, yet no analysis, bound, or ablation demonstrates that the term separates features rather than functioning as an orthogonality penalty that could discard cross-modal information or induce gradient conflicts during simultaneous expert optimization. This directly underpins the claim that joint optimization is enabled without new conflicts.
[Experiments] Experiments section: performance improvements in visual quality and long-term consistency are reported, but the manuscript provides no controls comparing the full M²-REPA pipeline against independent per-modality alignments (i.e., the same alignment losses without the decoupling term). Without such isolation, it remains unclear whether the reported gains require the proposed decoupling or could be obtained by simpler joint training.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract states that foundation models 'naturally capture distinct domain-specific priors, acting as complementary experts,' but this assumption is not accompanied by a reference or preliminary measurement of prior complementarity on the target modalities.
[Method] Notation for the two loss terms and the decoupling regularizer should be introduced with explicit equations early in the method section to allow readers to verify the claimed synergy.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make to strengthen the manuscript.

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Referee: [Method] Method section (description of the two synergistic objectives): the modality-specific decoupling regularization is presented as encouraging complementarity across modalities, yet no analysis, bound, or ablation demonstrates that the term separates features rather than functioning as an orthogonality penalty that could discard cross-modal information or induce gradient conflicts during simultaneous expert optimization. This directly underpins the claim that joint optimization is enabled without new conflicts.

Authors: We acknowledge that the original manuscript does not include a formal analysis, bound, or dedicated ablation isolating the decoupling regularizer's effect on feature separation versus potential information loss or gradient issues. To address this, we will revise the method section to add a short theoretical motivation: the regularizer is applied after explicit modality-specific feature extraction (via the decoupling process), encouraging orthogonality only within those subspaces while the alignment loss preserves any necessary cross-modal complementarity. We will also add an ablation study reporting inter-modality feature correlations and per-expert gradient statistics with/without the term, demonstrating that it reduces conflicts without discarding useful shared information. These changes will directly support the joint-optimization claim. revision: yes
Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: performance improvements in visual quality and long-term consistency are reported, but the manuscript provides no controls comparing the full M²-REPA pipeline against independent per-modality alignments (i.e., the same alignment losses without the decoupling term). Without such isolation, it remains unclear whether the reported gains require the proposed decoupling or could be obtained by simpler joint training.

Authors: We agree that the current experiments do not isolate the decoupling term's contribution via a direct control against independent per-modality alignments. The reported baselines omit alignment entirely, leaving open whether simpler joint training suffices. In the revision we will add new results training separate per-modality models using only the alignment losses (no decoupling regularizer) and compare them quantitatively to the full joint M²-REPA model on the same metrics. These controls will show that independent alignments improve over non-aligned baselines but still underperform the joint model in long-term consistency and visual quality, thereby confirming that the decoupling term is necessary for effective multi-expert integration. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: method design is independent of its claimed outputs

full rationale

The provided manuscript text introduces M²-REPA via a new decoupling step on diffusion features followed by two explicitly designed losses (alignment + modality-specific regularization). No equations appear that equate any reported gain or complementarity to a fitted hyperparameter or prior result by construction. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, and the central premise (joint optimization exploiting complementary priors) is not reduced to a renaming or ansatz smuggled from the authors' own prior work. The derivation chain therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on the unproven premise that separate foundation models act as complementary experts and that the new regularization term will enforce useful complementarity; no free parameters or invented entities are quantified in the abstract.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Foundation models trained on different modality spaces naturally capture distinct domain-specific priors that are complementary.
Stated in the abstract as the key insight enabling the method.

invented entities (1)

modality-specific decoupling regularization no independent evidence
purpose: Encourages complementarity across modalities during joint optimization.
New term introduced to prevent interference between aligned features.

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