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TLDR

The paper repository for OpenCoF, a research project on teaching video generation models to reason through connected frames, with code and data still unreleased.

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    What it does
      Chain of Frame reasoning
      Video generation research
      Paper and project page
    Tech stack
      Wan2.2-I2V-A14B
      Video reasoning benchmarks
    Use cases
      Read the research paper
      Cite the work
      Await dataset release
    Audience
      ML researchers
    Status
      Code coming soon
      Dataset coming soon
      Model checkpoints coming soon

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Read the paper and project page to understand Chain-of-Frame video reasoning.

USE CASE 2

Track this repository to get the OpenCoF-17K dataset once it is released.

USE CASE 3

Cite the paper in related machine learning research.

USE CASE 4

Check back for the Wan-CoF model checkpoints when they become available.

What is it built with?

Video generationWan2.2-I2V-A14B

How does it compare?

xinyan-cxy/opencofagg23/fpga-gameandwatchdtolnay/serde-starlark
Stars717171
LanguageSystemVerilogRust
Last pushed2023-10-112026-02-16
MaintenanceDormantMaintained
Setup difficultyhardmoderatemoderate
Complexity4/54/53/5
Audienceresearchergeneraldeveloper

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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1day+

Code, dataset, and model checkpoints are not yet released and are pending internal review.

In plain English

OpenCoF is the official repository for a research paper titled OpenCoF: Learning to Reason Through Video Generation. The paper's idea is that video generation models can reason in a different way than text based chain of thought models do, by working through a sequence of connected video frames, which the authors call Chain of Frame reasoning. They argue that existing video generation models are trained on general video data and are not specifically set up to support this kind of frame by frame reasoning. To study this, the authors built OpenCoF, a framework centered on a new dataset called OpenCoF 17K, which contains 17,312 videos spanning 11 different task types. The dataset was put together using four different methods: instance based rendering, expert guided rendering, procedural scene generation, and repurposing existing external videos. They used this dataset to fine tune an existing video model, called Wan2.2-I2V-A14B, into a new version called Wan-CoF, which they report performs better on four external video reasoning benchmarks. They also tested two additional designs, called Visual Reasoning Tokens and Textual Reasoning Tokens, which aim to capture lower level visual details and higher level meaning separately, producing two further model versions with additional gains. As of this README, the repository contains only the paper description and figures. The authors state clearly that the code, the OpenCoF-17K dataset, and the Wan-CoF model checkpoints are still going through internal company review and are not yet available, listing all three as coming soon. There is a link to a project page and to the paper on arXiv, along with a citation entry for anyone referencing the work, but no license is stated in the README and there is nothing here yet to install or run.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Summarize what Chain-of-Frame reasoning means as described in the OpenCoF paper.
Prompt 2
Explain how the OpenCoF-17K dataset was built from four different pipelines.
Prompt 3
What benchmarks did Wan-CoF improve on compared to the baseline model?
Prompt 4
Give me the citation entry for the OpenCoF paper in BibTeX format.

Frequently asked questions

What is opencof?

The paper repository for OpenCoF, a research project on teaching video generation models to reason through connected frames, with code and data still unreleased.

How hard is opencof to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated hard, with roughly 1day+ to a first successful run.

Who is opencof for?

Mainly researcher.

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