M4V: Multimodal Mamba for Efficient Text-to-Video Generation

Text-to-video generation has significantly enriched content creation and holds the potential to evolve into powerful world simulators. However, modeling the vast spatiotemporal space remains computationally demanding, particularly when employing Transformers, which incur quadratic complexity in sequence processing and thus limit practical applications. Recent advancements in linear-time sequence modeling, particularly the Mamba architecture, offer a more efficient alternative. Nevertheless, its plain design limits its direct applicability to multimodal and spatiotemporal video generation tasks. To address these challenges, we introduce M4V, a multimodal Mamba framework for efficient text-to-video generation. Specifically, a MultiModal diffusion Mamba (MM-DiM) block is designed within the framework to enable seamless integration of multimodal information and spatiotemporal modeling. In detail, we introduce a novel multimodal token re-composition design, which employs a bidirectional scheme for multimodal information integration through simple token arrangement, along with visual registers to enhance spatial–temporal consistency. As a result, the MM-DiM blocks in M4V reduce FLOPs by 45% compared with the attention-based alternative when generating videos at 768$\times$1280 resolution. Additionally, several training strategies are explored in this work to provide a better understanding of training text-to-video models using only publicly available datasets. Extensive experiments on text-to-video benchmarks demonstrate M4V's ability to produce high-quality videos while significantly lowering computational costs. Code will be made publicly available.