OneReel: Efficient Multi-Scene Video Generation with Scene-Structured Attention
arXiv:2611.10594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-scene video generation must follow scene-specific prompts while preserving consistency across scenes. Dense joint generation enables cross-scene information exchange but incurs quadratic attention cost, whereas separate generation avoids this cost at the expense of cross-scene consistency. We present OneReel, a training-free system that exploits scene structure to enable efficient multi-scene generation. Our key insight is that multi-scene generation can preserve complete intra-scene attention while restricting cross-scene information exchange to a bounded shared memory. OneReel uses scene prompts and durations to establish scene-specific attention scopes and dynamically selects a bounded set of representative latent frames for cross-scene sharing. This reduces video attention complexity from quadratic to linear in the number of scenes. To translate these savings into execution speedups, OneReel packs scene-local and shared K/V into dense variable-length attention and employs work-balanced multi-GPU partitioning with communication-aware selection between K/V gathering and Ulysses-style parallelism. Our evaluations across four video generation models show that OneReel achieves 1.7-4.9x end-to-end speedup over dense attention and 1.2-2.2x over existing sparse-attention advances, while improving text-following accuracy by 34-37 percentage points and maintaining cross-scene consistency.