Tianle Zhou

Yuheng Wang, Runde Yang, Lin Wu et al.

The scalability of high-quality online education is hindered by the high costs and slow cycles of manual content creation. Despite advancements in video generation, current approaches often fail to ensure pedagogical structure and precise control due to their pixel-level, black-box nature. In this paper, we propose Generative Teaching, a novel paradigm shifting educators from manual creators to high-level directors who focus on pedagogical intents while agents handle the execution. To realize this vision, we introduce TeachMaster, a multi-agent framework that leverages code as an intermediate semantic medium. Unlike traditional video generation methods, TeachMaster orchestrates a collaborative team of agents, spanning planning, design, and rendering, to automate the production of interpretable, editable, and curriculum-ready educational videos. Experiments validate that TeachMaster significantly boosts production efficiency without compromising structural coherence or visual fidelity, slashing production costs to only 0.3% of traditional online course videos and providing a robust solution for scalable education.

Qiran Zhang, Yuheng Wang, Runde Yang et al.

Programmatic video generation through code offers geometric precision and temporal coherence beyond pixel-level diffusion models, yet rigorously evaluating whether language models can produce spatially correct animated outputs remains an open problem. We introduce PRISM, a large-scale benchmark of 10,372 human-calibrated instruction-code pairs (20 times larger than prior programmatic video generation benchmarks), grounded in real-world knowledge visualization scenarios across English and Chinese and spanning 437 subject categories. We further propose a funnel-style evaluation framework with four complementary metrics: Code-Level Reliability for executability, Spatial Reasoning for layout correctness over full animation sequences, and Prompt-Aware Dynamic Visual Complexity (PADVC) and Temporal Density (TD) for diagnosing dynamic expression and temporal activity. Systematic evaluation of seven mainstream LLMs reveals a striking Execution-Spatial Gap: the average drop from execution success rate to spatial pass rate is approximately 41%, showing that runnable code does not necessarily yield spatially coherent visual output. These findings show that programmatic video generation evaluation should go beyond executability. PRISM provides a principled benchmark for advancing spatially coherent code generation.

Tianle Zhou, Jiakai Xu, Guanhong Liu et al.

Large Language Models (LLMs) suffer from reliability issues on complex tasks, as existing decomposition methods are heuristic and rely on agent or manual decomposition. This work introduces a novel, systematic decomposition framework that we call Analysis of CONstraint-Induced Complexity (ACONIC), which models the task as a constraint problem and leveraging formal complexity measures to guide decomposition. On combinatorial (SATBench) and LLM database querying tasks (Spider), we find that by decomposing the tasks following the measure of complexity, agent can perform considerably better (10-40 percentage point).