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UniSwap: Streaming Audio-Visual Identity Swapping for Talking Videos

Yuxuan Zhang, Haozhong Xiong, Jiayi Song, Jinpeng Yu, Yang Shi, Jiaming Liu, Ruihua Huang, Liwei Wang

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Published 2026-08-13 · First seen 2026-08-14

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Abstract

Talking-video character replacement requires coordinated transfer of appearance and voice while preserving the source motion, scene, linguistic content, and audio-video timing. Existing methods use separately optimized models for the two modalities, making audio-visual consistency difficult to enforce. We present UniSwap, the first framework for streaming joint audio-visual identity replacement in talking videos. Given a source video, a reference image, and a reference voice clip, UniSwap transfers the reference appearance and vocal timbre within a single audio-visual diffusion transformer while preserving the source content and dynamics. To address the scarcity of aligned cross-identity training pairs, we introduce a swap-and-reconstruct pipeline that removes visual and vocal identity from real clips and uses the original clips as reconstruction targets. Starting from a bidirectional backbone, we progressively adapt the model through In-context Pretraining for joint replacement, Conditional Streaming Adaptation for block-causal KV-cached generation, and Efficient Self-forcing DMD for mitigating exposure bias and reducing sampling from 30 to 3 denoising steps per block. Efficient Multi-LoRA Switching enables the three DMD roles to share a single frozen backbone. Feature-RoPE Decomposition keeps cached positions within the training range, supporting stable long-form inference. Experiments demonstrate strong audio-visual synchronization, competitive identity preservation, efficient streaming, and stable long-form generation.

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@misc{zhang2026uniswap,
  title = {UniSwap: Streaming Audio-Visual Identity Swapping for Talking Videos},
  author = {Yuxuan Zhang and Haozhong Xiong and Jiayi Song and Jinpeng Yu and Yang Shi and Jiaming Liu and Ruihua Huang and Liwei Wang},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {Talking-video character replacement requires coordinated transfer of appearance and voice while preserving the source motion, scene, linguistic content, and audio-video timing. Existing methods use separately optimized models for the two modalities, making audio-visual consistency difficult to enforce. We present UniSwap, the first framework for streaming joint audio-visual identity replacement in talking videos. Given a source video, a reference image, and a reference voice clip, UniSwap transf},
  url = {https://huggingface.co/papers/2608.11752},
  keywords = {audio-visual diffusion transformer, swap-and-reconstruct pipeline, In-context Pretraining, Conditional Streaming Adaptation, block-causal KV-cached generation, Efficient Self-forcing DMD, Multi-LoRA Switching, Feature-RoPE Decomposition, denoising steps, code available, huggingface daily},
  eprint = {2608.11752},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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