Project and discussion pages use metadata.yaml as their source of structured
information. The canonical field definitions are maintained in:
schemas/project.schema.jsonschemas/discussion.schema.json
A discussion directory is derived from four metadata values:
YYYY-MM-DD-<leader.short_name>-<topic_slug>
Example:
title: "Forcing Series: The Evolution of AR Video Distillation"
date: 2026-07-13
topic_slug: forcing-ar-video-distillation
leader:
name: Yifan Shen
short_name: yifan
status: before-meeting
summary: A discussion of controllable streaming video generation.
tags:
- video-generation
- streaming-generation
- controllable-generation
related_projects:
- long-video-generationThis produces:
discussions/2026-07-13-yifan-forcing-ar-video-distillation/
The full leader name is for display. short_name is the stable, URL-safe name
used in the directory. If short names ever collide, group members must agree on
a unique short name before the entry is created.
The approved leader names and URL short names are maintained in
data/people.yaml:
| Full name | Short name |
|---|---|
| Peiyuan Zhu | peiyuan |
| Yifan Shen | yifan |
| Jinyuan Hu | jinyuan |
| Yuxin Wang | yuxin |
| Yichang Jian | yichang |
| Guangyi Chen | guangyi (group leader) |
A project directory must exactly match its slug:
title: Causal Video Editing
slug: causal-video-editing
status: active
summary: Research on causally grounded, temporally consistent video editing.
leaders:
- name: Peiyuan Zhu
short_name: peiyuan
github: SoftPointer
tags:
- video-editing
- causal-generation
links: {}This produces:
projects/causal-video-editing/
Slugs and tags must:
- contain lowercase ASCII letters, digits, and single hyphens only;
- not start or end with a hyphen;
- remain stable after a page has been published.
Discussion statuses:
planned -> before-meeting -> after-meeting -> archived
Project statuses:
planned -> active -> published -> archived
Metadata and every file published by this repository are public. Do not include unpublished proposals, private experiment plans, negative results intended for internal use, credentials, or access-controlled URLs.