The SparseCtrl version of ControlNet was introduced in [SparseCtrl: Adding Sparse Controls to Text-to-Video Diffusion Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16933) for achieving controlled generation in text-to-video diffusion models by Yuwei Guo, Ceyuan Yang, Anyi Rao, Maneesh Agrawala, Dahua Lin, and Bo Dai.  
The abstract from the paper is: