The paper introduces TRACK, a training‑free trajectory routing method that accelerates video diffusion by selectively switching between large and small models during denoising steps. A calibration process generates a disagreement score map, guiding the selection of the appropriate model at each step to maintain quality while reducing computational cost. Experiments on Wan 2.1, Cosmos 3, TurboDiffusion, and FastVideo show speedups ranging from 1.95× to 2.73× with comparable quality and diversity.
By Mustafa Munir, Huy Vu, Shreyas Misra, Rohit Jena, Sajad Norouzi, Ali Taghibakhshi, Anis Ahmad, Anjul Patney, Pavlo Molchanov, Nima Tajbakhsh
Accelerating Video Diffusion via Training-Free Trajectory Routing (TRACK) introduces a heterogeneous denoising strategy that switches between large and small diffusion models at selected steps, determined by a calibration process that measures disagreement between model predictions. By routing quality-sensitive steps to the large model and low-disagreement steps to the small model, TRACK achieves significant speedups—up to 2.73×—across several video diffusion benchmarks while maintaining comparable quality and diversity. The method requires no retraining, architectural changes, or online dual-model evaluation, making it a practical acceleration paradigm for video diffusion.
arXiv:2608. 12932v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models promise to bring end-to-end reasoning to autonomous driving, but their computational cost remains far too high for real-time control.
By Zekai Li, Yihao Liang, Hongfei Zhang, Jian Chen, Yesheng Liang, Zhijian Liu
arXiv:2606. 03159v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As autonomous vehicle capabilities advance, the safe evaluation of driving policies in long-tail scenarios remains a critical bottleneck.
By NVIDIA, :, Aarti Basant, Amlan Kar, Despoina Paschalidou, Fangyin Wei, Francesco Ferroni, Guillermo Garcia Cobo, Haithem Turki, Huan Ling, Jaewoo Seo, James Lucas, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Jialiang Wang, Jonathan Lorraine, Jun Gao, Kai He, Katarina Tothova, Kevin Xie, Micha{\l} Tyszkiewicz, Qi Wu, Riccardo de Lutio, Ruilong Li, Sanja Fidler, Seung Wook Kim, Tianchang Shen, Tianshi Cao, Tobias Pfaff, William Lew, Xindi Wu, Xuanchi Ren, Yifan Lu, Yuxuan Zhang, Zan Gojcic, Zian Wang
arXiv:2606. 23743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern video diffusion models achieve higher generation quality through scaling, but this also increases inference cost.
By Yitong Li, Junsong Chen, Haopeng Li, Haozhe Liu, Jincheng Yu, Ligeng Zhu, Ping Luo, Song Han, Enze Xie
As autonomous vehicle capabilities advance, the safe evaluation of driving policies in long-tail scenarios remains a critical bottleneck. In closed-loop simulation, the driving policy model actively interacts with the environment, where its actions dynamically update the simulator state and directly influence the next set of generated sensor observations.
The paper introduces Abra, a family of flow‑matching transformers used to systematically study scaling laws for text‑to‑image diffusion models across three orders of magnitude in compute. It finds that diffusion models scale predictably like language models but need far more data, with compute optimality occurring at roughly 200 image tokens per parameter—ten times the optimal ratio for large language models. The study also shows that diffusion models are robust to overtraining, that more data is preferable to larger models, and that scaling predictability extends to generative quality, optimal CFG settings, representation quality, and training curve shapes.
By Kyle Chickering, Wei-An Lin, Swayam Bhanded, Dan Saunders, Akshat Tripathi, Jiaming Song, Shyamal Buch, Xinchen Yan
arXiv:2608. 16354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving video generation models support autonomous-driving development by predicting controllable future scenes for simulation, planning evaluation, and offline data generation.
By Jianchun Yang, Jian Liang, Xianda Guo, Pinhan Fu, Yanlun Peng, Conglang Zhang, Wenke Huang, Mang Ye
arXiv:2606. 17257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Open-weight video diffusion models can generate photorealistic unsafe content, from violence to misinformation, yet existing defenses either require expensive safety fine-tuning that degrades general capability, or apply external filters that are trivially bypassed by adversarial prompts.
By Rohit Kundu, Arindam Dutta, Sarosij Bose, Athula Balachandran, Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury
arXiv:2606. 12987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Action-conditioned world models let an autonomous vehicle predict future camera scenes from its own planned controls, enabling planning and simulation without real-world rollouts, but at compact, trainable scale the futures are ambiguous and the field's standard distortion metrics actively mislead: they reward a blurry regression mean over a realistic prediction.
By Ruslan Sharifullin, Benjamin Jiang, Kai Xi Chew
arXiv:2608.29322v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent video diffusion models have achieved remarkable generation quality, but high-fidelity results still largely depend on closed-source systems or c...
By Hangzhou He, Lunhao Duan, Shanshan Zhao, Kaiwen Li, Qing-Guo Chen, Weihua Luo, Yanye Lu
Modern video diffusion models achieve higher generation quality through scaling, but this also increases inference cost. Although many acceleration methods have been proposed, a central challenge is that the most effective acceleration strategy is highly instance-specific: a recipe that works well for one combination of model, hardware, and inference configuration often does not transfer to another.