Scalable Neural Video Representation Compression (S-NVRC) introduces a scalable implicit neural representation (INR) video codec that supports fine-grained bitrate and decoding‑complexity scalability from a single embedded bitstream. It uses a coarse‑to‑fine prefix for feature grids and a nested prefix for network layers, enabling a wide range of operating points while maintaining a single encoding. On the UVG dataset, S‑NVRC outperforms SHM 12.4 and multi‑layer VTM‑20.0 by 43.7 % and 5.6 % in BD‑rate, respectively, and offers flexible complexity scalability.
By Tianhao Peng, Ho Man Kwan, Fan Zhang, Shan Liu, David Bull
COVER is a new video watermarking method that targets codec compression as its primary design goal. It embeds the watermark payload in the latent space of a frozen generative video autoencoder and recovers it by re‑encoding the received video into the same latent space. Using a differentiable codec surrogate bank, COVER achieves high bit accuracy across multiple codecs while keeping marked videos visually close to the originals.
By Yuxin Cao, Hao Yang, Ziqi Ding, Jie Hao, Wei Song
arXiv:2610.10343v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deploying a joint audio-video diffusion transformer for real-time, interactive generation normally requires two essential modifications: block-autoregr...
By Jingyu Li, Xiaoxiao Xiang, Yiwen Guo
The paper introduces UniGVC, a unified generative video codec that supports both low‑delay streaming and high‑quality playback from a single bitstream. It offers two decoding modes: UniGVC‑BI, a bidirectional diffusion model with dense attention for quality‑oriented random‑access decoding, and UniGVC‑AR, a windowed autoregressive diffusion model for low‑delay streaming. Both modes share a hierarchical latent codec that produces ultra‑low‑bitrate conditions, enabling the BI model to act as a teacher for distilling the AR model, while a lightweight conditional decoder further reduces streaming latency.
By Tianyu Zhang, Shuai Huo, Dengchao Jin, Hewei Liu, Meng Lei, Tianwen Wu, Jiawen Gu, Chao Zhou, Li Li, Dong Liu
arXiv:2606. 05861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid development of large language models(LLMs) has led to remarkable advances in natural language processing.
By Rui Wang, Yan Zhao, Li Song, Zhengxue Cheng
The paper introduces the concept of Information Capacity (IC) to quantify how much bandwidth savings a unit of decoder compute can achieve in generative video compression (GVC). By modeling reconstruction quality as a two‑factor power law in data rate and compute, the authors fit measured DISTS of two GVC decoders with high accuracy and define IC as the negative logarithmic slope along an iso‑quality contour. IC is dimensionless, enabling architecture‑agnostic comparisons and revealing that a 14B decoder trades compute for rate far more efficiently than a 1.3B decoder, with significant variation across datasets.
By Cheng Yuan, Jiawei Shao, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2606. 28027v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural video codecs have surpassed classical codecs in coding efficiency but remain impractical for deployment due to cross-platform incompatibility and high computational cost.
By Tanel P\"arnamaa, Martin Lumiste, Ardi Loot, Evgenii Indenbom, Andrei Znobishchev, Ando Saabas
Token-Budget Distillation (TBD) is a parameter‑efficient fine‑tuning framework that adapts video vision‑language models to a fixed token budget. It freezes the pretrained backbone, updates only LoRA adapters, and incorporates FlashVID visual token compression. TBD uses a dual‑path teacher‑student design with full‑token supervision and compressed student optimization, enabling the student to recover full‑token semantics while remaining efficient under aggressive token reduction.
By Xiaoyang Guo, Guoping Luo, Jusheng Zhang, Keze Wang, Wenhao Wang
arXiv:2608.29331v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Video traffic constitutes a significant share of global web traffic. To reduce its volume, video codecs have been developed and continuously improved....
By Nikolay Safonov, Nikita Gornostaev, Alexandra Dubonos, Dmitriy Vatolin
arXiv:2603. 08683v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive "language" models (LMs) trained on raw waveforms can be repurposed for lossless audio compression, but prior work is limited to 8-bit audio, leaving open whether such approaches work for practical settings (16/24-bit) and can compete with existing codecs.
By Phillip Long, Zachary Novack, Chris Donahue
arXiv:2607. 25669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emerging Omni-modal Large Language Models (OmniLLMs) enable unified understanding of text, audio, and video, but their long audio-video token sequences introduce substantial memory and inference costs.
By Haoyang Huang, Wenjie Huang, Tianqi Xu, Hongyaoxing Gu, Kang Tan, Yikai Fu, Yuhao Shen, Tianyu Liu, Baolin Zhang, Jun Zhang, Xinyi Hu, Jun Dai, Shuang Ge, Lei Chen, Yue Li, Mingchen Wang, Meng Zhang
The paper introduces MIRC, an overfitted image codec that quantizes and entropy‑codes all components—including latents, synthesis network, and entropy models—within a single end‑to‑end rate‑distortion framework inspired by NVRC. It adds a multi‑scale representation with cross‑stage parameter sharing to capture cross‑scale redundancy, yielding a 10.5 % BD‑rate saving over VVC on the CLIC2020 professional set. MIRC offers multiple configurations ranging from 1.2 to 2.9 kMAC per pixel, allowing decoding complexity to be tuned to deployment needs.
By Tianhao Peng, Ho Man Kwan, Fan Zhang, Shan Liu, David Bull