The paper introduces Routed Forcing, a method that improves audio‑driven streaming avatar generation by selectively applying different distillation objectives to semantic regions and noise stages. It uses Data‑Forcing Distillation on person regions at high noise levels to restore motion diversity, while retaining Distribution Matching Distillation for mouth and background to keep lip sync and scene stability. Experiments show up to 45% better dynamics and 7–25% higher diversity compared to the previous Self Forcing approach.
By Zihan Su, Siwen Lu, Junhao Zhuang, Zeyue Xue, Haoyang Huang, Guanghao Li, Xiaofeng Tan, Chun Yuan, Nan Duan
Real-time long-form avatar audio--video generation requires causal, continuous synthesis while maintaining audiovisual synchronization and visual consistency. Adapting a pretrained bidirectional model to this setting presents two key dilemmas.
Autoregressive video diffusion models have emerged as a promising approach for long video generation, achieving strong performance in streaming settings. However, existing methods are restricted to forward temporal generation, whereas practical video creation often requires flexible generation order, e.
LiveVVT introduces a rolling streaming diffusion framework for video virtual try‑on that maintains high visual fidelity while enabling real‑time performance. It preserves bounded bidirectional modeling within a fixed‑size window, emits clean video chunks iteratively, and uses two memory modules—a bounded temporal memory and a persistent global appearance memory—to sustain long‑term consistency. A progressive distillation process further aligns teacher‑based bidirectional learning with causal few‑step inference, resulting in superior generation quality with 26× lower latency and 11× higher throughput compared to comparable models.
By Yushe Cao, Shikun Feng, Ruxiang Duan, Liyong Wang, Dianxi Shi, Chun Yu, Junliang Xing
arXiv:2606. 25473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autoregressive video diffusion with causal diffusion transformers has emerged as a major paradigm for real-time streaming video generation and action-conditioned interactive world models.
By Kaiwen Zheng, Guande He, Min Zhao, Jintao Zhang, Huayu Chen, Jianfei Chen, Chen-Hsuan Lin, Ming-Yu Liu, Jun Zhu, Qianli Ma
LiveVVT introduces a rolling streaming diffusion framework for video virtual try‑on that maintains high visual fidelity while enabling real‑time performance. By confining bidirectional spatio‑temporal modeling to a fixed‑size window and using bounded temporal and global appearance memories, it emits clean video chunks with low latency. A progressive distillation pipeline further refines the model, achieving superior quality with 26× lower latency and 11× higher throughput compared to prior methods.
arXiv:2609.38114v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Autoregressive video diffusion enables interactive streaming generation, but suffers from error accumulation over long rollouts. Self-rollout training...
By Weiqiang Wang, Zhuokun Chen, Yusheng Dai, Boying Li, Yi Zhang, Hossein Rahmani, Qiuhong Ke, Jianfei Cai
Few-step autoregressive (AR) video diffusion enables low-latency streaming generation, but existing post-training methods predominantly rely on Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), requiring both...
arXiv:2609.24788v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we propose SVEET, a framework that requires merely training on a pretrained bidirectional video diffusion model but supports high-qualit...
By Yujia Hu, Jiajun Li, Zihao He, Songhua Liu
ViRDM is a new post‑training method for few‑step causal video generation that eliminates the need for a large teacher model and an online critic. By applying representation distribution matching (RDM) with a precomputed target distribution, a lightweight VAE decoder, and staged vector–Jacobian products, ViRDM overcomes memory, optimization, and temporal dynamics challenges. The approach reduces GPU memory usage and training time, achieving state‑of‑the‑art VBench performance with only 20 generator updates and 16 A100 GPU‑hours.
By Zichong Meng, Chongjian Ge, Chun-Hao P. Huang, Yang Zhou, Huaizu Jiang
arXiv:2601. 09881v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large video diffusion and flow models have achieved remarkable success in high-quality video generation, but their use in real-time interactive applications remains limited due to their inefficient multi-step sampling process.
By Weili Nie, Julius Berner, Nanye Ma, Chao Liu, Saining Xie, Arash Vahdat
Instruction-Based Video Editing by Repurposing an Image Editing Model demonstrates that a strong image‑editing model can be adapted to edit videos by operating on video‑VAE latents. The authors tile latent frames into a large virtual image, reuse the editor’s positional encoding, and bridge latent spaces with lightweight projections, fine‑tuning on Ditto‑1M editing triplets. Their experiments show that per‑frame video latents are close enough to the image domain that mature image‑editing priors transfer with minimal adaptation.
By Yunpeng Bai, Yossi Gandelsman, Micha\"el Gharbi, Qixing Huang