The paper introduces VoRTeC, a video compression framework that leverages a foundational flow model to encode latent video representations compactly and predict their positions along flow trajectories. By integrating multi‑scale priors and avoiding access to flow‑matching network parameters, VoRTeC achieves one‑step decoding with high perceptual fidelity, while maintaining temporal consistency through tail‑frame reuse and prior caching. Experiments show a 58% reduction in bit consumption compared to prior diffusion‑based methods and a decoding speed increase ranging from 3 to 197 times, reaching 13 FPS at 720p and 32 FPS at 480p.
By Yichong Xia, Qinhong Wu, Qinhong Wu, Jinpeng Wang, Zeyuan Chen, Haoqian Wang
ActDiff-VC is a diffusion-based video compression framework designed for ultra‑low‑bitrate scenarios. It partitions videos into variable‑length segments, transmits keyframes only when necessary, and encodes temporal dynamics with a compact set of tracked point trajectories. Conditioned on these sparse signals, a conditional diffusion decoder reconstructs the remaining frames, achieving significant bitrate reductions and perceptual quality gains compared to strong learned codecs.
By Amirhosein Javadi, Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti, Tara Javidi
arXiv:2610.18125v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Training-free diffusion-based compression methods repurpose the generative priors of a diffusion or a flow model to compress data without retraining...
By Or Ronai, Vladimir Kulikov, Tomer Michaeli
arXiv:2607. 14898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time video generation demands fast decoding as much as fast denoising, yet current latent video diffusion models rely on 3D convolutional decoders that are slow and memory-intensive at high resolutions or for long video.
By Minguk Kang, Suha Kwak
The paper introduces GVCC, a zero‑shot video compression framework that uses a pretrained generative video model as the decoder. GVCC transforms deterministic rectified‑flow samplers into stochastic processes, enabling the transmission of compressed information through per‑step stochastic innovations. The authors evaluate three GVCC variants—Text‑to‑Video, Image‑to‑Video, and First‑Last‑Frame‑to‑Video—on the UVG dataset, reporting perceptual, fidelity, and temporal metrics without claiming global rate‑distortion gains.
By Ziyue Zeng, Xun Su, Haoyuan Liu, Bingyu Lu, Yui Tatsumi, Hiroshi Watanabe
LRConv-NeRV introduces low‑rank separable convolutions into the NeRV neural video decoder, replacing selected dense 3x3 layers to reduce computational load and memory usage. By applying low‑rank factorization progressively from the largest to earlier decoder stages, the method offers controllable trade‑offs between reconstruction quality and efficiency. Experiments show that applying LRConv only to the final decoder stage cuts decoder complexity by 68% and model size by 9.3% with negligible quality loss, while INT8 quantization preserves performance close to the dense baseline.
By Tamer Shanableh
arXiv:2610.10524v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Highly compressed video autoencoders offer an effective way to accelerate video diffusion models, as the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) operates on far fe...
By Jiyoung Kim, Paul Hyunbin Cho, Jisu Nam, Donghoon Lee, Hyunsung Go, Yeonkyeong Lee, Hansaem Kim, Seungryong Kim
arXiv:2609.37831v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real-time diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) is in high demand for online streaming, yet stringent latency requirements often compromise gene...
By Xijun Wang, Xin Li, Suhang Yao, Zirui Lang, Bingchen Li, Zhibo Chen
Real-time video restoration (VR) for live streams requires high-resolution outputs under strict per-frame latency constraints. Existing one-step diffusion-based VR models remain difficult to deploy on consumer-grade GPUs due to two main bottlenecks: quadratic spatial attention at high resolutions and the latency-memory overhead of large video autoencoders.
The paper introduces RAE-CoD, a diffusion-based compression method that operates in a representation autoencoder space to preserve recognizable content even at extremely low bitrates. It addresses the problem of semantic collapse observed in existing codecs when the bitrate approaches zero, showing that reconstruction losses conflict with semantic objectives and that VAE diffusion models lose efficiency in preserving semantics. Experiments on MSCOCO-30K demonstrate that RAE-CoD outperforms competitors, reducing VFM feature MSE and Fréchet Distance ratios by at least 25.7% and 69.1% at 0.001–0.008 bpp while maintaining stable recognizability and quality.
By Tianyu Zhang, Zhaoyang Jia, Houqiang Li, Dong Liu
arXiv:2512.07480v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: While traditional and neural video codecs (NVCs) have achieved remarkable rate-distortion performance, improving perceptual quality at low bitrates...
By Naifu Xue, Zhaoyang Jia, Jiahao Li, Bin Li, Zihan Zheng, Yuan Zhang, Yan Lu
The paper introduces PRESLEY, an end‑to‑end video streaming pipeline that uses generative AI layers to selectively degrade and restore less important regions of a frame. By replacing destructive block removal with adaptive in‑place degradation and signaling block strength via a side channel, PRESLEY achieves significant bitrate savings and improved background quality compared to its predecessor and pristine baselines. The authors also analyze the theoretical headroom of this architecture, quantifying remaining cost‑axis headroom and modeling post‑restoration damage to guide future rate‑distortion‑restoration selection.
By Emanuele Artioli, Farzad Tashtarian, Christian Timmerer