arXiv Computer Vision

Uncertainty-Aware Consistency Distillation for Few-Step Video Generation

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

ViRDM: Taming Representation Distribution Matching for Few-Step Causal Video Generation

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 AI
6d ago

DyMD: Preserving Interaction Dynamics through Distribution Matching Distillation in Few-Step Video World Models

DyMD introduces a Distribution Matching Distillation framework that adapts teacher supervision and critic fitting to preserve interaction dynamics in few-step video generation. By employing temporal affinity–conditioned re‑noise sampling and dynamics‑guided fake‑score tracking, DyMD balances motion recovery with visual quality. The method distills a 14B teacher into a 1.3B student that achieves significant gains on embodied‑video benchmarks and downstream action planning tasks.

By Haojun Xu, Jie Huang, Xin Lu, Mingchen Zhong, Zihao Fan, Linjiang Huang, Si Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Flash-WAM: Modality-Aware Distillation for World Action Models

arXiv:2606. 05254v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World-action models (WAMs) jointly generate future video and robot actions through iterative diffusion, achieving strong performance on manipulation benchmarks but requiring tens of denoising steps, a cost that precludes real-time control.

By Arman Akbari, Ci Zhang, Arash Akbari, Lin Zhao, Yixiao Chen, Weiwei Chen, Xuan Zhang, Geng Yuan, Yanzhi Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 21

VISD: Enhancing Video Reasoning via Structured Self-Distillation

arXiv:2605. 06094v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training VideoLLMs for complex reasoning remains challenging due to sparse sequence level rewards and the lack of fine grained credit assignment over long, temporally grounded reasoning trajectories.

By Hao Lin, Kunyang Lv, Xu Jiang, Jingqi Tian, Zhongjing Du, Jiayu Ding, Qiaoman Zhang, Hongbo Jin
arXiv AI
Jul 13

Transition Matching Distillation for Fast Video Generation

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