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Collaborative Few-Step Distillation and Low-Bit Quantization for Wan2.2 Dual-Expert Video Diffusion Models

arXiv:2606. 00658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large video diffusion models achieve strong visual quality but remain expensive to deploy because each sample requires many denoising steps and a large resident parameter footprint.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 4

DSAQuant: Denoising-Stage-Aligned Quantization-Aware Training for Video Generation

The paper introduces DSAQuant, a quantization‑aware training framework tailored for video diffusion models (VDMs). It aligns quantization with the denoising stages of VDMs, using denoising‑stage‑oriented supervision during training and denoising‑stage gated guidance during inference to preserve structure while improving detail reconstruction. Experiments on Wan and CogVideoX models under aggressive W3A3 and W4A4 quantization settings show that DSAQuant outperforms state‑of‑the‑art QAT baselines, boosting VBench scores by up to 6.60 while maintaining strong text‑video alignment.

By Shuaiting Li, Zelin Gao, Haibin Shen, Yujun Shen, Haotong Qin, Yinghao Xu
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
arXiv AI
Sep 3

VoRTeC: Taming Foundation Flow for One-step Real time Video Compression

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
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 28

Activation Outliers Matter: Robust Recovery for Quantized Multimodal LLMs

The paper investigates low‑bit quantization for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), showing that MXFP8 retains near‑lossless performance while 4‑bit formats like MXFP4 and HiF4 cause significant degradation. It identifies activation quantization as the main source of this loss and introduces Residual Fallback Quantization (RFQ), a lightweight framework that adds a quantized residual pathway to improve activation fidelity without architectural changes. Experiments on Wan2.2 and Qwen3‑VL demonstrate that RFQ recovers much of the performance gap to BF16 baselines across generation and reasoning tasks.

By Tanzila Rahman, Mehran Taghian Jazi, Yunke Peng, Zhuang Ma, Anandharaju Durai Raju, Yao Wang, Xing Huang, Hei Yi Mak, Shadan Golestan, Hoang Le, Yonghan Dong, Wei Guo, Yaoyuan Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
6d ago

Where Compute Matters: Heterogeneous Attention for Efficient Video Diffusion

The paper introduces HetA-DiT, a heterogeneous attention mechanism for video diffusion models that allocates computation based on token difficulty. A lightweight uncertainty branch predicts denoising difficulty, routing uncertain tokens through dense global attention while applying efficient local attention to reliable tokens. This adaptive routing retains global context where needed, offers a single parameter to balance quality and efficiency, and achieves competitive generation quality while only about 20% of tokens use dense attention.

By Olga Zatsarynna, Denis Korzhenkov, Juergen Gall, Amir Habibian, Mohsen Ghafoorian
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 24

KroQuant: Kronecker-Structured Block Transforms for Efficient Post-Training Quantization of Diffusion Transformers

arXiv:2607. 21446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) of diffusion transformers (DiTs) to W4A4 severely degrades output quality, because activations entering each linear layer contain outliers that 4-bit formats cannot represent.

By Yann Bouquet, Alireza Khodamoradi, Kristof Denolf, Mathieu Salzmann