arXiv Computer Vision

Direct Forcing: A Single-Stage Training Recipe for Few-Step Autoregressive Text-to-Video Generation

Direct Forcing is a single‑stage training framework for few‑step autoregressive text‑to‑video generation that eliminates the need for separate causal adaptation and distribution matching stages. It uses reference videos both as paired examples for causal continuation alignment and as a target distribution for rollout distribution matching, with dynamic gradient balancing to adjust their contributions during training. Starting from a bidirectional Wan2.1‑1.3B model, Direct Forcing trains a four‑step generator in only 250 updates, achieving state‑of‑the‑art VBench scores without additional initialization or diffusion‑score supervision.

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
Aug 28

LiveVVT: High-Fidelity Video Virtual Try-On in Real Time

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 Computer Vision
Oct 9

Connected Self Forcing: Beyond Local Learning in Video Autoregression

The paper introduces Connected Self Forcing, a training framework that reconnects gradient paths across autoregressive video chunks to improve long‑horizon visual quality and temporal consistency. It allows feedback from later predictions to influence earlier context generation, using shortcut gradient replay to keep memory usage manageable. The method is combined with distribution‑matching distillation and shows experimental gains without altering the inference procedure.

By Dongbin Zhang, Chaoda Zheng, Kangjie Chen, Xiangyu Li, Shijia Chen, Jinhao Deng, Yuqi Zhang, Guangfeng Jiang, Hongbin Lin, Choo Sin Wai, Minqi Wang, Puyi Wang, Jingye Zhang, Yu Zhang, Xianming Liu, Boyang Wang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 27

LiveVVT: High-Fidelity Video Virtual Try-On in Real Time

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 AI
Oct 2

Video Generation Models: A Survey of Post-Training and Alignment

arXiv:2610.00812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video generation has rapidly progressed from short, low-quality clips to high-resolution, long-duration sequences with complex spatiotemporal dynamic...

By Chaoyu Li, Xiaoyi Gu, Yogesh Kulkarni, Eun Woo Im, Mohammadmahdi Honarmand, Zeyu Wang, Juntong Song, Fei Du, Xilin Jiang, Kexin Zheng, Tianzhi Li, Fei Tao, Pooyan Fazli