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Learning behavior in legged robots presents a significant challenge due to its inherent instability and complex constraints. Recent research has proposed the use of a large language model (LLM) to generate reward functions in reinforcement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Runhao Zeng , Dingjie Zhou , Qiwei Liang , Junlin Liu , Hui Li , Changxin Huang , Jianqiang Li , Xiping Hu , Fuchun Sun

Recent advances in reinforcement learning have inspired increasing interest in learning user modeling adaptively through dynamic interactions, e.g., in reinforcement learning based recommender systems. Reward function is crucial for most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Aixin Sun , Wenjie Zhang , Quan Z. Sheng

We introduce Self Forcing, a novel training paradigm for autoregressive video diffusion models. It addresses the longstanding issue of exposure bias, where models trained on ground-truth context must generate sequences conditioned on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xun Huang , Zhengqi Li , Guande He , Mingyuan Zhou , Eli Shechtman

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in various domains, yet it often relies on carefully designed programmatic reward functions to guide agent behavior. Designing such reward functions can be challenging and may not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Qi Wang , Mian Wu , Yuyang Zhang , Mingqi Yuan , Wenyao Zhang , Haoxiang You , Yunbo Wang , Xin Jin , Xiaokang Yang , Wenjun Zeng

Reward feedback learning (ReFL) has proven effective for aligning image generation with human preferences. However, its extension to video generation faces significant challenges. Existing video reward models rely on vision-language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Xiaoyue Mi , Wenqing Yu , Jiesong Lian , Shibo Jie , Ruizhe Zhong , Zijun Liu , Guozhen Zhang , Zixiang Zhou , Zhiyong Xu , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu , Fan Tang

This paper presents a novel approach that enables autoregressive video generation with high efficiency. We propose to reformulate the video generation problem as a non-quantized autoregressive modeling of temporal frame-by-frame prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoge Deng , Ting Pan , Haiwen Diao , Zhengxiong Luo , Yufeng Cui , Huchuan Lu , Shiguang Shan , Yonggang Qi , Xinlong Wang

Reward models are used throughout the post-training of language models to capture nuanced signals from preference data and provide a training target for optimization across instruction following, reasoning, safety, and more domains. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Saumya Malik , Valentina Pyatkin , Sander Land , Jacob Morrison , Noah A. Smith , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Nathan Lambert

Foundational world models must be both interactive and preserve spatiotemporal coherence for effective future planning with action choices. However, present models for long video generation have limited inherent world modeling capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Taiye Chen , Xun Hu , Zihan Ding , Chi Jin

Autoregressive image modeling relies on visual tokenizers to compress images into compact latent representations. We design an end-to-end training pipeline that jointly optimizes reconstruction and generation, enabling direct supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Wenda Chu , Bingliang Zhang , Jiaqi Han , Yizhuo Li , Linjie Yang , Yisong Yue , Qiushan Guo

Wepresent Alice v1, a 14-billion parameter open-source video generation model that achieves state-of-the-art quality through consistency distillation with score regularization (rCM). Contrary to conventional distillation-which trades…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wang Xiaoyu , Phong Nguyen , Chen Zhao

Autoregressive video generation aims at real-time, open-ended synthesis. Yet, cinematic storytelling is not merely the endless extension of a single scene; it requires progressing through evolving events, viewpoint shifts, and discrete shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yihao Meng , Zichen Liu , Hao Ouyang , Qiuyu Wang , Ka Leong Cheng , Yue Yu , Hanlin Wang , Haobo Li , Jiapeng Zhu , Yanhong Zeng , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Qifeng Chen , Huamin Qu

Video prediction is a challenging computer vision task that has a wide range of applications. In this work, we present a new family of Transformer-based models for video prediction. Firstly, an efficient local spatial-temporal separation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Xi Ye , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau

Autoregressive Transformer models have demonstrated impressive performance in video generation, but their sequential token-by-token decoding process poses a major bottleneck, particularly for long videos represented by tens of thousands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yang Ye , Junliang Guo , Haoyu Wu , Tianyu He , Tim Pearce , Tabish Rashid , Katja Hofmann , Jiang Bian

Video generation has achieved significant advances through rectified flow techniques, but issues like unsmooth motion and misalignment between videos and prompts persist. In this work, we develop a systematic pipeline that harnesses human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jie Liu , Gongye Liu , Jiajun Liang , Ziyang Yuan , Xiaokun Liu , Mingwu Zheng , Xiele Wu , Qiulin Wang , Menghan Xia , Xintao Wang , Xiaohong Liu , Fei Yang , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai , Yujiu Yang , Wanli Ouyang

Video prediction is an important yet challenging problem; burdened with the tasks of generating future frames and learning environment dynamics. Recently, autoregressive latent video models have proved to be a powerful video prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Younggyo Seo , Kimin Lee , Fangchen Liu , Stephen James , Pieter Abbeel

While recent machine learning research has revealed connections between deep generative models such as VAEs and rate-distortion losses used in learned compression, most of this work has focused on images. In a similar spirit, we view…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Ruihan Yang , Yibo Yang , Joseph Marino , Stephan Mandt

Sequence generation with reinforcement learning (RL) has received significant attention recently. However, a challenge with such methods is the sparse-reward problem in the RL training process, in which a scalar guiding signal is often only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Ruiyi Zhang , Changyou Chen , Zhe Gan , Wenlin Wang , Liqun Chen , Dinghan Shen , Guoyin Wang , Lawrence Carin

Controllable generation, which enables fine-grained control over generated outputs, has emerged as a critical focus in visual generative models. Currently, there are two primary technical approaches in visual generation: diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Ziyu Yao , Jialin Li , Yifeng Zhou , Yong Liu , Xi Jiang , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng , Yuexian Zou , Lei Li

Diffusion models have emerged as the de facto paradigm for video generation. However, their reliance on web-scale data of varied quality often yields results that are visually unappealing and misaligned with the textual prompts. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Hangjie Yuan , Shiwei Zhang , Xiang Wang , Yujie Wei , Tao Feng , Yining Pan , Yingya Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Samuel Albanie , Dong Ni

Existing large-scale video generation models are computationally intensive, preventing adoption in real-time and interactive applications. In this work, we propose autoregressive adversarial post-training (AAPT) to transform a pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Shanchuan Lin , Ceyuan Yang , Hao He , Jianwen Jiang , Yuxi Ren , Xin Xia , Yang Zhao , Xuefeng Xiao , Lu Jiang