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Advanced autoregressive (AR) video generation models have improved visual fidelity and interactivity, but the quadratic complexity of attention remains a primary bottleneck for efficient deployment. While existing sparse attention solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chengtao Lv , Yumeng Shi , Yushi Huang , Ruihao Gong , Shen Ren , Wenya Wang

High-resolution video generation, while crucial for digital media and film, is computationally bottlenecked by the quadratic complexity of diffusion models, making practical inference infeasible. To address this, we introduce HiStream, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Haonan Qiu , Shikun Liu , Zijian Zhou , Zhaochong An , Weiming Ren , Zhiheng Liu , Jonas Schult , Sen He , Shoufa Chen , Yuren Cong , Tao Xiang , Ziwei Liu , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua

Despite rapid progress in autoregressive video diffusion, an emerging system algorithm bottleneck limits both deployability and generation capability: KV cache memory. In autoregressive video generation models, the KV cache grows with…

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art video generation quality, but their inference remains expensive due to the large number of sequential denoising steps. This has motivated a growing line of research on accelerating diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yasaman Haghighi , Alexandre Alahi

Generating realistic, dyadic talking head video requires ultra-low latency. Existing chunk-based methods require full non-causal context windows, introducing significant delays. This high latency critically prevents the immediate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Bohong Chen , Haiyang Liu

Diffusion models have achieved significant progress in both image and video generation while still suffering from huge computation costs. As an effective solution, flow matching aims to reflow the diffusion process of diffusion models into…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Lei Ke , Haohang Xu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Li , Jiajun Li , Haoling Li , Yuxuan Lin , Dongsheng Jiang , Yujiu Yang , Linfeng Zhang

Flow Matching (FM) has recently emerged as a powerful approach for high-quality visual generation. However, their prohibitively slow inference due to a large number of denoising steps limits their potential use in real-time or interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Shubham Agarwal , Apoorv Saxena , Kuldeep Kulkarni , Subrata Mitra , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Autoregressive video diffusion models generate streaming video by producing frames sequentially, conditioning each chunk on previously generated content. These models are structurally anchored to the first frame: its key-value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yusuf Dalva , Pinar Yanardag

Autoregressive video diffusion models enable open-ended generation through local attention and KV caching. However, existing training-free long-video optimization methods mainly focus on stable extension under a single prompt, making them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Mingqiang Wu , Weilun Feng , Zhefeng Zhang , Haotong Qin , Yuqi Li , Guoxin Fan , Xiaokun Liu , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Yongjun Xu , Chuanguang Yang

Text-to-video diffusion models enable the generation of high-quality videos that follow text instructions, making it easy to create diverse and individual content. However, existing approaches mostly focus on high-quality short video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Roberto Henschel , Levon Khachatryan , Hayk Poghosyan , Daniil Hayrapetyan , Vahram Tadevosyan , Zhangyang Wang , Shant Navasardyan , Humphrey Shi

The task of video generation requires synthesizing visually realistic and temporally coherent video frames. Existing methods primarily use asynchronous auto-regressive models or synchronous diffusion models to address this challenge.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Gen Li , Jiawei Liu , Jiahui Sun , Wanquan Feng , Shanshan Lao , SiYu Zhou , Qian He , Jing Liu

Autoregressive long video generation often adopts bounded-memory streaming for efficiency, typically combining local windows for short-term continuity with static early-frame sinks as long-range anchors. However, this fixed allocation keeps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Bo Ye , Xinyu Cui , Jian Zhao , Tong Wei , Min-Ling Zhang

This paper introduces a novel methodology for generating fast and memory-efficient video continuations. Our method, dubbed FlowC2S, fine-tunes a pre-trained text-to-video flow model to learn a vector field between the current and succeeding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hovhannes Margaryan , Quentin Bammey , Christian Sandor

Long-form video question answering (VQA) overwhelms current vision-language models (VLMs) because attention and key-value (KV) caches grow with runtime, forcing either expensive inference or near-sighted sliding windows. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shrenik Patel , Daivik Patel

Autoregressive (AR) video generation has emerged as a promising paradigm for long-horizon video synthesis, where each frame is generated conditioned on previously generated tokens. To accelerate inference, the KV cache is used to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jiayi Luo , Qiyan Liu , Tengyang Wang , JunHao Liu , Jiayu Chen , Cong Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Chen Gao , Xiaobin Hu , Qingyun Sun , Zhibo Chen

Diffusion models have transformed the image-to-image (I2I) synthesis and are now permeating into videos. However, the advancement of video-to-video (V2V) synthesis has been hampered by the challenge of maintaining temporal consistency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Feng Liang , Bichen Wu , Jialiang Wang , Licheng Yu , Kunpeng Li , Yinan Zhao , Ishan Misra , Jia-Bin Huang , Peizhao Zhang , Peter Vajda , Diana Marculescu

Generating minute-long videos is a critical step toward developing world models, providing a foundation for realistic extended scenes and advanced AI simulators. The emerging semi-autoregressive (block diffusion) paradigm integrates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zeyu Zhang , Shuning Chang , Yuanyu He , Yizeng Han , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Bohan Zhuang

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

We present FlowCapX, a physics-enhanced framework for flow reconstruction from sparse video inputs, addressing the challenge of jointly optimizing complex physical constraints and sparse observational data over long time horizons. Existing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ningxiao Tao , Liru Zhang , Xingyu Ni , Mengyu Chu , Baoquan Chen

Recent work by Marino et al. (2020) showed improved performance in sequential density estimation by combining masked autoregressive flows with hierarchical latent variable models. We draw a connection between such autoregressive generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Ruihan Yang , Yibo Yang , Joseph Marino , Stephan Mandt