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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

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

Autoregressive (AR) video diffusion has recently emerged as a promising paradigm for long video generation, enabling causal synthesis beyond the limits of bidirectional models. To address training-inference mismatch, a series of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zengqun Zhao , Yanzuo Lu , Ziquan Liu , Jifei Song , Jiankang Deng , Ioannis Patras

Autoregressive video diffusion models enable streaming generation, opening the door to long-form synthesis, video world models, and interactive neural game engines. However, their core attention layers become a major bottleneck at inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dvir Samuel , Issar Tzachor , Matan Levy , Micahel Green , Gal Chechik , Rami Ben-Ari

Long-context modeling is crucial for next-generation language models, yet the high computational cost of standard attention mechanisms poses significant computational challenges. Sparse attention offers a promising direction for improving…

Autoregressive video diffusion models support real-time synthesis but suffer from error accumulation and context loss over long horizons. We discover that attention heads in AR video diffusion transformers serve functionally distinct roles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jiahao Tian , Yiwei Wang , Gang Yu , Chi Zhang

Autoregressive conditional image generation models have emerged as a dominant paradigm in text-to-image synthesis. These methods typically convert images into one-dimensional token sequences and leverage the self-attention mechanism, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xunzhi Xiang , Qi Fan

Recent advances in autoregressive video diffusion have enabled sequential and streaming video generation. However, long-horizon generation requires increasingly large KV caches, making efficient compression without sacrificing quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Peiliang Cai , Evelyn Zhang , Jiacheng Liu , Hao Lin , Ruiqi Zhang , Weile Mo , Yue Ma , Shikang Zheng , Jiehang Huang , Dongrui Liu , Linfeng Zhang

Recent advances in autoregressive video diffusion have enabled real-time frame streaming, yet existing solutions still suffer from temporal repetition, drift, and motion deceleration. We find that naively applying StreamingLLM-style…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jung Yi , Wooseok Jang , Paul Hyunbin Cho , Jisu Nam , Heeji Yoon , Seungryong Kim

Video Diffusion Transformers have revolutionized high-fidelity video generation but suffer from the massive computational burden of self-attention. While sparse attention provides a promising acceleration solution, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Wentai Zhang , Ronghui Xi , Shiyao Peng , Jiayu Huang , Haoran Luo , Zichen Tang , Haihong E

Autoregressive (AR) video diffusion models adopt a streaming generation framework, enabling long-horizon video generation with real-time responsiveness, as exemplified by the Self Forcing training paradigm. However, existing AR video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yicheng Ji , Zhizhou Zhong , Jun Zhang , Qin Yang , XiTai Jin , Ying Qin , Wenhan Luo , Shuiyang Mao , Wei Liu , Huan Li

The autoregressive video diffusion model has recently gained considerable research interest due to its causal modeling and iterative denoising. In this work, we identify that the multi-head self-attention in these models under-utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hang Guo , Zhaoyang Jia , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Yuanhao Cai , Jiangshan Wang , Yawei Li , Yan Lu

Accommodating long sequences efficiently in autoregressive Transformers, especially within an extended context window, poses significant challenges due to the quadratic computational complexity and substantial KV memory requirements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Chao Lou , Zixia Jia , Zilong Zheng , Kewei Tu

Scaling video diffusion transformers (DiTs) is limited by their quadratic 3D attention, even though most of the attention mass concentrates on a small subset of positions. We turn this observation into VSA, a trainable, hardware-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Peiyuan Zhang , Yongqi Chen , Haofeng Huang , Will Lin , Zhengzhong Liu , Ion Stoica , Eric Xing , Hao Zhang

Diffusion Transformers are fundamental for video and image generation, but their efficiency is bottlenecked by the quadratic complexity of attention. While block sparse attention accelerates computation by attending only critical key-value…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Haopeng Li , Shitong Shao , Wenliang Zhong , Zikai Zhou , Lichen Bai , Hui Xiong , Zeke Xie

Video diffusion Transformer (DiT) models excel in generative quality but hit major computational bottlenecks when producing high-resolution, long-duration videos. The quadratic complexity of full attention leads to prohibitively high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Chenlu Zhan , Wen Li , Chuyu Shen , Jun Zhang , Suhui Wu , Hao Zhang

The computational demands of self-attention mechanisms pose a critical challenge for transformer-based video generation, particularly in synthesizing ultra-long sequences. Current approaches, such as factorized attention and fixed sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Qirui Li , Guangcong Zheng , Qi Zhao , Jie Li , Bin Dong , Yiwu Yao , Xi Li

Diffusion-based video generation has advanced substantially in visual fidelity and temporal coherence, but practical deployment remains limited by the quadratic complexity of full attention. Training-free sparse attention is attractive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xuzhe Zheng , Yuexiao Ma , Jing Xu , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Fei Chao

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) dominate video generation but their high computational cost severely limits real-world applicability, usually requiring tens of minutes to generate a few seconds of video even on high-performance GPUs. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Haocheng Xi , Shuo Yang , Yilong Zhao , Chenfeng Xu , Muyang Li , Xiuyu Li , Yujun Lin , Han Cai , Jintao Zhang , Dacheng Li , Jianfei Chen , Ion Stoica , Kurt Keutzer , Song Han

While sparse attention mitigates the computational bottleneck of long-context LLM training, its distributed training process exhibits extreme heterogeneity in both \textit{1)} sequence length and \textit{2)} sparsity sensitivity, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Hongtao Xu , Jianchao Tan , Yuxuan Hu , Pengju Lu , Hongyu Wang , Pingwei Sun , Yerui Sun , Yuchen Xie , Xunliang Cai , Mingzhen Li , Weile Jia
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