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To achieve real-time interactive video generation, current methods distill pretrained bidirectional video diffusion models into few-step autoregressive (AR) models, facing an architectural gap when full attention is replaced by causal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hongzhou Zhu , Min Zhao , Guande He , Hang Su , Chongxuan Li , Jun Zhu

Recent hybrid video generation models combine autoregressive temporal dynamics with diffusion-based spatial denoising, but their sequential, iterative nature leads to error accumulation and long inference times. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yongqi Yang , Huayang Huang , Xu Peng , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Jiangning Zhang , Chengjie Wang , Yu Wu

In this work, we propose Mutual Forcing, a framework for fast autoregressive audio-video generation with long-horizon audio-video synchronization. Our approach addresses two key challenges: joint audio-video modeling and fast autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yupeng Zhou , Lianghua Huang , Zhifan Wu , Jiabao Wang , Yupeng Shi , Biao Jiang , Daquan Zhou , Yu Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Qibin Hou

Diffusion probabilistic models have shown significant progress in video generation; however, their computational efficiency is limited by the large number of sampling steps required. Reducing sampling steps often compromises video quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zihan Ding , Chi Jin , Difan Liu , Haitian Zheng , Krishna Kumar Singh , Qiang Zhang , Yan Kang , Zhe Lin , Yuchen Liu

Large pretrained diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of generated videos, and yet their use in real-time streaming remains limited. Autoregressive models offer a natural framework for sequential frame synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jinxiu Liu , Xuanming Liu , Kangfu Mei , Yandong Wen , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Weiyang Liu

Image Auto-regressive (AR) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm of visual generative models. Despite their promising performance, they suffer from slow generation speed due to the large number of sampling steps required. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Enshu Liu , Qian Chen , Xuefei Ning , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Zinan Lin , Yu Wang

Autoregressive (AR) models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in text and image generation but suffer from slow generation due to the token-by-token process. We ask an ambitious question: can a pre-trained AR model be adapted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Enshu Liu , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang , Zinan Lin

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable generation quality, but they suffer from significant inference cost due to their reliance on multiple sequential denoising steps, motivating recent efforts to distill this inference process into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zihan Yang , Shuyuan Tu , Licheng Zhang , Qi Dai , Yu-Gang Jiang , Zuxuan Wu

Current video diffusion models achieve impressive generation quality but struggle in interactive applications due to bidirectional attention dependencies. The generation of a single frame requires the model to process the entire sequence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Tianwei Yin , Qiang Zhang , Richard Zhang , William T. Freeman , Fredo Durand , Eli Shechtman , Xun Huang

Distillation addresses the slow sampling problem in diffusion models by creating models with smaller size or fewer steps that approximate the behavior of high-step teachers. In this work, we propose a reinforcement learning based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Amirhossein Tighkhorshid , Zahra Dehghanian , Gholamali Aminian , Chengchun Shi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Autoregressive video generators are attractive for streaming, long-horizon, and interactive applications, but distilling strong black-box teachers into causal students remains difficult. The student must learn under its own rollout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yang Luo , Shengju Qian , Xiaohang Tang , Zirui Zhu , Yong Liu , Xin Wang , Yang You

Video generation has recently emerged as a central task in the field of generative AI. However, the substantial computational cost inherent in video synthesis makes model distillation a critical technique for efficient deployment. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuyang You , Yongzhi Li , Jiahui Li , Yadong Mu , Quan Chen , Peng Jiang

Recent advances have substantially improved real-time interactive video generation in the autoregressive regime. However, most existing few-step autoregressive video generation methods, often distilled from a corresponding many-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jiaqi Feng , Justin Cui , Yuanhao Ban , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Distilled autoregressive (AR) video models enable efficient streaming generation but frequently misalign with human visual preferences. Existing reinforcement learning (RL) frameworks are not naturally suited to these architectures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Songchun Zhang , Zeyue Xue , Siming Fu , Jie Huang , Xianghao Kong , Y Ma , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Anyi Rao

Recent joint audio-visual diffusion models achieve remarkable generation quality but suffer from high latency due to their bidirectional attention dependencies, hindering real-time applications. We propose OmniForcing, the first framework…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yaofeng Su , Yuming Li , Zeyue Xue , Jie Huang , Siming Fu , Haoran Li , Ying Li , Zezhong Qian , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan

Diffusion models with transformer architectures have demonstrated promising capabilities in generating high-fidelity images and scalability for high resolution. However, iterative sampling process required for synthesis is very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yeongmin Kim , Sotiris Anagnostidis , Yuming Du , Edgar Schönfeld , Jonas Kohler , Markos Georgopoulos , Albert Pumarola , Ali Thabet , Artsiom Sanakoyeu

Autoregressive (AR) models with diffusion heads have recently achieved strong text-to-audio performance, yet their iterative decoding and multi-step sampling process introduce high-latency issues. To address this bottleneck, we propose a…

We introduce Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), a novel training approach that efficiently samples large-scale foundational image diffusion models in just 1-4 steps while maintaining high image quality. We use score distillation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Axel Sauer , Dominik Lorenz , Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach

Diffusion models have recently shown great promise for generative modeling, outperforming GANs on perceptual quality and autoregressive models at density estimation. A remaining downside is their slow sampling time: generating high quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Tim Salimans , Jonathan Ho

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving high-quality and fast image generation that aligns with complex human preferences. While recent advancements in diffusion models and distillation have enabled rapid generation, the effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yihong Luo , Tianyang Hu , Weijian Luo , Kenji Kawaguchi , Jing Tang
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