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most citedMaximum Likelihood Training for Score-Based Diffusion ODEs by High-Order Denoising Score Matching

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cs.AI2026

Interactive World Simulation with Cosmos for Physical AI

NVIDIA, :, Anis Ahmad +87

We present a shared framework that adapts Cosmos world foundation models for real-time interactive world simulation in Physical AI. By streaming visual observations in response to…

cs.CV2026

Intrinsic Distribution Matching

Deyuan Liu, Yansen Han, Kaiwen Zheng +7

One-step and few-step text-to-image generation must accurately render the details specified in the prompt despite limited opportunities for refinement. Distribution matching distil…

cs.CV2026

TurboT2VA: Fast Large-Scale Text-to-Video-Audio Generation via Score-Regularized Consistency Distillation

Xiaoda Yang, Yuxiang Liu, Kaiwen Zheng +12

Joint text-to-video-audio generation produces synchronized visual and acoustic content, but the long sampling trajectories and heterogeneous multimodal computation of large models…

cs.CV2026

Vidu S1: A Real-Time Interactive Video Generation Model

Jintao Zhang, Kai Jiang, Jintao Chen +24

We introduce Vidu S1, a real-time interactive video generation model supporting voice control of digital characters. Users can control video generation content at any moment throug…

cs.CV2026

Causal-rCM: A Unified Teacher-Forcing and Self-Forcing Open Recipe for Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation in Streaming Video Generation and Interactive World Models

Kaiwen Zheng, Guande He, Min Zhao +7

Autoregressive video diffusion with causal diffusion transformers has emerged as a major paradigm for real-time streaming video generation and action-conditioned interactive world…

cs.CV2026

GuidedBridge: Training-freely Improving Bridge Models with Prior Guidance

Zehua Chen, Yucheng Yang, Binjie Yuan +3

Guidance methods, such as classifier-free guidance (CFG) and auto-guidance (AG), have advanced noise-to-data generation in diffusion models. Recently, bridge models have introduced…

cs.CV2026

Causal Forcing++: Scalable Few-Step Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation for Real-Time Interactive Video Generation

Min Zhao, Hongzhou Zhu, Kaiwen Zheng +6

Real-time interactive video generation requires low-latency, streaming, and controllable rollout. Existing autoregressive (AR) diffusion distillation methods have achieved strong r…

cs.CV2026

minWM: A Full-Stack Open-Source Framework for Real-Time Interactive Video World Models

Min Zhao, Hongzhou Zhu, Bokai Yan +13

Recent video diffusion foundation models have achieved remarkable progress in high-quality video generation, yet turning them into real-time interactive video world models remains…

cs.LG2026

SLA2: Sparse-Linear Attention with Learnable Routing and Quantization-aware Training

Jintao Zhang, Haoxu Wang, Kai Jiang +6

Sparse-Linear Attention (SLA) combines sparse and linear attention to accelerate diffusion models and has shown strong performance in video generation. However, (i) SLA relies on a…

cs.LG2025

Data-regularized Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Models at Scale

Haotian Ye, Kaiwen Zheng, Jiashu Xu +15

Aligning generative diffusion models with human preferences via reinforcement learning (RL) is critical yet challenging. Most existing algorithms are often vulnerable to reward hac…

cs.RO2025

Vidarc: Embodied Video Diffusion Model for Closed-loop Control

Yao Feng, Chendong Xiang, Xinyi Mao +7

Robotic arm manipulation in data-scarce settings is a highly challenging task due to the complex embodiment dynamics and diverse contexts. Recent video-based approaches have shown…

cs.CV2025

TurboDiffusion: Accelerating Video Diffusion Models by 100-200 Times

Jintao Zhang, Kaiwen Zheng, Kai Jiang +5

We introduce TurboDiffusion, a video generation acceleration framework that can speed up end-to-end diffusion generation by 100-200x while maintaining video quality. TurboDiffusion…

cs.CV2025

World Simulation with Video Foundation Models for Physical AI

NVIDIA, :, Arslan Ali +87

We introduce [Cosmos-Predict2.5], the latest generation of the Cosmos World Foundation Models for Physical AI. Built on a flow-based architecture, [Cosmos-Predict2.5] unifies Text2…

cs.CV2025

Large Scale Diffusion Distillation via Score-Regularized Continuous-Time Consistency

Kaiwen Zheng, Yuji Wang, Qianli Ma +7

Although continuous-time consistency models (e.g., sCM, MeanFlow) are theoretically principled and empirically powerful for fast academic-scale diffusion, its applicability to larg…

cs.SD2025

VoiceBridge: General Speech Restoration with One-step Latent Bridge Models

Chi Zhang, Kaiwen Zheng, Zehua Chen +1

Bridge models have been investigated in speech enhancement but are mostly single-task, with constrained general speech restoration (GSR) capability. In this work, we propose VoiceB…

cs.LG2025

SLA: Beyond Sparsity in Diffusion Transformers via Fine-Tunable Sparse-Linear Attention

Jintao Zhang, Haoxu Wang, Kai Jiang +10

In Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models, particularly for video generation, attention latency is a major bottleneck due to the long sequence length and the quadratic complexity. We f…

cs.SD2025

AudioMoG: Guiding Audio Generation with Mixture-of-Guidance

Junyou Wang, Zehua Chen, Binjie Yuan +4

The design of diffusion-based audio generation systems has been investigated from diverse perspectives, such as data space, network architecture, and conditioning techniques, while…

cs.LG2025

DiffusionNFT: Online Diffusion Reinforcement with Forward Process

Kaiwen Zheng, Huayu Chen, Haotian Ye +7

Online reinforcement learning (RL) has been central to post-training language models, but its extension to diffusion models remains challenging due to intractable likelihoods. Rece…

cs.LG2025

NFT: Bridging Supervised Learning and Reinforcement Learning in Math Reasoning

Huayu Chen, Kaiwen Zheng, Qinsheng Zhang +8

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has played a central role in the recent surge of LLMs' math abilities by enabling self-improvement through binary verifier signals. In contrast, Supervi…

cs.CV2025

Direct Discriminative Optimization: Your Likelihood-Based Visual Generative Model is Secretly a GAN Discriminator

Kaiwen Zheng, Yongxin Chen, Huayu Chen +4

While likelihood-based generative models, particularly diffusion and autoregressive models, have achieved remarkable fidelity in visual generation, the maximum likelihood estimatio…

cs.LG2025

Elucidating the Preconditioning in Consistency Distillation

Kaiwen Zheng, Guande He, Jianfei Chen +2

Consistency distillation is a prevalent way for accelerating diffusion models adopted in consistency (trajectory) models, in which a student model is trained to traverse backward o…

cs.CV2025

Visual Generation Without Guidance

Huayu Chen, Kai Jiang, Kaiwen Zheng +3

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has been a default technique in various visual generative models, yet it requires inference from both conditional and unconditional models during sam…

cs.LG2024

Consistency Diffusion Bridge Models

Guande He, Kaiwen Zheng, Jianfei Chen +2

Diffusion models (DMs) have become the dominant paradigm of generative modeling in a variety of domains by learning stochastic processes from noise to data. Recently, diffusion den…

cs.LG2024

Masked Diffusion Models are Secretly Time-Agnostic Masked Models and Exploit Inaccurate Categorical Sampling

Kaiwen Zheng, Yongxin Chen, Hanzi Mao +3

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a popular research topic for generative modeling of discrete data, thanks to their superior performance over other discrete diffusion…