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cs.CV2026

Golden Anchor for Video Generation

Jinyuan Xu, Shitong Shao, Lichen Bai +4

Video generation supports digital content creation, with applications in virtual avatars, AI-driven filmmaking, interactive game engines, and world models. State-of-the-art systems…

cs.CV2026

G-LoRA: Organizing Reward-Weighted Video Data with Gradient-Guided Grouped LoRA

Jia Song, Wenhow Li, Lichen Bai +2

Post-training foundation video models on heterogeneous reward-weighted data usually assume that all data categories induce compatible updates. This assumption is fragile when categ…

cs.CV2026

MaineCoon: Pursuing A Real-Time Audio-Visual Social World Model

Lichen Bai, Tianhao Zhang, Shitong Shao +14

As an increasing majority of global video content is consumed on social platforms for interactive social purposes, video generation models built for social worlds are important but…

cs.CV2026

LIVEditor-14B: Lightning Unified Video Editing via In-Context Sparse Attention

Shitong Shao, Zikai Zhou, Haopeng Li +4

Video editing has evolved toward In-Context Learning (ICL) paradigms, yet the resulting quadratic attention costs create a critical computational bottleneck. In this work, we propo…

cs.CV2026

Exploring Data-Free LoRA Transferability for Video Diffusion Models

Yuchen Wang, Wenliang Zhong, Lichen Bai +6

Video diffusion models leveraging step distillation or causal distillation have achieved remarkable performance. However, adapting existing LoRAs to these variants remains a critic…

cs.CV2026

Reflective Flow Sampling Enhancement

Zikai Zhou, Muyao Wang, Shitong Shao +4

The growing demand for text-to-image generation has led to rapid advances in generative modeling. Recently, text-to-image diffusion models trained with flow matching algorithms, su…

cs.CV2026

Efficient Video Diffusion Models: Advancements and Challenges

Shitong Shao, Lichen Bai, Pengfei Wan +2

Video diffusion models have rapidly become the dominant paradigm for high-fidelity generative video synthesis, but their practical deployment remains constrained by severe inferenc…

cs.CV2026

CRAFT: Aligning Diffusion Models with Fine-Tuning Is Easier Than You Think

Zening Sun, Zhengpeng Xie, Lichen Bai +3

Aligning Diffusion models has achieved remarkable breakthroughs in generating high-quality, human preference-aligned images. Existing techniques, such as supervised fine-tuning (SF…

cs.CV2026

Guidance Matters: Rethinking the Evaluation Pitfall for Text-to-Image Generation

Dian Xie, Shitong Shao, Lichen Bai +5

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) has helped diffusion models achieve great conditional generation in various fields. Recently, more diffusion guidance methods have emerged with impro…

cs.CV2026

PISA: Piecewise Sparse Attention Is Wiser for Efficient Diffusion Transformers

Haopeng Li, Shitong Shao, Wenliang Zhong +4

Diffusion Transformers are fundamental for video and image generation, but their efficiency is bottlenecked by the quadratic complexity of attention. While block sparse attention a…

cs.CV2026

Optimizing Few-Step Generation with Adaptive Matching Distillation

Lichen Bai, Zikai Zhou, Shitong Shao +5

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) is a powerful acceleration paradigm, yet its stability is often compromised in Forbidden Zone, regions where the real teacher provides unre…

cs.CV2025

CoRe^2: Collect, Reflect and Refine to Generate Better and Faster

Shitong Shao, Zikai Zhou, Dian Xie +4

Making text-to-image (T2I) generative model sample both fast and well represents a promising research direction. Previous studies have typically focused on either enhancing the vis…

cs.CV2024

Zigzag Diffusion Sampling: Diffusion Models Can Self-Improve via Self-Reflection

Lichen Bai, Shitong Shao, Zikai Zhou +4

Diffusion models, the most popular generative paradigm so far, can inject conditional information into the generation path to guide the latent towards desired directions. However,…

cs.CV2024

Bag of Design Choices for Inference of High-Resolution Masked Generative Transformer

Shitong Shao, Zikai Zhou, Tian Ye +3

Text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) develop at an unprecedented pace, supported by thorough theoretical exploration and empirical analysis. Unfortunately, the discrepancy between…

cs.CV2024

IV-Mixed Sampler: Leveraging Image Diffusion Models for Enhanced Video Synthesis

Shitong Shao, Zikai Zhou, Lichen Bai +2

The multi-step sampling mechanism, a key feature of visual diffusion models, has significant potential to replicate the success of OpenAI's Strawberry in enhancing performance by i…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Not All Noises Are Created Equally:Diffusion Noise Selection and Optimization

Zipeng Qi, Lichen Bai, Haoyi Xiong +1

Diffusion models that can generate high-quality data from randomly sampled Gaussian noises have become the mainstream generative method in both academia and industry. Are randomly…