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cs.CV2026

RAR: Rate-Adaptive Rollout for Time-Consistent Interactive World Models

Yaoyang Liu, Dongyu Yan, Yihua Du +5

Video-based interactive world models aim to enable real-time, user-controllable environments. Yet most existing systems are trained and rolled out at a fixed temporal rate, limitin…

cs.CV2026

Sol-Attn: Accelerating Video Generation Inference via On-the-Fly Attention Sparsification

Haopeng Li, Yitong Li, Junsong Chen +8

Diffusion transformers are essential for high-fidelity video generation, but long token sequences make attention a dominant inference bottleneck. Training-free dynamic sparse atten…

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

MangaFlow: An End-to-End Agentic Framework for Controllable Story to Manga Generation

Muyao Wang, Zeke Xie, Yanhao Chen +2

End-to-end manga generation is a structured visual storytelling task that requires story decomposition, recurring character and scene grounding, page layout design, panel rendering…

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

FastLightGen: Fast and Light Video Generation with Fewer Steps and Parameters

Shitong Shao, Yufei Gu, Zeke Xie

The recent advent of powerful video generation models, such as Hunyuan, WanX, Veo3, and Kling, has inaugurated a new era in the field. However, the practical deployment of these mo…

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

MagicDistillation: Weak-to-Strong Video Distillation for Large-Scale Few-Step Synthesis

Shitong Shao, Hongwei Yi, Hanzhong Guo +5

Recently, open-source video diffusion models (VDMs), such as WanX, Magic141 and HunyuanVideo, have been scaled to over 10 billion parameters. These large-scale VDMs have demonstrat…

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.CV2025

MagicInfinite: Generating Infinite Talking Videos with Your Words and Voice

Hongwei Yi, Tian Ye, Shitong Shao +10

We present MagicInfinite, a novel diffusion Transformer (DiT) framework that overcomes traditional portrait animation limitations, delivering high-fidelity results across diverse c…

cs.CV2024

A Simple and Efficient Baseline for Zero-Shot Generative Classification

Zipeng Qi, Buhua Liu, Shiyan Zhang +4

Large diffusion models have become mainstream generative models in both academic studies and industrial AIGC applications. Recently, a number of works further explored how to emplo…

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…