ViRDM: Taming Representation Distribution Matching for Few-Step Causal Video Generation
Few-step autoregressive (AR) video diffusion enables low-latency streaming generation, but existing post-training methods predominantly rely on Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), requiring both a large pretrained teacher and an online critic to estimate distributional discrepancies through diffusion scores. In this work, we ask whether this resource-intensive teacher--cr
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Few-step autoregressive (AR) video diffusion enables low-latency streaming generation, but existing post-training methods predominantly rely on Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), requiring both a large pretrained teacher and an online critic to estimate distributional discrepancies through diffusion scores. In this work, we ask whether this resource-intensive teacher--cr
This research is crucial for ML engineers working on real-time video generation and streaming applications. By exploring methods to reduce the computational overhead of few-step video diffusion, it directly addresses latency and resource consumption challenges, making such models more practical for deployment.