VideoMLA applies multi-head latent attention with 3D-RoPE decoupling to autoregressive video diffusion, delivering 92.7% KV memory reduction while matching short-horizon baselines and leading long-horizon VBench scores.
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Causal Forcing: Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation Done Right for High-Quality Real-Time Interactive Video Generation
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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 attention. However, existing approaches do not bridge this gap theoretically. They initialize the AR student via ODE distillation, which requires frame-level injectivity, where each noisy frame must map to a unique clean frame under the PF-ODE of an AR teacher. Distilling an AR student from a bidirectional teacher violates this condition, preventing recovery of the teacher's flow map and instead inducing a conditional-expectation solution, which degrades performance. To address this issue, we propose Causal Forcing, which uses an autoregressive teacher for ODE initialization to bridge the architectural gap, and then applies the same DMD procedure as in Self Forcing. Empirical results show that our method outperforms all baselines across all metrics, surpassing the SOTA Self Forcing by 19.3\% in Dynamic Degree, 8.7\% in VisionReward, and 16.7\% in Instruction Following. Project page: \href{https://thu-ml.github.io/CausalForcing.github.io/}{https://thu-ml.github.io/CausalForcing.github.io/}; the code: \href{https://github.com/thu-ml/Causal-Forcing}{https://github.com/thu-ml/Causal-Forcing}.
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