{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Paper Cast","slug":"daily-paper-cast-7079649","podcast_index_feed_id":7079649,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/daily-paper-cast-ai","website_url":"https://dailypapercast.transistor.fm/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/IxaBeiMluxrMS9W9wB8hFMfmvH27KvwaSMzuhucupn0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjg1/YzRhODczMDU4MmE4/OGMwN2FiNDlmYzI2/MDliMi5qcGVn.jpg","author":"Jingwen Liang, Gengyu Wang","episode_count":1967,"summary":"We update every weekday to discuss highest-voted papers from Huggingface Daily Paper (https://huggingface.co/papers). Both the podcast scripts and audio are generated by AI. Feedback and suggestions are welcome! Email us: dailypapercast.ai@gmail.com Creator: Jingwen Liang, 3D ML, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jingwen-liang/ Gengyu Wang, LLM ML, http://wanggengyu.com Listen on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/21nrhmdaA8qoBiH8q03NXL Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-paper-cast/id1777620236 Cover Image by Kawen Kuang https://kawen.art","last_synced_at":"2026-06-14T04:17:49.264124+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649"},"episode":{"title":"Causal Forcing++: Scalable Few-Step Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation for Real-Time Interactive Video Generation","slug":"causal-forcing-scalable-few-step-autoregressive-diffusion-distillation-for-real-time-interactive-video-generation","published_at":"2026-05-16T04:26:11+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649/causal-forcing-scalable-few-step-autoregressive-diffusion-distillation-for-real-time-interactive-video-generation","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/f653d882","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/f653d882/8f461c60.mp3","summary":"🤗 Upvotes: 76 | cs.CV Authors: Min Zhao, Hongzhou Zhu, Kaiwen Zheng, Zihan Zhou, Bokai Yan, Xinyuan Li, Xiao Yang, Chongxuan Li, Jun Zhu Title: Causal Forcing++: Scalable Few-Step Autoregressive Diffusion Distillation for Real-Time Interactive Video Generation Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15141v1 Abstract: Real-time interactive video generation requires low-latency, streaming, and controllable rollout. Existing autoregressive (AR) diffusion distillation methods have achieved strong results in the chunk-wise 4-step regime by distilling bidirectional base models into few-step AR students, but they remain limited by coarse response granularity and non-negligible sampling latency. In this paper, we study a more aggressive setting: frame-wise autoregression with only 1--2 sampling steps. In this regime, we identify the initialization of a few-step AR student as the key bottleneck: existing strategies are either target-misaligned, incapable of few-step generation, or too costly to scale. We propose \\textbf{Causal Forcing++}, a principled and scalable pipeline that uses \\emph{causal consistency distillation} (causal CD) for few-step AR initialization. The core idea is that causal CD learns the same AR-conditional flow map as causal ODE distillation, but obtains supervision from a single online teacher ODE step between adjacent timesteps, avoiding the need to precompute and store full PF-ODE trajectories. This makes the initialization both more efficient and easier to optimize. The resulting pipeline, \\ours, surpasses the SOTA 4-step chunk-wise Causal Forcing under the \\textit{\\textbf{frame-wise 2-step setting}} by 0.1 in VBench Total, 0.3 in VBench Quality, and 0.335 in VisionReward, while reducing first-frame latency by 50\\% and Stage 2 training cost by $\\sim$$4\\times$.…","meta_description":"🤗 Upvotes: 76 | cs.CV Authors: Min Zhao, Hongzhou Zhu, Kaiwen Zheng, Zihan Zhou, Bokai Yan, Xinyuan Li, Xiao Yang, Chongxuan Li, Jun Zhu Title: Causal For…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1410,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-paper-cast-7079649/episodes/causal-forcing-scalable-few-step-autoregressive-diffusion-distillation-for-real-time-interactive-video-generation/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649/causal-forcing-scalable-few-step-autoregressive-diffusion-distillation-for-real-time-interactive-video-generation.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}