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Glance Forcing: Making Bidirectional Diffusion Autoregressive at a Glance
arXiv:2610.20220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive generation underlies real-time, causal video synthesis and is the backbone of video world models. Today's dominant approach distills a bi
arXiv:2610.20220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autoregressive generation underlies real-time, causal video synthesis and is the backbone of video world models. Today's dominant approach distills a bidirectional diffusion model into a causal few-step student, but existing pipelines make this conversion prohibitively expensive, requiring offline Probability Flow ODE} (PF-ODE) trajectories that cost tens of thousands of GPU-hours and terabytes of storage. We show it can be made dramatically more efficient. Pushing this efficiency to its extreme, we reduce trajectory supervision to a single sample, the strictest setting possible, and find that it causes severe quality collapse. We trace this to the teacher's trajectory geometry: the high-noise regime, governing semantic layout and motion, and the low-noise regime, governing fine texture exhibit fundamentally different curvature and optimization behavior, so a single monolithic student cannot jointly fit both, causing severe representation interference. Motivated by this, we propose Glance Forcing, a lightweight distillation framework that decouples the denoising trajectory into two complementary slow and fast experts, each guided by a tailored, stage-specific objective, while keeping the pretrained teacher entirely frozen. This decoupling further reveals a general mechanism underlying few-step distillation: PF-ODE distillation mainly straightens the few-step trajectory geometry, while the subsequent distribution-matching stage independently governs distributional quality. Using only one PF-ODE trajectory, Glance Forcing already surpasses the fully-trained state-of-the-art baseline, raising the VBench Total score from 84.04 to 84.22 while cutting trajectory-collection cost from thousands of GPU-hours to about one A100-GPU-hour, with markedly larger gains in dynamic degree, VisionReward, and instruction-following, and consistent preference from human raters over strong baselines.
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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-10-15