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Self Gradient Forcing: Native Long Video Extrapolation

Research Multimodal & Generative

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TL;DR - Self Gradient Forcing (SGF) trains autoregressive video diffusion models to encode earlier generated frames into more useful causal memory. It improves long-video consistency and enables extrapolation from a 5-second training window to several-minute videos.

  • Addresses the “historical context-gradient gap,” where future losses cannot improve earlier key-value cache representations.
  • Uses a two-pass method: a no-gradient autoregressive rollout followed by parallel context-gradient reconstruction.
  • Avoids backpropagation through the full serial rollout while restoring future-to-context supervision.
  • Outperforms Self Forcing in identity, layout/background consistency, and temporal stability across long-horizon experiments.

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Self Gradient Forcing: Native Long Video Extrapolation

arXiv cs.CV Junhao Zhuang, Shiyi Zhang, Yuxuan Bian, Yaowei Li, Yawen Luo, Yijun Liu, Weiyang Jin, Songchun Zhang, Xianglong He, Xuying Zhang, Haoran Li, Haoyang Huang, Zeyue Xue, Nan Duan 2026-07-22 arXiv:2607.20368

TL;DR - Self Gradient Forcing (SGF) trains autoregressive video diffusion models to encode earlier generated frames into more useful causal memory. It improves long-video consistency and enables extrapolation from a 5-second training window to several-minute videos.

  • Addresses the “historical context-gradient gap,” where future losses cannot improve earlier key-value cache representations.
  • Uses a two-pass method: a no-gradient autoregressive rollout followed by parallel context-gradient reconstruction.
  • Avoids backpropagation through the full serial rollout while restoring future-to-context supervision.
  • Outperforms Self Forcing in identity, layout/background consistency, and temporal stability across long-horizon experiments.
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