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Nov 12

Back to Pixels: Lifting Latent Video Diffusion into Pixel Space

Frontier video generation models work in a VAE latent space that compresses video in both space and time. This compression made training tractable, but now limits high-resolution, controllable, and interactive generation -- doubling resolution quadruples token count, conditions apply to groups of frames rather than individual ones, and each response must wait for the rest of its multi-frame block. We present PixVid, a simple yet effective method that lifts a pretrained latent video model to directly generate every frame in pixel space. PixVid keeps the diffusion transformer and replaces the VAE decoder with a convolutional head that renders its outputs into pixels. We find that predicting clean video rather than velocity, together with a larger noise shift, is key to quality. Finetuned from Wan2.1-14B, PixVid is competitive with the latent baseline within $\sim 1.3$M training clips. Working framewise in pixels, it generates at $2\times$ higher resolution with the same per-frame token count, keeps depth-conditioned video editing aligned under fast motion, and responds to each action at the next frame. Project page: https://chenshuo20.github.io/PixVid/

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Sep 19

LazyAgent: Demand-Driven Materialization and Physical Optimization of Agentic Programs

Current agent runtimes that plan before acting generally execute a step once it becomes ready. We present LazyAgent, a unified execution framework for agent-authored programs organized around a live, goal-derived demanded set. LazyAgent refreshes a backward closure from…

arXiv

Sep 19

Bridging Static and Agentic RAG for Taiwanese Historical Question Answering

Agentic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables language models to adapt retrieval based on previously retrieved evidence, but it remains unclear whether such adaptive orchestration consistently outperforms well-designed static pipelines. We conduct a controlled comparison…

arXiv

Sep 19

Optimizers for Diffusion Models: A Controlled Benchmark

Discrete diffusion models now match autoregressive language models on several benchmarks, while the question of how best to train them has received far less attention: the optimizer is inherited from one paper to the next and never compared. New optimizers, meanwhile, are…

arXiv

Sep 19

Attributable Post-Rationalization in RAG Citations: A Controlled Reproduction and an RLVR Comparison

A RAG system can hand you the right answer and cite a source it did not actually use. Models output these unfaithful citations via post-rationalization: they write the answer first and then attach a citation to whatever passage looks close enough. Search agents are now trained…

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