In-Context Forcing: Uncovering Context Effects in Autoregressive Video Diffusion

Published in arxiv , 2026

Lingxiao Yang, Liu Liu, Moran Li*, Han Feng, Wenjian Cao, Jiangning Zhang, Ye Shi

  • Equal contribution.

Paper

In-Context Forcing introduces a progressive autoregressive paradigm for few-step video diffusion. It conditions each frame on preceding frames with decreasing noise levels, reducing local-detail leakage while preserving temporal consistency and motion dynamics.

The method further introduces a step-wise rolling KV cache for train-test-consistent training and cross-frame causal attention for parallel denoising, substantially accelerating inference without sacrificing generation quality.