Overview

Autoregressive diffusion combines sequential prediction of frames, chunks, tokens, or motion states with diffusion denoising, aiming to pair temporal control with detailed generation. Common approaches include latent diffusion transformers trained with teacher forcing, self-forcing, or distillation, alongside inference methods for memory selection, adaptive denoising, and speculative decoding. Work spans long-form video, language, motion, audio, and physical simulation, with evaluations including VBench, HumanML3D, and long-rollout stability tests. A central challenge is preventing errors from accumulating when models condition on their own imperfect outputs while keeping latency and memory manageable; causal generation also competes with the global coordination and speed of bidirectional methods.

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  1. Unified Multi-plane Autoregressive Diffusion for 3D Multi-contrast MRI Synthesis

    Oct 7, 2026Yejee Shin, Geonhui Son, Jinglu Wang +3Medical Image Synthesis3D Diffusion Models

  2. S2PD: Serial-to-Parallel Diffusion for Physically and Logically Consistent Video Generation

    Oct 5, 2026Jeffrey Hu, Daniel Olmeda Reino, Ayush TewariPhysical Consistency in Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  3. Rollout-Marginal Distillation for Long-Horizon Autoregressive Video Generation

    Sep 29, 2026Chenjian Gao, Zhihao Hu, Jianqi Ma +3Autoregressive DiffusionLong-Horizon Video Generation

  4. EnJoi: Ensemble Joint Score Filter for Generative Data Assimilation

    Sep 28, 2026Julien Moreau, Marc LelargeData AssimilationDiffusion Models

  5. Diffusion Drafts, AR Verifies: Accelerating Document OCR with Self-Speculative Decoding

    Sep 22, 2026Dohyun Kim, Sungjun Han, Hyungguk Kim +4Autoregressive DiffusionSpeculative Decoding

  6. Spatiotemporally Decoupled Autoregressive Diffusion Model for Human Motion Generation

    Aug 24, 2026Chengqun Yang, Liang Xu, Yanping Li +4Text-to-Motion GenerationHuman Motion Generation

  7. FreqForcing: Autoregressive Long Video Generation via Spectral Self-Anchoring

    Jul 29, 2026Jiatong Li, Leo Liang, Linghe Kong +1Video Diffusion ModelsAutoregressive Diffusion

  8. Self Gradient Forcing: Native Long Video Extrapolation

    Jul 22, 2026Junhao Zhuang, Shiyi Zhang, Yuxuan Bian +11Video Diffusion ModelsAutoregressive Diffusion

  9. Test-Time Noise Guided Adaptation for Realistic Autoregressive Video Generation

    Jul 17, 2026Dimitrios Karageorgiou, Symeon Papadopoulos, Ioannis Kompatsiaris +1Diffusion Model GuidanceVideo Diffusion Models

  10. OPSD-V: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Post-Training Few-Step Autoregressive Video Generators

    Jul 9, 2026Hongyu Liu, Chun Wang, Feng Gao +6Video Diffusion ModelsAutoregressive Diffusion

  11. SAGA: Stable Acceleration Guidance for Autoregressive Video Generation

    Jul 9, 2026Thanh-Nhan Vo, Trong-Thuan Nguyen, Trung-Hoang Le +2Video Diffusion ModelsAutoregressive Diffusion

  12. Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: A Tri-Mode Language Model Unifying Autoregressive, Diffusion, and Self-Speculation Decoding

    Jul 7, 2026Yonggan Fu, Lexington Whalen, Abhinav Garg +23Autoregressive DiffusionAutoregressive Language Modeling

  13. Flex-Forcing: Towards a Unified Autoregressive and Bidirectional Video Diffusion Model

    Jul 3, 2026Xinyin Ma, Julius Berner, Chao Liu +3Video Diffusion ModelsAutoregressive Diffusion

  14. TempAct: Advancing Temporal Plausibility in Autoregressive Video Generation via Planner-Executor RL

    Jun 26, 2026Jing Wang, Xiangxin Zhou, Jiajun Liang +5Autoregressive DiffusionRL for Video Generation

  15. Context-Aware Autoregressive Diffusion for Gloss-Wise Sign Language Production

    Jun 19, 2026JungHoon Sung, Boeun Kim, Chu Xin +4Autoregressive DiffusionHuman Motion Generation

  16. PepALD: Macrocyclic Peptide Generation via Autoregressive Latent Diffusion

    Jun 12, 2026Junming Zhang, Siyu Yi, Wei Ju +1Diffusion Model AlignmentAutoregressive Diffusion

  17. Data-Efficient Autoregressive-to-Diffusion Language Models via On-Policy Distillation

    Jun 4, 2026Xingyu Su, Jacob Helwig, Shubham Parashar +6Language Model DistillationDiffusion Language Models

  18. DSA: Dynamic Step Allocation for Fast Autoregressive Video Generation

    Jun 3, 2026Thanh-Tung Le, Yunhan Zhao, Menglei Chai +5Autoregressive DiffusionReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  19. Video-Mirai: Autoregressive Video Diffusion Models Need Foresight

    Jun 2, 2026Yonghao Yu, Lang Huang, Runyi Li +2Temporal Consistency in Video GenerationAutoregressive Diffusion

  20. AR Forcing: Towards Long-Horizon Robot Navigation World Model

    May 29, 2026Yifei Yang, Zehua Fan, Huan Li +9World Models for RoboticsAutoregressive Diffusion