Real-Time Interactive Video Generation

Overview

The field studies how to generate video that responds as people interact, including controllable worlds, avatars, and live video editing. Common approaches adapt video diffusion or autoregressive models for causal streaming, then use few-step distillation, caching, and bounded memory to reduce latency; 3D geometry and physics can provide more explicit camera and action control. Systems are tested for visual quality, control accuracy, throughput, and latency, with benchmarks increasingly measuring long streams and interactive responsiveness. A central challenge is balancing fast reactions with realistic motion and consistent scenes or identities over long interactions, where drift and limited memory remain concerns.

Latest papers

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79 papers19 papers in the last four weeks, up 217% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. ReferStream: Interactive Subject Injection for Streaming Video Generation

    Oct 27, 2026Shuolin Xu, Guanyuan Li, Boyu Li +5Streaming Video GenerationReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  2. BoxWorld: Let World Engines Control and Video Generators Render

    Oct 26, 2026Zike Wu, Ahmed Hatem, Chintan Trivedi +4Real-Time Interactive Video GenerationInteractive World Models

  3. UniWorld: A Unified World Model for Real-Time Visual World Simulation

    Oct 23, 2026Xin Zhang, Yabo Chen, Shuaiwei Wang +4Video World ModelsVideo Generation

  4. LiveAct: Towards Real-Time Multi-Agent World Models with Heterogeneous Action Interfaces

    Oct 21, 2026Xinyu Wang, Huafeng Shi, Yue Ma +9Video World ModelsReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  5. Matrix-Game 4.0: Harnessing Video Models for Real-Time Playable Game Worlds

    Oct 20, 2026Jihai Zhang, Runjia Qian, Kaiqin Kong +15Real-Time Interactive Video GenerationAutoregressive Video Generation

  6. TriTD: Tri-Partite Trajectory-Distribution Distillation for Real-Time Autoregressive Video Generation

    Oct 19, 2026Jia Li, Xurui Peng, Haowei Zhu +7Autoregressive Video GenerationReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  7. RIGen: Beyond Action Following with Reciprocal Interaction in Generative Gameplay

    Oct 14, 2026Mengfei Li, Yi Zhang, Xingtong Ge +8Real-Time Interactive Video GenerationInteractive World Models

  8. Speculative Sampling in Interactive Video Generation

    Oct 14, 2026Yubo Huang, Yuxuan Zhang, Jiaming Liu +2Real-Time Interactive Video GenerationStreaming Video Generation

  9. World-T3: Test-Time Training as Persistent Memory for Real-Time Video World Models

    Oct 12, 2026Junyi Wu, Zekun Li, Chenhongyi Yang +9Video World ModelsMemory-Augmented Video Generation

  10. WorldCast: Distributed Multiplayer World Models

    Oct 8, 2026Ziyang Ye, Junchao Huang, Evelyn Zhang +9World ModelsInteractive World Models

  11. HelixWorld: A Real-time Interactive Audio-Visual World Model

    Sep 29, 2026Lei Ke, Jiahao Pan, Zeyue Tian +13World Model LearningReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  12. WorldAttention: An Efficient Attention Architecture for Interactive Video World Models

    Sep 28, 2026Zeyu Zhang, Jinyuan Mao, Dakai An +6Real-Time Interactive Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation

  13. AVTR-1: Open Stack for Real-Time Interactive Avatars

    Sep 19, 2026Artem Kravtsov, Dmitrii Ziganshin, Vsevolod Poletaev +4Real-Time Interactive Video GenerationAudio-Video Generation

  14. Astronex-World 1.0: Real-Time Interactive World Model Foundation

    Sep 17, 2026Xin Zhou, Cong MiaoVideo World ModelsVideo Diffusion Models

  15. DiVA: Enabling Interactive Digital Life Simulation via Video Models

    Sep 12, 2026Cheng Chen, Hao Ouyang, Qiuyu Wang +11Real-Time Interactive Video GenerationHuman Avatar Animation

  16. Vidu S2: Real-Time Interactive, Editable, and Spatial Video Generation

    Sep 10, 2026Jintao Zhang, Kai Jiang, Jintao Chen +32Real-Time Interactive Video GenerationVideo Editing

  17. Magpie: Real-Time World Renderer for Interactive Games

    Aug 27, 2026Xiaoyu Zhan, Xinyu Wang, Xiaohong Zhang +6Real-Time Interactive Video Generation

  18. EditaLive! Unified Character Video Editing for Live Streaming

    Aug 27, 2026Zhiyuan Li, Chi-Man Pun, Peng-Tao Jiang +2Video EditingInstruction-Based Video Editing