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. RealCam: Real-Time Novel-View Video Generation with Interactive Camera Control

    May 7, 2026Youcan Xu, Jiaxin Shi, Zhen Wang +5Camera-Controlled Video GenerationReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  2. Hallo-Live: Real-Time Streaming Joint Audio-Video Avatar Generation with Asynchronous Dual-Stream and Human-Centric Preference Distillation

    Apr 26, 2026Chunyu Li, Jiaye Li, Ruiqiao Mei +4Audio-Video GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

  3. Real-Time AttentionBender: Granular Interactive Network Bending of Video Diffusion Transformers

    Apr 24, 2026Adam Cole, Rebecca Fiebrink, Mick GriersonTransformer InterpretabilityVideo Diffusion Models

  4. DiT as Real-Time Rerenderer: Streaming Video Stylization with Autoregressive Diffusion Transformer

    Apr 15, 2026Hengye Lyu, Zisu Li, Yue Hong +4Temporal Consistency in Video GenerationReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  5. SentiAvatar: Towards Expressive and Interactive Digital Humans

    Apr 3, 2026Chuhao Jin, Rui Zhang, Qingzhe Gao +5Human Avatar AnimationHuman Motion Generation

  6. ShotStream: Streaming Multi-Shot Video Generation for Interactive Storytelling

    Mar 26, 2026Yawen Luo, Xiaoyu Shi, Junhao Zhuang +5Multi-Shot Video GenerationStreaming Video Generation

  7. EARTalking: End-to-end GPT-style Autoregressive Talking Head Synthesis with Frame-wise Control

    Mar 19, 2026Yuzhe Weng, Haotian Wang, Yuanhong Yu +4Talking Head GenerationControllable Video Generation

  8. SoulX-LiveAct: Towards Hour-Scale Real-Time Human Animation with Neighbor Forcing and ConvKV Memory

    Mar 12, 2026Dingcheng Zhen, Xu Zheng, Ruixin Zhang +4Autoregressive DiffusionReal-Time Interactive Video Generation

  9. RealWonder: Real-Time Physical Action-Conditioned Video Generation

    Mar 5, 2026Wei Liu, Ziyu Chen, Zizhang Li +3Physics-Guided Video GenerationAction-Conditioned Video Generation

  10. Helios: Real Real-Time Long Video Generation Model

    Mar 4, 2026Shenghai Yuan, Yuanyang Yin, Zongjian Li +3Efficient Video GenerationLong-Horizon Video Generation