InfVSR: Toward Consistency-Driven Streaming Generative Video Super-Resolution
Ziqing Zhang, Kai Liu, Zheng Chen, Xi Li, Yucong Chen, Bingnan Duan, Linghe Kong, Yulun Zhang
Abstract
Real-world videos often extend over thousands of frames. Existing generative video super-resolution (VSR) approaches, however, face two persistent challenges when processing long sequences: (1) inefficiency due to the heavy cost of multi-step denoising for full-length sequences; and (2) poor consistency hindered by temporal decomposition that causes artifacts and discontinuities. To break these limits, we propose InfVSR, which reformulates VSR as an autoregressive-one-step-diffusion paradigm, and enables streaming inference with video diffusion priors. First, we adapt the pretrained DiT into a causal structure, maintaining both local and global coherence via rolling KV-cache and joint visual guidance. Second, we distill the diffusion process into a single step efficiently, with patch-wise pixel supervision and cross-chunk distribution matching. To fill the gap in long-form video evaluation, we build a new benchmark tailored for extended sequences and further introduce semantic-level metrics to comprehensively assess temporal consistency. Our method pushes the frontier of long-form VSR, achieves state-of-the-art quality with enhanced semantic consistency, and delivers up to 58x speed-up over existing methods such as MGLD-VSR. Our code and models are available at https://github.com/Kai-Liu001/InfVSR .
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