STARFlow-V: Normalizing Flow-Based Video Generation Model with End-to-End Learning
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Summary
STARFlow-V is a normalizing flow-based video generation model that offers end-to-end learning, robust causal prediction, and native likelihood estimation. Unlike current state-of-the-art diffusion-based video generators, this approach uses a spatiotemporal latent space with a global-local architecture that restricts causal dependencies to global latent space while preserving local within-frame interactions. The model introduces flow-score matching for improved video consistency and employs a video-aware Jacobi iteration scheme for efficient sampling. Thanks to its invertible structure, STARFlow-V supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and video-to-video generation tasks, achieving strong visual fidelity and temporal consistency with practical sampling throughput.
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This eases error accumulation over time, a common pitfall of standard autoregressive diffusion model generation.
Thanks to the invertible structure, the same model can natively support text-to-video, image-to-video as well as video-to-video generation tasks.
These results present the first evidence, to our knowledge, that NFs are capable of high-quality autoregressive video generation, establishing them as a promising research direction for building world models.
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