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Token Radius Attention for Efficient Video Generation

arXiv 2608.02504 ↗First posted 3 Aug 2026cs.CVcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Video Diffusion Transformers (VDiTs) enable high-fidelity generation but incur quadratic cost from dense 3D self-attention. Existing head- and block-level sparse methods share computation budgets across queries, overlooking token-specific attention demand. We observe that retained density varies across queries yet correlates log-linearly with attention entropy, while dominant interactions form query-centered neighborhoods with token-dependent radii. Based on these findings, we propose Token Radius Attention (TRA), a training-free framework that maps query entropy to an analytic token budget and converts it into a temporally decayed radius without explicit key ranking. Fused entropy extraction, warm-up reuse, and block-sparse mask construction further reduce overhead. Across seven Wan2.1, Wan2.2, and HunyuanVideo T2V/I2V configurations, TRA retains only 9-19% of attention interactions and achieves 1.56x-2.05x speedup with competitive generation quality. Code is available at https://github.com/IF-LAB-PKU/Token-Radius-Attention.

Key facts. No citing papers in the map yet (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Video generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 22 of its 26 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 3 Aug 2026.

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  2. 2025Radial Attention: O(nlog n) Sparse Attention with Energy Decay for Long Video Generation24 Jun
  3. 2025Sparse VideoGen2: Accelerate Video Generation with Sparse Attention via Semantic-Aware Permutation24 May
  4. 2025VSA: Faster Video Diffusion with Trainable Sparse Attention19 May
  5. 2025Sparse VideoGen: Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers with Spatial-Temporal Sparsity3 Feb
  6. 2024Timestep Embedding Tells: It's Time to Cache for Video Diffusion Model28 Nov
  7. 2024CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer12 Aug

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  2. 2018The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metriccited by 11,029
  3. 2025Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Modelscited by 2,536
  4. 2023VBench: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for Video Generative Modelscited by 1,755
  5. 2024HunyuanVideo: A Systematic Framework For Large Video Generative Modelscited by 1,597
  6. 2023One-step Diffusion with Distribution Matching Distillationcited by 978
  7. 2025VBench-2.0: Advancing Video Generation Benchmark Suite for Intrinsic Faithfulnesscited by 289
  8. 2022Post-training Quantization on Diffusion Modelscited by 262
  9. 2025FlashInfer: Efficient and Customizable Attention Engine for LLM Inference Servingcited by 248
  10. 2023PTQD: Accurate Post-Training Quantization for Diffusion Modelscited by 167
  11. 2026Seedance 2.0: Advancing Video Generation for World Complexitycited by 142
  12. 2025From Reusing to Forecasting: Accelerating Diffusion Models with TaylorSeerscited by 124
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  2. 2025S2Q-VDiT: Accurate Quantized Video Diffusion Transformer with Salient Data and Sparse Token Distillationcited by 12
  3. 2026EcoVideo: Entropy-Orchestrated Video Generation Paradigm in Cloud-Edge Dynamicscited by 2

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