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Abstract - KVPO: ODE-Native GRPO for Autoregressive Video Alignment via KV Semantic Exploration
Aligning streaming autoregressive (AR) video generators with human preferences is challenging. Existing reinforcement learning methods predominantly rely on noise-based exploration and SDE-based surrogate policies that are mismatched to the deterministic ODE dynamics of distilled AR models, and tend to perturb low-level appearance rather than the high-level semantic storyline progression critical for long-horizon coherence. To address these limitations, we present KVPO, an ODE-native online Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) framework for aligning streaming video generators. For diversity exploration, KVPO introduces a causal-semantic exploration paradigm that relocates the source of variation from stochastic noise to the historical KV cache. By stochastically routing historical KV entries, it constructs semantically diverse generation branches that remain strictly on the data manifold. For policy modeling, KVPO introduces a velocity-field surrogate policy based on Trajectory Velocity Energy (TVE), which quantifies branch likelihood in flow-matching velocity space and yields a reward-weighted contrastive objective fully consistent with the native ODE formulation. Experiments on multiple distilled AR video generators demonstrate consistent gains in visual quality, motion quality, and text-video alignment across both single-prompt short-video and multi-prompt long-video settings.
KVPO:通过KV语义探索实现自回归视频对齐的原生ODE策略优化方法 /
KVPO: ODE-Native GRPO for Autoregressive Video Alignment via KV Semantic Exploration
1️⃣ 一句话总结
本文提出KVPO方法,通过利用视频生成模型中的历史缓存(KV cache)进行语义级探索,并设计基于轨迹速度能量的奖励函数,使得强化学习过程与视频生成的原生ODE动力学完全一致,显著提升了模型在视觉质量、运动连贯性和文本一致性上的表现。