UltraViCo: Breaking Extrapolation Limits in Video Diffusion Transformers

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Main Authors: Zhao, Min, Zhu, Hongzhou, Wang, Yingze, Yan, Bokai, Zhang, Jintao, He, Guande, Yang, Ling, Li, Chongxuan, Zhu, Jun
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author Zhao, Min
Zhu, Hongzhou
Wang, Yingze
Yan, Bokai
Zhang, Jintao
He, Guande
Yang, Ling
Li, Chongxuan
Zhu, Jun
author_facet Zhao, Min
Zhu, Hongzhou
Wang, Yingze
Yan, Bokai
Zhang, Jintao
He, Guande
Yang, Ling
Li, Chongxuan
Zhu, Jun
contents Despite advances, video diffusion transformers still struggle to generalize beyond their training length, a challenge we term video length extrapolation. We identify two failure modes: model-specific periodic content repetition and a universal quality degradation. Prior works attempt to solve repetition via positional encodings, overlooking quality degradation and achieving only limited extrapolation. In this paper, we revisit this challenge from a more fundamental view: attention maps, which directly govern how context influences outputs. We identify that both failure modes arise from a unified cause: attention dispersion, where tokens beyond the training window dilute learned attention patterns. This leads to quality degradation and repetition emerges as a special case when this dispersion becomes structured into periodic attention patterns, induced by harmonic properties of positional encodings. Building on this insight, we propose UltraViCo, a training-free, plug-and-play method that suppresses attention for tokens beyond the training window via a constant decay factor. By jointly addressing both failure modes, we outperform a broad set of baselines largely across models and extrapolation ratios, pushing the extrapolation limit from 2x to 4x. Remarkably, it improves Dynamic Degree and Imaging Quality by 233% and 40.5% over the previous best method at 4x extrapolation. Furthermore, our method generalizes seamlessly to downstream tasks such as controllable video synthesis and editing.
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spellingShingle UltraViCo: Breaking Extrapolation Limits in Video Diffusion Transformers
Zhao, Min
Zhu, Hongzhou
Wang, Yingze
Yan, Bokai
Zhang, Jintao
He, Guande
Yang, Ling
Li, Chongxuan
Zhu, Jun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Despite advances, video diffusion transformers still struggle to generalize beyond their training length, a challenge we term video length extrapolation. We identify two failure modes: model-specific periodic content repetition and a universal quality degradation. Prior works attempt to solve repetition via positional encodings, overlooking quality degradation and achieving only limited extrapolation. In this paper, we revisit this challenge from a more fundamental view: attention maps, which directly govern how context influences outputs. We identify that both failure modes arise from a unified cause: attention dispersion, where tokens beyond the training window dilute learned attention patterns. This leads to quality degradation and repetition emerges as a special case when this dispersion becomes structured into periodic attention patterns, induced by harmonic properties of positional encodings. Building on this insight, we propose UltraViCo, a training-free, plug-and-play method that suppresses attention for tokens beyond the training window via a constant decay factor. By jointly addressing both failure modes, we outperform a broad set of baselines largely across models and extrapolation ratios, pushing the extrapolation limit from 2x to 4x. Remarkably, it improves Dynamic Degree and Imaging Quality by 233% and 40.5% over the previous best method at 4x extrapolation. Furthermore, our method generalizes seamlessly to downstream tasks such as controllable video synthesis and editing.
title UltraViCo: Breaking Extrapolation Limits in Video Diffusion Transformers
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.20123