Direct Forcing: A Single-Stage Training Recipe for Few-Step Autoregressive Text-to-Video Generation

No. 149 of 245 · arXiv · Haojun Xu, Jie Huang, Xin Lu et al. · published 23 Oct 2026, 04:00 UTC · 40 min read

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Paper

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Direct Forcing is a single-stage training recipe for few-step autoregressive text-to-video generation, which jointly learns causal continuation alignment from reference histories and rollout distribution matching via maximum mean discrepancy.

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Score

0.64total under rubric v2.0Contestedjudges differ by 0.47 on reader interest

Significance0.58
Reader interest0.67
Audience breadth0.45
Practical relevance0.59
Substantiated0.83
Technical depth0.93
New information0.88
Counts against: Promotional0.04
Counts against: Overclaim0.23

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

Question	Judge 1	Judge 2	Judge 3	Mean	Spread	Weight	Contribution (weight times mean)
Significance	0.63	0.40	0.72	0.58	0.32	+0.25	+0.146
Reader interest	0.64	0.45	0.92	0.67	0.47 , above the contested threshold	+0.20	+0.134
Audience breadth	0.45	0.35	0.55	0.45	0.20	+0.10	+0.045
Practical relevance	0.64	0.40	0.72	0.59	0.32	+0.15	+0.088
Substantiated	0.96	0.70	0.84	0.83	0.26	+0.10	+0.083
Technical depth	0.99	0.85	0.94	0.93	0.14	+0.10	+0.093
New information	0.87	0.80	0.98	0.88	0.18	+0.10	+0.088
Promotional	0.05	0.05	0.03	0.04	0.02	−0.15	−0.006
Overclaim	0.20	0.30	0.18	0.23	0.12	−0.15	−0.034
Sum of contributions							+0.636
Claim-check penalty							0.000
Total, as published							0.636

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

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