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CtrlCache: Accelerating Interactive Video World Models with Control-Aware Caching

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Briefings

A new training-free caching framework called CtrlCache accelerates interactive video world models by adapting computation to control signals. The system identifies structural changes at action boundaries and leverages persistent low-frequency patterns during steady interaction. Evaluated on Matrix-Game 2.0 and LingBot-World, it achieves 1.21x to 1.41x DiT-backbone speedups without retraining, improving overall inference scores across all tested models.

Key points

• CtrlCache identifies structural similarity drops around action changes in interactive video generation, enabling efficient computation.
• The framework labels chunks as initial, transition, turning, or steady state to optimize transformer residual reuse.

Context

Interactive video world models require efficient chunk-wise generation while respecting user controls. Existing policies ignore control transitions, whereas CtrlCache adapts to them. This finding matters because it enables faster inference without model retraining, improving performance on Matrix-Game 2.0 and LingBot-World.

Limitations

Evidence covers Matrix-Game 2.0 and LingBot-World v1/v2. Results are from a single selected interior denoising step. No additional background context is supplied; uncertainty remains about broader applicability.

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