InfinityStar: Unified Spacetime AutoRegressive Modeling for Visual Generation

Jinlai Liu (ByteDance Inc.) · Jian Han (ByteDance Inc.) · Bin Yan (ByteDance Inc.) · Hui Wu (ByteDance Inc.) · Fengda Zhu (ByteDance Inc.) · Xing Wang (ByteDance Inc.) · Yi Jiang (ByteDance Seed) · BINGYUE PENG (ByteDance Inc.) · Zehuan Yuan (Nanjing University)
autoregressive frameworkdiffusion competitorsdiscrete autoregressive modeldynamic video synthesisefficient video generationhigh-resolution image synthesisimage-to-video generationindustrial-level video generationinfinitystarlong-duration video synthesisspatial dependenciestemporal autoregressiontemporal dependenciestext-to-image generationtext-to-video generationvbench

We introduce InfinityStar, a unified spacetime autoregressive framework for high-resolution image and dynamic video synthesis. Building on the recent success of autoregressive modeling in both vision and language, our purely discrete approach jointly captures spatial and temporal dependencies within a single architecture. This unified design naturally supports a variety of generation tasks such as text-to-image, text-to-video, image-to-video, and long-duration video synthesis via straightforward temporal autoregression. Through extensive experiments, InfinityStar scores 83.74 on VBench, outperforming all autoregressive models by large margins, even surpassing diffusion competitors like HunyuanVideo. Without extra optimizations, our model generates a 5s, 720p video approximately 10$\times$ faster than leading diffusion-based methods. To our knowledge, InfinityStar is the first discrete autoregressive video generator capable of producing industrial-level 720p videos. We release all code and models to foster further research in efficient, high-quality video generation.