LongLive-RAG: A General Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Long Video Generation
Summary
LongLive-RAG formulates long video generation as a retrieval-augmented generation problem, using a dynamic memory of previously generated latents to reduce error accumulation and identity drift, achieving improved quality across multiple autoregressive backbones.
View Cached Full Text
Cached at: 06/02/26, 03:37 PM
Paper page - LongLive-RAG: A General Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Long Video Generation
Source: https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.02553 Autoregressive (AR) video diffusion enables variable-length synthesis, but long-horizon generation often suffers from accumulated errors and identity drift. For efficiency, existing methods commonly adopt sliding-window attention during generation. This creates an irreversible generation trajectory: once the active window accumulates appearance errors, subsequent generations can only condition on this degraded trajectory and drift further away.
We address this limitation by formulating long video generation as a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) problem. Rather than relying solely on the recent window, we treat previously generated latents as a dynamic, searchable history. We propose LongLive-RAG, a general retrieval framework for AR video generation. At each new block, LongLive-RAG uses a query embedding to retrieve relevant historical latents. This lightweight retrieval step adds only a small overhead relative to generation and lets the generator condition on non-local context instead of only the recent window. To make retrieval more discriminative, we introduce the Window Temporal Delta Loss that suppresses redundant local similarity and encourages embeddings to capture meaningful temporal changes.
Experiments across multiple AR backbones and generation lengths show improved long-video quality and the best average VBench-Long rank. To our knowledge, among open-ended AR long video generation methods, LongLive-RAG is the first to formulate self-generated latent history as content-addressable retrieval memory.
Similar Articles
Rethinking RAG in Long Videos: What to Retrieve and How to Use It?
This paper introduces V-RAGBench, a benchmark for evaluating retrieval-augmented generation over long egocentric videos, and CARVE, a method that adaptively selects retrieval configurations per chunk to improve VideoRAG performance.
Long Video Generation (4 minute read)
The article introduces A²RD, a novel architecture for generating consistent long videos using agentic autoregressive diffusion. It proposes a Retrieve–Synthesize–Refine–Update cycle and a new benchmark, LVBench-C, to address semantic drift in long-horizon video synthesis.
Real-Time Long Video Generation (GitHub Repo)
NVlabs releases LongLive 2.0, a parallel infrastructure for real-time long video generation using NVFP4 quantization, supporting both training and inference. It achieves 45.7 FPS and is accepted at ICLR 2026.
VLD-RAG: Agentic Vision-Language Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Long, Visually-Rich Multi-Page Documents
This paper presents VLD-RAG, an agentic multimodal retrieval-augmented generation framework for question answering over long, visually-rich documents. It uses a page-preserving index and a verifier-guided agent workflow to improve cross-page evidence retrieval and reasoning, outperforming prior vision-based baselines on benchmarks like LongDocURL and MMLongBench-Doc.
LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation
The article introduces LightRAG, an open-source framework that enhances Retrieval-Augmented Generation by integrating graph structures for improved contextual awareness and efficient information retrieval.