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Speed by Simplicity: A Single-Stream Architecture for Fast Audio-Video Generative Foundation Model

2026-03-23 13:49:06
SII-GAIR, Sand. ai, , Ethan Chern, Hansi Teng, Hanwen Sun, Hao Wang, Hong Pan, Hongyu Jia, Jiadi Su, Jin Li, Junjie Yu, Lijie Liu, Lingzhi Li, Lyumanshan Ye, Min Hu, Qiangang Wang, Quanwei Qi, Steffi Chern, Tao Bu, Taoran Wang, Teren Xu, Tianning Zhang, Tiantian Mi, Weixian Xu, Wenqiang Zhang, Wentai Zhang, Xianping Yi, Xiaojie Cai, Xiaoyang Kang, Yan Ma, Yixiu Liu, Yunbo Zhang, Yunpeng Huang, Yutong Lin, Zewei Tao, Zhaoliang Liu, Zheng Zhang, Zhiyao Cen, Zhixuan Yu, Zhongshu Wang, Zhulin Hu, Zijin Zhou, Zinan Guo, Yue Cao, Pengfei Liu

Abstract

We present daVinci-MagiHuman, an open-source audio-video generative foundation model for human-centric generation. daVinci-MagiHuman jointly generates synchronized video and audio using a single-stream Transformer that processes text, video, and audio within a unified token sequence via self-attention only. This single-stream design avoids the complexity of multi-stream or cross-attention architectures while remaining easy to optimize with standard training and inference infrastructure. The model is particularly strong in human-centric scenarios, producing expressive facial performance, natural speech-expression coordination, realistic body motion, and precise audio-video synchronization. It supports multilingual spoken generation across Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), English, Japanese, Korean, German, and French. For efficient inference, we combine the single-stream backbone with model distillation, latent-space super-resolution, and a Turbo VAE decoder, enabling generation of a 5-second 256p video in 2 seconds on a single H100 GPU. In automatic evaluation, daVinci-MagiHuman achieves the highest visual quality and text alignment among leading open models, along with the lowest word error rate (14.60%) for speech intelligibility. In pairwise human evaluation, it achieves win rates of 80.0% against Ovi 1.1 and 60.9% against LTX 2.3 over 2000 comparisons. We open-source the complete model stack, including the base model, the distilled model, the super-resolution model, and the inference codebase.

Abstract (translated)

我们推出daVinci-MagiHuman,这是一个面向人类中心生成的开源音视频生成基础模型。daVinci-MagiHuman采用仅通过自注意力机制在统一标记序列中处理文本、视频和音频的单流Transformer架构,联合生成同步的视频与音频。这种单流设计避免了多流或交叉注意力架构的复杂性,同时易于使用标准训练和推理基础设施进行优化。该模型在人类中心场景中表现尤为突出,能够生成富有表现力的面部表演、自然的语音-表情协调、逼真的身体动作以及精确的音视频同步。它支持中文(普通话和粤语)、英语、日语、韩语、德语和法语的多语言口语生成。为实现高效推理,我们将单流主干网络与模型蒸馏、潜在空间超分辨率以及Turbo VAE解码器相结合,可在单张H100 GPU上2秒内生成5秒256p视频。在自动评估中,daVinci-MagiHuman在视觉质量和文本对齐方面领先于其他主流开源模型,并以14.60%的最低词错误率实现语音可懂度最优。在成对人工评估中,基于2000次对比,该模型对Ovi 1.1的胜率达80.0%,对LTX 2.3的胜率达60.9%。我们开源了完整的模型技术栈,包括基础模型、蒸馏模型、超分辨率模型及推理代码库。

URL

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21986

PDF

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21986.pdf


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