Oral Tue, May 19, 2026 • 8:45 AM – 9:05 AM PDT

StreamDiffusionV2: A Streaming System for Dynamic and Interactive Video Generation

Tianrui Feng ⋅ Zhi Li ⋅ Shuo Yang ⋅ Haocheng Xi ⋅ Muyang Li ⋅ Xiuyu Li ⋅ ⋅ Keting Yang ⋅ Kelly Peng ⋅ Song Han ⋅ Maneesh Agrawala ⋅ Kurt Keutzer ⋅ Akio Kodaira ⋅ Chenfeng Xu

Abstract

Generative models are reshaping the live-streaming industry by redefining how content is created, styled, and delivered. Previous image-based streaming diffusion models have powered efficient and creative live streaming products but has hit limits on temporal consistency due to the foundation of image-based designs. Recent advances in video diffusion have markedly improved temporal consistency and sampling efficiency for offline generation. However, offline generation systems primarily optimize throughput by batching large workloads. In contrast, live online streaming operates under strict service-level objectives (SLOs): time-to-first-frame must be minimal, and every frame must meet a per-frame deadline with low jitter. Besides, scalable multi-GPU serving for real-time streams remains largely unresolved so far. To address this, we present \textbf{StreamDiffusionV2}, a \emph{training-free} pipeline for interactive live streaming with video diffusion models. StreamDiffusionV2 integrates an SLO-aware batching scheduler and a block scheduler, together with a sink-token–guided rolling KV cache, a motion-aware noise controller, and other system-level optimizations. Moreover, we introduce a scalable pipeline orchestration that parallelizes the diffusion process across denoising steps and network layers, achieving near-linear FPS scaling without violating latency guarantees. The system scales seamlessly across heterogeneous GPU environments and supports flexible denoising steps (e.g., 1–4), enabling both ultra-low-latency and higher-quality modes. Without TensorRT or quantization, StreamDiffusionV2 renders the first frame within 0.5s and attains 58.28 FPS with a 14B-parameter model and 64.52 FPS with a 1.3B-parameter model on four H100 GPUs. Even when increasing denoising steps to improve quality, it sustains 31.62 FPS (14B) and 61.58 FPS (1.3B), making state-of-the-art generative live streaming practical and accessible—from individual creators to enterprise-scale platforms.