Sliding Window Attention for Learned Video Compression

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03926v1
• Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2025 20:11:43 GMT
• Title: Sliding Window Attention for Learned Video Compression
• Authors: Alexander Kopte, André Kaup,
• Abstract summary: This work introduces 3D Sliding Window Attention (SWA), a patchless form of local attention.<n>Our method significantly improves rate-distortion performance, achieving Bjorntegaard Delta-rate savings of up to 18.6 %.
• Score: 67.57073402826292
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: To manage the complexity of transformers in video compression, local attention mechanisms are a practical necessity. The common approach of partitioning frames into patches, however, creates architectural flaws like irregular receptive fields. When adapted for temporal autoregressive models, this paradigm, exemplified by the Video Compression Transformer (VCT), also necessitates computationally redundant overlapping windows. This work introduces 3D Sliding Window Attention (SWA), a patchless form of local attention. By enabling a decoder-only architecture that unifies spatial and temporal context processing, and by providing a uniform receptive field, our method significantly improves rate-distortion performance, achieving Bj{\o}rntegaard Delta-rate savings of up to 18.6 % against the VCT baseline. Simultaneously, by eliminating the need for overlapping windows, our method reduces overall decoder complexity by a factor of 2.8, while its entropy model is nearly 3.5 times more efficient. We further analyze our model's behavior and show that while it benefits from long-range temporal context, excessive context can degrade performance.

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