MTC-VAE: Multi-Level Temporal Compression with Content Awareness

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01340v1
• Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:08:02 GMT
• Title: MTC-VAE: Multi-Level Temporal Compression with Content Awareness
• Authors: Yubo Dong, Linchao Zhu,
• Abstract summary: Latent Video Diffusion Models (LVDMs) rely on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to compress videos into compact latent representations.<n>We present a technique to convert fixed compression rate VAEs into models that support multi-level temporal compression.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Latent Video Diffusion Models (LVDMs) rely on Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to compress videos into compact latent representations. For continuous Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), achieving higher compression rates is desirable; yet, the efficiency notably declines when extra sampling layers are added without expanding the dimensions of hidden channels. In this paper, we present a technique to convert fixed compression rate VAEs into models that support multi-level temporal compression, providing a straightforward and minimal fine-tuning approach to counteract performance decline at elevated compression rates.Moreover, we examine how varying compression levels impact model performance over video segments with diverse characteristics, offering empirical evidence on the effectiveness of our proposed approach. We also investigate the integration of our multi-level temporal compression VAE with diffusion-based generative models, DiT, highlighting successful concurrent training and compatibility within these frameworks. This investigation illustrates the potential uses of multi-level temporal compression.

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