PreciseCache: Precise Feature Caching for Efficient and High-fidelity Video Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00976v2
• Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:45:48 GMT
• Title: PreciseCache: Precise Feature Caching for Efficient and High-fidelity Video Generation
• Authors: Jiangshan Wang, Kang Zhao, Jiayi Guo, Jiayu Wang, Hang Guo, Chenyang Zhu, Xiu Li, Xiangyu Yue,
• Abstract summary: High computational costs and slow inference hinder the practical application of video generation models.<n>We propose textbfPreciseCache, a plug-and-play framework that precisely detects and skips truly redundant computations.
• Score: 35.47114707080758
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: High computational costs and slow inference hinder the practical application of video generation models. While prior works accelerate the generation process through feature caching, they often suffer from notable quality degradation. In this work, we reveal that this issue arises from their inability to distinguish truly redundant features, which leads to the unintended skipping of computations on important features. To address this, we propose \textbf{PreciseCache}, a plug-and-play framework that precisely detects and skips truly redundant computations, thereby accelerating inference without sacrificing quality. Specifically, PreciseCache contains two components: LFCache for step-wise caching and BlockCache for block-wise caching. For LFCache, we compute the Low-Frequency Difference (LFD) between the prediction features of the current step and those from the previous cached step. Empirically, we observe that LFD serves as an effective measure of step-wise redundancy, accurately detecting highly redundant steps whose computation can be skipped through reusing cached features. To further accelerate generation within each non-skipped step, we propose BlockCache, which precisely detects and skips redundant computations at the block level within the network. Extensive experiments on various backbones demonstrate the effectiveness of our PreciseCache, such as achieving an average of $2.6\times$ speedup on Wan2.1-14B without noticeable quality loss.

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