Carnator: Fast Text-to-Video Generation with Generation-Native Compatibility-Guided Cross-Request Reuse
TL;DR
Across three text-to-video backbones, Carnator consistently achieves higher cache-hit end-to-end acceleration than the evaluated cross-request baselines despite more selective cache acceptance, reaching up to 2.17 times speedup while maintaining competitive generation quality.
Abstract
Video diffusion transformers produce high-quality videos, yet iterative denoising incurs substantial inference latency, limiting interactive and large-scale serving. Most existing acceleration methods focus on individual requests, thereby restricting efficiency gains to redundancy within a single generation trajectory. Recent cross-request reuse offers an additional source of savings, but existing approaches often infer reusability from coarse semantic similarity. This conflates semantic relatedness with generation-level computational compatibility, so aggressive reuse may accept incompatible historical computation while conservative reuse leaves substantial acceleration unrealized. We present \emph{Carnator}, a cross-request acceleration framework that addresses this challenge by extracting and using generation-native compatibility evidence directly from the model's evolving internal states. Specifically, \emph{Carnator} performs a lightweight early probe to construct an Early Signature from internal diffusion states, assessing reuse validity through risk-aware compatibility decisions. The same evidence characterizes reuse scope by localizing target-specific computation and guiding joint reuse of historical latent trajectories and sparse attention connectivity. Across three text-to-video backbones, Carnator consistently achieves higher cache-hit end-to-end acceleration than the evaluated cross-request baselines despite more selective cache acceptance, reaching up to 2.17$\times$ speedup while maintaining competitive generation quality.
