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arxiv: 2606.30557 · v1 · pith:OZ2RAYOAnew · submitted 2026-06-29 · 💻 cs.CV

EcoVideo: Entropy-Orchestrated Video Generation Paradigm in Cloud-Edge Dynamics

Jiayu Chen , Hengyi Zhang , Maoliang Li , Minyu Li , Zihao Zheng , Xuanzhe Liu , Guojie Luo , Xiang Chen This is my paper

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keywords video generationcloud-edge computingdiffusion transformersentropy estimationkeyframe selectionmotion interpolationdynamic adaptation
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Early self-attention entropy selects which video frames receive full cloud denoising and which receive edge interpolation in DiT generation.

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The paper presents EcoVideo as a framework that estimates frame information density from early self-attention entropy to decide dynamic allocation between cloud and edge. High-entropy keyframes go to the cloud large model for denoising while the edge lightweight model reconstructs the rest through motion-aware interpolation and refinement. The approach further tunes the number of keyframes and refinement depth according to current bandwidth and compute limits. A reader would care because static cloud-edge splits ignore inter-frame similarity and fail to adjust when conditions change.

Core claim

EcoVideo establishes that early-stage self-attention entropy supplies a training-free estimate of frame-wise information density, allowing sparse high-entropy keyframes to be denoised by a cloud large model while an edge lightweight model reconstructs remaining frames via motion-aware interpolation with refinement; the keyframe budget and edge refinement depth adapt in real time to bandwidth and compute availability, optimizing end-to-end latency under constraints.

What carries the argument

early-stage self-attention entropy as training-free estimate of frame-wise information density for dynamic keyframe selection

If this is right

  • Only sparse high-entropy keyframes require full cloud denoising.
  • Edge reconstruction uses motion-aware interpolation plus refinement for temporal stability.
  • Keyframe count and refinement depth adjust automatically to measured bandwidth and compute.
  • End-to-end latency improves by up to 2.9 times in low-bandwidth, compute-limited settings.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same entropy signal could guide allocation in other diffusion-based generation tasks beyond video.
  • Real-world deployment would need to test how often the adaptation logic changes the split under fluctuating networks.
  • Extending the edge model to handle occasional mid-entropy frames might further cut cloud load.

Load-bearing premise

Early self-attention entropy accurately identifies which frames require full denoising versus simple interpolation.

What would settle it

Measurement showing that entropy-ranked frames produce visible quality loss when the low-entropy ones are interpolated on the edge instead of denoised in the cloud.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.30557 by Guojie Luo, Hengyi Zhang, Jiayu Chen, Maoliang Li, Minyu Li, Xiang Chen, Xuanzhe Liu, Zihao Zheng.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: A comparison between inter-step decoupling (HybridSD) and inter-frame de￾coupling paradigms (ours). arXiv:2606.30557v1 [cs.CV] 29 Jun 2026 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of EcoVideo. Sec 3.1: Inter-frame attention-entropy analysis esti￾mates information density. Sec 3.2: Frame-level entropy-orchestrated generation pre￾serves temporal consistency via model collaboration and information reuse. Sec 3.3: Cloud-edge dynamics-aware decoupling adaptation searches the optimal configuration. Building on these insights, we propose an entropy-orchestrated dynamic cloud￾edge … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Frame-level entropy-orchestrated generation. (a) Inter-frame decoupling and model collaboration select high-information keyframes and inject frozen non-keyframe context for cloud-side denoising. (b) Inter-frame information reuse and interpolation fuse density, motion, structure, and texture cues to guide edge-side refinement. Furthermore, since attention patterns are more unstable in early denoising steps,… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparison of various methods on Wan2.2 and CogVideo. Our method effectively prevents temporal artifacts such as texture flickering and detail collapse while maintaining high visual fidelity. Efficiency Evaluation. We evaluate end-to-end efficiency in the cloud–edge system and further decompose the overhead into cloud latency, edge latency, and communication volume at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Cloud-edge breakdown analy￾sis of ours and baselines. Each setting is (Cloud GPU, Edge GPU, Bandwidth). naïve VFI Keyframes EcoVideo [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Keyframe visualization of EcoVideo on Wan2.1-14B. Green borders indicate keyframes, and yellow borders indicate interpolated non-keyframes. ing that edge-side frame reconstruction is necessary for temporal completeness. Using the original EDEN interpolation with naive interpolation also yields a lower VBench of 0.835, suggesting that interpolation alone cannot account for the gains. The full EcoVideo achie… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

DiT video generation is latency-intensive due to iterative full-frame denoising, while prior cloud-edge methods largely rely on static inter-step decoupling and cannot leverage inter-frame similarity or adapt to system dynamics. We propose EcoVideo, an entropy-orchestrated framework for dynamic inter-frame decoupling: early-stage self-attention entropy provides a training-free estimate of frame-wise information density for frame selection; a cloud large model denoises sparse high-entropy keyframes; and an edge lightweight model reconstructs the remaining frames via motion-aware interpolation with refinement for temporal stability. EcoVideo further adapts the keyframe budget and edge refinement depth to real-time bandwidth and compute availability, optimizing end-to-end latency under constraints. Experiments on representative DiT video generators show improved quality--efficiency trade-offs and up to 2.9x end-to-end speedup in low-bandwidth, compute-limited edge settings. Code is available at https://github.com/IF-LAB-PKU/EcoVideo.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces EcoVideo, a framework for cloud-edge DiT video generation that uses early-stage self-attention entropy as a training-free proxy to select sparse high-entropy keyframes for full cloud denoising, while an edge lightweight model performs motion-aware interpolation and refinement on the remaining frames. The method dynamically adapts the keyframe budget and refinement depth to real-time bandwidth and compute constraints to optimize end-to-end latency. Experiments on representative DiT generators are reported to yield improved quality-efficiency trade-offs and up to 2.9x speedup in low-bandwidth edge settings, with code released.

Significance. If the entropy-based selection mechanism is shown to reliably identify frames whose full denoising provides marginal quality gains over interpolation, the approach could meaningfully advance practical deployment of iterative video diffusion models by exploiting inter-frame redundancy and system dynamics in distributed settings. The public code release supports reproducibility and extension.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method and Experiments] The central claim that early self-attention entropy provides a reliable training-free estimate of frame-wise information density (and thus correctly ranks frames for cloud vs. edge processing) is load-bearing for all reported gains, yet the manuscript provides no oracle comparison (e.g., selection by post-interpolation reconstruction error) or ablation against motion-magnitude or uniform baselines under identical keyframe budgets. This leaves open whether observed quality-efficiency improvements are attributable to the proposed proxy.
  2. [Experiments] The experimental evaluation reports up to 2.9x end-to-end speedup and improved trade-offs but does not include controls that isolate the contribution of the entropy-orchestrated selection from the overall cloud-edge architecture or from simpler dynamic allocation heuristics. Without these, the attribution of gains to the entropy mechanism cannot be verified.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Method] Notation for entropy computation and the precise early timestep used for attention-map extraction should be formalized with an equation to allow exact reproduction.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments, which highlight important aspects of validating the entropy-based selection mechanism. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate additional controls and ablations as outlined.

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  1. Referee: [Method and Experiments] The central claim that early self-attention entropy provides a reliable training-free estimate of frame-wise information density (and thus correctly ranks frames for cloud vs. edge processing) is load-bearing for all reported gains, yet the manuscript provides no oracle comparison (e.g., selection by post-interpolation reconstruction error) or ablation against motion-magnitude or uniform baselines under identical keyframe budgets. This leaves open whether observed quality-efficiency improvements are attributable to the proposed proxy.

    Authors: We agree that an oracle comparison using post-interpolation reconstruction error and ablations against motion-magnitude and uniform baselines under matched keyframe budgets would strengthen attribution of gains to the entropy proxy. The current manuscript demonstrates end-to-end improvements of the full EcoVideo framework on representative DiT models, but does not include these specific isolations. We will add the requested oracle analysis and ablations in the revision, reporting quality metrics for entropy selection versus the suggested baselines at fixed budgets. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments] The experimental evaluation reports up to 2.9x end-to-end speedup and improved trade-offs but does not include controls that isolate the contribution of the entropy-orchestrated selection from the overall cloud-edge architecture or from simpler dynamic allocation heuristics. Without these, the attribution of gains to the entropy mechanism cannot be verified.

    Authors: We concur that additional controls are needed to isolate the entropy-orchestrated selection from the cloud-edge architecture and from simpler dynamic heuristics. The reported results focus on overall latency and quality trade-offs under bandwidth constraints. In revision we will include targeted ablations that hold the architecture fixed while varying only the frame selection strategy, plus comparisons against non-entropy dynamic allocation methods, to verify the specific contribution of the entropy mechanism. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; procedural method with experimental results

full rationale

The paper describes a procedural framework: compute early self-attention entropy to select keyframes, denoise selected frames in cloud, interpolate others on edge, and adapt budgets dynamically. No equations, derivations, or fitted parameters are presented that reduce the reported quality or 2.9x speedup to inputs by construction. No self-citations of prior uniqueness theorems or ansatzes appear in the provided text. The central claim rests on empirical validation rather than self-referential definitions or renamed known results.

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Abstract-only review yields limited visibility into parameters or assumptions; the entropy estimation step is presented as training-free but its reliability is an unstated premise.

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