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Talker-T2AV is introduced, an autoregressive diffusion framework for joint talking audio-video generation that disentangles high-level cross-modal reasoning from low-level modality-specific refinement. A shared autoregressive language model reasons over audio and video in a unified patch-level token space, while lightweight diffusion transformer heads decode hidden states into modality-specific latents. Experiments on talking portrait benchmarks demonstrate that Talker-T2AV outperforms dual-branch baselines in lip-sync accuracy, video quality, and audio quality, achieving stronger cross-modal consistency.
Disentangling high-level cross-modal reasoning from low-level modality-specific refinement in talking head generation yields superior lip-sync accuracy, video quality, and audio quality compared to entangled approaches.
Joint audio-video generation models have shown that unified generation yields stronger cross-modal coherence than cascaded approaches. However, existing models couple modalities throughout denoising via pervasive attention, treating high-level semantics and low-level details in a fully entangled manner. This is suboptimal for talking head synthesis: while audio and facial motion are semantically correlated, their low-level realizations (acoustic signals and visual textures) follow distinct rendering processes. Enforcing joint modeling across all levels causes unnecessary entanglement and reduces efficiency. We propose Talker-T2AV, an autoregressive diffusion framework where high-level cross-modal modeling occurs in a shared backbone, while low-level refinement uses modality-specific decoders. A shared autoregressive language model jointly reasons over audio and video in a unified patch-level token space. Two lightweight diffusion transformer heads decode the hidden states into frame-level audio and video latents. Experiments on talking portrait benchmarks show Talker-T2AV outperforms dual-branch baselines in lip-sync accuracy, video quality, and audio quality, achieving stronger cross-modal consistency than cascaded pipelines.
