RyanOnTheInside

Ryan Fosdick

Applied AI Researcher at Daydream. Pod Lead for Daydream Scope, researching autoregressive video models with a focus on real-time control.

Previously tech lead on Daydream's StreamDiffusion fork (now used in production apps like TouchDesigner), where I accelerated IPAdapters and added multi-ControlNet support. Published composer and touring musician.

Latest Research

Adapting VACE for Real-Time Autoregressive Video Diffusion

arXiv 2025

An architectural adaptation that moves VACE reference frames out of the diffusion latent space into a parallel conditioning pathway, enabling real-time autoregressive video generation using existing pretrained weights with no retraining required.

Ryan FosdickSingle authorDaydream

Training-Free Real-Time Control for Autoregressive Video Generation

Blog

A companion post exploring the engineering and research behind enabling real-time VACE-style control in autoregressive video diffusion pipelines.

Ryan FosdickDaydream

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