Reading Less While Writing: A Closed-Form Bandwidth Dial for Streaming Multimodal Decoders
A decoder that turns video or audio into text conventionally consumes the entire input before emitting a word. Offline this is merely more than the task requires; live it is impossible, since a caption cannot wait for a match to end. Streaming systems bolt on a fixed rule such as wait-$k$, which waits for the same number of input tokens before every word, regardless of the input's length or pace. We replace the fixed offset with ZENDAYA, a schedule governed by a single continuous parameter $γ$. It makes the visible source prefix a closed-form function of generation progress, scaled by the input's own predicted length, so an ordinary offline decoder and a real-time streaming decoder become...
| Authors | Yasir Mehmood, Kashif Javed |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 5 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 5 August 2026 |
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