Paper · arXiv 2606.25041
Wan-Streamer v0.1: End-to-end Real-time Interactive Foundation Models
Lianghua Huang, Zhifan Wu, Wei Wang, Yupeng Shi, Mengyang Feng, Junjie He, Chenwei Xie, Yu Liu, Jingren Zhou, Ang Wang, Bang Zhang, Baole Ai, Chen Liang, Cheng Yu, Chongyang Zhong, Jinwei Qi, Kai Zhu, Pandeng Li, Peng Zhang, Wenyuan Zhang, Xinhua Cheng, Yitong Huang, Yun Zheng, Zoubin Bi
Wan-Streamer is a unified, end-to-end multimodal model that enables real-time audio-visual interaction through causal attention mechanisms and integrated processing of visual, audio, and text modalities.
Abstract
We present Wan-Streamer, a native-streaming, end-to-end interactive foundation model designed from the ground up for real-time, low-latency, full-duplex audio-visual interaction. Wan-Streamer seamlessly models language, audio, and video as both input and output within a single Transformer, where the sequence is represented as interleaved visual, audio, and text input tokens together with visual, audio, and text output tokens, coordinated by block-causal attention for incremental streaming. Unlike cascaded interactive systems that rely on separate VAD, ASR, language, TTS, audio-driven animation, or video-generation modules, Wan-Streamer does not rely on external language, speech, avatar, or video-generation modules: perception, reasoning, generation, response timing, turn management, and cross-modal synchronization are learned jointly within one unified model, reducing pipeline latency and error accumulation. To support natural audio-visual responsiveness, we redesign the entire stack around streamability, including causal encoders, causal decoders, block-causal attention, and low-latency multimodal token scheduling, enabling streaming units as short as 160 ms at 25 fps. Wan-Streamer achieves approximately 200 ms model-side response latency and approximately 550 ms total interaction latency when combined with 350 ms bidirectional network latency, supporting sub-second duplex audio-visual communication. These results position Wan-Streamer as a unified, end-to-end, multimodal interactive foundation model for low-latency streaming interaction.