History Forcing teaches few-step video models to remember: a 1.3B student reaches 79.82 on 60-second VBench-Long
Few-step autoregressive video diffusion models gradually lose subject and scene information over long rollouts, and existing distillation targets do not constrain distant history separately. History Forcing builds a context residual from the difference between one autoregressive teacher's predictions with and without extra history, then weights it into the DMD or OPSD distillation target. A 1.3B student reaches a VBench quality score of 85.07 for 15-second generation and a VBench-Long aggregate of 79.82 for 60-second generation, and raises PlayWorld Evolution Quality from 2.35 to 2.70 when the camera leaves and returns.