Stream-R1 Tops HuggingFace Daily Papers (99 Upvotes): Reliability-Perplexity Reward Distillation for Streaming Video at 23.1 FPS

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Stream-R1 (arXiv 2605.03849) is the top-trending paper on HuggingFace Daily Papers with 99 upvotes. It introduces EMA-Sink for long-term context capture and Re-DMD (Rewarded Distribution Matching Distillation) that biases output toward high-dynamics samples rated by a VLM. Achieves SOTA streaming video generation at 23.1 FPS on a single H100. Companion paper Stream-T1 (86 upvotes) adds test-time scaling.