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Exploring Diffusion with Test-Time Training on Efficient Image Restoration

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-12-15 v3

Abstract

Image restoration faces challenges including ineffective feature fusion, computational bottlenecks and inefficient diffusion processes. To address these, we propose DiffRWKVIR, a novel framework unifying Test-Time Training (TTT) with efficient diffusion. Our approach introduces three key innovations: (1) Omni-Scale 2D State Evolution extends RWKV's location-dependent parameterization to hierarchical multi-directional 2D scanning, enabling global contextual awareness with linear complexity O(L); (2) Chunk-Optimized Flash Processing accelerates intra-chunk parallelism by 3.2x via contiguous chunk processing (O(LCd) complexity), reducing sequential dependencies and computational overhead; (3) Prior-Guided Efficient Diffusion extracts a compact Image Prior Representation (IPR) in only 5-20 steps, proving 45% faster training/inference than DiffIR while solving computational inefficiency in denoising. Evaluated across super-resolution and inpainting benchmarks (Set5, Set14, BSD100, Urban100, Places365), DiffRWKVIR outperforms SwinIR, HAT, and MambaIR/v2 in PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, and efficiency metrics. Our method establishes a new paradigm for adaptive, high-efficiency image restoration with optimized hardware utilization.

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@article{arxiv.2506.14541,
  title  = {Exploring Diffusion with Test-Time Training on Efficient Image Restoration},
  author = {Rongchang Lu and Tianduo Luo and Yunzhi Jiang and Conghan Yue and Pei Yang and Guibao Liu and Changyang Gu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.14541},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

We withdraw this paper due to erroneous experiment data in the ablation study, which was inadvertently copied from our preprint "Ultra-Lightweight Semantic-Injected Imagery Super-Resolution for Real-Time UAV Remote Sensing" This nearly constituted academic misconduct. We sincerely apologize and thank those who alerted us

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