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OminiControl2: Efficient Conditioning for Diffusion Transformers

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-03-12 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Fine-grained control of text-to-image diffusion transformer models (DiT) remains a critical challenge for practical deployment. While recent advances such as OminiControl and others have enabled a controllable generation of diverse control signals, these methods face significant computational inefficiency when handling long conditional inputs. We present OminiControl2, an efficient framework that achieves efficient image-conditional image generation. OminiControl2 introduces two key innovations: (1) a dynamic compression strategy that streamlines conditional inputs by preserving only the most semantically relevant tokens during generation, and (2) a conditional feature reuse mechanism that computes condition token features only once and reuses them across denoising steps. These architectural improvements preserve the original framework's parameter efficiency and multi-modal versatility while dramatically reducing computational costs. Our experiments demonstrate that OminiControl2 reduces conditional processing overhead by over 90% compared to its predecessor, achieving an overall 5.9×\times speedup in multi-conditional generation scenarios. This efficiency enables the practical implementation of complex, multi-modal control for high-quality image synthesis with DiT models.

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@article{arxiv.2503.08280,
  title  = {OminiControl2: Efficient Conditioning for Diffusion Transformers},
  author = {Zhenxiong Tan and Qiaochu Xue and Xingyi Yang and Songhua Liu and Xinchao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08280},
  year   = {2025}
}
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