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We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models. We achieve this on unconditional image synthesis by finding a better architecture through a series of ablations. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Prafulla Dhariwal , Alex Nichol

In recent years, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in high-fidelity image synthesis. However, fine-tuning these models for specialized domains, such as medical imaging, remains challenging due to limited domain-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ruchir Namjoshi , Nagasai Thadishetty , Vignesh Kumar , Hemanth Venkateshwara

Diffusion models with their powerful expressivity and high sample quality have achieved State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) performance in the generative domain. The pioneering Vision Transformer (ViT) has also demonstrated strong modeling capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ali Hatamizadeh , Jiaming Song , Guilin Liu , Jan Kautz , Arash Vahdat

Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhennan Chen , Junwei Zhu , Xu Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Recently, diffusion transformers have gained wide attention with its excellent performance in text-to-image and text-to-vidoe models, emphasizing the need for transformers as backbone for diffusion models. Transformer-based models have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

Latent generative modeling, where a pretrained autoencoder maps pixels into a latent space for the diffusion process, has become the standard strategy for Diffusion Transformers (DiT); however, the autoencoder component has barely evolved.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Boyang Zheng , Nanye Ma , Shengbang Tong , Saining Xie

While generative modeling on time series facilitates more capable and flexible probabilistic forecasting, existing generative time series models do not address the multi-dimensional properties of time series data well. The prevalent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Haoran Zhang , Haixuan Liu , Yong Liu , Yunzhong Qiu , Yuxuan Wang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve remarkable performance within image generation via the transformer architecture. Conventionally, DiTs are constructed by stacking serial isotropic global modeling transformers, which face significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jiafu Wu , Yabiao Wang , Jian Li , Jinlong Peng , Yun Cao , Chengjie Wang , Jiangning Zhang

Despite their remarkable performance, modern Diffusion Transformers are hindered by substantial resource requirements during inference, stemming from the fixed and large amount of compute needed for each denoising step. In this work, we…

We present X-MDPT ($\underline{Cross}$-view $\underline{M}$asked $\underline{D}$iffusion $\underline{P}$rediction $\underline{T}$ransformers), a novel diffusion model designed for pose-guided human image generation. X-MDPT distinguishes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Trung X. Pham , Zhang Kang , Chang D. Yoo

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can generate high-quality images by operating directly on SSL patch features rather than pixel-space latents. However, the dense patch grids from encoders like DINOv2 contain significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ramón Calvo-González , François Fleuret

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a widely adopted backbone for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet their iterative denoising process incurs high computational costs. Existing training-free acceleration methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Qianli Ma , Zhi Yao , Weijia Jia

In this study, we explore Transformer-based diffusion models for image and video generation. Despite the dominance of Transformer architectures in various fields due to their flexibility and scalability, the visual generative domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shoufa Chen , Mengmeng Xu , Jiawei Ren , Yuren Cong , Sen He , Yanping Xie , Animesh Sinha , Ping Luo , Tao Xiang , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua

Images captured in challenging environments often experience various forms of degradation, including noise, color cast, blur, and light scattering. These effects significantly reduce image quality, hindering their applicability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Abbas Anwar , Mohammad Shullar , Ali Arshad Nasir , Mudassir Masood , Saeed Anwar

Vision Transformers and U-Net architectures have been widely adopted in the implementation of Diffusion Models. However, each architecture presents specific challenges while realizing them on-device. Vision Transformers require positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sanchar Palit , Sathya Veera Reddy Dendi , Mallikarjuna Talluri , Raj Narayana Gadde

We investigate the statistical and computational limits of latent Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) under the low-dimensional linear latent space assumption. Statistically, we study the universal approximation and sample complexity of the DiTs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-01 Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Weimin Wu , Zhao Song , Han Liu

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classification and object detection. Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mika Yagoda , Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

In this paper, we investigate how to convert a pre-trained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) into a linear DiT, as its simplicity, parallelism, and efficiency for image generation. Through detailed exploration, we offer a suite of ready-to-use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiahao Wang , Ning Kang , Lewei Yao , Mengzhao Chen , Chengyue Wu , Songyang Zhang , Shuchen Xue , Yong Liu , Taiqiang Wu , Xihui Liu , Kaipeng Zhang , Shifeng Zhang , Wenqi Shao , Zhenguo Li , Ping Luo

\textit{Nature is infinitely resolution-free}. In the context of this reality, existing diffusion models, such as Diffusion Transformers, often face challenges when processing image resolutions outside of their trained domain. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 ZiDong Wang , Zeyu Lu , Di Huang , Cai Zhou , Wanli Ouyang , and Lei Bai

Diffusion models demonstrate outstanding performance in image generation, but their multi-step inference mechanism requires immense computational cost. Previous works accelerate inference by leveraging layer or token cache techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haowei Zhu , Ji Liu , Ziqiong Liu , Dong Li , Junhai Yong , Bin Wang , Emad Barsoum