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Recent success of large text-to-image models has empirically underscored the exceptional performance of diffusion models in generative tasks. To facilitate their efficient deployment on resource-constrained edge devices, model quantization…

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Despite the widespread use of text-to-image diffusion models across various tasks, their computational and memory demands limit practical applications. To mitigate this issue, quantization of diffusion models has been explored. It reduces…

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Model quantization helps to reduce model size and latency of deep neural networks. Mixed precision quantization is favorable with customized hardwares supporting arithmetic operations at multiple bit-widths to achieve maximum efficiency. We…

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Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis, but they demand extensive computational and memory resources for training, fine-tuning and inference. Although advanced quantization techniques have successfully…

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Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) capture the dynamic evolution of latent variables over time, blending patterns and multimodality in a generative system. Despite the proficiency of LDM in various applications, such as text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yuewei Yang , Xiaoliang Dai , Jialiang Wang , Peizhao Zhang , Hongbo Zhang

Quantization is a technique for creating efficient Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which involves performing computations and storing tensors at lower bit-widths than f32 floating point precision. Quantization reduces model size and inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Eliska Kloberdanz , Wei Le

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image generation but come with significant computational costs, posing challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments. Recent post-training quantization (PTQ) methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Dongyeun Lee , Jiwan Hur , Hyounguk Shon , Jae Young Lee , Junmo Kim

Diffusion transformers (DiT) have demonstrated exceptional performance in video generation. However, their large number of parameters and high computational complexity limit their deployment on edge devices. Quantization can reduce storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Haotong Qin , Xiangqi Li , Yu Wang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Zixiang Zhao , Yongjun Xu , Michele Magno

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance on vision generation tasks. However, the high computational complexity hinders its wide application on edge devices. Quantization has emerged as a promising technique for inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Haotong Qin , Yuqi Li , Xiangqi Li , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Michele Magno , Yongjun Xu , Yingli Tian , Tingwen Huang

With the rapid growth in the use of fine-tuning for large language models (LLMs), optimizing fine-tuning while keeping inference efficient has become highly important. However, this is a challenging task as it requires improvements in all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Changhun Lee , Jun-gyu Jin , Younghyun Cho , Eunhyeok Park

Diffusion Models (DM) have democratized AI image generation through an iterative denoising process. Quantization is a major technique to alleviate the inference cost and reduce the size of DM denoiser networks. However, as denoisers evolve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Keith G. Mills , Mohammad Salameh , Ruichen Chen , Negar Hassanpour , Wei Lu , Di Niu

Model quantization is a promising method for accelerating and compressing diffusion models. Nevertheless, since post-training quantization (PTQ) fails catastrophically at low-bit cases, quantization-aware training (QAT) is essential.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Xuewen Liu , Zhikai Li , Minhao Jiang , Mengjuan Chen , Jianquan Li , Qingyi Gu

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis by progressively estimating a smooth transition from a Gaussian distribution of noise to a real image. Unfortunately, their practical deployment is limited by slow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Dung Anh Hoang , Cuong Pham anh Trung Le , Jianfei Cai , Thanh-Toan Do

Diffusionmodels(DMs)havedemonstratedremarkableachievements in synthesizing images of high fidelity and diversity. However, the extensive computational requirements and slow generative speed of diffusion models have limited their widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Jiaojiao Ye , Zhen Wang , Linnan Jiang

Large Vision and Language Models have exhibited remarkable human-like intelligence in tasks such as natural language comprehension, problem-solving, logical reasoning, and knowledge retrieval. However, training and serving these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Feng Zhang , Yanbin Liu , Weihua Li , Jie Lv , Xiaodan Wang , Quan Bai

Diffusion models have emerged as preeminent contenders in the realm of generative models. Distinguished by their distinctive sequential generative processes, characterized by hundreds or even thousands of timesteps, diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Haojun Sun , Chen Tang , Zhi Wang , Yuan Meng , Jingyan jiang , Xinzhu Ma , Wenwu Zhu

Recent advancements in diffusion models, particularly the architectural transformation from UNet-based models to Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), significantly improve the quality and scalability of image and video generation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lei Chen , Yuan Meng , Chen Tang , Xinzhu Ma , Jingyan Jiang , Xin Wang , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Enabling low precision implementations of deep learning models, without considerable performance degradation, is necessary in resource and latency constrained settings. Moreover, exploiting the differences in sensitivity to quantization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Ignacio Hounie , Juan Elenter , Alejandro Ribeiro

Diffusion models have recently dominated image synthesis tasks. However, the iterative denoising process is expensive in computations at inference time, making diffusion models less practical for low-latency and scalable real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yefei He , Luping Liu , Jing Liu , Weijia Wu , Hong Zhou , Bohan Zhuang

Quantization for deep neural networks have afforded models for edge devices that use less on-board memory and enable efficient low-power inference. In this paper, we present a comparison of model-parameter driven quantization approaches…

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