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Masked Discrete Diffusion Models (MDMs) have achieved strong performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks, including image understanding, generation, and editing. However, their inference speed remains suboptimal due to the need to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Shufan Li , Jiuxiang Gu , Kangning Liu , Zhe Lin , Zijun Wei , Aditya Grover , Jason Kuen

Efficient Transformers have been developed for long sequence modeling, due to their subquadratic memory and time complexity. Sparse Transformer is a popular approach to improving the efficiency of Transformers by restricting self-attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Aosong Feng , Irene Li , Yuang Jiang , Rex Ying

Score-based generative models (SGMs) have recently emerged as a promising class of generative models. The key idea is to produce high-quality images by recurrently adding Gaussian noises and gradients to a Gaussian sample until converging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Hengyuan Ma , Li Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Jingfeng Zhang , Jianfeng Feng

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models capable of producing high-quality images from pure noise using a simple text prompt. While most methods which introduce additional spatial constraints into the generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zakaria Patel , Kirill Serkh

Diffusion models have recently demonstrated strong performance for image restoration tasks, including super-resolution. However, their large model size and iterative sampling procedures make them computationally expensive for practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sowmya Vajrala , Akshay Bankar , Manjunath Arveti , Shreyas Pandith , Sravanth Kodavanti , Subhajit Sanyal , Amit Unde , Srinivas Soumitri Miriyala

Deep Text-to-Image Synthesis (TIS) models such as Stable Diffusion have recently gained significant popularity for creative Text-to-image generation. Yet, for domain-specific scenarios, tuning-free Text-guided Image Editing (TIE) is of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Bingyan Liu , Chengyu Wang , Tingfeng Cao , Kui Jia , Jun Huang

Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have made significant strides in high-quality image generation. However, the multi-step denoising process often results in considerable computational overhead, impeding deployment on resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yu-Shan Tai , An-Yeu , Wu

Autoregressive (AR) models, long dominant in language generation, are increasingly applied to image synthesis but are often considered less competitive than Diffusion-based models. A primary limitation is the substantial number of image…

In-context generation significantly enhances Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) by enabling controllable image-to-image generation through reference examples. However, the resulting input concatenation drastically increases sequence length,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Junqing Lin , Xingyu Zheng , Pei Cheng , Bin Fu , Jingwei Sun , Guangzhong Sun

Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled high-quality video generation, but the additional temporal dimension significantly increases computational costs, making training and inference on long videos prohibitively expensive. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xingyang Li , Muyang Li , Tianle Cai , Haocheng Xi , Shuo Yang , Yujun Lin , Lvmin Zhang , Songlin Yang , Jinbo Hu , Kelly Peng , Maneesh Agrawala , Ion Stoica , Kurt Keutzer , Song Han

Large-scale generative models, such as text-to-image diffusion models, have garnered widespread attention across diverse domains due to their creative and high-fidelity image generation. Nonetheless, existing large-scale diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Younghyun Kim , Geunmin Hwang , Junyu Zhang , Eunbyung Park

Diffusion models have gained significant popularity in image generation tasks. However, generating high-quality content remains notably slow because it requires running model inference over many time steps. To accelerate these models, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zichen Fan , Steve Dai , Rangharajan Venkatesan , Dennis Sylvester , Brucek Khailany

The quadratic complexity of self-attention in Transformer models remains a significant bottleneck for processing long sequences and deploying large language models efficiently. For this approach, there has been significant research into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Spandan Pratyush

This paper considers the problem of utilizing a large-scale text-to-image diffusion model to tackle the challenging Inexact Segmentation (IS) task. Unlike traditional approaches that rely heavily on discriminative-model-based paradigms or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tianjiao Zhang , Fei Zhang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

We present TokenCompose, a Latent Diffusion Model for text-to-image generation that achieves enhanced consistency between user-specified text prompts and model-generated images. Despite its tremendous success, the standard denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zirui Wang , Zhizhou Sha , Zheng Ding , Yilin Wang , Zhuowen Tu

Text-to-image diffusion models enable high-quality image generation but are computationally expensive. While prior work optimizes per-inference efficiency, we explore an orthogonal approach: reducing redundancy across correlated prompts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Dale Decatur , Thibault Groueix , Wang Yifan , Rana Hanocka , Vladimir Kim , Matheus Gadelha

Attention sinks -- tokens that receive disproportionate attention mass -- are assumed to be functionally important in autoregressive language models, but their role in diffusion transformers remains unclear. We present a causal analysis in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Fangzheng Wu , Brian Summa

Diffusion-based text-to-image generation models have significantly advanced the field of art content synthesis. However, current portrait stylization methods generally require either model fine-tuning based on examples or the employment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jin Liu , Huaibo Huang , Jie Cao , Ran He

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

The attention mechanism in text generation is memory-bounded due to its sequential characteristics. Therefore, off-chip memory accesses should be minimized for faster execution. Although previous methods addressed this by pruning…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Junyoung Park , Myeonggu Kang , Yunki Han , Yanggon Kim , Jaekang Shin , Lee-Sup Kim