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Recently, Transformer-based image restoration networks have achieved promising improvements over convolutional neural networks due to parameter-independent global interactions. To lower computational cost, existing works generally limit…

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Training-free diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generating multi-subject consistent images within open-domain scenarios. The key idea of these methods is to incorporate reference subject information within the attention…

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The global self-attention mechanism in diffusion transformers involves redundant computation due to the sparse and redundant nature of visual information, and the attention map of tokens within a spatial window shows significant similarity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jing Wang , Ao Ma , Jiasong Feng , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin , Xiaodan Liang

In visual generation, the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms results in high memory and computational costs, especially for longer token sequences required in high-resolution image or multi-frame video generation. To address this,…

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In this work, we explore an untapped signal in diffusion model inference. While all previous methods generate images independently at inference, we instead ask if samples can be generated collaboratively. We propose Group Diffusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Sicheng Mo , Thao Nguyen , Richard Zhang , Nick Kolkin , Siddharth Srinivasan Iyer , Eli Shechtman , Krishna Kumar Singh , Yong Jae Lee , Bolei Zhou , Yuheng Li

Self-attention has recently been adopted for a wide range of sequence modeling problems. Despite its effectiveness, self-attention suffers from quadratic compute and memory requirements with respect to sequence length. Successful approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Aurko Roy , Mohammad Saffar , Ashish Vaswani , David Grangier

Diffusion models are the current state-of-the-art in image generation, synthesizing high-quality images by breaking down the generation process into many fine-grained denoising steps. Despite their good performance, diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Noam Elata , Bahjat Kawar , Tomer Michaeli , Michael Elad

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have revolutionized generative modeling by producing high-fidelity, diverse, and visually realistic images from textual prompts. Despite these advances, existing models struggle with complex prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Eric Hanchen Jiang , Yasi Zhang , Zhi Zhang , Yixin Wan , Andrew Lizarraga , Shufan Li , Ying Nian Wu

Text-to-image generation using diffusion models has gained increasing popularity due to their ability to produce high-quality, realistic images based on text prompts. However, efficiently serving these models is challenging due to their…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Sohaib Ahmad , Qizheng Yang , Haoliang Wang , Ramesh K. Sitaraman , Hui Guan

Text-to-image generation models, especially Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiT), have shown remarkable progress in generating high-quality images. However, these models often face significant computational bottlenecks, particularly in…

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Recent advances in motion diffusion models have led to remarkable progress in diverse motion generation tasks, including text-to-motion synthesis. However, existing approaches represent motions as dense frame sequences, requiring the model…

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Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become a leading architecture in image generation. However, the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms, which are responsible for modeling token-wise relationships, results in significant latency when…

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In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide array of text-centric tasks. However, their `large' scale introduces significant computational and storage challenges, particularly in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Chaoran Zhang , Lixin Zou , Dan Luo , Min Tang , Xiangyang Luo , Zihao Li , Chenliang Li

DETR-like models have significantly boosted the performance of detectors and even outperformed classical convolutional models. However, all tokens are treated equally without discrimination brings a redundant computational burden in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Dehua Zheng , Wenhui Dong , Hailin Hu , Xinghao Chen , Yunhe Wang

Autoregressive and diffusion models drive the recent breakthroughs on text-to-image generation. Despite their huge success of generating high-realistic images, a common shortcoming of these models is their high inference latency -…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zhangyin Feng , Runyi Hu , Liangxin Liu , Fan Zhang , Duyu Tang , Yong Dai , Xiaocheng Feng , Jiwei Li , Bing Qin , Shuming Shi

Despite the tremendous success of diffusion generative models in text-to-image generation, replicating this success in the domain of image compression has proven difficult. In this paper, we demonstrate that diffusion can significantly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-11 Emiel Hoogeboom , Eirikur Agustsson , Fabian Mentzer , Luca Versari , George Toderici , Lucas Theis

Large-scale, pre-trained Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have gained significant popularity in image generation tasks and have shown unexpected potential in image Super-Resolution (SR). However, most existing T2I diffusion models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Brian B. Moser , Stanislav Frolov , Tobias C. Nauen , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

Diffusion language models generate text through iterative refinement, a process that is often computationally inefficient because many tokens reach stability long before the final denoising step. We introduce a training-free, token-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Zahar Kohut , Severyn Shykula , Dmytro Khamula , Mykola Vysotskyi , Taras Rumezhak , Volodymyr Karpiv

While inference-time scaling through search has revolutionized Large Language Models, translating these gains to image generation has proven difficult. Recent attempts to apply search strategies to continuous diffusion models show limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Erik Riise , Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Hiding data using neural networks (i.e., neural steganography) has achieved remarkable success across both discriminative classifiers and generative adversarial networks. However, the potential of data hiding in diffusion models remains…

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