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Diffusion models achieve remarkable fidelity in image synthesis, yet precise control over their outputs for targeted editing remains challenging. A key step toward controllability is to identify interpretable directions in the model's…

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Identifying words that impact a task's performance more than others is a challenge in natural language processing. Transformers models have recently addressed this issue by incorporating an attention mechanism that assigns greater attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Neşet Özkan Tan , Alex Yuxuan Peng , Joshua Bensemann , Qiming Bao , Tim Hartill , Mark Gahegan , Michael Witbrock

Diffusion models have revolted the field of text-to-image generation recently. The unique way of fusing text and image information contributes to their remarkable capability of generating highly text-related images. From another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Changming Xiao , Qi Yang , Feng Zhou , Changshui Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved success in high-fidelity data synthesis, yet their capacity for more complex, structured reasoning like text following tasks remains constrained. While advances in language models have leveraged strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuwei Sun , Yuxuan Yao , Hui Li , Siyu Zhu

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a leading architecture for text-to-image synthesis, producing high-quality and photorealistic images. However, the quadratic scaling properties of the attention in DiTs hinder image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Philipp Becker , Abhinav Mehrotra , Ruchika Chavhan , Malcolm Chadwick , Luca Morreale , Mehdi Noroozi , Alberto Gil Ramos , Sourav Bhattacharya

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of natural language processing tasks. These capabilities stem primarily from the self-attention mechanism, which enables modeling of long-range…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Zeng You , Yaofo Chen , Shuhai Zhang , Zhijie Qiu , Tingyu Wu , Yingjian Li , Yaowei Wang , Mingkui Tan

Discrete diffusion models have recently become competitive with autoregressive models for language modeling, even outperforming them on reasoning tasks requiring planning and global coherence, but they require more computation at inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Andre He , Sean Welleck , Daniel Fried

Generating long-form content, such as minute-long videos and extended texts, is increasingly important for modern generative models. Block diffusion improves inference efficiency via KV caching and block-wise causal inference and has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Zhuokun Chen , Jianfei Cai , Bohan Zhuang

Sparse attention methods exploit the inherent sparsity in attention to speed up the prefilling phase of long-context inference, mitigating the quadratic complexity of full attention computation. While existing sparse attention methods rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dan Peng , Zhihui Fu , Zewen Ye , Zhuoran Song , Jun Wang

Data imputation and data generation have important applications for many domains, like healthcare and finance, where incomplete or missing data can hinder accurate analysis and decision-making. Diffusion models have emerged as powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Mario Villaizán-Vallelado , Matteo Salvatori , Carlos Segura , Ioannis Arapakis

Despite their generative power, diffusion models struggle to maintain style consistency across images conditioned on the same style prompt, hindering their practical deployment in creative workflows. While several training-free methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiexuan Zhang , Yiheng Du , Qian Wang , Weiqi Li , Yu Gu , Jian Zhang

While diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in style transfer tasks, existing methods typically rely on fine-tuning or optimizing pre-trained models during inference, leading to high computational costs and challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Bo Huang , Wenlun Xu , Qizhuo Han , Haodong Jing , Ying Li

Transformer-based language models have found many diverse applications requiring them to process sequences of increasing length. For these applications, the causal self-attention -- which is the only component scaling quadratically w.r.t.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Matteo Pagliardini , Daniele Paliotta , Martin Jaggi , François Fleuret

Diffusion models have been successfully adapted to text generation tasks by mapping the discrete text into the continuous space. However, there exist nonnegligible gaps between training and inference, owing to the absence of the forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zecheng Tang , Pinzheng Wang , Keyan Zhou , Juntao Li , Ziqiang Cao , Min Zhang

Models such as VGGT and $\pi^3$ have shown strong multi-view 3D performance, but their heavy reliance on global self-attention results in high computational cost. Existing sparse-attention variants offer partial speedups, yet lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xianbing Sun , Zhikai Zhu , Zhengyu Lou , Bo Yang , Jinyang Tang , Liqing Zhang , He Wang , Jianfu Zhang

Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MM-DiTs) have achieved remarkable progress in text-driven visual generation. However, even state-of-the-art MM-DiT models like FLUX struggle with achieving precise alignment between text prompts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Zhengyao Lv , Tianlin Pan , Chenyang Si , Zhaoxi Chen , Wangmeng Zuo , Ziwei Liu , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

As powerful generative models, text-to-image diffusion models have recently been explored for discriminative tasks. A line of research focuses on adapting a pre-trained diffusion model to semantic segmentation without any further training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Benyuan Meng , Qianqian Xu , Zitai Wang , Xiaochun Cao , Longtao Huang , Qingming Huang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual generation tasks. However, their low inference speed limits their deployment in low-resource applications. Recent training-free approaches exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xiaoliu Guan , Lielin Jiang , Hanqi Chen , Xu Zhang , Jiaxing Yan , Guanzhong Wang , Yi Liu , Zetao Zhang , Yu Wu

Autoregressive video diffusion models enable streaming generation, opening the door to long-form synthesis, video world models, and interactive neural game engines. However, their core attention layers become a major bottleneck at inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dvir Samuel , Issar Tzachor , Matan Levy , Micahel Green , Gal Chechik , Rami Ben-Ari

This paper presents a method to accelerate the inference process of diffusion transformer (DiT)-based text-to-speech (TTS) models by applying a selective caching mechanism to transformer layers. Specifically, I integrate SmoothCache into…

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