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Self-attention is central to the success of Transformer architectures; however, learning the query, key, and value projections from random initialization remains challenging and computationally expensive. In this paper, we propose two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Hongyi Pan , Emadeldeen Hamdan , Xin Zhu , Ahmet Enis Cetin , Ulas Bagci

This paper identifies significant redundancy in the query-key interactions within self-attention mechanisms of diffusion transformer models, particularly during the early stages of denoising diffusion steps. In response to this observation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifan Pu , Zhuofan Xia , Jiayi Guo , Dongchen Han , Qixiu Li , Duo Li , Yuhui Yuan , Ji Li , Yizeng Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang , Xiu Li

The Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture is the state-of-the-art paradigm for high-fidelity image generation, underpinning models like Stable Diffusion-3 and FLUX.1. However, deploying these models on resource-constrained mobile devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Kunpeng Du , Haizhen Xie , Sen Lu , Lei Yu , Binglei Bao , Huaao Tang , Chuntao Liu , Hao Wu , Yang Zhao , Zhicai Huang , Heyuan Gao , Zhijun Tu , Jie Hu , Xinghao Chen

Attention-based models, exemplified by the Transformer, can effectively model long range dependency, but suffer from the quadratic complexity of self-attention operation, making them difficult to be adopted for high-resolution image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Long Zhao , Zizhao Zhang , Ting Chen , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Han Zhang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have proven effective in generating high-quality videos but are hindered by high computational costs. Existing video DiT sampling acceleration methods often rely on costly fine-tuning or exhibit limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wenhao Sun , Rong-Cheng Tu , Jingyi Liao , Zhao Jin , Dacheng Tao

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) are powerful generative models but remain computationally intensive due to their iterative structure and deep transformer stacks. To alleviate this inefficiency, we propose \textbf{FastCache}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu , Jiayi Zhang , Yifan Li , Ben Lengerich , Ying Nian Wu

Diffusion models with large-scale pre-training have achieved significant success in the field of visual content generation, particularly exemplified by Diffusion Transformers (DiT). However, DiT models have faced challenges with quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Lianghui Zhu , Zilong Huang , Bencheng Liao , Jun Hao Liew , Hanshu Yan , Jiashi Feng , Xinggang Wang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) image generation quality but suffer from high latency and memory inefficiency, making them difficult to deploy on resource-constrained devices. One major efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Haoran You , Connelly Barnes , Yuqian Zhou , Yan Kang , Zhenbang Du , Wei Zhou , Lingzhi Zhang , Yotam Nitzan , Xiaoyang Liu , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Yingyan Celine Lin

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve state-of-the-art image generation quality but incur substantial memory and computational costs at inference. While aggressive Post-Training Quantization (PTQ) to 4-bit precision offers significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sayeh Sharify , Mahsa Salmani , Hesham Mostafa

While Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved breakthroughs in video generation, this long sequence generation task remains constrained by the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms, resulting in significant inference latency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Pengtao Chen , Xianfang Zeng , Maosen Zhao , Peng Ye , Mingzhu Shen , Wei Cheng , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

Video diffusion transformers (DiTs) suffer from prohibitive inference latency due to quadratic attention complexity. Existing sparse attention methods either overlook semantic similarity or fail to adapt to heterogeneous token distributions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Haoyue Tan , Shengnan Wang , Yulin Qiao , Juncheng Zhang , Youhui Bai , Ping Gong , Zewen Jin , Cheng Li

Diffusion Transformers dominate video generation, but the quadratic complexity of attention computation introduces substantial latency. Attention sparsity reduces computational costs by focusing on critical tokens while ignoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xuewen Liu , Zhikai Li , Jing Zhang , Mengjuan Chen , Qingyi Gu

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

Attention-based vision models, such as Vision Transformer (ViT) and its variants, have shown promising performance in various computer vision tasks. However, these emerging architectures suffer from large model sizes and high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinqi Xiao , Miao Yin , Yu Gong , Xiao Zang , Jian Ren , Bo Yuan

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have attracted significant attention in research. However, they suffer from a slow convergence rate. In this paper, we aim to accelerate DiT training without any architectural modification. We identify the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jingfeng Yao , Wang Cheng , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Diffusion models produce realistic images and videos but require substantial computational resources, necessitating multi-accelerator parallelism for real-time deployment. However, parallel inference introduces significant communication…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiajun Luo , Yicheng Xiao , Jianru Xu , Yangxiu You , Rongwei Lu , Chen Tang , Jingyan Jiang , Zhi Wang

The recent introduction of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) has demonstrated exceptional capabilities in image generation by using a different backbone architecture, departing from traditional U-Nets and embracing the scalable nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Junyi Wu , Haoxuan Wang , Yuzhang Shang , Mubarak Shah , Yan Yan

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image generation in recent years. However, due to a quadratic increase in memory during generating ultra-high-resolution images (e.g. 4096*4096), the resolution of generated images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Zhuoyi Yang , Heyang Jiang , Wenyi Hong , Jiayan Teng , Wendi Zheng , Yuxiao Dong , Ming Ding , Jie Tang

Transformers have achieved widespread and remarkable success, while the computational complexity of their attention modules remains a major bottleneck for vision tasks. Existing methods mainly employ 8-bit or 4-bit quantization to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chaodong Xiao , Zhengqiang Zhang , Lei Zhang

Diffusion transformers have shown exceptional performance in visual generation but incur high computational costs. Token reduction techniques that compress models by sharing the denoising process among similar tokens have been introduced.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haipeng Fang , Sheng Tang , Juan Cao , Enshuo Zhang , Fan Tang , Tong-Yee Lee