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Designing model architectures requires decisions such as selecting operators (e.g., attention, convolution) and configurations (e.g., depth, width). However, evaluating the impact of these decisions on model quality requires costly…

Diffusion Transformer (DiT), a promising diffusion model for visual generation, demonstrates impressive performance but incurs significant computational overhead. Intriguingly, analysis of pre-trained DiT models reveals that global…

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Diffusion models (DMs) have been adopted across diverse fields with its remarkable abilities in capturing intricate data distributions. In this paper, we propose a Fast Diffusion Model (FDM) to significantly speed up DMs from a stochastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zike Wu , Pan Zhou , Kenji Kawaguchi , Hanwang Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance on a wide range of generative tasks, yet training them from scratch is notoriously resource-intensive, typically requiring millions of training images and many GPU days. Motivated by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Rui Huang , Shitong Shao , Zikai Zhou , Pukun Zhao , Hangyu Guo , Tian Ye , Lichen Bai , Shuo Yang , Zeke Xie

This paper proposes a novel approach to address the challenge that pretrained VLA models often fail to effectively improve performance and reduce adaptation costs during standard supervised finetuning (SFT). Some advanced finetuning methods…

Diffusion models are renowned for their generative capabilities, yet their pretraining processes exhibit distinct phases of learning speed that have been entirely overlooked in prior post-training acceleration efforts in the community. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Bowei Guo , Shengkun Tang , Cong Zeng , Zhiqiang Shen

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have gained increasing adoption in high-quality image and video generation. As demand for higher-resolution images and longer videos increases, single-GPU inference becomes inefficient due to increased latency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiacheng Yang , Jun Wu , Yaoyao Ding , Zhiying Xu , Yida Wang , Gennady Pekhimenko

We explore a new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture. We train latent diffusion models of images, replacing the commonly-used U-Net backbone with a transformer that operates on latent patches. We analyze the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 William Peebles , Saining Xie

While vision transformers have achieved impressive results, effectively and efficiently accelerating these models can further boost performances. In this work, we propose a dense/sparse training framework to obtain a unified model, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Ling Li , David Thorsley , Joseph Hassoun

Generating temporally-consistent high-fidelity videos can be computationally expensive, especially over longer temporal spans. More-recent Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) -- despite making significant headway in this context -- have only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Haozhe Liu , Sen He , Ding Liu , Menglin Jia , Chenyang Zhang , Michael S. Ryoo , Tian Xie

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 models have achieved remarkable success across a range of generative tasks. Recent efforts to enhance diffusion model architectures have reimagined them as a form of multi-task learning, where each task corresponds to a denoising…

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Objective: Most deep neural network-based diffusion tensor imaging methods require the diffusion gradients' number and directions in the data to be reconstructed to match those in the training data. This work aims to develop and evaluate a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Zejun Wu , Jiechao Wang , Zunquan Chen , Qinqin Yang , Zhen Xing , Dairong Cao , Jianfeng Bao , Taishan Kang , Jianzhong Lin , Shuhui Cai , Zhong Chen , Congbo Cai

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become the de-facto model for generating high-quality visual content like videos and images. A huge bottleneck is the attention mechanism where complexity scales quadratically with resolution and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ruichen Chen , Keith G. Mills , Liyao Jiang , Chao Gao , Di Niu

Diffusion Transformers have emerged as the preeminent models for a wide array of generative tasks, demonstrating superior performance and efficacy across various applications. The promising results come at the cost of slow inference, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xuan Shen , Zhao Song , Yufa Zhou , Bo Chen , Yanyu Li , Yifan Gong , Kai Zhang , Hao Tan , Jason Kuen , Henghui Ding , Zhihao Shu , Wei Niu , Pu Zhao , Yanzhi Wang , Jiuxiang Gu

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

Transformer architectures, particularly Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), have become widely used in diffusion and flow-matching models due to their strong performance compared to convolutional UNets. However, the isotropic design of DiTs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Quan Dao , Dimitris Metaxas

Recent advances in video generation models has significantly accelerated video generation and related downstream tasks. Among these, video stylization holds important research value in areas such as immersive applications and artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hengye Lyu , Zisu Li , Yue Hong , Yueting Weng , Jiaxin Shi , Hanwang Zhang , Chen Liang

In this paper, we uncover the hidden potential of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) to significantly enhance generative tasks. Through an in-depth analysis of the denoising process, we demonstrate that introducing a single learned scaling…

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The Stable Diffusion Model (SDM) is a popular and efficient text-to-image (t2i) generation and image-to-image (i2i) generation model. Although there have been some attempts to reduce sampling steps, model distillation, and network…

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