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Despite recent advances in UNet-based image editing, methods for shape-aware object editing in high-resolution images are still lacking. Compared to UNet, Diffusion Transformers (DiT) demonstrate superior capabilities to effectively capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kunyu Feng , Yue Ma , Bingyuan Wang , Chenyang Qi , Haozhe Chen , Qifeng Chen , Zeyu Wang

Transformers have attracted increasing interests in computer vision, but they still fall behind state-of-the-art convolutional networks. In this work, we show that while Transformers tend to have larger model capacity, their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zihang Dai , Hanxiao Liu , Quoc V. Le , Mingxing Tan

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) excel at generation, but their global self-attention makes controllable, reference-image-based editing a distinct challenge. Unlike U-Nets, naively injecting local appearance into a DiT can disrupt its holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengrong Gu , Ye Wang , Song Wu , Rui Ma , Qian Wang , Lanjun Wang , Zili Yi

In breast ultrasound images, precise lesion segmentation is essential for early diagnosis; however, low contrast, speckle noise, and unclear boundaries make this difficult. Even though deep learning models have demonstrated potential,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Prateek Singh , Moumita Dholey , P. K. Vinod

Can transformers generalize efficiently on problems that require dealing with examples with different levels of difficulty? We introduce a new task tailored to assess generalization over different complexities and present results that…

DIFF Transformer addresses the issue of irrelevant context interference by introducing a differential attention mechanism that enhances the robustness of local attention. However, it has two critical limitations: the lack of global context…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Yueyang Cang , Yuhang Liu , Xiaoteng Zhang , Erlu Zhao , Li Shi

Vision transformers (ViTs) achieve remarkable performance on large datasets, but tend to perform worse than convolutional neural networks (CNNs) when trained from scratch on smaller datasets, possibly due to a lack of local inductive bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ibrahim Batuhan Akkaya , Senthilkumar S. Kathiresan , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Transformers enable powerful content-based global routing via self-attention, but they lack an explicit local geometric prior along the sequence axis. As a result, the placement of locality-inducing modules in hybrid architectures has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yukun Zhang , Xueqing Zhou

While Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved notable progress in video generation, this long-sequence generation task remains constrained by the quadratic complexity inherent to self-attention mechanisms, creating significant barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yuxi Liu , Yipeng Hu , Zekun Zhang , Kunze Jiang , Kun Yuan

Transformers have recently shown superior performances on various vision tasks. The large, sometimes even global, receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power over their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

Recent deblurring networks have effectively restored clear images from the blurred ones. However, they often struggle with generalization to unknown domains. Moreover, these models typically focus on distortion metrics such as PSNR and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Hanzhou Liu , Binghan Li , Chengkai Liu , Mi Lu

Diffusion models have shown exceptional performance in visual generation tasks. Recently, these models have shifted from traditional U-Shaped CNN-Attention hybrid structures to fully transformer-based isotropic architectures. While these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuchuan Tian , Jing Han , Chengcheng Wang , Yuchen Liang , Chao Xu , Hanting Chen

We introduce GrounDiT, a novel training-free spatial grounding technique for text-to-image generation using Diffusion Transformers (DiT). Spatial grounding with bounding boxes has gained attention for its simplicity and versatility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Phillip Y. Lee , Taehoon Yoon , Minhyuk Sung

Understanding how knowledge is distributed across the layers of generative models is crucial for improving interpretability, controllability, and adaptation. While prior work has explored knowledge localization in UNet-based architectures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Arman Zarei , Samyadeep Basu , Keivan Rezaei , Zihao Lin , Sayan Nag , Soheil Feizi

Transformer-based diffusion models, dubbed Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), have achieved state-of-the-art performance in image and video generation tasks. However, their large model size and slow inference speed limit their practical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Xinyan Liu , Huihong Shi , Yang Xu , Zhongfeng Wang

Diffusion Transformer (DiT), an emerging diffusion model for image generation, has demonstrated superior performance but suffers from substantial computational costs. Our investigations reveal that these costs stem from the static inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wangbo Zhao , Yizeng Han , Jiasheng Tang , Kai Wang , Yibing Song , Gao Huang , Fan Wang , Yang You

Diffusion models have shown promise in learning to solve constraint optimization problems. However, they are mostly restricted to problems with binary variables and rely on graph neural networks, hindering their application to a broader…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yudong W. Xu , Wenhao Li , Xiaoyu Wang , Scott Sanner , Elias B. Khalil

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become a dominant architecture in computer vision, yet their prediction process remains difficult to interpret because information is propagated through complex interactions across layers and attention heads.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sehyeong Jo , Gangjae Jang , Haesol Park

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

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…