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Video diffusion models have rapidly become the dominant paradigm for high-fidelity generative video synthesis, but their practical deployment remains constrained by severe inference costs. Compared with image generation, video synthesis…

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One of the main drawback of diffusion models is the slow inference time for image generation. Among the most successful approaches to addressing this problem are distillation methods. However, these methods require considerable…

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With the advance of diffusion models, today's video generation has achieved impressive quality. To extend the generation length and facilitate real-world applications, a majority of video diffusion models (VDMs) generate videos in an…

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Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art in image generation, but their practical deployment is hindered by the significant computational cost of their iterative denoising process. While existing caching techniques can accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Mingyu Sung , Il-Min Kim , Sangseok Yun , Jae-Mo Kang

The application of diffusion transformers is suffering from their significant inference costs. Recently, feature caching has been proposed to solve this problem by reusing features from previous timesteps, thereby skipping computation in…

Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models have achieved unprecedented quality in image and video generation, yet their iterative sampling process remains computationally prohibitive. To accelerate inference, feature caching methods have emerged by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Guantao Chen , Shikang Zheng , Yuqi Lin , Linfeng Zhang

Recently, Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a dominant architecture in video generation, surpassing U-Net-based models in terms of performance. However, the enhanced capabilities of DiTs come with significant drawbacks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Junyi Wu , Zhiteng Li , Zheng Hui , Yulun Zhang , Linghe Kong , Xiaokang Yang

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

Timestep distillation is an effective approach for improving the generation efficiency of diffusion models. The Consistency Model (CM), as a trajectory-based framework, demonstrates significant potential due to its strong theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Bao Tang , Shuai Zhang , Yueting Zhu , Jijun Xiang , Xin Yang , Li Yu , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Diffusion-based text-to-image generation models trade latency for quality: small models are fast but generate lower-quality images, while large models produce better images but are slow. We present MoDM, a novel caching-based serving system…

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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

Diffusion Policy has demonstrated strong visuomotor modeling capabilities, but its high computational cost renders it impractical for real-time robotic control. Despite huge redundancy across repetitive denoising steps, existing diffusion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Kangye Ji , Yuan Meng , Hanyun Cui , Ye Li , Jianbo Zhou , Shengjia Hua , Lei Chen , Zhi Wang

Autoregressive models (ARMs) are hindered by slow sequential inference. While masked diffusion models (MDMs) offer a parallel alternative, they suffer from critical drawbacks: high computational overhead from precluding Key-Value (KV)…

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Video Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models are a dominant approach for high-quality video generation but suffer from high inference cost due to iterative denoising. Existing caching approaches primarily exploit similarity within the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hao Liu , Ye Huang , Chenghuan Huang , Zhenyi Zheng , Jiangsu Du , Ziyang Ma , Jing Lyu , Yutong Lu

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…

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Action diffusion excels at high-fidelity action generation but incurs heavy computational costs owing to its iterative denoising nature. Despite current technologies showing promise in accelerating diffusion transformers by reusing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Kangye Ji , Yuan Meng , Jianbo Zhou , Ye Li , Chen Tang , Zhi Wang

Existing acceleration techniques for video diffusion models often rely on uniform heuristics or time-embedding variants to skip timesteps and reuse cached features. These approaches typically require extensive calibration with curated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zehong Ma , Longhui Wei , Feng Wang , Shiliang Zhang , Qi Tian

In this paper, we address the performance degradation of efficient diffusion models by introducing Multi-architecturE Multi-Expert diffusion models (MEME). We identify the need for tailored operations at different time-steps in diffusion…

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Diffusion-based talking head models generate high-quality, photorealistic videos but suffer from slow inference, limiting practical applications. Existing acceleration methods for general diffusion models fail to exploit the temporal and…

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