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Recent work studying the generalization of diffusion models with UNet-based denoisers reveals inductive biases that can be expressed via geometry-adaptive harmonic bases. However, in practice, more recent denoising networks are often based…

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In pursuit of faster computation, Efficient Transformers demonstrate an impressive variety of approaches -- models attaining sub-quadratic attention complexity can utilize a notion of sparsity or a low-rank approximation of inputs to reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Uladzislau Yorsh , Alexander Kovalenko

Recently, neural networks purely based on attention were shown to address image understanding tasks such as image classification. However, these visual transformers are pre-trained with hundreds of millions of images using an expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Matthijs Douze , Francisco Massa , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Hervé Jégou

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have shown remarkable performance in generating high-quality videos. However, the quadratic complexity of 3D full attention remains a bottleneck in scaling DiT training, especially with high-definition, lengthy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xin Tan , Yuetao Chen , Yimin Jiang , Xing Chen , Kun Yan , Nan Duan , Yibo Zhu , Daxin Jiang , Hong Xu

Line detection is a basic digital image processing operation used by higher-level processing methods. Recently, transformer-based methods for line detection have proven to be more accurate than methods based on CNNs, at the expense of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Sebastian Janampa , Marios Pattichis

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 (DiTs) achieve strong video generation quality but suffer from high inference cost due to dense 3D attention, motivating sparse attention techniques for improving efficiency. However, existing training-free sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiayi Luo , Jiayu Chen , Jiankun Wang , Cong Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Qingyun Sun , Chen Gao , Zhibo Chen , Jianxin Li

Diffusion Transformer (DiT) has now become the preferred choice for building image generation models due to its great generation capability. Unlike previous convolution-based UNet models, DiT is purely composed of a stack of transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Ning Ding , Jing Han , Yuchuan Tian , Chao Xu , Kai Han , Yehui 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

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

The Transformer architecture has become a cornerstone of modern artificial intelligence, but its core self-attention mechanism suffers from a complexity bottleneck that scales quadratically with sequence length, severely limiting its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zhongpan Tang

Diffusion models (DMs) embark a new era of generative modeling and offer more opportunities for efficient generating high-quality and realistic data samples. However, their widespread use has also brought forth new challenges in model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Jingyao Xu , Yuetong Lu , Yandong Li , Siyang Lu , Dongdong Wang , Xiang Wei

This paper introduces ConvShareViT, a novel deep learning architecture that adapts Vision Transformers (ViTs) to the 4f free-space optical system. ConvShareViT replaces linear layers in multi-head self-attention (MHSA) and Multilayer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Riad Ibadulla , Thomas M. Chen , Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities, particularly benefiting from Transformer architectures that enhance visual and artistic fidelity. However, their inherently sequential denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hanqi Chen , Xu Zhang , Xiaoliu Guan , Lielin Jiang , Guanzhong Wang , Zeyu Chen , Yi Liu

Recent diffusion-based generators can produce high-quality images from textual prompts. However, they often disregard textual instructions that specify the spatial layout of the composition. We propose a simple approach that achieves robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Minghao Chen , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

Diffusion models (DMs) have gained prominence due to their ability to generate high-quality varied images with recent advancements in text-to-image generation. The research focus is now shifting towards the controllability of DMs. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Enis Simsar , Alessio Tonioni , Yongqin Xian , Thomas Hofmann , Federico Tombari

In an effort to reduce the computational load of Transformers, research on linear attention has gained significant momentum. However, the improvement strategies for attention mechanisms typically necessitate extensive retraining, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hanting Chen , Zhicheng Liu , Xutao Wang , Yuchuan Tian , Yunhe Wang

Deep Text-to-Image Synthesis (TIS) models such as Stable Diffusion have recently gained significant popularity for creative Text-to-image generation. Yet, for domain-specific scenarios, tuning-free Text-guided Image Editing (TIE) is of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Bingyan Liu , Chengyu Wang , Tingfeng Cao , Kui Jia , Jun Huang

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

Transformers have been proven a successful model for a variety of tasks in sequence modeling. However, computing the attention matrix, which is their key component, has quadratic complexity with respect to the sequence length, thus making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Apoorv Vyas , Angelos Katharopoulos , François Fleuret