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Diffusion models have achieved cutting-edge performance in image generation. However, their lengthy denoising process and computationally intensive score estimation network impede their scalability in low-latency and resource-constrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qian Zeng , Jie Song , Han Zheng , Hao Jiang , Mingli Song

Diffusion models have marked a significant breakthrough in the synthesis of semantically coherent images. However, their extensive noise estimation networks and the iterative generation process limit their wider application, particularly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuzhe Yao , Feng Tian , Jun Chen , Haonan Lin , Guang Dai , Yong Liu , Jingdong Wang

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image synthesis, but they demand extensive computational and memory resources for training, fine-tuning and inference. Although advanced quantization techniques have successfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Hoigi Seo , Wongi Jeong , Kyungryeol Lee , Se Young Chun

Hybrid models that combine convolutional and transformer blocks offer strong performance in computer vision (CV) tasks but are resource-intensive for edge deployment. Although post-training quantization (PTQ) can help reduce resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Shaibal Saha , Lanyu Xu

Due to highly constrained computing power and memory, deploying 3D lidar-based detectors on edge devices equipped in autonomous vehicles and robots poses a crucial challenge. Being a convenient and straightforward model compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Sifan Zhou , Liang Li , Xinyu Zhang , Bo Zhang , Shipeng Bai , Miao Sun , Ziyu Zhao , Xiaobo Lu , Xiangxiang Chu

Diffusion models achieve high-quality image generation but face deployment challenges due to their high computational requirements. Although 8-bit outlier-aware post-training quantization (PTQ) matches full-precision performance, extending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Donghoon Kim , Dongyoung Lee , Ik Joon Chang , Sung-Ho Bae

Diffusion models are the go-to method for Text-to-Image generation, but their iterative denoising processes has high inference latency. Quantization reduces compute time by using lower bitwidths, but applies a fixed precision across all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Basile Lewandowski , Simon Kurz , Aditya Shankar , Robert Birke , Jian-Jia Chen , Lydia Y. Chen

The Diffusion Transformers Models (DiTs) have transitioned the network architecture from traditional UNets to transformers, demonstrating exceptional capabilities in image generation. Although DiTs have been widely applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Juncan Deng , Shuaiting Li , Zeyu Wang , Hong Gu , Kedong Xu , Kejie Huang

Diffusion models are powerful, but they require a lot of time and data to train. We propose Patch Diffusion, a generic patch-wise training framework, to significantly reduce the training time costs while improving data efficiency, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhendong Wang , Yifan Jiang , Huangjie Zheng , Peihao Wang , Pengcheng He , Zhangyang Wang , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Video matting is crucial for applications such as film production and virtual reality, yet deploying its computationally intensive models on resource-constrained devices presents challenges. Quantization is a key technique for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Tianrui Zhu , Houyuan Chen , Ruihao Gong , Michele Magno , Haotong Qin , Kai Zhang

Diffusion models are emerging models that generate images by iteratively denoising random Gaussian noise using deep neural networks. These models typically exhibit high computational and memory demands, necessitating effective post-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Cheng Chen , Christina Giannoula , Andreas Moshovos

Diffusion models have transformed image synthesis by establishing unprecedented quality and creativity benchmarks. Nevertheless, their large-scale deployment faces challenges due to computationally intensive iterative denoising processes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Songwei Liu , Chao Zeng , Chenqian Yan , Xurui Peng , Xing Wang , Fangmin Chen , Xing Mei

Quantizing a floating-point neural network to its fixed-point representation is crucial for Learned Image Compression (LIC) because it improves decoding consistency for interoperability and reduces space-time complexity for implementation.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Junqi Shi , Ming Lu , Zhan Ma

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance on vision generation tasks. However, the high computational complexity hinders its wide application on edge devices. Quantization has emerged as a promising technique for inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Haotong Qin , Yuqi Li , Xiangqi Li , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Michele Magno , Yongjun Xu , Yingli Tian , Tingwen Huang

This paper introduces Distribution-Flexible Subset Quantization (DFSQ), a post-training quantization method for super-resolution networks. Our motivation for developing DFSQ is based on the distinctive activation distributions of current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Yunshan Zhong , Mingbao Lin , Jingjing Xie , Yuxin Zhang , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Diffusion models have gained significant popularity in image generation tasks. However, generating high-quality content remains notably slow because it requires running model inference over many time steps. To accelerate these models, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zichen Fan , Steve Dai , Rangharajan Venkatesan , Dennis Sylvester , Brucek Khailany

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

Product Quantization (PQ) has long been a mainstream for generating an exponentially large codebook at very low memory/time cost. Despite its success, PQ is still tricky for the decomposition of high-dimensional vector space, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Lianli Gao , Xiaosu Zhu , Jingkuan Song , Zhou Zhao , Heng Tao Shen

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image generation but remain computationally costly due to iterative denoising. Latent-space models like Stable Diffusion reduce overhead yet lose fine detail, while retrieval-augmented methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Diffusion transformers have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating videos. However, their practical deployment is severely constrained by high memory usage and computational cost. Post-Training Quantization provides a practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Rundong Su , Jintao Zhang , Zhihang Yuan , Haojie Duanmu , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu