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Vision transformers have shown excellent performance in computer vision tasks. As the computation cost of their self-attention mechanism is expensive, recent works tried to replace the self-attention mechanism in vision transformers with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Zimian Wei , Hengyue Pan , Lujun Li , Menglong Lu , Xin Niu , Peijie Dong , Dongsheng Li

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI, with their inherent capacity to generate highly realistic state-of-the-art synthetic data. However, these models employ an iterative denoising process over computationally intensive layers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Tharini Suresh , Salma Afifi , Sudeep Pasricha

Recent advancements in Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models have significantly improved 3D point cloud generation. However, existing methods primarily focus on local feature extraction while overlooking global topological information, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zechao Guan , Feng Yan , Shuai Du , Lin Ma , Qingshan Liu

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) with billions of model parameters form the backbone of popular image and video generation models like DALL.E, Stable-Diffusion and SORA. Though these models are necessary in many low-latency applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Vignesh Sundaresha

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual generation tasks. However, their low inference speed limits their deployment in low-resource applications. Recent training-free approaches exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xiaoliu Guan , Lielin Jiang , Hanqi Chen , Xu Zhang , Jiaxing Yan , Guanzhong Wang , Yi Liu , Zetao Zhang , Yu Wu

Despite the promise of synthesizing high-fidelity videos, Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) with 3D full attention suffer from expensive inference due to the complexity of attention computation and numerous sampling steps. For example, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hangliang Ding , Dacheng Li , Runlong Su , Peiyuan Zhang , Zhijie Deng , Ion Stoica , Hao Zhang

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…

Although purely transformer-based architectures showed promising performance in many computer vision tasks, many hybrid models consisting of CNN and transformer blocks are introduced to fit more specialized tasks. Nevertheless, despite the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Peter Weinberger , Seyed-Ahmad Ahmadi , Ehsan Adeli , Nassir Navab

We introduce a novel and generic convolutional unit, DiCE unit, that is built using dimension-wise convolutions and dimension-wise fusion. The dimension-wise convolutions apply light-weight convolutional filtering across each dimension of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sachin Mehta , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Mohammad Rastegari

Adjoint-based design optimizations are usually computationally expensive and those costs scale with resolution. To address this, researchers have proposed machine learning approaches for inverse design that can predict higher-resolution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Milad Habibi , Mark Fuge

Recent advances indicate that diffusion models hold great promise in image super-resolution. While the latest methods are primarily based on latent diffusion models with convolutional neural networks, there are few attempts to explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Kun Cheng , Lei Yu , Zhijun Tu , Xiao He , Liyu Chen , Yong Guo , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jie Hu

Transformer-based diffusion models offer superior scalability and performance but suffer from high computational overhead due to the iterative nature and quadratic complexity of self-attention at high resolutions. In this paper, we propose…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jieon Yoon , Hangyeol Lee , Jaehoon Heo , Joo-Young Kim

Diffusion Models (DMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in content generation without requiring adversarial training. These models are trained using a two-step process. First, a forward - diffusion - process gradually adds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced existing medical systems for automatic disease diagnosis. However, there are still concerns about the reliability of deep medical diagnosis systems against the potential threats of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Omid Nejati Manzari , Hamid Ahmadabadi , Hossein Kashiani , Shahriar B. Shokouhi , Ahmad Ayatollahi

While generative modeling on time series facilitates more capable and flexible probabilistic forecasting, existing generative time series models do not address the multi-dimensional properties of time series data well. The prevalent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Haoran Zhang , Haixuan Liu , Yong Liu , Yunzhong Qiu , Yuxuan Wang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Standard Latent Diffusion Models rely on a complex, three-part architecture consisting of a separate encoder, decoder, and diffusion network, which are trained in multiple stages. This modular design is computationally inefficient, leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to convolutional networks (CNNs). Although hybrid models attempt to bridge the gap between these two architectures, the self-attention layers they rely on induce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Levent Sagun , Giulio Biroli , Ari Morcos

We present a parameter-efficient Diffusion Transformer (DiT) for generating 200bp cell-type-specific regulatory DNA sequences. By replacing the U-Net backbone of DNA-Diffusion with a transformer denoiser equipped with a 2D CNN input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jonathan Liu , Kia Ghods

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art video generation quality, but their inference remains expensive due to the large number of sequential denoising steps. This has motivated a growing line of research on accelerating diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yasaman Haghighi , Alexandre Alahi

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) excel in video generation but encounter significant computational challenges due to the quadratic complexity of attention. Notably, attention differences between adjacent diffusion steps follow a U-shaped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Wenzhang Sun , Qirui Hou , Donglin Di , Jiahui Yang , Yongjia Ma , Jianxun Cui