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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve superior image generation quality but suffer from quadratic computational complexity relative to token count. While various token reduction (TR) methods have been proposed to mitigate this cost, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hangyeol Lee , Hyojeong Lee , Joo-Young Kim

Diffusion models have recently revolutionized the field of image synthesis due to their ability to generate photorealistic images. However, one of the major drawbacks of diffusion models is that the image generation process is costly. A…

Diffusion-based world models have shown strong potential for unified world simulation, but the iterative denoising remains too costly for interactive use and long-horizon rollouts. While feature caching can accelerate inference without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Weilun Feng , Guoxin Fan , Haotong Qin , Chuanguang Yang , Mingqiang Wu , Yuqi Li , Xiangqi Li , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Dingrui Wang , Longlong Liao , Michele Magno , Yongjun Xu

Diffusion language models offer parallel token generation and inherent bidirectionality, promising more efficient and powerful sequence modeling compared to autoregressive approaches. However, state-of-the-art diffusion models (e.g., Dream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Zhanqiu Hu , Jian Meng , Yash Akhauri , Mohamed S. Abdelfattah , Jae-sun Seo , Zhiru Zhang , Udit Gupta

Although Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become the standard architecture in computer vision, their massive sizes lead to significant computational overhead. Token compression techniques have attracted considerable attention to address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jaeyeon Lee , Dong-Wan Choi

Generating temporally-consistent high-fidelity videos can be computationally expensive, especially over longer temporal spans. More-recent Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) -- despite making significant headway in this context -- have only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Haozhe Liu , Sen He , Ding Liu , Menglin Jia , Chenyang Zhang , Michael S. Ryoo , Tian Xie

Diffusion-based multimodal large language models (Diffusion MLLMs) have recently demonstrated impressive non-autoregressive generative capabilities across vision-and-language tasks. However, Diffusion MLLMs exhibit substantially slower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shuochen Chang , Xiaofeng Zhang , Qingyang Liu , Li Niu

Recent transformer-based models for 3D Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) have achieved strong performance but often suffer from high computational cost and complexity due to deep transformer architectures and redundant tokens. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Soroush Mehraban , Andrea Iaboni , Babak Taati

Diffusion models have gradually gained prominence in the field of image synthesis, showcasing remarkable generative capabilities. Nevertheless, the slow inference and complex networks, resulting from redundancy at both temporal and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xuewen Liu , Zhikai Li , Qingyi Gu

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become the dominant methods in image and video generation yet still suffer substantial computational costs. As an effective approach for DiT acceleration, feature caching methods are designed to cache the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Chang Zou , Evelyn Zhang , Runlin Guo , Haohang Xu , Conghui He , Xuming Hu , Linfeng Zhang

As generative models scale to larger inputs across language, vision, and video domains, the cost of token-level computation has become a key bottleneck. While prior work suggests that only a subset of tokens significantly influence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu

Recent diffusion-based unrestricted attacks generate imperceptible adversarial examples with high transferability compared to previous unrestricted attacks and restricted attacks. However, existing works on diffusion-based unrestricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ziyi Gao , Kai Chen , Zhipeng Wei , Tingshu Mou , Jingjing Chen , Zhiyu Tan , Hao Li , Yu-Gang Jiang

Although Diffusion Transformer (DiT) has emerged as a predominant architecture for image and video generation, its iterative denoising process results in slow inference, which hinders broader applicability and development. Caching-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tong Shao , Yusen Fu , Guoying Sun , Jingde Kong , Zhuotao Tian , Jingyong Su

Large language models allocate uniform computation across all tokens, ignoring that some sequences are trivially predictable while others require deep reasoning. We introduce ConceptMoE, which dynamically merges semantically similar tokens…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zihao Huang , Jundong Zhou , Xingwei Qu , Qiyang Min , Ge Zhang

Acceleration methods for diffusion models (e.g., token merging or downsampling) typically optimize synthesis quality under reduced compute, yet often ignore discriminative capacity. We revisit token compression with a joint objective and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jiacheng Liu , Shengkun Tang , Jiacheng Cui , Dongkuan Xu , Zhiqiang Shen

Token compression is essential for reducing the computational and memory requirements of transformer models, enabling their deployment in resource-constrained environments. In this work, we propose an efficient and hardware-compatible token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junzhu Mao , Yang Shen , Jinyang Guo , Yazhou Yao , Xiansheng Hua

In the domain of image generation, latent-based generative models occupy a dominant status; however, these models rely heavily on image tokenizer. To meet modeling requirements, autoregressive models possessing the characteristics of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Panpan Wang , Liqiang Niu , Fandong Meng , Jinan Xu , Yufeng Chen , Jie Zhou

Token compression is crucial for mitigating the quadratic complexity of self-attention mechanisms in Vision Transformers (ViTs), which often involve numerous input tokens. Existing methods, such as ToMe, rely on GPU-inefficient operations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Simin Huo , Ning Li

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…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuchen Xia , Divyam Sharma , Yichao Yuan , Souvik Kundu , Nishil Talati

Diffusion-based video editing has emerged as an important paradigm for high-quality and flexible content generation. However, despite their generality and strong modeling capacity, Diffusion Transformers (DiT) remain computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Tianyi Liu , Ye Lu , Linfeng Zhang , Chen Cai , Jianjun Gao , Yi Wang , Kim-Hui Yap , Lap-Pui Chau