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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) set the state of the art in visual generation, yet their quadratic self-attention cost fundamentally limits scaling to long token sequences. Recent Top-K sparse attention approaches reduce the computation of…

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Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved the performance of reference-guided line art colorization. However, existing methods still struggle with region-level color consistency, especially when the reference and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Qianru Qiu , Jiafeng Mao , Kento Masui , Xueting Wang

Diffusion Transformers rely on static patchify tokenization, assigning the same token budget to smooth backgrounds, detailed object regions, noisy early timesteps, and late-stage refinements. We introduce the Dynamic Chunking Diffusion…

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Despite recent advances, diffusion-based text-to-image models still struggle with accurate text rendering. Several studies have proposed fine-tuning or training-free refinement methods for accurate text rendering. However, the critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kanghyun Baek , Sangyub Lee , Jin Young Choi , Jaewoo Song , Daemin Park , Jooyoung Choi , Chaehun Shin , Bohyung Han , Sungroh Yoon

Image editing approaches with diffusion models have been rapidly developed, yet their applicability are subject to requirements such as specific editing types (e.g., foreground or background object editing, style transfer), multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yuming Qiao , Fanyi Wang , Jingwen Su , Yanhao Zhang , Yunjie Yu , Siyu Wu , Guo-Jun Qi

Despite their generative power, diffusion models struggle to maintain style consistency across images conditioned on the same style prompt, hindering their practical deployment in creative workflows. While several training-free methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiexuan Zhang , Yiheng Du , Qian Wang , Weiqi Li , Yu Gu , Jian Zhang

Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have shown incredible performance on text-to-image generation. Since text-to-image generation often requires models to generate visual concepts with fine-grained details and attributes specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xuehai He , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Varun Jampani , Arjun Akula , Pradyumna Narayana , Sugato Basu , William Yang Wang , Xin Eric Wang

The most advanced text-to-image (T2I) models require significant training costs (e.g., millions of GPU hours), seriously hindering the fundamental innovation for the AIGC community while increasing CO2 emissions. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Junsong Chen , Jincheng Yu , Chongjian Ge , Lewei Yao , Enze Xie , Yue Wu , Zhongdao Wang , James Kwok , Ping Luo , Huchuan Lu , Zhenguo Li

Diffusion models have proven to be highly effective in generating high-quality images. However, adapting large pre-trained diffusion models to new domains remains an open challenge, which is critical for real-world applications. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Enze Xie , Lewei Yao , Han Shi , Zhili Liu , Daquan Zhou , Zhaoqiang Liu , Jiawei Li , Zhenguo Li

Despite their remarkable performance, modern Diffusion Transformers are hindered by substantial resource requirements during inference, stemming from the fixed and large amount of compute needed for each denoising step. In this work, we…

Acquiring high-quality data for training discriminative models is a crucial yet challenging aspect of building effective predictive systems. In this paper, we present Diffusion Inversion, a simple yet effective method that leverages the…

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Personalized image generation aims to produce images of user-specified concepts while enabling flexible editing. Recent training-free approaches, while exhibit higher computational efficiency than training-based methods, struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Haoran Feng , Zehuan Huang , Lin Li , Hairong Lv , Lu Sheng

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

Diffusion-based Image Editing (DIE) is an emerging research hot-spot, which often applies a semantic mask to control the target area for diffusion-based editing. However, most existing solutions obtain these masks via manual operations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Siyu Zou , Jiji Tang , Yiyi Zhou , Jing He , Chaoyi Zhao , Rongsheng Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Xiaoshuai Sun

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have become a de facto backbone of modern visual generation, and nearly every major axis of their design -- tokenization, attention, conditioning, objectives, and latent autoencoders -- has been extensively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Chao Xu , Maohua Li , Qirui Li , Yixuan Xu , Yanke Zhou , Yunhe Li , Cuifeng Shen , Hanlin Tang , Kan Liu , Tao Lan , Lin Qu , Shao-Qun Zhang

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

Diffusion models have made significant progress in both text-to-image (T2I) generation and text-guided image editing. However, these models are typically built with billions of parameters, leading to high latency and increased deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kailai Feng , Yuxiang Wei , Bo Chen , Yang Pan , Hu Ye , Songwei Liu , Chenqian Yan , Yuan Gao

Diffusion models have achieved outstanding image generation by reversing a forward noising process to approximate true data distributions. During training, these models predict diffusion scores from noised versions of true samples in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Dazhong Shen , Guanglu Song , Yi Zhang , Bingqi Ma , Lujundong Li , Dongzhi Jiang , Zhuofan Zong , Yu Liu

In this paper, we introduce PixArt-\Sigma, a Diffusion Transformer model~(DiT) capable of directly generating images at 4K resolution. PixArt-\Sigma represents a significant advancement over its predecessor, PixArt-\alpha, offering images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Junsong Chen , Chongjian Ge , Enze Xie , Yue Wu , Lewei Yao , Xiaozhe Ren , Zhongdao Wang , Ping Luo , Huchuan Lu , Zhenguo Li