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Diffusion Transformers have recently demonstrated unprecedented generative capabilities for various tasks. The encouraging results, however, come with the cost of slow inference, since each denoising step requires inference on a transformer…

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Diffusion models demonstrate outstanding performance in image generation, but their multi-step inference mechanism requires immense computational cost. Previous works accelerate inference by leveraging layer or token cache techniques to…

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Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have revolutionized high-fidelity image and video synthesis, yet their computational demands remain prohibitive for real-time applications. To solve this problem, feature caching has been proposed to accelerate…

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Quantization and cache mechanisms are typically applied individually for efficient Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), each demonstrating notable potential for acceleration. However, the promoting effect of combining the two mechanisms on…

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Diffusion transformers have shown significant effectiveness in both image and video synthesis at the expense of huge computation costs. To address this problem, feature caching methods have been introduced to accelerate diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Chang Zou , Xuyang Liu , Ting Liu , Siteng Huang , Linfeng Zhang

Feature caching approaches accelerate diffusion transformers (DiTs) by storing the output features of computationally expensive modules at certain timesteps, and exploiting them for subsequent steps to reduce redundant computations. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Byunggwan Son , Jeimin Jeon , Jeongwoo Choi , Bumsub Ham

Efficient inference is a critical challenge in deep generative modeling, particularly as diffusion models grow in capacity and complexity. While increased complexity often improves accuracy, it raises compute costs, latency, and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Siu Hang Ho , Prasad Ganesan , Nguyen Duong , Daniel Schlabig

Diffusion Transformer (DiT), an emerging diffusion model for visual generation, has demonstrated superior performance but suffers from substantial computational costs. Our investigations reveal that these costs primarily stem from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Wangbo Zhao , Yizeng Han , Jiasheng Tang , Kai Wang , Hao Luo , Yibing Song , Gao Huang , Fan Wang , Yang You

Diffusion Transformers require repeated denoiser evaluations during iterative sampling, making inference computationally expensive. Cache-based acceleration reduces this cost by reusing intermediate representations across denoising steps,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mingyu Liang , Dingkun Xu , Jingwei Xu

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a widely adopted backbone for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet their iterative denoising process incurs high computational costs. Existing training-free acceleration methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Qianli Ma , Zhi Yao , Weijia Jia

One of the main drawback of diffusion models is the slow inference time for image generation. Among the most successful approaches to addressing this problem are distillation methods. However, these methods require considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Senmao Li , Taihang Hu , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Tao Liu , Linxuan Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jian Yang

The increased model capacity of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) and the demand for generating higher resolutions of images and videos have led to a significant rise in inference latency, impacting real-time performance adversely. While prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Xibo Sun , Jiarui Fang , Aoyu Li , Jinzhe Pan

Recently, Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a dominant architecture in video generation, surpassing U-Net-based models in terms of performance. However, the enhanced capabilities of DiTs come with significant drawbacks,…

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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…

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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a leading architecture for text-to-image synthesis, producing high-quality and photorealistic images. However, the quadratic scaling properties of the attention in DiTs hinder image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Philipp Becker , Abhinav Mehrotra , Ruchika Chavhan , Malcolm Chadwick , Luca Morreale , Mehdi Noroozi , Alberto Gil Ramos , Sourav Bhattacharya

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality samples and enhancing performance across diverse domains through Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, the quality of generated samples is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ao Chen , Lihe Ding , Tianfan Xue

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

Diffusion transformer (DiT) achieves remarkable performance in visual generation, but its iterative denoising process combined with larger capacity leads to a high inference cost. Recent works have demonstrated that the iterative denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yonglak Son , Suhyeok Kim , Seungryong Kim , Young Geun Kim

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) excel at visual generation yet remain hampered by slow sampling. Existing training-free accelerators - step reduction, feature caching, and sparse attention - enhance inference speed but typically rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Wangbo Zhao , Yizeng Han , Zhiwei Tang , Jiasheng Tang , Pengfei Zhou , Kai Wang , Bohan Zhuang , Zhangyang Wang , Fan Wang , Yang You

Recent advances in diffusion transformers (DiTs) have set new standards in image generation, yet remain impractical for on-device deployment due to their high computational and memory costs. In this work, we present an efficient DiT…