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Pure vision transformer architectures are highly effective for short video classification and action recognition tasks. However, due to the quadratic complexity of self attention and lack of inductive bias, transformers are resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Edward Fish , Jon Weinbren , Andrew Gilbert

While Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved notable progress in video generation, this long-sequence generation task remains constrained by the quadratic complexity inherent to self-attention mechanisms, creating significant barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yuxi Liu , Yipeng Hu , Zekun Zhang , Kunze Jiang , Kun Yuan

Diffusion-based Transformers have demonstrated impressive generative capabilities, but their high computational costs hinder practical deployment, for example, generating an $8192\times 8192$ image can take over an hour on an A100 GPU. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sucheng Ren , Qihang Yu , Ju He , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

Transformer-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various computer vision tasks, including image and video analysis. However, Transformer's complex architecture and black-box nature pose challenges for explainability, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Zerui Wang , Yan Liu

Native 4K (2160$\times$3840) video generation remains a critical challenge due to the quadratic computational explosion of full-attention as spatiotemporal resolution increases, making it difficult for models to strike a balance between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jiangning Zhang , Junwei Zhu , Teng Hu , Yabiao Wang , Donghao Luo , Weijian Cao , Zhenye Gan , Xiaobin Hu , Zhucun Xue , Chengjie Wang

In video and image generation tasks, Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models incur extremely high computational costs due to attention mechanisms, which limits their practical applications. Furthermore, with hardware advancements, a wide range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aiyue Chen , Yaofu Liu , Junjian Huang , Guang Lian , Yiwu Yao , Wangli Lan , Jing Lin , Zhixin Ma , Tingting Zhou

Despite the remarkable generation quality of video Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models, their practical deployment is severely hindered by extensive computational requirements. This inefficiency stems from two key challenges: the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yuechen Zhang , Jinbo Xing , Bin Xia , Shaoteng Liu , Bohao Peng , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Eric Lo , Jiaya Jia

In this paper, we investigate how to convert a pre-trained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) into a linear DiT, as its simplicity, parallelism, and efficiency for image generation. Through detailed exploration, we offer a suite of ready-to-use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiahao Wang , Ning Kang , Lewei Yao , Mengzhao Chen , Chengyue Wu , Songyang Zhang , Shuchen Xue , Yong Liu , Taiqiang Wu , Xihui Liu , Kaipeng Zhang , Shifeng Zhang , Wenqi Shao , Zhenguo Li , Ping Luo

While transformers have shown great potential on video recognition with their strong capability of capturing long-range dependencies, they often suffer high computational costs induced by the self-attention to the huge number of 3D tokens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Yuxuan Liang , Pan Zhou , Roger Zimmermann , Shuicheng Yan

The recent surge in video generation has shown the growing demand for high-quality video synthesis using large vision models. Existing video generation models are predominantly based on the video diffusion transformer (vDiT), however, they…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Wenxuan Miao , Yulin Sun , Aiyue Chen , Jing Lin , Yiwu Yao , Yiming Gan , Jieru Zhao , Jingwen Leng , Mingyi Guo , Yu Feng

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

The Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture is the state-of-the-art paradigm for high-fidelity image generation, underpinning models like Stable Diffusion-3 and FLUX.1. However, deploying these models on resource-constrained mobile devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Kunpeng Du , Haizhen Xie , Sen Lu , Lei Yu , Binglei Bao , Huaao Tang , Chuntao Liu , Hao Wu , Yang Zhao , Zhicai Huang , Heyuan Gao , Zhijun Tu , Jie Hu , Xinghao Chen

Sparse-Linear Attention (SLA) combines sparse and linear attention to accelerate diffusion models and has shown strong performance in video generation. However, (i) SLA relies on a heuristic split that assigns computations to the sparse or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jintao Zhang , Haoxu Wang , Kai Jiang , Kaiwen Zheng , Youhe Jiang , Ion Stoica , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Contemporary diffusion models built upon U-Net or Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architectures have revolutionized image generation through transformer-based attention mechanisms. The prevailing paradigm has commonly employed self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 ZiYi Dong , Chengxing Zhou , Weijian Deng , Pengxu Wei , Xiangyang Ji , Liang Lin

Efficiently supporting long context length is crucial for Transformer models. The quadratic complexity of the self-attention computation plagues traditional Transformers. Sliding window-based static sparse attention mitigates the problem by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhenyu Bai , Pranav Dangi , Huize Li , Tulika Mitra

Text-to-video diffusion models deliver impressive results but remain slow because of the sequential denoising of 3D latents. Existing approaches to speed up inference either require expensive model retraining or use heuristic-based step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Joel Mathew Cherian , Ashutosh Muralidhara Bharadwaj , Vima Gupta , Anand Padmanabha Iyer

The recent wave of AI-generated content has witnessed the great development and success of Text-to-Image (T2I) technologies. By contrast, Text-to-Video (T2V) still falls short of expectations though attracting increasing interests. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Efficient streaming video generation is critical for simulating interactive and dynamic worlds. Existing methods distill few-step video diffusion models with sliding window attention, using initial frames as sink tokens to maintain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yunhong Lu , Yanhong Zeng , Haobo Li , Hao Ouyang , Qiuyu Wang , Ka Leong Cheng , Jiapeng Zhu , Hengyuan Cao , Zhipeng Zhang , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Min Zhang

Synthesizing high-quality dynamic medical videos remains a significant challenge due to the need for modeling both spatial consistency and temporal dynamics. Existing Transformer-based approaches face critical limitations, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Huihan Wang , Zhiwen Yang , Hui Zhang , Dan Zhao , Bingzheng Wei , Yan Xu

This paper investigates the role of CLIP image embeddings within the Stable Video Diffusion (SVD) framework, focusing on their impact on video generation quality and computational efficiency. Our findings indicate that CLIP embeddings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Mohammed Bennamoun , Aref Miri Rekavandi , Zinuo Li , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid