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The autoregressive video diffusion model has recently gained considerable research interest due to its causal modeling and iterative denoising. In this work, we identify that the multi-head self-attention in these models under-utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hang Guo , Zhaoyang Jia , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Yuanhao Cai , Jiangshan Wang , Yawei Li , Yan Lu

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across various domains. However, their slow generation speed remains a critical challenge. Existing acceleration methods, while aiming to reduce steps, often compromise sample quality,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Huiyang Shao , Xin Xia , Yuhong Yang , Yuxi Ren , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao

The steep computational cost of diffusion models at inference hinders their use as fast physics emulators. In the context of image and video generation, this computational drawback has been addressed by generating in the latent space of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 François Rozet , Ruben Ohana , Michael McCabe , Gilles Louppe , François Lanusse , Shirley Ho

Diffusion transformers (DiT) have become the de facto choice for generating high-quality images and videos, largely due to their scalability, which enables the construction of larger models for enhanced performance. However, the increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Pratheba Selvaraju , Tianyu Ding , Tianyi Chen , Ilya Zharkov , Luming Liang

AI-generated content has attracted lots of attention recently, but photo-realistic video synthesis is still challenging. Although many attempts using GANs and autoregressive models have been made in this area, the visual quality and length…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yingqing He , Tianyu Yang , Yong Zhang , Ying Shan , Qifeng Chen

Training diffusion models is always a computation-intensive task. In this paper, we introduce a novel speed-up method for diffusion model training, called, which is based on a closer look at time steps. Our key findings are: i) Time steps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kai Wang , Mingjia Shi , Yukun Zhou , Zekai Li , Zhihang Yuan , Yuzhang Shang , Xiaojiang Peng , Hanwang Zhang , Yang You

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

Diffusion models represent a powerful family of generative models widely used for image and video generation. However, the time-consuming deployment, long inference time, and requirements on large memory hinder their applications on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kafeng Wang , Jianfei Chen , He Li , Zhenpeng Mi , Jun Zhu

The rapid development of generative diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of style transfer. However, most current style transfer methods based on diffusion models typically involve a slow iterative optimization process,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Feihong He , Gang Li , Fuhui Sun , Mengyuan Zhang , Lingyu Si , Xiaoyan Wang , Li Shen

Diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs), despite their promising performance, still suffer from inferior inference efficiency. This is because dLLMs rely on bidirectional attention and cannot directly benefit from the standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuchu Jiang , Yue Cai , Xiangzhong Luo , Jiale Fu , Jiarui Wang , Chonghan Liu , Xu Yang

Diffusion-based generative image compression has demonstrated remarkable potential for achieving realistic reconstruction at ultra-low bitrates. The key to unlocking this potential lies in making the entire compression process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xihua Sheng , Lingyu Zhu , Tianyu Zhang , Dong Liu , Shiqi Wang , Jing Wang

Diffusion Models have achieved remarkable results in video synthesis but require iterative denoising steps, leading to substantial computational overhead. Consistency Models have made significant progress in accelerating diffusion models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zhengyao Lv , Chenyang Si , Tianlin Pan , Zhaoxi Chen , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

Generative models have demonstrated strong performance in conditional settings and can be viewed as a form of data compression, where the condition serves as a compact representation. However, their limited controllability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xiao Li , Liangji Zhu , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

In this paper, we present Diffusion-4K, a novel framework for direct ultra-high-resolution image synthesis using text-to-image diffusion models. The core advancements include: (1) Aesthetic-4K Benchmark: addressing the absence of a publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jinjin Zhang , Qiuyu Huang , Junjie Liu , Xiefan Guo , Di Huang

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

Diffusion and rectified flow (RF) models generate high-fidelity images and videos, but their iterative velocity-field evaluations are computationally expensive. Existing caching methods accelerate sampling by skipping timesteps, yet their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiao Liu , Kai Liu , Naiyang Guan , Hongliang Lu , Zhixin Wang , Zhikai Chen , Renjing Pei , Yulun Zhang

Diffusion-based image compression methods have achieved notable progress, delivering high perceptual quality at low bitrates. However, their practical deployment is hindered by significant inference latency and heavy computational overhead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiwen Jia , Hao Wei , Yanhui Zhou , Chenyang Ge

Instead of performing text-conditioned denoising in the image domain, latent diffusion models (LDMs) operate in latent space of a variational autoencoder (VAE), enabling more efficient processing at reduced computational costs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jason Becker , Chris Wendler , Peter Baylies , Robert West , Christian Wressnegger

Diffusion transformers (DiT) have demonstrated exceptional performance in video generation. However, their large number of parameters and high computational complexity limit their deployment on edge devices. Quantization can reduce storage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Weilun Feng , Chuanguang Yang , Haotong Qin , Xiangqi Li , Yu Wang , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Boyu Diao , Zixiang Zhao , Yongjun Xu , Michele Magno

Real-time world simulation is becoming a key infrastructure for scalable evaluation and online reinforcement learning of autonomous driving systems. Recent driving world models built on autoregressive video diffusion achieve high-fidelity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yixiao Zeng , Jianlei Zheng , Chaoda Zheng , Shijia Chen , Mingdian Liu , Tongping Liu , Tengwei Luo , Yu Zhang , Boyang Wang , Linkun Xu , Siyuan Lu , Bo Tian , Xianming Liu