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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 Transformers (DiTs) have proven effective in generating high-quality videos but are hindered by high computational costs. Existing video DiT sampling acceleration methods often rely on costly fine-tuning or exhibit limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Wenhao Sun , Rong-Cheng Tu , Jingyi Liao , Zhao Jin , Dacheng Tao

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in text-to-image synthesis but remain computationally expensive due to the iterative nature of denoising and the quadratic cost of global attention. In this work, we observe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bowen Lin , Fanjiang Ye , Yihua Liu , Zhenghui Guo , Boyuan Zhang , Weijian Zheng , Yufan Xu , Tiancheng Xing , Yuke Wang , Chengming Zhang

Diffusion transformer-based video generation models (DiTs) have recently attracted widespread attention for their excellent generation quality. However, their computational cost remains a major bottleneck-attention alone accounts for over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xuan Shen , Chenxia Han , Yufa Zhou , Yanyue Xie , Yifan Gong , Quanyi Wang , Yiwei Wang , Yanzhi Wang , Pu Zhao , Jiuxiang Gu

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

This paper presents PipeFusion, an innovative parallel methodology to tackle the high latency issues associated with generating high-resolution images using diffusion transformers (DiTs) models. PipeFusion partitions images into patches and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jiarui Fang , Jinzhe Pan , Aoyu Li , Xibo Sun , Jiannan Wang

Diffusion models achieve superior performance in image generation tasks. However, it incurs significant computation overheads due to its iterative structure. To address these overheads, we analyze this iterative structure and observe that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Sungbin Kim , Hyunwuk Lee , Wonho Cho , Mincheol Park , Won Woo Ro

Transformer-based diffusion models, dubbed Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), have achieved state-of-the-art performance in image and video generation tasks. However, their large model size and slow inference speed limit their practical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Xinyan Liu , Huihong Shi , Yang Xu , Zhongfeng Wang

Diffusion models are the go-to method for Text-to-Image generation, but their iterative denoising processes has high inference latency. Quantization reduces compute time by using lower bitwidths, but applies a fixed precision across all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Basile Lewandowski , Simon Kurz , Aditya Shankar , Robert Birke , Jian-Jia Chen , Lydia Y. Chen

Diffusion Transformer (DiT) is a crucial method for content generation. However, it needs a lot of time to sample. Many studies have attempted to use caching to reduce the time consumption of sampling. Existing caching methods accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Junxiang Qiu , Shuo Wang , Jinda Lu , Lin Liu , Houcheng Jiang , Xingyu Zhu , Yanbin Hao

Discrete cosine transform (DCT) and other Fourier-related transforms have broad applications in scientific computing. However, off-the-shelf high-performance multi-dimensional DCT (MD DCT) libraries are not readily available in parallel…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Zixuan Jiang , Jiaqi Gu , David Z. Pan

To accelerate the inference of deep neural networks (DNNs), quantization with low-bitwidth numbers is actively researched. A prominent challenge is to quantize the DNN models into low-bitwidth numbers without significant accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Jiajun Zhou , Jiajun Wu , Yizhao Gao , Yuhao Ding , Chaofan Tao , Boyu Li , Fengbin Tu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hayden Kwok-Hay So , Ngai Wong

Vision Transformers (ViTs) leverage the transformer architecture to effectively capture global context, demonstrating strong performance in computer vision tasks. A major challenge in ViT hardware acceleration is that the model family…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Can Xiao , Jianyi Cheng , Aaron Zhao

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in image generation in recent years. However, due to a quadratic increase in memory during generating ultra-high-resolution images (e.g. 4096*4096), the resolution of generated images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Zhuoyi Yang , Heyang Jiang , Wenyi Hong , Jiayan Teng , Wendi Zheng , Yuxiao Dong , Ming Ding , Jie Tang

In this work, we empirically study Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for text-to-image generation, focusing on architectural choices, text-conditioning strategies, and training protocols. We evaluate a range of DiT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chen Chen , Rui Qian , Wenze Hu , Tsu-Jui Fu , Jialing Tong , Xinze Wang , Lezhi Li , Bowen Zhang , Alex Schwing , Wei Liu , Yinfei Yang

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 Transformers (DiT) have emerged as powerful generative models for various tasks, including image, video, and speech synthesis. However, their inference process remains computationally expensive due to the repeated evaluation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Joseph Liu , Joshua Geddes , Ziyu Guo , Haomiao Jiang , Mahesh Kumar Nandwana

The Text-to-Video (T2V) model aims to generate dynamic and expressive videos from textual prompts. The generation pipeline typically involves multiple modules, such as language encoder, Diffusion Transformer (DiT), and Variational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Heyang Huang , Cunchen Hu , Jiaqi Zhu , Ziyuan Gao , Liangliang Xu , Yizhou Shan , Yungang Bao , Sun Ninghui , Tianwei Zhang , Sa Wang

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…

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) are renowned for their impressive generative performance; however, they are significantly constrained by considerable computational costs due to the quadratic complexity in self-attention and the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Yi Yang