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Despite the promise of synthesizing high-fidelity videos, Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) with 3D full attention suffer from expensive inference due to the complexity of attention computation and numerous sampling steps. For example, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hangliang Ding , Dacheng Li , Runlong Su , Peiyuan Zhang , Zhijie Deng , Ion Stoica , Hao Zhang

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become the de-facto model for generating high-quality visual content like videos and images. A huge bottleneck is the attention mechanism where complexity scales quadratically with resolution and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ruichen Chen , Keith G. Mills , Liyao Jiang , Chao Gao , Di Niu

While Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved breakthroughs in video generation, this long sequence generation task remains constrained by the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms, resulting in significant inference latency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Pengtao Chen , Xianfang Zeng , Maosen Zhao , Peng Ye , Mingzhu Shen , Wei Cheng , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

Transformers have shown superior performance on various vision tasks. Their large receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power than their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply enlarging the receptive field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) deliver remarkable image and video generation quality but incur high computational cost, limiting scalability and on-device deployment. We introduce CoReDiT, a structured token pruning framework for DiTs across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zhuojin Li , Hsin-Pai Cheng , Hong Cai , Shizhong Han , Fatih Porikli

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have recently improved video generation quality. However, their heavy computational cost makes real-time or on-device generation infeasible. In this work, we introduce S2DiT, a Streaming Sandwich Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Lin Zhao , Yushu Wu , Aleksei Lebedev , Dishani Lahiri , Meng Dong , Arpit Sahni , Michael Vasilkovsky , Hao Chen , Ju Hu , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Sergey Tulyakov , Yanzhi Wang , Anil Kag , Yanyu Li

Recent work studying the generalization of diffusion models with UNet-based denoisers reveals inductive biases that can be expressed via geometry-adaptive harmonic bases. However, in practice, more recent denoising networks are often based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Jie An , De Wang , Pengsheng Guo , Jiebo Luo , Alexander Schwing

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities but remain highly computationally expensive. Previous acceleration methods, such as pruning and distillation, typically rely on a fixed computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jiangshan Wang , Zeqiang Lai , Jiarui Chen , Jiayi Guo , Hang Guo , Xiu Li , Xiangyu Yue , Chunchao Guo

As a de facto solution, the vanilla Vision Transformers (ViTs) are encouraged to model long-range dependencies between arbitrary image patches while the global attended receptive field leads to quadratic computational cost. Another branch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Jiayu Jiao , Yu-Ming Tang , Kun-Yu Lin , Yipeng Gao , Jinhua Ma , Yaowei Wang , Wei-Shi Zheng

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a powerful architecture for image and video generation, offering superior quality and scalability. However, their practical application suffers from inherent dynamic feature instability, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guanjie Chen , Xinyu Zhao , Yucheng Zhou , Xiaoye Qu , Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng

Video diffusion Transformer (DiT) models excel in generative quality but hit major computational bottlenecks when producing high-resolution, long-duration videos. The quadratic complexity of full attention leads to prohibitively high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Chenlu Zhan , Wen Li , Chuyu Shen , Jun Zhang , Suhui Wu , Hao Zhang

Recent advancements in diffusion models, particularly the architectural transformation from UNet-based models to Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), significantly improve the quality and scalability of image and video generation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lei Chen , Yuan Meng , Chen Tang , Xinzhu Ma , Jingyan Jiang , Xin Wang , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

In recent developments, the Mamba architecture, known for its selective state space approach, has shown potential in the efficient modeling of long sequences. However, its application in image generation remains underexplored. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Shentong Mo , Yapeng Tian

Scaling video diffusion transformers (DiTs) is limited by their quadratic 3D attention, even though most of the attention mass concentrates on a small subset of positions. We turn this observation into VSA, a trainable, hardware-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Peiyuan Zhang , Yongqi Chen , Haofeng Huang , Will Lin , Zhengzhong Liu , Ion Stoica , Eric Xing , Hao Zhang

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

While the diffusion transformer (DiT) has become a focal point of interest in recent years, its application in low-light image enhancement remains a blank area for exploration. Current methods recover the details from low-light images while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Xiangchen Yin , Zhenda Yu , Longtao Jiang , Xin Gao , Xiao Sun , Zhi Liu , Xun Yang

Diffusion transformers (DiTs) struggle to generate images at resolutions higher than their training resolutions. The primary obstacle is that the explicit positional encodings(PE), such as RoPE, need extrapolating to unseen positions which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Shen Zhang , Siyuan Liang , Yaning Tan , Zhaowei Chen , Linze Li , Ge Wu , Yuhao Chen , Shuheng Li , Zhenyu Zhao , Caihua Chen , Jiajun Liang , Yao Tang

Prior works have proposed several strategies to reduce the computational cost of self-attention mechanism. Many of these works consider decomposing the self-attention procedure into regional and local feature extraction procedures that each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Ting Yao , Yehao Li , Yingwei Pan , Yu Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Tao Mei

Diffusion-based methods demonstrate significant potential for remote sensing image super-resolution at large scaling factors, particularly in reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) where high-resolution reference images provide critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Bin Luo , Runmin Dong , Zhaoyang Luo , Jinxiao Zhang , Jiyao Zhao , Fan Wei , Haohuan Fu

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become a leading architecture in image generation. However, the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms, which are responsible for modeling token-wise relationships, results in significant latency when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Songhua Liu , Zhenxiong Tan , Xinchao Wang