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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

Vision Transformers achieved outstanding performance in many computer vision tasks. Early Vision Transformers such as ViT and DeiT adopt global self-attention, which is computationally expensive when the number of patches is large. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Tan Yu , Gangming Zhao , Ping Li , Yizhou Yu

Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models are becoming increasingly popular in solving the Real-World Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR) problem because of their rich generative priors. The recent development of diffusion transformer (DiT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei Zhang , Xin Jin , Ziheng Zhang , Zheng Xiong , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy S. Ren , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

Recently, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have attracted a lot of attention in the field of computer vision. Generally, the powerful representative capacity of ViTs mainly benefits from the self-attention mechanism, which has a high computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Deli Yu , Teng Xi , Jianwei Li , Baopu Li , Gang Zhang , Haocheng Feng , Junyu Han , Jingtuo Liu , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Diffusion models are widely recognized for generating high-quality and diverse images, but their poor real-time performance has led to numerous acceleration works, primarily focusing on UNet-based structures. With the more successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Pengtao Chen , Mingzhu Shen , Peng Ye , Jianjian Cao , Chongjun Tu , Christos-Savvas Bouganis , Yiren Zhao , Tao Chen

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 Transformers (DiTs) introduce the transformer architecture to diffusion tasks for latent-space image generation. With an isotropic architecture that chains a series of transformer blocks, DiTs demonstrate competitive performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuchuan Tian , Zhijun Tu , Hanting Chen , Jie Hu , Chao Xu , Yunhe Wang

We introduce a diffusion-transformer (DiT) framework for single-image reflection removal that leverages the generalization strengths of foundation diffusion models in the restoration setting. Rather than relying on task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Daniyar Zakarin , Thiemo Wandel , Anton Obukhov , Dengxin Dai

Transformer architectures, particularly Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), have become widely used in diffusion and flow-matching models due to their strong performance compared to convolutional UNets. However, the isotropic design of DiTs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Quan Dao , Dimitris Metaxas

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art backbone for high-fidelity image and video generation. However, their massive computational cost and memory footprint hinder deployment on edge devices. While post-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shaoqiu Zhang , Zizhong Ding , Kaicheng Yang , Junyi Wu , Xianglong Yan , Xi Li , Bingnan Duan , Jianping Fang , Yulun Zhang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) set the state of the art in visual generation, yet their quadratic self-attention cost fundamentally limits scaling to long token sequences. Recent Top-K sparse attention approaches reduce the computation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yifan Zhou , Zeqi Xiao , Tianyi Wei , Shuai Yang , Xingang Pan

Transformer-based LLMs have achieved exceptional performance across a wide range of NLP tasks. However, the standard self-attention mechanism suffers from quadratic time complexity and linearly increased cache size. Sliding window attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yixing Xu , Shivank Nag , Dong Li , Lu Tian , Emad Barsoum

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Vignesh Sundaresha

Transformers have become one of the dominant architectures in deep learning, particularly as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. However, Transformer training and inference in previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zizheng Pan , Bohan Zhuang , Haoyu He , Jing Liu , Jianfei Cai

To address the high resolution of image pixels, the Swin Transformer introduces window attention. This mechanism divides an image into non-overlapping windows and restricts attention computation to within each window, significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Zhendong Zhang

The recent introduction of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) has demonstrated exceptional capabilities in image generation by using a different backbone architecture, departing from traditional U-Nets and embracing the scalable nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Junyi Wu , Haoxuan Wang , Yuzhang Shang , Mubarak Shah , Yan Yan

Attention-based models, exemplified by the Transformer, can effectively model long range dependency, but suffer from the quadratic complexity of self-attention operation, making them difficult to be adopted for high-resolution image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Long Zhao , Zizhao Zhang , Ting Chen , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Han Zhang

Diffusion models have become leading approaches for high-fidelity image generation. Recent DiT-based diffusion models, in particular, achieve strong prompt adherence while producing high-quality samples. We propose SHIFT, a simple but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Nina Konovalova , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have gained increasing adoption in high-quality image and video generation. As demand for higher-resolution images and longer videos increases, single-GPU inference becomes inefficient due to increased latency…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiacheng Yang , Jun Wu , Yaoyao Ding , Zhiying Xu , Yida Wang , Gennady Pekhimenko

To manage the complexity of transformers in video compression, local attention mechanisms are a practical necessity. The common approach of partitioning frames into patches, however, creates architectural flaws like irregular receptive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Alexander Kopte , André Kaup