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Diffusion models have significantly advanced video super-resolution (VSR) by enhancing perceptual quality, largely through elaborately designed temporal modeling to ensure inter-frame consistency. However, existing methods usually suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xijun Wang , Xin Li , Bingchen Li , Zhibo Chen

Do video-text transformers learn to model temporal relationships across frames? Despite their immense capacity and the abundance of multimodal training data, recent work has revealed the strong tendency of video-text models towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yi Li , Kyle Min , Subarna Tripathi , Nuno Vasconcelos

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

Long video generation with Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) is bottlenecked by the quadratic scaling of full attention with sequence length. Since attention is highly redundant, outputs are dominated by a small subset of query-key pairs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Weinan Jia , Yuning Lu , Mengqi Huang , Hualiang Wang , Binyuan Huang , Nan Chen , Mu Liu , Jidong Jiang , Zhendong Mao

Transformers have demonstrated a competitive performance across a wide range of vision tasks, while it is very expensive to compute the global self-attention. Many methods limit the range of attention within a local window to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zhenzhe Hechen , Wei Huang , Yixin Zhao

Scaling Diffusion Transformer (DiT) inference via sequence parallelism is critical for reducing latency in visual generation, but is severely hampered by workload imbalance when applied to models employing block-wise sparse attention. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Siqi Chen , Ke Hong , Tianchen Zhao , Ruiqi Xie , Zhenhua Zhu , Xudong Zhang , Yu Wang

Vision Transformers (ViT) are current high-performance models of choice for various vision applications. Recent developments have given rise to biologically inspired spiking transformers that thrive in ultra-low power operations on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Boxun Xu , Hejia Geng , Yuxuan Yin , Peng Li

In recent years, the development of diffusion models has led to significant progress in image and video generation tasks, with pre-trained models like the Stable Diffusion series playing a crucial role. Inspired by model pruning which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Teng Hu , Jiangning Zhang , Ran Yi , Hongrui Huang , Yabiao Wang , Lizhuang Ma

Attention serves as the fundamental mechanism for long-context modeling in large language models (LLMs), yet dense attention becomes structurally prohibitive for long sequences due to its quadratic complexity. Consequently, sparse attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Junxiang Qiu , Shuo Wang , Zhengsu Chen , Hengheng Zhang , Jinda Lu , Changcheng Li , Qi Tian

We empirically study the scaling properties of various Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for text-to-image generation by performing extensive and rigorous ablations, including training scaled DiTs ranging from 0.3B upto 8B parameters on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hao Li , Shamit Lal , Zhiheng Li , Yusheng Xie , Ying Wang , Yang Zou , Orchid Majumder , R. Manmatha , Zhuowen Tu , Stefano Ermon , Stefano Soatto , Ashwin Swaminathan

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

While Transformer networks benefit from a global receptive field, their quadratic cost relative to sequence length restricts their application to long sequences and high-resolution inputs. We introduce Fast Multipole Attention (FMA), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yanming Kang , Giang Tran , Hans De Sterck

Transformers have become the foundation of numerous state-of-the-art AI models across diverse domains, thanks to their powerful attention mechanism for modeling long-range dependencies. However, the quadratic scaling complexity of attention…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Zhenkun Fan , Zishen Wan , Che-Kai Liu , Ashwin Sanjay Lele , Win-San Khwa , Bo Zhang , Meng-Fan Chang , Arijit Raychowdhury

Despite the significant advancements made by Diffusion Transformer (DiT)-based methods in video generation, there remains a notable gap with controllable camera pose perspectives. Existing works such as OpenSora do NOT adhere precisely to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yuelei Wang , Jian Zhang , Pengtao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li

Diffusion transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a dominant architecture for text-to-image generation, yet their performance drops when generating at resolutions beyond their training range. Existing training-free approaches mitigate this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Javad Rajabi , Kimia Shaban , Koorosh Roohi , David B. Lindell , Babak Taati

Diffusion models have recently shown promising results for video super-resolution (VSR). However, directly adapting generative diffusion models to VSR can result in redundancy, since low-quality videos already preserve substantial content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jinpei Guo , Yifei Ji , Shengwei Wang , Zheng Chen , Yufei Wang , Sizhuo Ma , Yong Guo , Baiang Li , Jusheng Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Jian Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel token selective attention approach, ToSA, which can identify tokens that need to be attended as well as those that can skip a transformer layer. More specifically, a token selector parses the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Manish Kumar Singh , Rajeev Yasarla , Hong Cai , Mingu Lee , Fatih Porikli

Vision transformer has achieved impressive performance for many vision tasks. However, it may suffer from high redundancy in capturing local features for shallow layers. Local self-attention or early-stage convolutions are thus utilized,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Huaibo Huang , Xiaoqiang Zhou , Jie Cao , Ran He , Tieniu Tan

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently obtained success in many applications, but their intensive computation and heavy memory usage at both training and inference time limit their generalization. Previous compression algorithms usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Zhenglun Kong , Haoyu Ma , Geng Yuan , Mengshu Sun , Yanyue Xie , Peiyan Dong , Xin Meng , Xuan Shen , Hao Tang , Minghai Qin , Tianlong Chen , Xiaolong Ma , Xiaohui Xie , Zhangyang Wang , Yanzhi Wang

The transformer is a fundamental building block in deep learning, and the attention mechanism is the transformer's core component. Self-supervised speech representation learning (SSRL) represents a popular use-case for the transformer…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jianbo Ma , Siqi Pan , Deepak Chandran , Andrea Fanelli , Richard Cartwright