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The deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) faces a critical bottleneck when handling lengthy inputs: the prohibitive memory footprint of the Key Value (KV) cache. To address this bottleneck, the token pruning paradigm leverages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yifei Wang , Yueqi Wang , Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Yong Wang , Ismini Lourentzou , Zhengzhong Tu , Xiangxiang Chu , Julian McAuley

We propose Low-Rank Sparse Attention (Lorsa), a sparse replacement model of Transformer attention layers to disentangle original Multi Head Self Attention (MHSA) into individually comprehensible components. Lorsa is designed to address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zhengfu He , Junxuan Wang , Rui Lin , Xuyang Ge , Wentao Shu , Qiong Tang , Junping Zhang , Xipeng Qiu

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective approach for self-supervised video object segmentation (VOS). Our key insight is that the inherent structural dependencies present in DINO-pretrained Transformers can be leveraged to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Shuangrui Ding , Rui Qian , Haohang Xu , Dahua Lin , Hongkai Xiong

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently gained attention with state-of-the-art performance in text-to-image synthesis. Abiding by the tradition in deep learning, DMs are trained and evaluated on the images with fixed sizes. However, users are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zhiyu Jin , Xuli Shen , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Transformer has demonstrated promising performance in many 2D vision tasks. However, it is cumbersome to compute the self-attention on large-scale point cloud data because point cloud is a long sequence and unevenly distributed in 3D space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Chenhang He , Ruihuang Li , Shuai Li , Lei Zhang

In recent years, the long-range attention mechanism of vision transformers has driven significant performance breakthroughs across various computer vision tasks. However, the traditional self-attention mechanism, which processes both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Tianyi Zhang , Baoxin Li , Jae-sun Seo , Yu Cao

Attention is a core component of transformer architecture, whether encoder-only, decoder-only, or encoder-decoder model. However, the standard softmax attention often produces noisy probability distribution, which can impair effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dhananjay Ram , Wei Xia , Stefano Soatto

We present a motion-adaptive temporal attention mechanism for parameter-efficient video generation built upon frozen Stable Diffusion models. Rather than treating all video content uniformly, our method dynamically adjusts temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Rui Hong , Shuxue Quan

This paper tackles the problem of efficient video recognition. In this area, video transformers have recently dominated the efficiency (top-1 accuracy vs FLOPs) spectrum. At the same time, there have been some attempts in the image domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Recently, it has been argued that encoder-decoder models can be made more interpretable by replacing the softmax function in the attention with its sparse variants. In this work, we introduce a novel, simple method for achieving sparsity in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Biao Zhang , Ivan Titov , Rico Sennrich

Recent advances in training-free video editing have enabled lightweight and precise cross-frame generation by leveraging pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models. However, existing methods often rely on heuristic frame selection to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhangkai Wu , Xuhui Fan , Zhongyuan Xie , Kaize Shi , Longbing Cao

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…

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Generating high-resolution 3D shapes using volumetric representations such as Signed Distance Functions (SDFs) presents substantial computational and memory challenges. We introduce Direct3D-S2, a scalable 3D generation framework based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Shuang Wu , Youtian Lin , Feihu Zhang , Yifei Zeng , Yikang Yang , Yajie Bao , Jiachen Qian , Siyu Zhu , Xun Cao , Philip Torr , Yao Yao

Diffusion Transformers achieve strong video generation quality, but the quadratic cost of full attention limits efficiency. We introduce OSP-Next, an efficient text-to-video generation model that integrates sparse attention, parallelism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yunyang Ge , Xianyi He , Zezhong Zhang , Bin Lin , Bin Zhu , Xinhua Cheng , Li Yuan

We introduce TurboDiffusion, a video generation acceleration framework that can speed up end-to-end diffusion generation by 100-200x while maintaining video quality. TurboDiffusion mainly relies on several components for acceleration: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jintao Zhang , Kaiwen Zheng , Kai Jiang , Haoxu Wang , Ion Stoica , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu

Line detection is a basic digital image processing operation used by higher-level processing methods. Recently, transformer-based methods for line detection have proven to be more accurate than methods based on CNNs, at the expense of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Sebastian Janampa , Marios Pattichis

Recent works in self-supervised learning have shown impressive results on single-object images, but they struggle to perform well on complex multi-object images as evidenced by their poor visual grounding. To demonstrate this concretely, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Aishwarya Agarwal , Srikrishna Karanam , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan

Self-attention has recently been adopted for a wide range of sequence modeling problems. Despite its effectiveness, self-attention suffers from quadratic compute and memory requirements with respect to sequence length. Successful approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Aurko Roy , Mohammad Saffar , Ashish Vaswani , David Grangier

Real-time video generation with Diffusion Transformers is bottlenecked by the quadratic cost of 3D self-attention, especially in real-time regimes that are both few-step and autoregressive, where errors compound across time and each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Krish Agarwal , Zhuoming Chen , Cheng Luo , Yongqi Chen , Haizhong Zheng , Xun Huang , Atri Rudra , Beidi Chen

State-of-the-art sparse attention methods for reducing decoding latency fall into two main categories: approximate top-$k$ (and its extension, top-$p$) and recently introduced sampling-based estimation. However, these approaches are…