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Diffusion Transformer(DiT)-based generation models have achieved remarkable success in video generation. However, their inherent computational demands pose significant efficiency challenges. In this paper, we exploit the inherent temporal…

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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

Sparse-Linear Attention (SLA) combines sparse and linear attention to accelerate diffusion models and has shown strong performance in video generation. However, (i) SLA relies on a heuristic split that assigns computations to the sparse or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jintao Zhang , Haoxu Wang , Kai Jiang , Kaiwen Zheng , Youhe Jiang , Ion Stoica , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu , Joseph E. Gonzalez

In this paper, we investigate how to convert a pre-trained Diffusion Transformer (DiT) into a linear DiT, as its simplicity, parallelism, and efficiency for image generation. Through detailed exploration, we offer a suite of ready-to-use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiahao Wang , Ning Kang , Lewei Yao , Mengzhao Chen , Chengyue Wu , Songyang Zhang , Shuchen Xue , Yong Liu , Taiqiang Wu , Xihui Liu , Kaipeng Zhang , Shifeng Zhang , Wenqi Shao , Zhenguo Li , Ping Luo

Recent diffusion-based generators can produce high-quality images from textual prompts. However, they often disregard textual instructions that specify the spatial layout of the composition. We propose a simple approach that achieves robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Minghao Chen , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi

Recent breakthroughs in 3D generative modeling have yielded remarkable progress in static shape synthesis, yet high-fidelity dynamic 4D generation remains elusive, hindered by temporal artifacts and prohibitive computational demand. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Minghao Yin , Wenbo Hu , Jiale Xu , Ying Shan , Kai Han

Training of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) on a video dataset is a challenge because of the sheer size of the dataset and the complexity of each observation. In general, the computational cost of training GAN scales exponentially with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Masaki Saito , Shunta Saito , Masanori Koyama , Sosuke Kobayashi

The Transformer architecture has revolutionized deep learning, delivering the state-of-the-art performance in areas such as natural language processing, computer vision, and time series prediction. However, its core component,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Haolin Jin , Mengbai Xiao , Yuan Yuan , Xiao Zhang , Dongxiao Yu , Guanghui Zhang , Haoliang Wang

Recent diffusion models enable high-quality video generation, but suffer from slow runtimes. The large transformer-based backbones used in these models are bottlenecked by spatiotemporal attention. In this paper, we identify that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shai Yehezkel , Shahar Yadin , Noam Elata , Yaron Ostrovsky-Berman , Bahjat Kawar

Video diffusion models have recently enabled high-quality video generation with ViT-based architectures, but remain computationally intensive because generation requires attention computation over long spatiotemporal sequences. Token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sheng Li , Yang Sui , Junhao Ran , Bo Yuan , Yue Dai , Xulong Tang

The computational demands of self-attention mechanisms pose a critical challenge for transformer-based video generation, particularly in synthesizing ultra-long sequences. Current approaches, such as factorized attention and fixed sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Qirui Li , Guangcong Zheng , Qi Zhao , Jie Li , Bin Dong , Yiwu Yao , Xi Li

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) are essential for video generation but suffer from significant latency due to the quadratic complexity of attention. By computing only critical tokens, sparse attention reduces computational costs and offers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shuo Yang , Haocheng Xi , Yilong Zhao , Muyang Li , Jintao Zhang , Han Cai , Yujun Lin , Xiuyu Li , Chenfeng Xu , Jianfei Chen , Song Han , Kurt Keutzer , Ion Stoica

Generating high-fidelity long videos with Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) is often hindered by significant latency, primarily due to the computational demands of attention mechanisms. For instance, generating an 8-second 720p video (110K…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yifei Xia , Suhan Ling , Fangcheng Fu , Yujie Wang , Huixia Li , Xuefeng Xiao , Bin Cui

We propose a new family of efficient and expressive deep generative models of graphs, called Graph Recurrent Attention Networks (GRANs). Our model generates graphs one block of nodes and associated edges at a time. The block size and…

Video diffusion transformers have achieved remarkable progress in high-quality video generation, but remain computationally expensive due to the quadratic complexity of attention over high-dimensional video sequences. Recent acceleration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wenhao Sun , Rong-Cheng Tu , Yifu Ding , Zhao Jin , Jingyi Liao , Shunyu Liu , Dacheng Tao

Autoregressive models excel in efficiency and plug directly into the transformer ecosystem, delivering robust generalization, predictable scalability, and seamless workflows such as fine-tuning and parallelized training. However, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Samuel Belkadi , Steve Hong , Marian Chen , Miruna Cretu , Charles Harris , Pietro Lio

We present Generalizable NeRF Transformer (GNT), a transformer-based architecture that reconstructs Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and learns to renders novel views on the fly from source views. While prior works on NeRFs optimize a scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Mukund Varma T , Peihao Wang , Xuxi Chen , Tianlong Chen , Subhashini Venugopalan , Zhangyang Wang

In video and image generation tasks, Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models incur extremely high computational costs due to attention mechanisms, which limits their practical applications. Furthermore, with hardware advancements, a wide range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aiyue Chen , Yaofu Liu , Junjian Huang , Guang Lian , Yiwu Yao , Wangli Lan , Jing Lin , Zhixin Ma , Tingting Zhou

As training billion-scale transformers becomes increasingly common, employing multiple distributed GPUs along with parallel training methods has become a standard practice. However, existing transformer designs suffer from significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gyudong Kim , Hyukju Na , Jin Hyeon Kim , Hyunsung Jang , Jaemin Park , Jaegi Hwang , Namkoo Ha , Seungryong Kim , Young Geun Kim

Transformer-based models have emerged as a leading architecture for natural language processing, natural language generation, and image generation tasks. A fundamental element of the transformer architecture is self-attention, which allows…

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