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Diffusion models have emerged as dominant performers for image generation. To support training large diffusion models, this paper studies pipeline parallel training of diffusion models and proposes DiffusionPipe, a synchronous pipeline…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ye Tian , Zhen Jia , Ziyue Luo , Yida Wang , Chuan Wu

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

Text-to-image diffusion models generate highly detailed textures, yet they often rely on surface appearance and fail to follow strict geometric constraints, particularly when those constraints conflict with the style implied by the text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Antara Titikhsha , Om Kulkarni , Dharun Muthaiah

Diffusion models demonstrate outstanding performance in image generation, but their multi-step inference mechanism requires immense computational cost. Previous works accelerate inference by leveraging layer or token cache techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haowei Zhu , Ji Liu , Ziqiong Liu , Dong Li , Junhai Yong , Bin Wang , Emad Barsoum

In this paper, we address the performance degradation of efficient diffusion models by introducing Multi-architecturE Multi-Expert diffusion models (MEME). We identify the need for tailored operations at different time-steps in diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yunsung Lee , Jin-Young Kim , Hyojun Go , Myeongho Jeong , Shinhyeok Oh , Seungtaek Choi

The practical usage of reinforcement learning agents is often bottlenecked by the duration of training time. To accelerate training, practitioners often turn to distributed reinforcement learning architectures to parallelize and accelerate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Michael Luo , Jiahao Yao , Richard Liaw , Eric Liang , Ion Stoica

Image fusion seeks to integrate complementary information from multiple sources into a single, superior image. While traditional methods are fast, they lack adaptability and performance. Conversely, deep learning approaches achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Ran Zhang , Xuanhua He , Liu Liu

Prevailing Dataset Distillation (DD) methods leveraging generative models confront two fundamental limitations. First, despite pioneering the use of diffusion models in DD and delivering impressive performance, the vast majority of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Letian Zhou , Songhua Liu , Xinchao Wang

There is an urgent need to apply face alignment in a memory-efficient and real-time manner due to the recent explosion of face recognition applications. However, impact factors such as large pose variation and computational inefficiency,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Bin Sun , Ming Shao , Siyu Xia , Yun Fu

This paper introduces DrDiff, a novel framework for long-text generation that overcomes the efficiency-quality trade-off through three core technologies. First, we design a dynamic expert scheduling mechanism that intelligently allocates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jusheng Zhang , Yijia Fan , Kaitong Cai , Zimeng Huang , Xiaofei Sun , Jian Wang , Chengpei Tang , Keze Wang

Fast weight architectures offer a promising alternative to attention-based transformers for long-context modeling by maintaining constant memory overhead regardless of context length. However, their potential is limited by the next-token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Hee Seung Hwang , Xindi Wu , Sanghyuk Chun , Olga Russakovsky

Diffusion models have significantly reshaped the field of generative artificial intelligence and are now increasingly explored for their capacity in discriminative representation learning. Diffusion Transformer (DiT) has recently gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Changyu Liu , James Chenhao Liang , Wenhao Yang , Yiming Cui , Jinghao Yang , Tianyang Wang , Qifan Wang , Dongfang Liu , Cheng Han

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in generating high-fidelity images but typically suffer from inefficient sampling. Many solver designs and noise scheduling strategies have been proposed to dramatically improve…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-01 Tianrong Chen , Huangjie Zheng , David Berthelot , Jiatao Gu , Josh Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Diffusion models are powerful, but they require a lot of time and data to train. We propose Patch Diffusion, a generic patch-wise training framework, to significantly reduce the training time costs while improving data efficiency, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhendong Wang , Yifan Jiang , Huangjie Zheng , Peihao Wang , Pengcheng He , Zhangyang Wang , Weizhu Chen , Mingyuan Zhou

Recent progress in diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of human image animation. While existing methods can generate temporally consistent results for short or regular motions, significant challenges remain, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Shen Zheng , Jiaran Cai , Yuansheng Guan , Shenneng Huang , Xingpei Ma , Junjie Cao , Hanfeng Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Shunsi Zhang , Xiao-Ping Zhang

We explore the role of attention mechanism during inference in text-conditional diffusion models. Empirical observations suggest that cross-attention outputs converge to a fixed point after several inference steps. The convergence time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Haozhe Liu , Wentian Zhang , Jinheng Xie , Francesco Faccio , Mengmeng Xu , Tao Xiang , Mike Zheng Shou , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Jürgen Schmidhuber

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) excel at generation, but their global self-attention makes controllable, reference-image-based editing a distinct challenge. Unlike U-Nets, naively injecting local appearance into a DiT can disrupt its holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengrong Gu , Ye Wang , Song Wu , Rui Ma , Qian Wang , Lanjun Wang , Zili Yi

Diffusion models have significantly advanced the field of talking head generation (THG). However, slow inference speeds and prevalent non-autoregressive paradigms severely constrain the application of diffusion-based THG models. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Haotian Wang , Yuzhe Weng , Jun Du , Haoran Xu , Xiaoyan Wu , Shan He , Bing Yin , Cong Liu , Qingfeng Liu

We present TALE, a novel training-free framework harnessing the generative capabilities of text-to-image diffusion models to address the cross-domain image composition task that focuses on flawlessly incorporating user-specified objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Kien T. Pham , Jingye Chen , Qifeng Chen

Diffusion models have significantly improved the quality and diversity of audio generation but are hindered by slow inference speed. Rectified flow enhances inference speed by learning straight-line ordinary differential equation (ODE)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Junqi Zhao , Jinzheng Zhao , Haohe Liu , Yun Chen , Lu Han , Xubo Liu , Mark Plumbley , Wenwu Wang