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Long-sequence video diffusion transformers hit a quadratic self-attention cost that dominates runtime and memory for very long token sequences. Most efficient attention methods use one approximation everywhere, yet video features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haopeng Jin

Diffusion Transformers currently lead the field in high-quality video generation, but their slow iterative denoising process and prohibitive quadratic attention costs for long sequences create significant inference bottlenecks. While both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Youping Gu , Xiaolong Li , Yuhao Hu , Minqi Chen , Bohan Zhuang

We introduce Sparse Forcing, a training-and-inference paradigm for autoregressive video diffusion models that improves long-horizon generation quality while reducing decoding latency. Sparse Forcing is motivated by an empirical observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Boxun Xu , Yuming Du , Zichang Liu , Siyu Yang , Ziyang Jiang , Siqi Yan , Rajasi Saha , Albert Pumarola , Wenchen Wang , Peng Li

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

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

The quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms poses a critical bottleneck for large language models processing long contexts. While dynamic sparse attention methods offer input-adaptive efficiency, they face fundamental trade-offs:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Siran Liu , Guoxia Wang , Sa Wang , Jinle Zeng , HaoYang Xie , Siyu Lou , JiaBin Yang , DianHai Yu , Haifeng Wang , Chao Yang

Recent progress in transformer-based architectures has demonstrated remarkable success in video generation tasks. However, the quadratic complexity of full attention mechanisms remains a critical bottleneck, particularly for high-resolution…

Advanced autoregressive (AR) video generation models have improved visual fidelity and interactivity, but the quadratic complexity of attention remains a primary bottleneck for efficient deployment. While existing sparse attention solutions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chengtao Lv , Yumeng Shi , Yushi Huang , Ruihao Gong , Shen Ren , Wenya Wang

Diffusion-based models have shown strong performance in video super-resolution (VSR) and video frame interpolation (VFI). However, their role in the coupled space-time video super-resolution (STVSR) setting remains limited. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zheng Chen , Ruofan Yang , Jin Han , Dehua Song , Zichen Zou , Chunming He , Yong Guo , Yulun Zhang

Video style transfer aims to render videos in a target artistic style while preserving content, structure, and motion. While image stylization has advanced rapidly, video stylization remains challenging due to temporal inconsistency. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yiren Song , Wangzi Yao , Haofan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

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

The scalability of high-fidelity video diffusion models (VDMs) is constrained by two key sources of redundancy: the quadratic complexity of global spatio-temporal attention and the computational overhead of long iterative denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Xinjian Wu , Hongmei Wang , Yuan Zhou , Qinglin Lu

Video motion transfer aims to synthesize videos by generating visual content according to a text prompt while transferring the motion pattern observed in a reference video. Recent methods predominantly use the Diffusion Transformer (DiT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yue Ma , Zhikai Wang , Tianhao Ren , Mingzhe Zheng , Hongyu Liu , Jiayi Guo , Kunyu Feng , Yuxuan Xue , Zixiang Zhao , Konrad Schindler , Qifeng Chen , Linfeng Zhang

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

Transformers are considered one of the most important deep learning models since 2018, in part because it establishes state-of-the-art (SOTA) records and could potentially replace existing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Despite the remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Hongwu Peng , Shaoyi Huang , Shiyang Chen , Bingbing Li , Tong Geng , Ang Li , Weiwen Jiang , Wujie Wen , Jinbo Bi , Hang Liu , Caiwen Ding

Transformer models are computationally costly on long sequences since regular attention has quadratic $O(n^2)$ time complexity. We introduce Wavelet-Enhanced Random Spectral Attention (WERSA), a novel mechanism of linear $O(n)$ time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Vincenzo Dentamaro

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

Efficiently supporting long context length is crucial for Transformer models. The quadratic complexity of the self-attention computation plagues traditional Transformers. Sliding window-based static sparse attention mitigates the problem by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhenyu Bai , Pranav Dangi , Huize Li , Tulika Mitra

Diffusion transformers (DiT) have become the de facto choice for generating high-quality images and videos, largely due to their scalability, which enables the construction of larger models for enhanced performance. However, the increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Pratheba Selvaraju , Tianyu Ding , Tianyi Chen , Ilya Zharkov , Luming Liang

Existing methods for video interpolation heavily rely on deep convolution neural networks, and thus suffer from their intrinsic limitations, such as content-agnostic kernel weights and restricted receptive field. To address these issues, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhihao Shi , Xiangyu Xu , Xiaohong Liu , Jun Chen , Ming-Hsuan Yang