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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have greatly advanced text-to-image generation, but models still struggle to generate the correct spatial relations between objects as specified in the text prompt. In this study, we adopt a mechanistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Binxu Wang , Jingxuan Fan , Xu Pan

Structured (dictionary-like) data presents challenges for left-to-right language models, as they can struggle with structured entities for a wide variety of reasons such as formatting and sensitivity to the order in which attributes are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Ouail Kitouni , Niklas Nolte , James Hensman , Bhaskar Mitra

We demonstrate that in knowledge distillation for diffusion models, the teacher network's highly complex denoising process - stemming from its substantially larger capacity - poses a significant challenge for the student model to faithfully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hyunsoo Han , Sangyeop Yeo , Jaejun Yoo

As large-scale diffusion models continue to advance, they excel at producing high-quality images but often generate unwanted content, such as sexually explicit or violent content. Existing methods for concept removal generally guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingyun Zhang , Yu Xie , Yanwei Fu , Ping Chen

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a technique for transferring knowledge from complex teacher models to simpler student models, significantly enhancing model efficiency and accuracy. It has demonstrated substantial advancements in various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Junjie Yang , Junhao Song , Xudong Han , Ziqian Bi , Tianyang Wang , Chia Xin Liang , Xinyuan Song , Yichao Zhang , Qian Niu , Benji Peng , Keyu Chen , Ming Liu

Structured prediction models aim at solving a type of problem where the output is a complex structure, rather than a single variable. Performing knowledge distillation for such models is not trivial due to their exponentially large output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Wenye Lin , Yangming Li , Lemao Liu , Shuming Shi , Hai-tao Zheng

In this paper, we uncover the hidden potential of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) to significantly enhance generative tasks. Through an in-depth analysis of the denoising process, we demonstrate that introducing a single learned scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Danil Tokhchukov , Aysel Mirzoeva , Andrey Kuznetsov , Konstantin Sobolev

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of content synthesis and editing. Recent models have replaced the traditional UNet architecture with the Diffusion Transformer (DiT), and employed flow-matching for improved training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Omri Avrahami , Or Patashnik , Ohad Fried , Egor Nemchinov , Kfir Aberman , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or

Diffusion Transformers rely on static patchify tokenization, assigning the same token budget to smooth backgrounds, detailed object regions, noisy early timesteps, and late-stage refinements. We introduce the Dynamic Chunking Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Akash Haridas , Utkarsh Saxena , Parsa Ashrafi Fashi , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Vikram Appia , Emad Barsoum

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) with billions of model parameters form the backbone of popular image and video generation models like DALL.E, Stable-Diffusion and SORA. Though these models are necessary in many low-latency applications like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Vignesh Sundaresha

Diffusion models with large-scale pre-training have achieved significant success in the field of visual content generation, particularly exemplified by Diffusion Transformers (DiT). However, DiT models have faced challenges with quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Lianghui Zhu , Zilong Huang , Bencheng Liao , Jun Hao Liew , Hanshu Yan , Jiashi Feng , Xinggang Wang

Efficient inference is a critical challenge in deep generative modeling, particularly as diffusion models grow in capacity and complexity. While increased complexity often improves accuracy, it raises compute costs, latency, and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Siu Hang Ho , Prasad Ganesan , Nguyen Duong , Daniel Schlabig

Real-world scenarios pose several challenges to deep learning based computer vision techniques despite their tremendous success in research. Deeper models provide better performance, but are challenging to deploy and knowledge distillation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ayush Bhardwaj , Sakshee Pimpale , Saurabh Kumar , Biplab Banerjee

In this work, we empirically study Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for text-to-image generation, focusing on architectural choices, text-conditioning strategies, and training protocols. We evaluate a range of DiT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chen Chen , Rui Qian , Wenze Hu , Tsu-Jui Fu , Jialing Tong , Xinze Wang , Lezhi Li , Bowen Zhang , Alex Schwing , Wei Liu , Yinfei Yang

Knowledge distillation is the process of transferring the knowledge from a large model to a small model. In this process, the small model learns the generalization ability of the large model and retains the performance close to that of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Zhenyan Hou , Wenxuan Fan

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 Transformers (DiTs) have significantly enhanced text-to-image (T2I) generation quality, enabling high-quality personalized content creation. However, fine-tuning these models requires substantial computational complexity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Sunghyun Park , Jeongho Kim , Hyoungwoo Park , Debasmit Das , Sungrack Yun , Munawar Hayat , Jaegul Choo , Fatih Porikli , Seokeon Choi

Diffusion Transformer (DiT), a promising diffusion model for visual generation, demonstrates impressive performance but incurs significant computational overhead. Intriguingly, analysis of pre-trained DiT models reveals that global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yuang Ai , Qihang Fan , Xuefeng Hu , Zhenheng Yang , Ran He , Huaibo Huang

Generating accurate multilingual text with diffusion models has long been desired but remains challenging. Recent methods have made progress in rendering text in a single language, but rendering arbitrary languages is still an unexplored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Runnan Lu , Yuxuan Zhang , Jiaming Liu , Haofan Wang , Yiren Song

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