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Diffusion-based world models have shown strong potential for unified world simulation, but the iterative denoising remains too costly for interactive use and long-horizon rollouts. While feature caching can accelerate inference without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Weilun Feng , Guoxin Fan , Haotong Qin , Chuanguang Yang , Mingqiang Wu , Yuqi Li , Xiangqi Li , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Dingrui Wang , Longlong Liao , Michele Magno , Yongjun Xu

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art video generation quality, but their inference remains expensive due to the large number of sequential denoising steps. This has motivated a growing line of research on accelerating diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yasaman Haghighi , Alexandre Alahi

Diffusion models have emerged as a promising approach for generating high-quality, high-dimensional images. Nevertheless, these models are hindered by their high computational cost and slow inference, partly due to the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Omid Saghatchian , Atiyeh Gh. Moghadam , Ahmad Nickabadi

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) image generation quality but suffer from high latency and memory inefficiency, making them difficult to deploy on resource-constrained devices. One major efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Haoran You , Connelly Barnes , Yuqian Zhou , Yan Kang , Zhenbang Du , Wei Zhou , Lingzhi Zhang , Yotam Nitzan , Xiaoyang Liu , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Yingyan Celine Lin

Diffusion-based image compression has recently shown outstanding perceptual fidelity, yet its practicality is hindered by prohibitive sampling overhead and high memory usage. Most existing diffusion codecs employ U-Net architectures, where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Junqi Shi , Ming Lu , Xingchen Li , Anle Ke , Ruiqi Zhang , Zhan Ma

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities but remain highly computationally expensive. Previous acceleration methods, such as pruning and distillation, typically rely on a fixed computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jiangshan Wang , Zeqiang Lai , Jiarui Chen , Jiayi Guo , Hang Guo , Xiu Li , Xiangyu Yue , Chunchao Guo

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) are renowned for their impressive generative performance; however, they are significantly constrained by considerable computational costs due to the quadratic complexity in self-attention and the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Yi Yang

Diffusion models suffer from substantial computational overhead due to their inherently iterative inference process. While feature caching offers a promising acceleration strategy by reusing intermediate outputs across timesteps, naive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Xurui Peng , Chenqian Yan , Hong Liu , Rui Ma , Fangmin Chen , Xing Wang , Zhihua Wu , Songwei Liu , Mingbao Lin

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a powerful architecture for image and video generation, offering superior quality and scalability. However, their practical application suffers from inherent dynamic feature instability, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guanjie Chen , Xinyu Zhao , Yucheng Zhou , Xiaoye Qu , Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng

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 transformer (DiT) models have achieved remarkable success in image generation, thanks for their exceptional generative capabilities and scalability. Nonetheless, the iterative nature of diffusion models (DMs) results in high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zhiyuan Chen , Keyi Li , Yifan Jia , Le Ye , Yufei Ma

Transformer-based diffusion models offer superior scalability and performance but suffer from high computational overhead due to the iterative nature and quadratic complexity of self-attention at high resolutions. In this paper, we propose…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jieon Yoon , Hangyeol Lee , Jaehoon Heo , Joo-Young Kim

Diffusion transformers have gained significant attention in recent years for their ability to generate high-quality images and videos, yet still suffer from a huge computational cost due to their iterative denoising process. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zhixin Zheng , Xinyu Wang , Chang Zou , Shaobo Wang , Linfeng Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved impressive generative quality across modalities like 2D images, videos, and 3D shapes, but their inference remains computationally expensive due to the iterative denoising process. While recent caching-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mengyu Yang , Yanming Yang , Chenyi Xu , Chenxi Song , Yufan Zuo , Tong Zhao , Ruibo Li , Chi Zhang

Diffusion models deliver high-fidelity synthesis but remain slow due to iterative sampling. We empirically observe there exists feature invariance in deterministic sampling, and present InvarDiff, a training-free acceleration method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zihao Wu

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a widely adopted backbone for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet their iterative denoising process incurs high computational costs. Existing training-free acceleration methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Qianli Ma , Zhi Yao , Weijia Jia

Diffusion models achieve remarkable generative quality, but computational overhead scales with step count, model depth, and sequence length. Feature caching is effective since adjacent timesteps yield highly similar features. However, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tingyan Wen , Haoyu Li , Yihuang Chen , Xing Zhou , Lifei Zhu , Xueqian Wang

In this paper, we present \textbf{\textit{FasterCache}}, a novel training-free strategy designed to accelerate the inference of video diffusion models with high-quality generation. By analyzing existing cache-based methods, we observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zhengyao Lv , Chenyang Si , Junhao Song , Zhenyu Yang , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) excel at visual generation yet remain hampered by slow sampling. Existing training-free accelerators - step reduction, feature caching, and sparse attention - enhance inference speed but typically rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Wangbo Zhao , Yizeng Han , Zhiwei Tang , Jiasheng Tang , Pengfei Zhou , Kai Wang , Bohan Zhuang , Zhangyang Wang , Fan Wang , Yang You

Diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs), despite their promising performance, still suffer from inferior inference efficiency. This is because dLLMs rely on bidirectional attention and cannot directly benefit from the standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yuchu Jiang , Yue Cai , Xiangzhong Luo , Jiale Fu , Jiarui Wang , Chonghan Liu , Xu Yang