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Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-fidelity content but suffer from slow, iterative sampling, resulting in high latency that limits their use in interactive applications. We introduce DRiffusion, a parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Runsheng Bai , Chengyu Zhang , Yangdong Deng

Large Language Model or LLM inference has two phases, the prompt (or prefill) phase to output the first token and the extension (or decoding) phase to the generate subsequent tokens. In this work, we propose an efficient parallelization…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Minsik Cho , Mohammad Rastegari , Devang Naik

As a fundamental backbone for video generation, diffusion models are challenged by low inference speed due to the sequential nature of denoising. Previous methods speed up the models by caching and reusing model outputs at uniformly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Feng Liu , Shiwei Zhang , Xiaofeng Wang , Yujie Wei , Haonan Qiu , Yuzhong Zhao , Yingya Zhang , Qixiang Ye , Fang Wan

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 Models have emerged as a leading class of generative models, yet their iterative sampling process remains computationally expensive. Timestep distillation is a promising technique to accelerate generation, but it often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Guanjie Chen , Shirui Huang , Kai Liu , Jianchen Zhu , Xiaoye Qu , Peng Chen , Yu Cheng , Yifu Sun

We introduce LlamaGen, a new family of image generation models that apply original ``next-token prediction'' paradigm of large language models to visual generation domain. It is an affirmative answer to whether vanilla autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Peize Sun , Yi Jiang , Shoufa Chen , Shilong Zhang , Bingyue Peng , Ping Luo , Zehuan Yuan

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) promise highly parallel text generation, yet their practical inference speed is often bottlenecked by suboptimal decoding schedulers. Standard approaches rely on 'scattered acceptance'-committing high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Pengxiang Li , Joey Tsai , Hongwei Xue , Kunyu Shi , Shilin Yan

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to purely autoregressive language models because they can decode multiple tokens in parallel. However, state-of-the-art block-wise dLLMs rely on a "remasking"…

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved significant success due to their any-order generation capabilities. However, existing inference methods typically rely on local, immediate-step metrics such as confidence or entropy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Kecheng Chen , Ziru Liu , Xijia Tao , Hui Liu , Xinyu Fu , Suiyun Zhang , Dandan Tu , Lingpeng Kong , Rui Liu , Haoliang Li

Diffusion transformers have gained substantial interest in diffusion generative modeling due to their outstanding performance. However, their computational demands, particularly the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jinming Lou , Wenyang Luo , Yufan Liu , Bing Li , Xinmiao Ding , Weiming Hu , Yuming Li , Chenguang Ma

Latent Diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable results in synthesizing high-resolution images. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally intensive and leads to slow generation. Inspired by Consistency Models (song…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao

While Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) offer a flexible, arbitrary-order alternative to the autoregressive paradigm, their non-causal nature precludes standard KV caching, forcing costly hidden state recomputation at every decoding step.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Wenhao Sun , Rong-Cheng Tu , Yifu Ding , Zhao Jin , Jingyi Liao , Yongcheng Jing , Dacheng Tao

While Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising non-autoregressive paradigm comparable to autoregressive (AR) models, their faithfulness, specifically regarding hallucination, remains largely underexplored. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhengnan Guo , Fei Tan

In this paper, we presents a novel method for improving text-to-image generation by combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with diffusion models, a hybrid approach aimed at achieving both higher quality and efficiency in image synthesis…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Julian Perry , Frank Sanders , Carter Scott

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have emerged as the de facto approach for high-fidelity image synthesis, operating diffusion processes on continuous VAE latent, which significantly differ from the text generation methods employed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xiaoping Wu , Jie Hu , Xiaoming Wei

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) offer fast, parallel token generation, but their standalone use is plagued by an inherent efficiency-quality tradeoff. We show that, if carefully applied, the attributes of dLLMs can actually be a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Rui Pan , Zhuofu Chen , Hongyi Liu , Arvind Krishnamurthy , Ravi Netravali

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various tasks. However, their widespread application is hindered by the resource-intensive decoding process. To address this challenge, current approaches have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Ziqian Zeng , Jiahong Yu , Qianshi Pang , Zihao Wang , Huiping Zhuang , Hongen Shao , Xiaofeng Zou

Auto-regressive models (ARMs) have established a dominant paradigm in language modeling. However, their strictly sequential decoding paradigm imposes fundamental constraints on both inference efficiency and modeling flexibility. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yuyan Zhou , Kai Syun Hou , Weiyu Chen , James Kwok

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in visual content generation but remain challenging to deploy due to their high computational cost during inference. This computational burden primarily arises from the quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ye Tian , Xin Xia , Yuxi Ren , Shanchuan Lin , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Yunhai Tong , Ling Yang , Bin Cui

We present Dream-Coder 7B, an open-source discrete diffusion language model for code generation that exhibits emergent any-order generation capabilities. Unlike traditional autoregressive (AR) models that decode strictly left-to-right,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhihui Xie , Jiacheng Ye , Lin Zheng , Jiahui Gao , Jingwei Dong , Zirui Wu , Xueliang Zhao , Shansan Gong , Xin Jiang , Zhenguo Li , Lingpeng Kong