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We conduct an in-depth analysis of attention in video diffusion transformers (VDiTs) and report a number of novel findings. We identify three key properties of attention in VDiTs: Structure, Sparsity, and Sinks. Structure: We observe that…

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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) dominate video generation but their high computational cost severely limits real-world applicability, usually requiring tens of minutes to generate a few seconds of video even on high-performance GPUs. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Haocheng Xi , Shuo Yang , Yilong Zhao , Chenfeng Xu , Muyang Li , Xiuyu Li , Yujun Lin , Han Cai , Jintao Zhang , Dacheng Li , Jianfei Chen , Ion Stoica , Kurt Keutzer , Song Han

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

While Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved notable progress in video generation, this long-sequence generation task remains constrained by the quadratic complexity inherent to self-attention mechanisms, creating significant barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yuxi Liu , Yipeng Hu , Zekun Zhang , Kunze Jiang , Kun Yuan

The computational demands of self-attention mechanisms pose a critical challenge for transformer-based video generation, particularly in synthesizing ultra-long sequences. Current approaches, such as factorized attention and fixed sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Qirui Li , Guangcong Zheng , Qi Zhao , Jie Li , Bin Dong , Yiwu Yao , Xi Li

Video diffusion Transformer (DiT) models excel in generative quality but hit major computational bottlenecks when producing high-resolution, long-duration videos. The quadratic complexity of full attention leads to prohibitively high…

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Despite the promise of synthesizing high-fidelity videos, Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) with 3D full attention suffer from expensive inference due to the complexity of attention computation and numerous sampling steps. For example, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hangliang Ding , Dacheng Li , Runlong Su , Peiyuan Zhang , Zhijie Deng , Ion Stoica , Hao Zhang

Diffusion transformers have achieved remarkable success in high-quality video generation, yet their reliance on spatiotemporal 3D full attention incurs prohibitive computational cost due to the quadratic complexity of attention. Block…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jie Hu , Zixiang Gao , Yutong He , Kun Yuan

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve strong video generation quality but suffer from high inference cost due to dense 3D attention, motivating sparse attention techniques for improving efficiency. However, existing training-free sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiayi Luo , Jiayu Chen , Jiankun Wang , Cong Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Qingyun Sun , Chen Gao , Zhibo Chen , Jianxin Li

Diffusion transformer-based video generation models (DiTs) have recently attracted widespread attention for their excellent generation quality. However, their computational cost remains a major bottleneck-attention alone accounts for over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xuan Shen , Chenxia Han , Yufa Zhou , Yanyue Xie , Yifan Gong , Quanyi Wang , Yiwei Wang , Yanzhi Wang , Pu Zhao , Jiuxiang Gu

Scaling video diffusion transformers (DiTs) is limited by their quadratic 3D attention, even though most of the attention mass concentrates on a small subset of positions. We turn this observation into VSA, a trainable, hardware-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Peiyuan Zhang , Yongqi Chen , Haofeng Huang , Will Lin , Zhengzhong Liu , Ion Stoica , Eric Xing , Hao Zhang

The recent surge in video generation has shown the growing demand for high-quality video synthesis using large vision models. Existing video generation models are predominantly based on the video diffusion transformer (vDiT), however, they…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Wenxuan Miao , Yulin Sun , Aiyue Chen , Jing Lin , Yiwu Yao , Yiming Gan , Jieru Zhao , Jingwen Leng , Mingyi Guo , Yu Feng

Video diffusion transformers have achieved remarkable progress in high-quality video generation, but remain computationally expensive due to the quadratic complexity of attention over high-dimensional video sequences. Recent acceleration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Wenhao Sun , Rong-Cheng Tu , Yifu Ding , Zhao Jin , Jingyi Liao , Shunyu Liu , Dacheng Tao

Diffusion Transformers, particularly for video generation, achieve remarkable quality but suffer from quadratic attention complexity, leading to prohibitive latency. Existing acceleration methods face a fundamental trade-off: dynamically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Dor Shmilovich , Tony Wu , Aviad Dahan , Yuval Domb

Diffusion-based video generation has advanced substantially in visual fidelity and temporal coherence, but practical deployment remains limited by the quadratic complexity of full attention. Training-free sparse attention is attractive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xuzhe Zheng , Yuexiao Ma , Jing Xu , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Fei Chao

While the overall inference latency of Video Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) can be substantially reduced through model distillation, per-step inference latency remains a critical bottleneck. Existing acceleration paradigms primarily exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jian Tang , Jiawei Fan , Qingbin Liu , Zheng Wei

Scaling Diffusion Transformer (DiT) inference via sequence parallelism is critical for reducing latency in visual generation, but is severely hampered by workload imbalance when applied to models employing block-wise sparse attention. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Siqi Chen , Ke Hong , Tianchen Zhao , Ruiqi Xie , Zhenhua Zhu , Xudong Zhang , Yu Wang

In video and image generation tasks, Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models incur extremely high computational costs due to attention mechanisms, which limits their practical applications. Furthermore, with hardware advancements, a wide range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aiyue Chen , Yaofu Liu , Junjian Huang , Guang Lian , Yiwu Yao , Wangli Lan , Jing Lin , Zhixin Ma , Tingting Zhou

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become the de-facto model for generating high-quality visual content like videos and images. A huge bottleneck is the attention mechanism where complexity scales quadratically with resolution and video…

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