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Video understanding requires the extraction of rich spatio-temporal representations, which transformer models achieve through self-attention. Unfortunately, self-attention poses a computational burden. In NLP, Mamba has surfaced as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Hui Lu , Albert Ali Salah , Ronald Poppe

Transformer architectures have become a dominant paradigm for domains like language modeling but suffer in many inference settings due to their quadratic-time self-attention. Recently proposed subquadratic architectures, such as Mamba, have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Aviv Bick , Kevin Y. Li , Eric P. Xing , J. Zico Kolter , Albert Gu

Standard Latent Diffusion Models rely on a complex, three-part architecture consisting of a separate encoder, decoder, and diffusion network, which are trained in multiple stages. This modular design is computationally inefficient, leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

U-shaped architectures have long dominated the field of medical image segmentation, while Transformers are widely employed for modeling long-range dependencies. The former typically handles scale variations implicitly by aggregating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yanhua Zhang , Ke Zhang , Jingyu Wang , Gabriella Balestra , Samanta Rosati , Yulin Wu , Wuwei Wang , Valentina Giannini

Text-to-video generation has significantly enriched content creation and holds the potential to evolve into powerful world simulators. However, modeling the vast spatiotemporal space remains computationally demanding, particularly when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Jiancheng Huang , Gengwei Zhang , Zequn Jie , Siyu Jiao , Yinlong Qian , Ling Chen , Yunchao Wei , Lin Ma

Transformers and Mamba, initially invented for natural language processing, have inspired backbone architectures for visual recognition. Recent studies integrated Local Attention Transformers with Mamba to capture both local details and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Meng Lou , Yunxiang Fu , Yizhou Yu

Vision Mamba models have been extensively researched in various fields, which address the limitations of previous models by effectively managing long-range dependencies with a linear-time overhead. Several prospective studies have further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Renrong Shao , Dongyang Li , Dong Xia , Lin Shao , Jiangdong Lu , Fen Zheng , Lulu Zhang

Diffusion distillation methods aim to compress the diffusion models into efficient one-step generators while trying to preserve quality. Among them, Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) offers a suitable framework for training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Denis Rakitin , Ivan Shchekotov , Dmitry Vetrov

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a leading architecture for text-to-image synthesis, producing high-quality and photorealistic images. However, the quadratic scaling properties of the attention in DiTs hinder image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Philipp Becker , Abhinav Mehrotra , Ruchika Chavhan , Malcolm Chadwick , Luca Morreale , Mehdi Noroozi , Alberto Gil Ramos , Sourav Bhattacharya

This paper presents SANA-Sprint, an efficient diffusion model for ultra-fast text-to-image (T2I) generation. SANA-Sprint is built on a pre-trained foundation model and augmented with hybrid distillation, dramatically reducing inference…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junsong Chen , Shuchen Xue , Yuyang Zhao , Jincheng Yu , Sayak Paul , Junyu Chen , Han Cai , Song Han , Enze Xie

Transformer-based methods have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in 3D semantic segmentation through their powerful attention mechanisms, but the quadratic complexity limits their modeling of long-range dependencies in large-scale point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Xinyu Wang , Jinghua Hou , Zhe Liu , Yingying Zhu

We introduce Llamba, a family of efficient recurrent language models distilled from Llama-3.x into the Mamba architecture. The series includes Llamba-1B, Llamba-3B, and Llamba-8B, which achieve higher inference throughput and handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Aviv Bick , Tobias Katsch , Nimit Sohoni , Arjun Desai , Albert Gu

Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion (SD), offer the ability to generate high-resolution images with diverse features, but they come at a significant computational and memory cost. In classifier-free guided diffusion models, prolonged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Pareesa Ameneh Golnari

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

Existing diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) methods are susceptible to introducing complex degradations and noticeable artifacts into high-resolution videos due to their inherent randomness. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shijun Shi , Jing Xu , Lijing Lu , Zhihang Li , Kai Hu

As text-to-image (T2I) synthesis models increase in size, they demand higher inference costs due to the need for more expensive GPUs with larger memory, which makes it challenging to reproduce these models in addition to the restricted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Youngwan Lee , Kwanyong Park , Yoorhim Cho , Yong-Ju Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have remarkably succeeded in various image processing tasks. However, their large size and computational complexity present significant challenges for deploying them in resource-constrained environments. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 José Medina , Amnir Hadachi , Paul Honeine , Abdelaziz Bensrhair

Efficient Image Super-Resolution (SR) aims to accelerate SR network inference by minimizing computational complexity and network parameters while preserving performance. Existing state-of-the-art Efficient Image Super-Resolution methods are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-14 Xiaoyan Lei , Wenlong Zhang , Weifeng Cao

Mamba has garnered widespread attention due to its flexible design and efficient hardware performance to process 1D sequences based on the state space model (SSM). Recent studies have attempted to apply Mamba to the visual domain by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Chengkun Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yuanhui Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Existing deraining Transformers employ self-attention mechanisms with fixed-range windows or along channel dimensions, limiting the exploitation of non-local receptive fields. In response to this issue, we introduce a novel dual-branch…

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