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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…

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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

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

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-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…

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Transformer-based language models have found many diverse applications requiring them to process sequences of increasing length. For these applications, the causal self-attention -- which is the only component scaling quadratically w.r.t.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Matteo Pagliardini , Daniele Paliotta , Martin Jaggi , François Fleuret

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 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

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a competitive alternative to convolutional neural networks for various computer vision applications. Specifically, ViT multi-head attention layers make it possible to embed information globally across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jyotikrishna Dass , Shang Wu , Huihong Shi , Chaojian Li , Zhifan Ye , Zhongfeng Wang , Yingyan Lin

Generating high-fidelity long videos with Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) is often hindered by significant latency, primarily due to the computational demands of attention mechanisms. For instance, generating an 8-second 720p video (110K…

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Sparse attention methods exploit the inherent sparsity in attention to speed up the prefilling phase of long-context inference, mitigating the quadratic complexity of full attention computation. While existing sparse attention methods rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dan Peng , Zhihui Fu , Zewen Ye , Zhuoran Song , Jun Wang

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

Long-context video understanding and generation pose a significant computational challenge for Transformer-based video models due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention. While existing sparse attention methods employ coarse-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Anmin Liu , Ruixuan Yang , Huiqiang Jiang , Bin Lin , Minmin Sun , Yong Li , Chen Zhang , Tao Xie

An efficient attention implementation is essential for large models due to its quadratic time complexity. Fortunately, attention commonly exhibits sparsity, i.e., many values in the attention map are near zero, allowing for the omission of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jintao Zhang , Chendong Xiang , Haofeng Huang , Jia Wei , Haocheng Xi , Jun Zhu , Jianfei Chen

Video Diffusion Transformers have revolutionized high-fidelity video generation but suffer from the massive computational burden of self-attention. While sparse attention provides a promising acceleration solution, existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Wentai Zhang , Ronghui Xi , Shiyao Peng , Jiayu Huang , Haoran Luo , Zichen Tang , Haihong E

Recent diffusion models enable high-quality video generation, but suffer from slow runtimes. The large transformer-based backbones used in these models are bottlenecked by spatiotemporal attention. In this paper, we identify that a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Shai Yehezkel , Shahar Yadin , Noam Elata , Yaron Ostrovsky-Berman , Bahjat Kawar

Video generation using diffusion models is highly computationally intensive, with 3D attention in Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models accounting for over 80\% of the total computational resources. In this work, we introduce {\bf RainFusion},…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Aiyue Chen , Bin Dong , Jingru Li , Jing Lin , Kun Tian , Yiwu Yao , Gongyi Wang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have shown remarkable performance in generating high-quality videos. However, the quadratic complexity of 3D full attention remains a bottleneck in scaling DiT training, especially with high-definition, lengthy…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xin Tan , Yuetao Chen , Yimin Jiang , Xing Chen , Kun Yan , Nan Duan , Yibo Zhu , Daxin Jiang , Hong Xu

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…

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