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Recent breakthroughs in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have revolutionized the field of visual synthesis due to their superior scalability. To facilitate DiTs' capability of capturing meaningful internal representations, recent works such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Mengping Yang , Zhiyu Tan , Binglei Li , Xiaomeng Yang , Hesen Chen , Hao Li

The emergence of vision transformers (ViTs) in image classification has shifted the methodologies for visual representation learning. In particular, ViTs learn visual representation at full receptive field per layer across all the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Li Zhang , Jiachen Lu , Sixiao Zheng , Xinxuan Zhao , Xiatian Zhu , Yanwei Fu , Tao Xiang , Jianfeng Feng , Philip H. S. Torr

Vision Transformers have achieved remarkable success in computer vision, but their common use of learnable one-dimensional positional encodings weakens the inherent two-dimensional spatial structure of images after patch flattening.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhihang Xin , Rui Wang , Xitong Hu , Xiaojun Wu

Positional encodings are essential to transformer-based generative models, yet their behavior in multimodal and attention-sharing settings is not fully understood. In this work, we present a principled analysis of Rotary Positional…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Aryan Mikaeili , Or Patashnik , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Daniel Cohen-Or , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

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

Vision Transformers have demonstrated remarkable success in computer vision tasks, yet their reliance on learnable one-dimensional positional embeddings fundamentally disrupts the inherent two-dimensional spatial structure of images through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Zhihang Xin , Xitong Hu , Rui Wang

Positional Encodings (PEs) are essential for injecting structural information into Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), particularly Graph Transformers, yet their empirical impact remains insufficiently understood. We introduce a unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Florian Grötschla , Jiaqing Xie , Roger Wattenhofer

Vision transformers have demonstrated significant advantages in computer vision tasks due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies and contextual relationships through self-attention. However, existing position encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Xi Chen , Shiyang Zhou , Muqi Huang , Jiaxu Feng , Yun Xiong , Kun Zhou , Biao Yang , Yuhui Zhang , Huishuai Bao , Sijia Peng , Chuan Li , Feng Shi

Latent generative modeling, where a pretrained autoencoder maps pixels into a latent space for the diffusion process, has become the standard strategy for Diffusion Transformers (DiT); however, the autoencoder component has barely evolved.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Boyang Zheng , Nanye Ma , Shengbang Tong , Saining Xie

Positional encodings (PEs) are essential for building powerful and expressive graph neural networks and graph transformers, as they effectively capture the relative spatial relationships between nodes. Although extensive research has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yinan Huang , Haoyu Wang , Pan Li

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

Latent-space modeling has been the standard for Diffusion Transformers (DiTs). However, it relies on a two-stage pipeline where the pretrained autoencoder introduces lossy reconstruction, leading to error accumulation while hindering joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yongsheng Yu , Wei Xiong , Weili Nie , Yichen Sheng , Shiqiu Liu , Jiebo Luo

We introduce Perception Encoder (PE), a state-of-the-art vision encoder for image and video understanding trained via simple vision-language learning. Traditionally, vision encoders have relied on a variety of pretraining objectives, each…

Transformer architectures, particularly Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), have become widely used in diffusion and flow-matching models due to their strong performance compared to convolutional UNets. However, the isotropic design of DiTs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Quan Dao , Dimitris Metaxas

When benefiting graphic sketch representation with sketch drawing orders, recent studies have linked sketch patches as graph edges by drawing orders in accordance to a temporal-based nearest neighboring strategy. However, such constructed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Sicong Zang , Zhijun Fang

Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhennan Chen , Junwei Zhu , Xu Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Existing positional encoding methods in transformers are fundamentally signal-agnostic, deriving positional information solely from sequence indices while ignoring the underlying signal characteristics. This limitation is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Habib Irani , Vangelis Metsis

Solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) is the core of many fields of science and engineering. While classical approaches are often prohibitively slow, machine learning models often fail to incorporate complete system information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Cooper Lorsung , Zijie Li , Amir Barati Farimani

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve remarkable performance within image generation via the transformer architecture. Conventionally, DiTs are constructed by stacking serial isotropic global modeling transformers, which face significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Jiafu Wu , Yabiao Wang , Jian Li , Jinlong Peng , Yun Cao , Chengjie Wang , Jiangning Zhang

Spatial understanding of the semantics of the surroundings is a key capability needed by autonomous cars to enable safe driving decisions. Recently, purely vision-based solutions have gained increasing research interest. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Christian Witte , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss , Marvin Raaijmakers