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Transformer models are permutation equivariant. To supply the order and type information of the input tokens, position and segment embeddings are usually added to the input. Recent works proposed variations of positional encodings with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Pu-Chin Chen , Henry Tsai , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Hyung Won Chung , Yin-Wen Chang , Chun-Sung Ferng

Positional encoding (PE) is a core architectural component of Transformers, yet its impact on the Transformer's generalization and robustness remains unclear. In this work, we provide the first generalization analysis for a single-layer…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-25 Weiyi He , Yue Xing

Do autoregressive Transformer language models require explicit positional encodings (PEs)? The answer is 'no' provided they have more than one layer -- they can distinguish sequences with permuted tokens without the need for explicit PEs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kazuki Irie

Vision transformers (ViTs) encoding an image as a sequence of patches bring new paradigms for semantic segmentation.We present an efficient framework of representation separation in local-patch level and global-region level for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuanduo Hong , Huihui Pan , Weichao Sun , Xinghu Yu , Huijun Gao

The rapid growth of e-commerce has intensified the demand for Virtual Try-On (VTO) technologies, enabling customers to realistically visualize products overlaid on their own images. Despite recent advances, existing VTO models face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Qi Li , Shuwen Qiu , Julien Han , Xingzi Xu , Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu , Kee Kiat Koo , Karim Bouyarmane

Diffusion transformers (DiTs) achieve high generative quality but lock FLOPs to image resolution, limiting principled latency-quality trade-offs, and allocate computation uniformly across input spatial tokens, wasting resource allocation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Moayed Haji-Ali , Willi Menapace , Ivan Skorokhodov , Dogyun Park , Anil Kag , Michael Vasilkovsky , Sergey Tulyakov , Vicente Ordonez , Aliaksandr Siarohin

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in image and video generation, but their success comes at the cost of heavy computation. This inefficiency is largely due to the fixed tokenization process, which uses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Dahye Kim , Deepti Ghadiyaram , Raghudeep Gadde

How discriminative position information is for image classification depends on the data. On the one hand, the camera position is arbitrary and objects can appear anywhere in the image, arguing for translation invariance. At the same time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Robert-Jan Bruintjes , Jan van Gemert

The Position Embedding (PE) is critical for Vision Transformers (VTs) due to the permutation-invariance of self-attention operation. By analyzing the input and output of each encoder layer in VTs using reparameterization and visualization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Runyi Yu , Zhennan Wang , Yinhuai Wang , Kehan Li , Yian Zhao , Jian Zhang , Guoli Song , Jie Chen

Resolution generalization in image generation tasks enables the production of higher-resolution images with lower training resolution overhead. However, a key obstacle for diffusion transformers in addressing this problem is the mismatch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Liang Hou , Cong Liu , Mingwu Zheng , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai

SinGAN shows impressive capability in learning internal patch distribution despite its limited effective receptive field. We are interested in knowing how such a translation-invariant convolutional generator could capture the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Rui Xu , Xintao Wang , Kai Chen , Bolei Zhou , Chen Change Loy

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) excel at generation, but their global self-attention makes controllable, reference-image-based editing a distinct challenge. Unlike U-Nets, naively injecting local appearance into a DiT can disrupt its holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengrong Gu , Ye Wang , Song Wu , Rui Ma , Qian Wang , Lanjun Wang , Zili Yi

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) introduce the transformer architecture to diffusion tasks for latent-space image generation. With an isotropic architecture that chains a series of transformer blocks, DiTs demonstrate competitive performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuchuan Tian , Zhijun Tu , Hanting Chen , Jie Hu , Chao Xu , Yunhe Wang

This paper presents Pixel-Perfect Depth, a monocular depth estimation model based on pixel-space diffusion generation that produces high-quality, flying-pixel-free point clouds from estimated depth maps. Current generative depth estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Gangwei Xu , Haotong Lin , Hongcheng Luo , Xianqi Wang , Jingfeng Yao , Lianghui Zhu , Yuechuan Pu , Cheng Chi , Haiyang Sun , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Sida Peng , Xin Yang

In recent years, speech diffusion models have advanced rapidly. Alongside the widely used U-Net architecture, transformer-based models such as the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) have also gained attention. However, current DiT speech models…

Understanding spatial location and relationships is a fundamental capability for modern artificial intelligence systems. Insights from human spatial cognition provide valuable guidance in this domain. Neuroscientific discoveries have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Boyang Li , Yulin Wu , Nuoxian Huang , Wenjia Zhang

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of content synthesis and editing. Recent models have replaced the traditional UNet architecture with the Diffusion Transformer (DiT), and employed flow-matching for improved training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Omri Avrahami , Or Patashnik , Ohad Fried , Egor Nemchinov , Kfir Aberman , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or

Diffusion Transformer(DiT) based video generation models have recently achieved impressive visual quality and temporal coherence, but they still frequently violate basic physical laws and commonsense dynamics, revealing a lack of explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Selena Song , Ziming Xu , Zijun Zhang , Kun Zhou , Jiaxian Guo , Lianhui Qin , Biwei Huang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated strong performance in generative modeling, particularly in image synthesis, making them a compelling choice for molecular conformer generation. However, applying DiTs to molecules introduces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 J. Thorben Frank , Winfried Ripken , Gregor Lied , Klaus-Robert Müller , Oliver T. Unke , Stefan Chmiela

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in text-to-image synthesis but remain computationally expensive due to the iterative nature of denoising and the quadratic cost of global attention. In this work, we observe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bowen Lin , Fanjiang Ye , Yihua Liu , Zhenghui Guo , Boyuan Zhang , Weijian Zheng , Yufan Xu , Tiancheng Xing , Yuke Wang , Chengming Zhang