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Latent diffusion models have become the popular choice for scaling up diffusion models for high resolution image synthesis. Compared to pixel-space models that are trained end-to-end, latent models are perceived to be more efficient and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Emiel Hoogeboom , Thomas Mensink , Jonathan Heek , Kay Lamerigts , Ruiqi Gao , Tim Salimans

Text-to-image diffusion models (SD) exhibit significant advancements while requiring extensive computational resources. Existing acceleration methods usually require extensive training and are not universally applicable. LCM-LoRA, trainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Weilong Chai , DanDan Zheng , Jiajiong Cao , Zhiquan Chen , Changbao Wang , Chenguang Ma

Semantic-rich features from Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) have been leveraged to enhance Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs). However, raw VFM features are typically high-dimensional and redundant, increasing the difficulty of learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Guanfang Dong , Luke Schultz , Negar Hassanpour , Chao Gao

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a widely adopted backbone for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet their iterative denoising process incurs high computational costs. Existing training-free acceleration methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Qianli Ma , Zhi Yao , Weijia Jia

Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models are becoming increasingly popular in solving the Real-World Image Super-Resolution (Real-ISR) problem because of their rich generative priors. The recent development of diffusion transformer (DiT)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei Zhang , Xin Jin , Ziheng Zhang , Zheng Xiong , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy S. Ren , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li

The diffusion model presents a powerful ability to capture the entire (conditional) data distribution. However, due to the lack of sufficient training and data to learn to cover low-probability areas, the model will be penalized for failing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xingyu Zhou , Qifan Li , Xiaobin Hu , Hai Chen , Shuhang Gu

Diffusion models currently dominate the field of data-driven image synthesis with their unparalleled scaling to large datasets. In this paper, we identify and rectify several causes for uneven and ineffective training in the popular ADM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Tero Karras , Miika Aittala , Jaakko Lehtinen , Janne Hellsten , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine

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 have become a powerful backbone for text-to-image generation, but their layered and cross-modal generation process makes safety control fundamentally different from prompt-level filtering or output-level detection.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zihao Xue , Yan Wang , Zhen Bi , Long Ma , Zhonglong Zheng , Zeyu Yang , Bingyu Zhu , Longtao Huang , Jie Xiao , Jungang Lou

Diffusion models (DMs) have become the leading choice for generative tasks across diverse domains. However, their reliance on multiple sequential forward passes significantly limits real-time performance. Previous acceleration methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Ziming Liu , Yifan Yang , Chengruidong Zhang , Yiqi Zhang , Lili Qiu , Yang You , Yuqing Yang

Diffusion models are emerging expressive generative models, in which a large number of time steps (inference steps) are required for a single image generation. To accelerate such tedious process, reducing steps uniformly is considered as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Lijiang Li , Huixia Li , Xiawu Zheng , Jie Wu , Xuefeng Xiao , Rui Wang , Min Zheng , Xin Pan , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods are mainly limited by the low inference speed due to the requirements of hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing acceleration sampling techniques inevitably sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

The Stable Diffusion Model (SDM) is a popular and efficient text-to-image (t2i) generation and image-to-image (i2i) generation model. Although there have been some attempts to reduce sampling steps, model distillation, and network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Jinchao Zhu , Yuxuan Wang , Xiaobing Tu , Siyuan Pan , Pengfei Wan , Gao Huang

We explore a new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture. We train latent diffusion models of images, replacing the commonly-used U-Net backbone with a transformer that operates on latent patches. We analyze the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 William Peebles , Saining Xie

Diffusion model (DM) has achieved SOTA performance by modeling the image synthesis process into a sequential application of a denoising network. However, different from image synthesis, image restoration (IR) has a strong constraint to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Bin Xia , Yulun Zhang , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Luc Van Gool

Transformer-based diffusion models have achieved significant advancements across a variety of generative tasks. However, producing high-quality outputs typically necessitates large transformer models, which result in substantial training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Recently, the tokens of images share the same static data flow in many dense networks. However, challenges arise from the variance among the objects in images, such as large variations in the spatial scale and difficulties of recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yuchen Ma , Zhengcong Fei , Junshi Huang

Recent advancements in diffusion models, particularly the architectural transformation from UNet-based models to Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), significantly improve the quality and scalability of image and video generation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lei Chen , Yuan Meng , Chen Tang , Xinzhu Ma , Jingyan Jiang , Xin Wang , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

We present FireRed-Image-Edit, a diffusion transformer for instruction-based image editing that achieves state-of-the-art performance through systematic optimization of data curation, training methodology, and evaluation design. We…

The most advanced text-to-image (T2I) models require significant training costs (e.g., millions of GPU hours), seriously hindering the fundamental innovation for the AIGC community while increasing CO2 emissions. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Junsong Chen , Jincheng Yu , Chongjian Ge , Lewei Yao , Enze Xie , Yue Wu , Zhongdao Wang , James Kwok , Ping Luo , Huchuan Lu , Zhenguo Li