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Diffusion transformer (DiT) models have achieved remarkable success in image generation, thanks for their exceptional generative capabilities and scalability. Nonetheless, the iterative nature of diffusion models (DMs) results in high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zhiyuan Chen , Keyi Li , Yifan Jia , Le Ye , Yufei Ma

Caching is crucial for enabling high-throughput networks for data intensive applications. Traditional caching technology relies on DRAM, as it can transfer data at a high rate. However, DRAM capacity is subject to contention by most system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Faruk Volkan Mutlu , Edmund Yeh

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in content generation but often incur prohibitive computational costs due to iterative sampling. Recent feature caching methods accelerate inference via temporal extrapolation, yet can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Liang Feng , Shikang Zheng , Jiacheng Liu , Yuqi Lin , Qinming Zhou , Peiliang Cai , Xinyu Wang , Junjie Chen , Chang Zou , Yue Ma , Linfeng Zhang

Instead of performing text-conditioned denoising in the image domain, latent diffusion models (LDMs) operate in latent space of a variational autoencoder (VAE), enabling more efficient processing at reduced computational costs. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jason Becker , Chris Wendler , Peter Baylies , Robert West , Christian Wressnegger

Diffusion-based image generation models excel at producing high-quality synthetic content, but suffer from slow and computationally expensive inference. Prior work has attempted to mitigate this by caching and reusing features within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Anirud Aggarwal , Abhinav Shrivastava , Matthew Gwilliam

Recently, diffusion-based object removal models have achieved impressive results in eliminating objects and their associated visual effects. However, they indiscriminately denoise all tokens across all timesteps, ignoring that removal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yixin Tang , Jiawei Guo , Junxian Li , Zhiteng Li , Jixin Zhao , Bingya Zhang , Chenbo Wang , Yulun Zhang , Shangchen Zhou

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) excel at visual generation yet remain hampered by slow sampling. Existing training-free accelerators - step reduction, feature caching, and sparse attention - enhance inference speed but typically rely on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Wangbo Zhao , Yizeng Han , Zhiwei Tang , Jiasheng Tang , Pengfei Zhou , Kai Wang , Bohan Zhuang , Zhangyang Wang , Fan Wang , Yang You

Diffusion models have revolutionized high-fidelity image and video synthesis, yet their computational demands remain prohibitive for real-time applications. These models face two fundamental challenges: strict temporal dependencies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jiacheng Liu , Chang Zou , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Fei Ren , Shaobo Wang , Kaixin Li , Linfeng Zhang

Although Diffusion Transformer (DiT) has emerged as a predominant architecture for image and video generation, its iterative denoising process results in slow inference, which hinders broader applicability and development. Caching-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tong Shao , Yusen Fu , Guoying Sun , Jingde Kong , Zhuotao Tian , Jingyong Su

We present ImplicitSLIM, a novel unsupervised learning approach for sparse high-dimensional data, with applications to collaborative filtering. Sparse linear methods (SLIM) and their variations show outstanding performance, but they are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ilya Shenbin , Sergey Nikolenko

Diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in generation problems over various domains including images, videos, text, and audio. A practical bottleneck of diffusion models is their sampling speed, due to the repeated evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Taehong Moon , Moonseok Choi , EungGu Yun , Jongmin Yoon , Gayoung Lee , Jaewoong Cho , Juho Lee

Diffusion models have become the dominant tool for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet are critically bottlenecked by their inference speed due to the numerous iterative passes of Diffusion Transformers. To reduce the exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Han , Juntong Shi , Puheng Li , Haotian Ye , Qiushan Guo , Stefano Ermon

Generating temporally-consistent high-fidelity videos can be computationally expensive, especially over longer temporal spans. More-recent Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) -- despite making significant headway in this context -- have only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Haozhe Liu , Sen He , Ding Liu , Menglin Jia , Chenyang Zhang , Michael S. Ryoo , Tian Xie

In this paper, we propose an efficient, fast, and versatile distillation method to accelerate the generation of pre-trained diffusion models: Flash Diffusion. The method reaches state-of-the-art performances in terms of FID and CLIP-Score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Clément Chadebec , Onur Tasar , Eyal Benaroche , Benjamin Aubin

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become the dominant methods in image and video generation yet still suffer substantial computational costs. As an effective approach for DiT acceleration, feature caching methods are designed to cache the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Chang Zou , Evelyn Zhang , Runlin Guo , Haohang Xu , Conghui He , Xuming Hu , Linfeng Zhang

Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) enable breakthroughs in reasoning and parallel decoding but suffer from prohibitive quadratic computational complexity and memory overhead during inference. Current caching techniques accelerate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Yuerong Song , Xiaoran Liu , Ruixiao Li , Zhigeng Liu , Zengfeng Huang , Qipeng Guo , Ziwei He , Xipeng Qiu

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual generation tasks. However, their low inference speed limits their deployment in low-resource applications. Recent training-free approaches exploit the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xiaoliu Guan , Lielin Jiang , Hanqi Chen , Xu Zhang , Jiaxing Yan , Guanzhong Wang , Yi Liu , Zetao Zhang , Yu Wu

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

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have revolutionized high-fidelity image and video synthesis, yet their computational demands remain prohibitive for real-time applications. To solve this problem, feature caching has been proposed to accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jiacheng Liu , Chang Zou , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Junjie Chen , Linfeng Zhang

Flow Matching models achieve state-of-the-art image generation quality but incur substantial inference cost due to iterative denoising through large Transformer networks. We observe that different layer groups within a Transformer exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Guandong Li