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Feature caching has emerged as an effective strategy to accelerate diffusion transformer (DiT) sampling through temporal feature reuse. It is a challenging problem since (1) Progressive error accumulation from cached blocks significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Junxiang Qiu , Lin Liu , Shuo Wang , Jinda Lu , Kezhou Chen , Yanbin Hao

Diffusion Transformer (DiT) is a crucial method for content generation. However, it needs a lot of time to sample. Many studies have attempted to use caching to reduce the time consumption of sampling. Existing caching methods accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Junxiang Qiu , Shuo Wang , Jinda Lu , Lin Liu , Houcheng Jiang , Xingyu Zhu , Yanbin Hao

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a cornerstone of text-to-image diffusion models, yet its effectiveness is limited by the use of static guidance scales. This "one-size-fits-all" approach fails to adapt to the diverse requirements of…

This paper presents a comprehensive study on the role of Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) in text-conditioned diffusion models from the perspective of inference efficiency. In particular, we relax the default choice of applying CFG in all…

Diffusion models have revolutionized video generation, becoming essential tools in creative content generation and physical simulation. Transformer-based architectures (DiTs) and classifier-free guidance (CFG) are two cornerstones of this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zhiye Song , Steve Dai , Ben Keller , Brucek Khailany

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality samples and enhancing performance across diverse domains through Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG). However, the quality of generated samples is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Ao Chen , Lihe Ding , Tianfan Xue

Diffusion models demonstrate outstanding performance in image generation, but their multi-step inference mechanism requires immense computational cost. Previous works accelerate inference by leveraging layer or token cache techniques to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Haowei Zhu , Ji Liu , Ziqiong Liu , Dong Li , Junhai Yong , Bin Wang , Emad Barsoum

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

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in high-fidelity image and video generation. To reduce their substantial computational costs, feature caching techniques have been proposed to accelerate inference by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Shikang Zheng , Liang Feng , Xinyu Wang , Qinming Zhou , Peiliang Cai , Chang Zou , Jiacheng Liu , Yuqi Lin , Junjie Chen , Yue Ma , Linfeng Zhang

Denoising diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images conditioned on text prompts, yet their effectiveness heavily relies on careful guidance during the sampling process. Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) provides a widely used…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shai Yehezkel , Omer Dahary , Andrey Voynov , Daniel Cohen-Or

Diffusion models are widely recognized for generating high-quality and diverse images, but their poor real-time performance has led to numerous acceleration works, primarily focusing on UNet-based structures. With the more successful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Pengtao Chen , Mingzhu Shen , Peng Ye , Jianjian Cao , Chongjun Tu , Christos-Savvas Bouganis , Yiren Zhao , Tao Chen

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is widely used to improve conditional fidelity in diffusion models, but its impact on sampling dynamics remains poorly understood. Prior studies, often restricted to unimodal conditional distributions or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Cheng Jin , Qitan Shi , Yuantao Gu

With the rapid development of text-to-vision generation diffusion models, classifier-free guidance has emerged as the most prevalent method for conditioning. However, this approach inherently requires twice as many steps for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Huixuan Zhang , Junzhe Zhang , Xiaojun Wan

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) excel in video generation but encounter significant computational challenges due to the quadratic complexity of attention. Notably, attention differences between adjacent diffusion steps follow a U-shaped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Wenzhang Sun , Qirui Hou , Donglin Di , Jiahui Yang , Yongjia Ma , Jianxun Cui

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in high-fidelity image and video generation but suffer from expensive inference due to their iterative denoising structure. While prior methods accelerate sampling by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu , Ben Lengerich , Ying Nian Wu

Diffusion models deliver high-fidelity synthesis but remain slow due to iterative sampling. We empirically observe there exists feature invariance in deterministic sampling, and present InvarDiff, a training-free acceleration method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zihao Wu

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as the dominant architecture for high-quality image and video generation, yet their iterative denoising process incurs substantial computational cost during inference. Existing caching methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Guandong Li

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling, yet their high computational cost hinders real-time deployment. While feature caching offers a promising training-free acceleration solution by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Fanpu Cao , Yaofo Chen , Zeng You , Wei Luo

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

Classifier-free guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique for improving the perceptual quality of samples from conditional diffusion models. It operates by linearly combining conditional and unconditional score estimates using a guidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Alexandre Galashov , Ashwini Pokle , Arnaud Doucet , Arthur Gretton , Mauricio Delbracio , Valentin De Bortoli
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