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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

Video generation models have demonstrated remarkable performance, yet their broader adoption remains constrained by slow inference speeds and substantial computational costs, primarily due to the iterative nature of the denoising process.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Xin Zhou , Dingkang Liang , Kaijin Chen , Tianrui Feng , Xiwu Chen , Hongkai Lin , Yikang Ding , Feiyang Tan , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiang Bai

Recently, Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a dominant architecture in video generation, surpassing U-Net-based models in terms of performance. However, the enhanced capabilities of DiTs come with significant drawbacks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Junyi Wu , Zhiteng Li , Zheng Hui , Yulun Zhang , Linghe Kong , Xiaokang Yang

In this paper, we uncover the hidden potential of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) to significantly enhance generative tasks. Through an in-depth analysis of the denoising process, we demonstrate that introducing a single learned scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Danil Tokhchukov , Aysel Mirzoeva , Andrey Kuznetsov , Konstantin Sobolev

Diffusion models have shown remarkable success across generative tasks, yet their high computational demands challenge deployment on resource-limited platforms. This paper investigates a critical question for compute-optimal diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zhenbang Du , Yonggan Fu , Lifu Wang , Jiayi Qian , Xiao Luo , Yingyan , Lin

Recent advancements in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have established them as the state-of-the-art method for video generation. However, their inherently sequential denoising process results in inevitable latency, limiting real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Zhifei Xu , Zhi Yao , Wenyi Zeng , Weijia Jia

With the growing demand for high-quality image generation on resource-constrained devices, efficient diffusion models have received increasing attention. However, such models suffer from approximation errors introduced by efficiency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yunshan Zhong , Weiqi Yan , Yuxin Zhang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in generative tasks, yet their iterative denoising process results in slow inference, limiting their practicality. While existing acceleration methods exploit the well-known U-shaped…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-16 Zichao Yu , Zhen Zou , Guojiang Shao , Chengwei Zhang , Shengze Xu , Jie Huang , Feng Zhao , Xiaodong Cun , Wenyi Zhang

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

Text-to-image generation via Stable Diffusion models (SDM) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities. However, their computational intensity, particularly in the iterative denoising process, hinders real-time deployment in latency-sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Shuaiting Li , Juncan Deng , Zeyu Wang , Kedong Xu , Rongtao Deng , Hong Gu , Haibin Shen , Kejie Huang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in high-fidelity image, video, and audio generation, yet inference remains computationally expensive. Nevertheless, current diffusion acceleration methods based on distributed parallelism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Euisoo Jung , Byunghyun Kim , Hyunjin Kim , Seonghye Cho , Jae-Gil Lee

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generative tasks such as image synthesis and video generation, with Transformer architectures further enhancing performance. However, the high computational cost of diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Huanpeng Chu , Wei Wu , Guanyu Fen , Yutao Zhang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve strong visual quality, but their iterative denoising process requires many costly Transformer evaluations. Training-free acceleration methods reduce this cost by caching, forecasting, or verifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuhang Zhang , Junxiang Qiu , Huixia Ben , Zhenhua Tang , Shuo Wang , Yanbin Hao

Diffusion models achieve remarkable generative quality, but computational overhead scales with step count, model depth, and sequence length. Feature caching is effective since adjacent timesteps yield highly similar features. However, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tingyan Wen , Haoyu Li , Yihuang Chen , Xing Zhou , Lifei Zhu , Xueqian Wang

While Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved notable progress in video generation, this long-sequence generation task remains constrained by the quadratic complexity inherent to self-attention mechanisms, creating significant barriers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yuxi Liu , Yipeng Hu , Zekun Zhang , Kunze Jiang , Kun Yuan

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 transformers have shown significant effectiveness in both image and video synthesis at the expense of huge computation costs. To address this problem, feature caching methods have been introduced to accelerate diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Chang Zou , Xuyang Liu , Ting Liu , Siteng Huang , Linfeng Zhang

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

While diffusion models have achieved great success in the field of video generation, this progress is accompanied by a rapidly escalating computational burden. Among the existing acceleration methods, Feature Caching is popular due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chang Zou , Changlin Li , Yang Li , Patrol Li , Jianbing Wu , Xiao He , Songtao Liu , Zhao Zhong , Kailin Huang , Linfeng Zhang

Feature caching approaches accelerate diffusion transformers (DiTs) by storing the output features of computationally expensive modules at certain timesteps, and exploiting them for subsequent steps to reduce redundant computations. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Byunggwan Son , Jeimin Jeon , Jeongwoo Choi , Bumsub Ham