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Text-to-video diffusion models have advanced video generation significantly. However, customizing these models to generate videos with tailored motions presents a substantial challenge. In specific, they encounter hurdles in (a) accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Hyeonho Jeong , Geon Yeong Park , Jong Chul Ye

We present a motion-adaptive temporal attention mechanism for parameter-efficient video generation built upon frozen Stable Diffusion models. Rather than treating all video content uniformly, our method dynamically adjusts temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Rui Hong , Shuxue Quan

Long-context video understanding and generation pose a significant computational challenge for Transformer-based video models due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention. While existing sparse attention methods employ coarse-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Anmin Liu , Ruixuan Yang , Huiqiang Jiang , Bin Lin , Minmin Sun , Yong Li , Chen Zhang , Tao Xie

Contemporary diffusion models built upon U-Net or Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architectures have revolutionized image generation through transformer-based attention mechanisms. The prevailing paradigm has commonly employed self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 ZiYi Dong , Chengxing Zhou , Weijian Deng , Pengxu Wei , Xiangyang Ji , Liang Lin

Current hierarchical attention methods, such as NSA and InfLLMv2, select the top-k relevant key-value (KV) blocks based on coarse attention scores and subsequently apply fine-grained softmax attention on the selected tokens. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yuxiang Huang , Nuno M. T. Gonçalves , Federico Alvetreti , Lei Li , Xu Han , Edoardo M. Ponti , André F. T. Martins , Marcos V. Treviso

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) dominate video generation but their high computational cost severely limits real-world applicability, usually requiring tens of minutes to generate a few seconds of video even on high-performance GPUs. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Haocheng Xi , Shuo Yang , Yilong Zhao , Chenfeng Xu , Muyang Li , Xiuyu Li , Yujun Lin , Han Cai , Jintao Zhang , Dacheng Li , Jianfei Chen , Ion Stoica , Kurt Keutzer , Song Han

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

Due to storage and bandwidth limitations, videos transmitted over the Internet often exhibit low quality, characterized by low-resolution and compression artifacts. Although video super-resolution (VSR) is an efficient video enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Hongyu An , Xinfeng Zhang , Shijie Zhao , Li Zhang , Ruiqin Xiong

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) excel at image and video generation but face computational challenges due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention operators. We propose DiTFastAttn, a post-training compression method to alleviate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zhihang Yuan , Hanling Zhang , Pu Lu , Xuefei Ning , Linfeng Zhang , Tianchen Zhao , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

Despite the promise of synthesizing high-fidelity videos, Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) with 3D full attention suffer from expensive inference due to the complexity of attention computation and numerous sampling steps. For example, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Hangliang Ding , Dacheng Li , Runlong Su , Peiyuan Zhang , Zhijie Deng , Ion Stoica , Hao Zhang

Generating realistic videos with diffusion transformers demands significant computation, with attention layers the central bottleneck; even producing a short clip requires running a transformer over a very long sequence of embeddings, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Sankeerth Durvasula , Kavya Sreedhar , Zain Moustafa , Suraj Kothawade , Ashish Gondimalla , Suvinay Subramanian , Narges Shahidi , Nandita Vijaykumar

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

Diffusion-based video editing has emerged as an important paradigm for high-quality and flexible content generation. However, despite their generality and strong modeling capacity, Diffusion Transformers (DiT) remain computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Tianyi Liu , Ye Lu , Linfeng Zhang , Chen Cai , Jianjun Gao , Yi Wang , Kim-Hui Yap , Lap-Pui Chau

Recent advances in video diffusion models have shifted towards transformer-based architectures, achieving state-of-the-art video generation but at the cost of quadratic attention complexity, which severely limits scalability for longer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mohsen Ghafoorian , Amirhossein Habibian

The Transformer architecture has revolutionized deep learning, delivering the state-of-the-art performance in areas such as natural language processing, computer vision, and time series prediction. However, its core component,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Haolin Jin , Mengbai Xiao , Yuan Yuan , Xiao Zhang , Dongxiao Yu , Guanghui Zhang , Haoliang Wang

Video generation using diffusion models is highly computationally intensive, with 3D attention in Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models accounting for over 80\% of the total computational resources. In this work, we introduce {\bf RainFusion},…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Aiyue Chen , Bin Dong , Jingru Li , Jing Lin , Kun Tian , Yiwu Yao , Gongyi Wang

Transformers and their attention mechanism have been revolutionary in the field of Machine Learning. While originally proposed for the language data, they quickly found their way to the image, video, graph, etc. data modalities with various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Saeed Amizadeh , Sara Abdali , Yinheng Li , Kazuhito Koishida

Generating high-fidelity long videos with Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) is often hindered by significant latency, primarily due to the computational demands of attention mechanisms. For instance, generating an 8-second 720p video (110K…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yifei Xia , Suhan Ling , Fangcheng Fu , Yujie Wang , Huixia Li , Xuefeng Xiao , Bin Cui

In video and image generation tasks, Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models incur extremely high computational costs due to attention mechanisms, which limits their practical applications. Furthermore, with hardware advancements, a wide range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aiyue Chen , Yaofu Liu , Junjian Huang , Guang Lian , Yiwu Yao , Wangli Lan , Jing Lin , Zhixin Ma , Tingting Zhou

This paper is on video recognition using Transformers. Very recent attempts in this area have demonstrated promising results in terms of recognition accuracy, yet they have been also shown to induce, in many cases, significant computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Adrian Bulat , Juan-Manuel Perez-Rua , Swathikiran Sudhakaran , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos