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Despite the success of transformers on various computer vision tasks, they suffer from excessive memory and computational cost. Some works present dynamic vision transformers to accelerate inference by pruning redundant tokens. A key to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Fengyuan Shi , Limin Wang

Diffusion transformers have shown exceptional performance in visual generation but incur high computational costs. Token reduction techniques that compress models by sharing the denoising process among similar tokens have been introduced.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haipeng Fang , Sheng Tang , Juan Cao , Enshuo Zhang , Fan Tang , Tong-Yee Lee

The issue of generative pretraining for vision models has persisted as a long-standing conundrum. At present, the text-to-image (T2I) diffusion model demonstrates remarkable proficiency in generating high-definition images matching textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Qiang Wan , Zilong Huang , Bingyi Kang , Jiashi Feng , Li Zhang

Transformers have revolutionized natural language processing, but their quadratic complexity with respect to sequence length remains a fundamental bottleneck for long-range modeling. While sparse attention mechanisms like RingAttention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu

As the development of large-scale Generative AI models evolve beyond text (1D) generation to include image (2D) and video (3D) generation, processing spatial and temporal information presents unique challenges to quality, performance, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Alicia Golden , Samuel Hsia , Fei Sun , Bilge Acun , Basil Hosmer , Yejin Lee , Zachary DeVito , Jeff Johnson , Gu-Yeon Wei , David Brooks , Carole-Jean Wu

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

High runtime memory and high latency puts significant constraint on Vision Transformer training and inference, especially on edge devices. Token pruning reduces the number of input tokens to the ViT based on importance criteria of each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sudhakar Sah , Ravish Kumar , Honnesh Rohmetra , Ehsan Saboori

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 (DMs) have exhibited superior performance in generating high-quality and diverse images. However, this exceptional performance comes at the cost of expensive architectural design, particularly due to the attention module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Hongjie Wang , Difan Liu , Yan Kang , Yijun Li , Zhe Lin , Niraj K. Jha , Yuchen Liu

Text-to-image (T2I) customization aims to create images that embody specific visual concepts delineated in textual descriptions. However, existing works still face a main challenge, concept overfitting. To tackle this challenge, we first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Weili Zeng , Yichao Yan , Qi Zhu , Zhuo Chen , Pengzhi Chu , Weiming Zhao , Xiaokang Yang

Text-to-image diffusion models generate impressive and realistic images, but do they learn to represent the 3D world from only 2D supervision? We demonstrate that yes, certain 3D scene representations are encoded in the text embedding space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 James Burgess , Kuan-Chieh Wang , Serena Yeung-Levy

Vision-Language Action (VLA) models have shown remarkable progress in robotic manipulation by leveraging the powerful perception abilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to understand environments and directly output actions. However, by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Chenyang Li , Jieyuan Liu , Bin Li , Bo Gao , Yilin Yuan , Yangfan He , Yuchen Li , Jingqun Tang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in computer vision tasks, yet their high computational complexity prevents their deployment in computing resource-constrained environments. Various token pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Xuwei Xu , Changlin Li , Yudong Chen , Xiaojun Chang , Jiajun Liu , Sen Wang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) can generate short photorealistic videos, yet directly training and sampling longer videos with full attention across the video remains computationally challenging. Alternative methods break long videos down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Bhishma Dedhia , David Bourgin , Krishna Kumar Singh , Yuheng Li , Yan Kang , Zhan Xu , Niraj K. Jha , Yuchen Liu

Can we use sparse tokens for dense prediction, e.g., segmentation? Although token sparsification has been applied to Vision Transformers (ViT) to accelerate classification, it is still unknown how to perform segmentation from sparse tokens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Lei Zhou , Huidong Liu , Joseph Bae , Junjun He , Dimitris Samaras , Prateek Prasanna

Despite the recent success of large language models (LLMs), LLMs are particularly challenging in long-sequence inference scenarios due to the quadratic computational complexity of the attention mechanism. Inspired by the interpretability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yao Tao , Yehui Tang , Yun Wang , Mingjian Zhu , Hailin Hu , Yunhe Wang

This paper identifies significant redundancy in the query-key interactions within self-attention mechanisms of diffusion transformer models, particularly during the early stages of denoising diffusion steps. In response to this observation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yifan Pu , Zhuofan Xia , Jiayi Guo , Dongchen Han , Qixiu Li , Duo Li , Yuhui Yuan , Ji Li , Yizeng Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang , Xiu Li

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown impressive performance across multi-modal tasks by encoding images into thousands of tokens. However, the large number of image tokens results in significant computational overhead, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kaiyuan Li , Xiaoyue Chen , Chen Gao , Yong Li , Xinlei Chen

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models are widely recognized for their ability to generate high-quality and diverse images based on text prompts. However, despite recent advances, these models are still prone to generating unsafe images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jiangweizhi Peng , Zhiwei Tang , Gaowen Liu , Charles Fleming , Mingyi Hong

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in text-to-image synthesis but remain computationally expensive due to the iterative nature of denoising and the quadratic cost of global attention. In this work, we observe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bowen Lin , Fanjiang Ye , Yihua Liu , Zhenghui Guo , Boyuan Zhang , Weijian Zheng , Yufan Xu , Tiancheng Xing , Yuke Wang , Chengming Zhang