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Diffusion transformers enable flexible generative modeling for video. However, it is still technically challenging and computationally expensive to generate high-resolution videos with rich semantics and complex motion. Similar to…

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We introduce Sparse Forcing, a training-and-inference paradigm for autoregressive video diffusion models that improves long-horizon generation quality while reducing decoding latency. Sparse Forcing is motivated by an empirical observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Boxun Xu , Yuming Du , Zichang Liu , Siyu Yang , Ziyang Jiang , Siqi Yan , Rajasi Saha , Albert Pumarola , Wenchen Wang , Peng Li

We introduce SANA-Video, a small diffusion model that can efficiently generate videos up to 720x1280 resolution and minute-length duration. SANA-Video synthesizes high-resolution, high-quality and long videos with strong text-video…

Transformers have become the cornerstone of modern large-scale language models, but their reliance on softmax attention poses a computational bottleneck at both training and inference. Recurrent models offer high efficiency, but compressing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Xiuying Wei , Anunay Yadav , Razvan Pascanu , Caglar Gulcehre

Diffusion-based video editing have reached impressive quality and can transform either the global style, local structure, and attributes of given video inputs, following textual edit prompts. However, such solutions typically incur heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Adil Karjauv , Davide Abati , Fatih Porikli , Yuki M. Asano , Amirhossein Habibian

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) are essential for video generation but suffer from significant latency due to the quadratic complexity of attention. By computing only critical tokens, sparse attention reduces computational costs and offers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shuo Yang , Haocheng Xi , Yilong Zhao , Muyang Li , Jintao Zhang , Han Cai , Yujun Lin , Xiuyu Li , Chenfeng Xu , Jianfei Chen , Song Han , Kurt Keutzer , Ion Stoica

Transformers have achieved widespread and remarkable success, while the computational complexity of their attention modules remains a major bottleneck for vision tasks. Existing methods mainly employ 8-bit or 4-bit quantization to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chaodong Xiao , Zhengqiang Zhang , Lei Zhang

In Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models, particularly for video generation, attention latency is a major bottleneck due to the long sequence length and the quadratic complexity. We find that attention weights can be separated into two parts:…

Recent advances in sparse voxel representations have significantly improved the quality of 3D content generation, enabling high-resolution modeling with fine-grained geometry. However, existing frameworks suffer from severe computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yiwen Chen , Zhihao Li , Yikai Wang , Hu Zhang , Qin Li , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin

While Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved breakthroughs in video generation, this long sequence generation task remains constrained by the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms, resulting in significant inference latency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Pengtao Chen , Xianfang Zeng , Maosen Zhao , Peng Ye , Mingzhu Shen , Wei Cheng , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

Transformers are slow and memory-hungry on long sequences, since the time and memory complexity of self-attention are quadratic in sequence length. Approximate attention methods have attempted to address this problem by trading off model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Tri Dao , Daniel Y. Fu , Stefano Ermon , Atri Rudra , Christopher Ré

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

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve strong video generation quality but suffer from high inference cost due to dense 3D attention, motivating sparse attention techniques for improving efficiency. However, existing training-free sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jiayi Luo , Jiayu Chen , Jiankun Wang , Cong Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Qingyun Sun , Chen Gao , Zhibo Chen , Jianxin Li

Diffusion-based video generation has advanced substantially in visual fidelity and temporal coherence, but practical deployment remains limited by the quadratic complexity of full attention. Training-free sparse attention is attractive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xuzhe Zheng , Yuexiao Ma , Jing Xu , Xiawu Zheng , Rongrong Ji , Fei Chao

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

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

Scaling video diffusion transformers (DiTs) is limited by their quadratic 3D attention, even though most of the attention mass concentrates on a small subset of positions. We turn this observation into VSA, a trainable, hardware-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Peiyuan Zhang , Yongqi Chen , Haofeng Huang , Will Lin , Zhengzhong Liu , Ion Stoica , Eric Xing , Hao Zhang

Customized generation has achieved significant progress in image synthesis, yet personalized video generation remains challenging due to temporal inconsistencies and quality degradation. In this paper, we introduce CustomVideoX, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 D. She , Mushui Liu , Jingxuan Pang , Jin Wang , Zhen Yang , Wanggui He , Guanghao Zhang , Yi Wang , Qihan Huang , Haobin Tang , Yunlong Yu , Siming Fu

In this paper, we tackle the high computational overhead of Transformers for efficient image super-resolution~(SR). Motivated by the observations of self-attention's inter-layer repetition, we introduce a convolutionized self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dongheon Lee , Seokju Yun , Youngmin Ro

This paper introduces EasyAnimate, an efficient and high quality video generation framework that leverages diffusion transformers to achieve high-quality video production, encompassing data processing, model training, and end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jiaqi Xu , Kunzhe Huang , Xinyi Zou , Yunkuo Chen , Bo Liu , MengLi Cheng , Jun Huang , Xing Shi