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Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Baixu Chen , Haoran Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Diffusion models have gained attention for their ability to represent complex distributions and incorporate uncertainty, making them ideal for robust predictions in the presence of noisy or incomplete data. In this study, we develop and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yilin Zhuang , Sibo Cheng , Karthik Duraisamy

Diffusion Transformers offer state-of-the-art fidelity in image and video synthesis, but their iterative sampling process remains a major bottleneck due to the high cost of transformer forward passes at each timestep. To mitigate this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shikang Zheng , Guantao Chen , Qinming Zhou , Yuqi Lin , Lixuan He , Chang Zou , Peiliang Cai , Jiacheng Liu , Linfeng Zhang

We propose Context Diffusion, a diffusion-based framework that enables image generation models to learn from visual examples presented in context. Recent work tackles such in-context learning for image generation, where a query image is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Ivona Najdenkoska , Animesh Sinha , Abhimanyu Dubey , Dhruv Mahajan , Vignesh Ramanathan , Filip Radenovic

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have been seen as a promising competitor for autoregressive language models. However, diffusion language models have long been constrained by slow inference. A core challenge is that their non-autoregressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xinyin Ma , Runpeng Yu , Gongfan Fang , Xinchao Wang

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

Diffusion models, as a type of generative model, have achieved impressive results in generating images and videos conditioned on textual conditions. However, the generation process of diffusion models involves denoising dozens of steps to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hui Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Zhen Xing , Jie Shao , Yu-Gang Jiang

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models, but their high computation cost in iterative sampling remains a significant bottleneck. In this work, we present an in-depth and insightful study of state-of-the-art acceleration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Weizhi Gao , Zhichao Hou , Junqi Yin , Feiyi Wang , Linyu Peng , Xiaorui Liu

Diffusion models have marked a significant breakthrough in the synthesis of semantically coherent images. However, their extensive noise estimation networks and the iterative generation process limit their wider application, particularly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuzhe Yao , Feng Tian , Jun Chen , Haonan Lin , Guang Dai , Yong Liu , Jingdong Wang

Discrete diffusion models have recently emerged as a promising alternative to the autoregressive approach for generating discrete sequences. Sample generation via gradual denoising or demasking processes allows them to capture hierarchical…

The objective for establishing dense correspondence between paired images consists of two terms: a data term and a prior term. While conventional techniques focused on defining hand-designed prior terms, which are difficult to formulate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Jisu Nam , Gyuseong Lee , Sunwoo Kim , Hyeonsu Kim , Hyoungwon Cho , Seyeon Kim , Seungryong Kim

Diffusion model deployment has been suffering from high energy consumption and inference latency despite its superior performance in visual generation tasks. Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) offers a promising solution to…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Jinqi Wen , Tong Xie , Runsheng Wang , Meng Li

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

We investigate methods to reduce inference time and memory footprint in stable diffusion models by introducing lightweight decoders for both image and video synthesis. Traditional latent diffusion pipelines rely on large Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Alexey Buzovkin , Evgeny Shilov

Autoregressive models, often built on Transformer architectures, represent a powerful paradigm for generating ultra-long videos by synthesizing content in sequential chunks. However, this sequential generation process is notoriously slow.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yuexiao Ma , Xuzhe Zheng , Jing Xu , Xiwei Xu , Feng Ling , Xiawu Zheng , Huafeng Kuang , Huixia Li , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Diffusion Transformers require repeated denoiser evaluations during iterative sampling, making inference computationally expensive. Cache-based acceleration reduces this cost by reusing intermediate representations across denoising steps,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mingyu Liang , Dingkun Xu , Jingwei Xu

Diffusion models, emerging as powerful deep generative tools, excel in various applications. They operate through a two-steps process: introducing noise into training samples and then employing a model to convert random noise into new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Huijie Zhang , Yifu Lu , Ismail Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Dogyoon Song , Qing Qu

Diffusion transformers (DiT) have become the de facto choice for generating high-quality images and videos, largely due to their scalability, which enables the construction of larger models for enhanced performance. However, the increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Pratheba Selvaraju , Tianyu Ding , Tianyi Chen , Ilya Zharkov , Luming Liang

Diffusion models have shown exceptional performance in visual generation tasks. Recently, these models have shifted from traditional U-Shaped CNN-Attention hybrid structures to fully transformer-based isotropic architectures. While these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuchuan Tian , Jing Han , Chengcheng Wang , Yuchen Liang , Chao Xu , Hanting Chen