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Latent generative modeling, where a pretrained autoencoder maps pixels into a latent space for the diffusion process, has become the standard strategy for Diffusion Transformers (DiT); however, the autoencoder component has barely evolved.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Boyang Zheng , Nanye Ma , Shengbang Tong , Saining Xie

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling, yet their high computational cost hinders real-time deployment. While feature caching offers a promising training-free acceleration solution by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Fanpu Cao , Yaofo Chen , Zeng You , Wei Luo

Existing text-to-image diffusion models struggle to synthesize realistic images given dense captions, where each text prompt provides a detailed description for a specific image region. To address this, we propose DenseDiffusion, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Jun-Yan Zhu

Recent works such as REPA have shown that guiding diffusion models with external semantic features (e.g., DINO) can significantly accelerate the training of diffusion transformers (DiTs). However, the use of pretrained external features as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Zhengqiang Zhang , Ruibin Li , Yujing Sun , Shuaizheng Liu , Lei Zhang

Do the rich representations of multi-modal diffusion transformers (DiTs) exhibit unique properties that enhance their interpretability? We introduce ConceptAttention, a novel method that leverages the expressive power of DiT attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Alec Helbling , Tuna Han Salih Meral , Ben Hoover , Pinar Yanardag , Duen Horng Chau

We present DC-AE 1.5, a new family of deep compression autoencoders for high-resolution diffusion models. Increasing the autoencoder's latent channel number is a highly effective approach for improving its reconstruction quality. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Junyu Chen , Dongyun Zou , Wenkun He , Junsong Chen , Enze Xie , Song Han , Han Cai

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) are renowned for their impressive generative performance; however, they are significantly constrained by considerable computational costs due to the quadratic complexity in self-attention and the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Yi Yang

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a widely adopted backbone for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet their iterative denoising process incurs high computational costs. Existing training-free acceleration methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Hanshuai Cui , Zhiqing Tang , Qianli Ma , Zhi Yao , Weijia Jia

Diffusion models are widely recognized for their ability to generate high-fidelity images. Despite the excellent performance and scalability of the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architecture, it applies fixed compression across different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Weinan Jia , Mengqi Huang , Nan Chen , Lei Zhang , Zhendong Mao

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities but remain highly computationally expensive. Previous acceleration methods, such as pruning and distillation, typically rely on a fixed computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jiangshan Wang , Zeqiang Lai , Jiarui Chen , Jiayi Guo , Hang Guo , Xiu Li , Xiangyu Yue , Chunchao Guo

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

Diffusion Transformers, particularly for video generation, achieve remarkable quality but suffer from quadratic attention complexity, leading to prohibitive latency. Existing acceleration methods face a fundamental trade-off: dynamically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Dor Shmilovich , Tony Wu , Aviad Dahan , Yuval Domb

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive generation capabilities, particularly with recent advancements leveraging transformer architectures to improve both visual and artistic quality. However, Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) continue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Hui Zhang , Tingwei Gao , Jie Shao , Zuxuan Wu

As a class of fruitful approaches, diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown excellent advantages in high-resolution image reconstruction. On the other hand, masked autoencoders (MAEs), as popular self-supervised vision learners,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zhiyuan Ma , zhihuan yu , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) set the state of the art in visual generation, yet their quadratic self-attention cost fundamentally limits scaling to long token sequences. Recent Top-K sparse attention approaches reduce the computation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yifan Zhou , Zeqi Xiao , Tianyi Wei , Shuai Yang , Xingang Pan

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown remarkable results on various image synthesis tasks such as text-to-image generation and image inpainting. However, compared to other generative methods like VAEs and GANs, DPMs lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yipeng Leng , Qiangjuan Huang , Zhiyuan Wang , Yangyang Liu , Haoyu Zhang

Diffusion Transformer (DiT), a promising diffusion model for visual generation, demonstrates impressive performance but incurs significant computational overhead. Intriguingly, analysis of pre-trained DiT models reveals that global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yuang Ai , Qihang Fan , Xuefeng Hu , Zhenheng Yang , Ran He , Huaibo Huang

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become a leading architecture in image generation. However, the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms, which are responsible for modeling token-wise relationships, results in significant latency when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Songhua Liu , Zhenxiong Tan , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion autoencoders (DAEs) are typically formulated as a noise prediction model and trained with a linear-$\beta$ noise schedule that spends much of its sampling steps at high noise levels. Because high noise levels are associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Pramook Khungurn , Sukit Seripanitkarn , Phonphrm Thawatdamrongkit , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

The predominant approach to advancing text-to-image generation has been training-time scaling, where larger models are trained on more data using greater computational resources. While effective, this approach is computationally expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Akash Gokul , Arsh Koneru , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Aditya Grover