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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) and related flow-based architectures are now among the strongest text-to-image generators, yet the internal mechanisms through which prompts shape image semantics remain poorly understood. In this work, we…

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Diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable success in various domains. It trains a shared model on denoising tasks that encompass different noise levels simultaneously, representing a form of multi-task learning (MTL).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Hyojun Go , JinYoung Kim , Yunsung Lee , Seunghyun Lee , Shinhyeok Oh , Hyeongdon Moon , Seungtaek Choi

Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in video generation. However, the computational intensity remains a significant challenge for practical applications. While feature caching has been proposed to…

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In-phase synchronization is a special case of synchronous behavior when coupled oscillators have the same phases for any time moments. Such behavior appears naturally for nearly identical coupled limit-cycle oscillators when the coupling…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2019-09-24 Viktor Novičenko , Irmantas Ratas

Talking head generation is a significant research topic that still faces numerous challenges. Previous works often adopt generative adversarial networks or regression models, which are plagued by generation quality and average facial shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Ziyu Yao , Xuxin Cheng , Zhiqi Huang

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

Recent advancements in diffusion models have notably improved the perceptual quality of generated images in text-to-image synthesis tasks. However, diffusion models often struggle to produce images that accurately reflect the intended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yang Zhang , Teoh Tze Tzun , Lim Wei Hern , Tiviatis Sim , Kenji Kawaguchi

Deep Learning architectures, and in particular Transformers, are conventionally viewed as a composition of layers. These layers are actually often obtained as the sum of two contributions: a residual path that copies the input and the…

Synchronization transmission describes the emergence of coherence between two uncoupled oscillators mediated by their mutual coupling to an intermediate one. In classical star networks, such mediated coupling gives rise to remote…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Shuo Dai , Ran Qi

We explore the role of attention mechanism during inference in text-conditional diffusion models. Empirical observations suggest that cross-attention outputs converge to a fixed point after several inference steps. The convergence time…

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We present Scalable Interpolant Transformers (SiT), a family of generative models built on the backbone of Diffusion Transformers (DiT). The interpolant framework, which allows for connecting two distributions in a more flexible way than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Nanye Ma , Mark Goldstein , Michael S. Albergo , Nicholas M. Boffi , Eric Vanden-Eijnden , Saining Xie

We investigate the dynamic behavior of lattices with disorder introduced through non-local network connections. Inspired by the Watts-Strogatz small-world model, we employ a single parameter to determine the probability of local connections…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Matheus I. N. Rosa , Massimo Ruzzene

This paper gives a fresh look at network synchronization. Here we no longer analyze it from the view of mathematics, such as graph theory, while we probe into one from control theory. First, we analyze the synchronization region using the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Jilie Zhang

A form of "remote synchronization" was recently described wherein amplitude fluctuations across a ring of non-identical, non-linear electronic oscillators become entrained into spatially-structured patterns. According to linear models and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-26 Ludovico Minati , Luca Faes , Mattia Frasca , Pawel Oswiecimka , Stanislaw Drozdz

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

Diffusion models excel at generation, but their latent spaces are high dimensional and not explicitly organized for interpretation or control. We introduce ConDA (Contrastive Diffusion Alignment), a plug-and-play geometry layer that applies…

Synchronisation of parallel grid-forming inverters is crucial for stable operation of future power systems. This includes accurate and robust reactive power sharing under realistic operating conditions such as impedance mismatch and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 E. D. Gomez Anccas , E. A. MacPherson , J. Tegeler , K. Röbert , M. Fischer , C. A. Hans , D. Schulz

Starting from flow- and diffusion-based transformers, Multi-modal Diffusion Transformers (MM-DiTs) have reshaped text-to-vision generation, gaining acclaim for exceptional visual fidelity. As these models advance, users continually push the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Seil Kang , Woojung Han , Dayun Ju , Seong Jae Hwang

Transformers are increasingly adopted for modeling and forecasting time-series, yet their internal mechanisms remain poorly understood from a dynamical systems perspective. In contrast to classical autoregressive and state-space models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Gregory Duthé , Nikolaos Evangelou , Wei Liu , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Eleni Chatzi

We challenge a fundamental assumption of diffusion models, namely, that a large number of latent-states or time-steps is required for training so that the reverse generative process is close to a Gaussian. We first show that with careful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Samarth Gupta , Raghudeep Gadde , Rui Chen , Aleix M. Martinez