English
Related papers

Related papers: WorldCache: Content-Aware Caching for Accelerated …

200 papers

Text-to-video diffusion models deliver impressive results but remain slow because of the sequential denoising of 3D latents. Existing approaches to speed up inference either require expensive model retraining or use heuristic-based step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Joel Mathew Cherian , Ashutosh Muralidhara Bharadwaj , Vima Gupta , Anand Padmanabha Iyer

Diffusion models are a strong backbone for visual generation, but their inherently sequential denoising process leads to slow inference. Previous methods accelerate sampling by caching and reusing intermediate outputs based on feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jiwoo Chung , Sangeek Hyun , MinKyu Lee , Byeongju Han , Geonho Cha , Dongyoon Wee , Youngjun Hong , Jae-Pil Heo

Diffusion Transformers rely on static patchify tokenization, assigning the same token budget to smooth backgrounds, detailed object regions, noisy early timesteps, and late-stage refinements. We introduce the Dynamic Chunking Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Akash Haridas , Utkarsh Saxena , Parsa Ashrafi Fashi , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Vikram Appia , Emad Barsoum

World models, which predict future transitions from past observation and action sequences, have shown great promise for improving data efficiency in sequential decision-making. However, existing world models often require extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Siqiao Huang , Jialong Wu , Qixing Zhou , Shangchen Miao , Mingsheng Long

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 recently revolutionized the field of image synthesis due to their ability to generate photorealistic images. However, one of the major drawbacks of diffusion models is that the image generation process is costly. A…

Autoregressive video diffusion models have enabled real-time, action-conditioned world generation. However, sustaining a persistent world, where revisiting a previously seen viewpoint yields consistent content, remains an open problem. Full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jung Yi , Minjae Kim , Paul Hyunbin Cho , Wooseok Jang , Sangdoo Yun , Seungryong Kim

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance on a wide range of generative tasks, yet training them from scratch is notoriously resource-intensive, typically requiring millions of training images and many GPU days. Motivated by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Rui Huang , Shitong Shao , Zikai Zhou , Pukun Zhao , Hangyu Guo , Tian Ye , Lichen Bai , Shuo Yang , Zeke Xie

Diffusion Transformer (DiT), an emerging diffusion model for image generation, has demonstrated superior performance but suffers from substantial computational costs. Our investigations reveal that these costs stem from the static inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Wangbo Zhao , Yizeng Han , Jiasheng Tang , Kai Wang , Yibing Song , Gao Huang , Fan Wang , Yang You

The application of diffusion transformers is suffering from their significant inference costs. Recently, feature caching has been proposed to solve this problem by reusing features from previous timesteps, thereby skipping computation in…

Generation-driven world models create immersive virtual environments but suffer slow inference due to the iterative nature of diffusion models. While recent advances have improved diffusion model efficiency, directly applying these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Quanjian Song , Xinyu Wang , Donghao Zhou , Jingyu Lin , Cunjian Chen , Yue Ma

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve strong visual quality, but their iterative denoising process requires many costly Transformer evaluations. Training-free acceleration methods reduce this cost by caching, forecasting, or verifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuhang Zhang , Junxiang Qiu , Huixia Ben , Zhenhua Tang , Shuo Wang , Yanbin Hao

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have become the de-facto model for generating high-quality visual content like videos and images. A huge bottleneck is the attention mechanism where complexity scales quadratically with resolution and video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ruichen Chen , Keith G. Mills , Liyao Jiang , Chao Gao , Di Niu

Diffusion Policy has demonstrated strong visuomotor modeling capabilities, but its high computational cost renders it impractical for real-time robotic control. Despite huge redundancy across repetitive denoising steps, existing diffusion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Kangye Ji , Yuan Meng , Hanyun Cui , Ye Li , Jianbo Zhou , Shengjia Hua , Lei Chen , Zhi Wang

Diffusion models achieve remarkable generative quality, but computational overhead scales with step count, model depth, and sequence length. Feature caching is effective since adjacent timesteps yield highly similar features. However, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Tingyan Wen , Haoyu Li , Yihuang Chen , Xing Zhou , Lifei Zhu , Xueqian Wang

Autoregressive video diffusion models enable streaming generation, opening the door to long-form synthesis, video world models, and interactive neural game engines. However, their core attention layers become a major bottleneck at inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dvir Samuel , Issar Tzachor , Matan Levy , Micahel Green , Gal Chechik , Rami Ben-Ari

Diffusion models have become the dominant tool for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet are critically bottlenecked by their inference speed due to the numerous iterative passes of Diffusion Transformers. To reduce the exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Han , Juntong Shi , Puheng Li , Haotian Ye , Qiushan Guo , Stefano Ermon

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

Feature caching has recently emerged as a promising method for diffusion model acceleration. It effectively alleviates the inefficiency problem caused by high computational requirements by caching similar features in the inference process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiayi Pan , Jiaming Xu , Yongkang Zhou , Guohao Dai

World models learn to predict future states of an environment, enabling planning and mental simulation. Current approaches default to Transformer-based predictors operating in learned latent spaces. This comes at a cost: O(N^2) computation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Fabien Polly