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Diffusion models have significantly advanced the field of generative modeling. However, training a diffusion model is computationally expensive, creating a pressing need to adapt off-the-shelf diffusion models for downstream generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jincheng Zhong , Xingzhuo Guo , Jiaxiang Dong , Mingsheng Long

Diffusion models have recently achieved great success in the synthesis of high-quality images and videos. However, the existing denoising techniques in diffusion models are commonly based on step-by-step noise predictions, which suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hancheng Ye , Jiakang Yuan , Renqiu Xia , Xiangchao Yan , Tao Chen , Junchi Yan , Botian Shi , Bo Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in content generation but often incur prohibitive computational costs due to iterative sampling. Recent feature caching methods accelerate inference via temporal extrapolation, yet can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Liang Feng , Shikang Zheng , Jiacheng Liu , Yuqi Lin , Qinming Zhou , Peiliang Cai , Xinyu Wang , Junjie Chen , Chang Zou , Yue Ma , Linfeng Zhang

Distilling state-of-the-art transformer models into lightweight student models is an effective way to reduce computation cost at inference time. The student models are typically compact transformers with fewer parameters, while expensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Qinyuan Ye , Madian Khabsa , Mike Lewis , Sinong Wang , Xiang Ren , Aaron Jaech

We aim to leverage diffusion to address the challenging image matting task. However, the presence of high computational overhead and the inconsistency of noise sampling between the training and inference processes pose significant obstacles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yihan Hu , Yiheng Lin , Wei Wang , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

Diffusion-based world models have shown strong potential for unified world simulation, but the iterative denoising remains too costly for interactive use and long-horizon rollouts. While feature caching can accelerate inference without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Weilun Feng , Guoxin Fan , Haotong Qin , Chuanguang Yang , Mingqiang Wu , Yuqi Li , Xiangqi Li , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Dingrui Wang , Longlong Liao , Michele Magno , Yongjun Xu

Autoregressive models (ARMs) are hindered by slow sequential inference. While masked diffusion models (MDMs) offer a parallel alternative, they suffer from critical drawbacks: high computational overhead from precluding Key-Value (KV)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jia-Nan Li , Jian Guan , Wei Wu , Chongxuan Li

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in high-fidelity image, video, and audio generation, yet inference remains computationally expensive. Nevertheless, current diffusion acceleration methods based on distributed parallelism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Euisoo Jung , Byunghyun Kim , Hyunjin Kim , Seonghye Cho , Jae-Gil Lee

The most advanced text-to-image (T2I) models require significant training costs (e.g., millions of GPU hours), seriously hindering the fundamental innovation for the AIGC community while increasing CO2 emissions. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Junsong Chen , Jincheng Yu , Chongjian Ge , Lewei Yao , Enze Xie , Yue Wu , Zhongdao Wang , James Kwok , Ping Luo , Huchuan Lu , Zhenguo Li

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 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

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have achieved impressive success in visual generation. While, they suffer from slow inference speed due to iterative sampling. Employing fewer sampling steps is an intuitive solution, but this will also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hu Yu , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Feng Zhao

Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhennan Chen , Junwei Zhu , Xu Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Diffusion Transformer (DiT) models have achieved unprecedented quality in image and video generation, yet their iterative sampling process remains computationally prohibitive. To accelerate inference, feature caching methods have emerged by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Guantao Chen , Shikang Zheng , Yuqi Lin , Linfeng Zhang

Nearly every recent image synthesis approach, including diffusion, masked-token prediction, and next-token prediction, uses a Transformer network architecture. Despite this common backbone, there has been no direct, compute controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Maciej Kilian , Varun Jampani , Luke Zettlemoyer

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve superior image generation quality but suffer from quadratic computational complexity relative to token count. While various token reduction (TR) methods have been proposed to mitigate this cost, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Hangyeol Lee , Hyojeong Lee , Joo-Young Kim

Due to the recent success of diffusion models, text-to-image generation is becoming increasingly popular and achieves a wide range of applications. Among them, text-to-image editing, or continuous text-to-image generation, attracts lots of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Zihao Yu , Haoyang Li , Fangcheng Fu , Xupeng Miao , Bin Cui

While diffusion-based generative models have made significant strides in visual content creation, conventional approaches face computational challenges, especially for high-resolution images, as they denoise the entire image from noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Haohang Xu , Longyu Chen , Yichen Zhang , Shuangrui Ding , Zhipeng Zhang

Generating high-quality labeled image datasets is crucial for training accurate and robust machine learning models in the field of computer vision. However, the process of manually labeling real images is often time-consuming and costly. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Michael Shenoda , Edward Kim

Recent advancements in diffusion-based generative priors have enabled visually plausible image compression at extremely low bit rates. However, existing approaches suffer from slow sampling processes and suboptimal bit allocation due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yichong Xia , Yimin Zhou , Jinpeng Wang , Bin Chen