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Despite the remarkable success of text-to-image diffusion models, their output of a single, flattened image remains a critical bottleneck for professional applications requiring layer-wise control. Existing solutions either rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Daichi Nagai , Ryugo Morita , Shunsuke Kitada , Hitoshi Iyatomi

The advancement of deep learning has led to the emergence of Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs) models, known for their dynamic allocation of computational resources based on input. Despite their promise, MoEs face challenges, particularly in terms…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Alexandre Muzio , Alex Sun , Churan He

Deep learning on an edge device requires energy efficient operation due to ever diminishing power budget. Intentional low quality data during the data acquisition for longer battery life, and natural noise from the low cost sensor degrade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Taesik Na , Minah Lee , Burhan A. Mudassar , Priyabrata Saha , Jong Hwan Ko , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Recent efforts on Diffusion Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models have primarily focused on developing more sophisticated routing mechanisms. However, we observe that the underlying architectural configuration space remains markedly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yahui Liu , Yang Yue , Jingyuan Zhang , Chenxi Sun , Yang Zhou , Wencong Zeng , Ruiming Tang , Guorui Zhou

We introduce the Self-Evaluating Model (Self-E), a novel, from-scratch training approach for text-to-image generation that supports any-step inference. Self-E learns from data similarly to a Flow Matching model, while simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xin Yu , Xiaojuan Qi , Zhengqi Li , Kai Zhang , Richard Zhang , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Tianyu Wang , Yotam Nitzan

Self-supervised pretraining attempts to enhance model performance by obtaining effective features from unlabeled data, and has demonstrated its effectiveness in the field of histopathology images. Despite its success, few works concentrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Zhiyun Song , Penghui Du , Junpeng Yan , Kailu Li , Jianzhong Shou , Maode Lai , Yubo Fan , Yan Xu

In this work, we first explore whether the parameters activated by the MoE layer remain highly sparse at inference. We perform a sparsification study on several representative MoE models. For each expert, we rank parameters by the magnitude…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Runxi Cheng , Yuchen Guan , Yucheng Ding , Qingguo Hu , Yongxian Wei , Chun Yuan , Yelong Shen , Weizhu Chen , Yeyun Gong

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in various image generation tasks, but their performance is often limited by the uniform processing of inputs across varying conditions and noise levels. To address this limitation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Minglei Shi , Ziyang Yuan , Haotian Yang , Xintao Wang , Mingwu Zheng , Xin Tao , Wenliang Zhao , Wenzhao Zheng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai

Due to the difficulty in scaling up, generative adversarial networks (GANs) seem to be falling from grace on the task of text-conditioned image synthesis. Sparsely-activated mixture-of-experts (MoE) has recently been demonstrated as a valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Jiapeng Zhu , Ceyuan Yang , Kecheng Zheng , Yinghao Xu , Zifan Shi , Yujun Shen

Mixture of Experts (MoE) models enhance neural network scalability by dynamically selecting relevant experts per input token, enabling larger model sizes while maintaining manageable computation costs. However, efficient training of…

In this paper, we present DiT-MoE, a sparse version of the diffusion Transformer, that is scalable and competitive with dense networks while exhibiting highly optimized inference. The DiT-MoE includes two simple designs: shared expert…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zhengcong Fei , Mingyuan Fan , Changqian Yu , Debang Li , Junshi Huang

Unified image generation and editing models suffer from severe task interference in dense diffusion transformers architectures, where a shared parameter space must compromise between conflicting objectives (e.g., local editing v.s.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yu Xu , Hongbin Yan , Juan Cao , Yiji Cheng , Tiankai Hang , Runze He , Zijin Yin , Shiyi Zhang , Yuxin Zhang , Jintao Li , Chunyu Wang , Qinglin Lu , Tong-Yee Lee , Fan Tang

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layers have emerged as an important tool in scaling up modern neural networks by decoupling total trainable parameters from activated parameters in the forward pass for each token. However, sparse MoEs add…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Tianze Jiang , Blake Bordelon , Cengiz Pehlevan , Boris Hanin

Sparse Mixture-of-Experts models (MoEs) have recently gained popularity due to their ability to decouple model size from inference efficiency by only activating a small subset of the model parameters for any given input token. As such,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Erik Daxberger , Floris Weers , Bowen Zhang , Tom Gunter , Ruoming Pang , Marcin Eichner , Michael Emmersberger , Yinfei Yang , Alexander Toshev , Xianzhi Du

The Mixture of Experts (MoE) models are an emerging class of sparsely activated deep learning models that have sublinear compute costs with respect to their parameters. In contrast with dense models, the sparse architecture of MoE offers…

The computational sparsity of Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models enables sub-linear growth in compute cost as model size increases, thus offering a scalable path to training massive neural networks. However, existing implementations suffer…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Osayamen Jonathan Aimuyo , Byungsoo Oh , Rachee Singh

In this paper, we address the performance degradation of efficient diffusion models by introducing Multi-architecturE Multi-Expert diffusion models (MEME). We identify the need for tailored operations at different time-steps in diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Yunsung Lee , Jin-Young Kim , Hyojun Go , Myeongho Jeong , Shinhyeok Oh , Seungtaek Choi

We present Marco-MoE, a suite of fully open multilingual sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models. Marco-MoE features a highly sparse design in which only around 5\% of the total parameters are activated per input token. This extreme…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Fan Jiang , Yu Zhao , Chenyang Lyu , Tianqi Shi , Yichao Du , Feihu Jiang , Longyue Wang , Weihua Luo

The capacity of a neural network to absorb information is limited by its number of parameters. Conditional computation, where parts of the network are active on a per-example basis, has been proposed in theory as a way of dramatically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Noam Shazeer , Azalia Mirhoseini , Krzysztof Maziarz , Andy Davis , Quoc Le , Geoffrey Hinton , Jeff Dean

Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture has become the standard for state-of-the-art large language models, owing to its computational efficiency through sparse expert activation. However, sparsity through finer expert granularity is becoming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jongseok Park , Sunga Kim , Zhenyu Gu , Ion Stoica , Alvin Cheung