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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

Scaling Diffusion Transformer (DiT) inference via sequence parallelism is critical for reducing latency in visual generation, but is severely hampered by workload imbalance when applied to models employing block-wise sparse attention. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Siqi Chen , Ke Hong , Tianchen Zhao , Ruiqi Xie , Zhenhua Zhu , Xudong Zhang , Yu Wang

Diffusion models and multi-scale features are essential components in semantic segmentation tasks that deal with remote-sensing images. They contribute to improved segmentation boundaries and offer significant contextual information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Qi Zhang , Guohua Geng , Longquan Yan , Pengbo Zhou , Zhaodi Li , Kang Li , Qinglin Liu

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

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) are powerful generative models but remain computationally intensive due to their iterative structure and deep transformer stacks. To alleviate this inefficiency, we propose \textbf{FastCache}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu , Jiayi Zhang , Yifan Li , Ben Lengerich , Ying Nian Wu

State-of-the-art deep learning systems rely on iterative distributed training to tackle the increasing complexity of models and input data. The iteration time in these communication-heavy systems depends on the computation time,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Sayed Hadi Hashemi , Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi , Roy H. Campbell

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 Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a powerful architecture for image and video generation, offering superior quality and scalability. However, their practical application suffers from inherent dynamic feature instability, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guanjie Chen , Xinyu Zhao , Yucheng Zhou , Xiaoye Qu , Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng

Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive language models by enabling parallel token generation and bidirectional context modeling. However, their inference speed is significantly limited by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Satyam Goyal , Kushal Patel , Tanush Mittal , Arjun Laxman

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

Diffusion Transformers have emerged as the preeminent models for a wide array of generative tasks, demonstrating superior performance and efficacy across various applications. The promising results come at the cost of slow inference, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Xuan Shen , Zhao Song , Yufa Zhou , Bo Chen , Yanyu Li , Yifan Gong , Kai Zhang , Hao Tan , Jason Kuen , Henghui Ding , Zhihao Shu , Wei Niu , Pu Zhao , Yanzhi Wang , Jiuxiang Gu

In this paper, we propose an efficient, fast, and versatile distillation method to accelerate the generation of pre-trained diffusion models: Flash Diffusion. The method reaches state-of-the-art performances in terms of FID and CLIP-Score…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Clément Chadebec , Onur Tasar , Eyal Benaroche , Benjamin Aubin

Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative models for image generation. However, sampling from diffusion models is usually time-consuming due to the inherent autoregressive nature of their sampling process. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Zhiwei Tang , Jiasheng Tang , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang

Diffusion models has emerged as a powerful framework for tasks like image controllable generation and dense prediction. However, existing models often struggle to capture underlying semantics (e.g., edges, textures, shapes) and effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhong Ji , Weilong Cao , Yan Zhang , Yanwei Pang , Jungong Han , Xuelong Li

Diffusion models (DMs) have exhibited remarkable efficacy in various image restoration tasks. However, existing approaches typically operate within the high-dimensional pixel space, resulting in high computational overhead. While methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yang Zheng , Wen Li , Zhaoqiang Liu

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in text-to-image synthesis but remain computationally expensive due to the iterative nature of denoising and the quadratic cost of global attention. In this work, we observe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bowen Lin , Fanjiang Ye , Yihua Liu , Zhenghui Guo , Boyuan Zhang , Weijian Zheng , Yufan Xu , Tiancheng Xing , Yuke Wang , Chengming Zhang

Diffusion-based methods demonstrate significant potential for remote sensing image super-resolution at large scaling factors, particularly in reference-based super-resolution (RefSR) where high-resolution reference images provide critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Bin Luo , Runmin Dong , Zhaoyang Luo , Jinxiao Zhang , Jiyao Zhao , Fan Wei , Haohuan Fu

This paper proposes a unified diffusion framework (dubbed UniDiffuser) to fit all distributions relevant to a set of multi-modal data in one model. Our key insight is -- learning diffusion models for marginal, conditional, and joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Fan Bao , Shen Nie , Kaiwen Xue , Chongxuan Li , Shi Pu , Yaole Wang , Gang Yue , Yue Cao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Image recognition and generation have long been developed independently of each other. With the recent trend towards general-purpose representation learning, the development of general representations for both recognition and generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Changyao Tian , Chenxin Tao , Jifeng Dai , Hao Li , Ziheng Li , Lewei Lu , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li , Gao Huang , Xizhou Zhu

We explore a new class of diffusion models based on the transformer architecture. We train latent diffusion models of images, replacing the commonly-used U-Net backbone with a transformer that operates on latent patches. We analyze the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 William Peebles , Saining Xie