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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling, yet their high computational cost hinders real-time deployment. While feature caching offers a promising training-free acceleration solution by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Fanpu Cao , Yaofo Chen , Zeng You , Wei Luo

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have revolutionized high-fidelity image and video synthesis, yet their computational demands remain prohibitive for real-time applications. To solve this problem, feature caching has been proposed to accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jiacheng Liu , Chang Zou , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Junjie Chen , Linfeng Zhang

Diffusion transformer (DiT) models have achieved remarkable success in image generation, thanks for their exceptional generative capabilities and scalability. Nonetheless, the iterative nature of diffusion models (DMs) results in high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zhiyuan Chen , Keyi Li , Yifan Jia , Le Ye , Yufei Ma

Image tokenization plays a central role in modern generative modeling by mapping visual inputs into compact representations that serve as an intermediate signal between pixels and generative models. Diffusion-based decoders have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chuhan Wang , Hao Chen

Diffusion models with large-scale pre-training have achieved significant success in the field of visual content generation, particularly exemplified by Diffusion Transformers (DiT). However, DiT models have faced challenges with quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Lianghui Zhu , Zilong Huang , Bencheng Liao , Jun Hao Liew , Hanshu Yan , Jiashi Feng , Xinggang Wang

Diffusion models have demonstrated promising performance in real-world video super-resolution (VSR). However, the dozens of sampling steps they require, make inference extremely slow. Sampling acceleration techniques, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zheng Chen , Zichen Zou , Kewei Zhang , Xiongfei Su , Xin Yuan , Yong Guo , Yulun Zhang

Recent advances in Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have greatly expanded multimodal reasoning capabilities. However, the massive number of visual tokens extracted from long video sequences incurs prohibitive computational costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Minyoung Park , Taehun Kong , Sangjun Ahn

Stable Diffusion has achieved remarkable success in the field of text-to-image generation, with its powerful generative capabilities and diverse generation results making a lasting impact. However, its iterative denoising introduces high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Evelyn Zhang , Bang Xiao , Jiayi Tang , Qianli Ma , Chang Zou , Xuefei Ning , Xuming Hu , Linfeng Zhang

Transformer-based diffusion models offer superior scalability and performance but suffer from high computational overhead due to the iterative nature and quadratic complexity of self-attention at high resolutions. In this paper, we propose…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jieon Yoon , Hangyeol Lee , Jaehoon Heo , Joo-Young Kim

Diffusion models, as a type of generative model, have achieved impressive results in generating images and videos conditioned on textual conditions. However, the generation process of diffusion models involves denoising dozens of steps to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Hui Zhang , Zuxuan Wu , Zhen Xing , Jie Shao , Yu-Gang Jiang

The Text-to-Video (T2V) model aims to generate dynamic and expressive videos from textual prompts. The generation pipeline typically involves multiple modules, such as language encoder, Diffusion Transformer (DiT), and Variational…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Heyang Huang , Cunchen Hu , Jiaqi Zhu , Ziyuan Gao , Liangliang Xu , Yizhou Shan , Yungang Bao , Sun Ninghui , Tianwei Zhang , Sa Wang

The recent wave of AI-generated content has witnessed the great development and success of Text-to-Image (T2I) technologies. By contrast, Text-to-Video (T2V) still falls short of expectations though attracting increasing interests. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) with billions of model parameters form the backbone of popular image and video generation models like DALL.E, Stable-Diffusion and SORA. Though these models are necessary in many low-latency applications like…

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Diffusion transformer (DiT) achieves remarkable performance in visual generation, but its iterative denoising process combined with larger capacity leads to a high inference cost. Recent works have demonstrated that the iterative denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Yonglak Son , Suhyeok Kim , Seungryong Kim , Young Geun Kim

Diffusion models produce high quality images but inference is costly due to many denoising steps and heavy matrix operations. We present DiffPro, a post-training, hardware-faithful framework that works with the exact integer kernels used in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Farhana Amin , Sabiha Afroz , Kanchon Gharami , Mona Moghadampanah , Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos

While the overall inference latency of Video Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) can be substantially reduced through model distillation, per-step inference latency remains a critical bottleneck. Existing acceleration paradigms primarily exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jian Tang , Jiawei Fan , Qingbin Liu , Zheng Wei

Generating consistent long videos is a complex challenge: while diffusion-based generative models generate visually impressive short clips, extending them to longer durations often leads to memory bottlenecks and long-term inconsistency. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Wenqi Ouyang , Zeqi Xiao , Danni Yang , Yifan Zhou , Shuai Yang , Lei Yang , Jianlou Si , Xingang Pan

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art backbone for high-fidelity image and video generation. However, their massive computational cost and memory footprint hinder deployment on edge devices. While post-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shaoqiu Zhang , Zizhong Ding , Kaicheng Yang , Junyi Wu , Xianglong Yan , Xi Li , Bingnan Duan , Jianping Fang , Yulun Zhang

Attention mechanism has been crucial for image diffusion models, however, their quadratic computational complexity limits the sizes of images we can process within reasonable time and memory constraints. This paper investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Ethan Smith , Nayan Saxena , Aninda Saha