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Video object segmentation is a fundamental research problem in computer vision. Recent techniques have often applied attention mechanism to object representation learning from video sequences. However, due to temporal changes in the video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Quang-Trung Truong , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Sai-Kit Yeung

Attention-based models have revolutionized AI, but the quadratic cost of self-attention incurs severe computational and memory overhead. Sparse attention methods alleviate this by skipping low-relevance token pairs. However, current…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Huizheng Wang , Hongbin Wang , Zichuan Wang , Zhiheng Yue , Yang Wang , Chao Li , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin

Video super-resolution (VSR) seeks to reconstruct high-resolution frames from low-resolution inputs. While diffusion-based methods have substantially improved perceptual quality, extending them to video remains challenging for two reasons:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Jintong Hu , Bin Chen , Zhenyu Hu , Jiayue Liu , Guo Wang , Lu Qi

360{\deg} videos a.k.a. spherical videos are getting popular among users nevertheless, omnidirectional view of these videos demands high bandwidth and processing power at the end devices. Recently proposed viewport aware streaming…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Chamara Kattadige , Kanchana Thilakarathna

Video restoration poses non-trivial challenges in maintaining fidelity while recovering temporally consistent details from unknown degradations in the wild. Despite recent advances in diffusion-based restoration, these methods often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jianyi Wang , Zhijie Lin , Meng Wei , Yang Zhao , Ceyuan Yang , Fei Xiao , Chen Change Loy , Lu Jiang

We conduct an in-depth analysis of attention in video diffusion transformers (VDiTs) and report a number of novel findings. We identify three key properties of attention in VDiTs: Structure, Sparsity, and Sinks. Structure: We observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yuxin Wen , Jim Wu , Ajay Jain , Tom Goldstein , Ashwinee Panda

Diffusion transformers enable flexible generative modeling for video. However, it is still technically challenging and computationally expensive to generate high-resolution videos with rich semantics and complex motion. Similar to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xunnong Xu , Mengying Cao

Modern video generative models based on diffusion models can produce very realistic clips, but they are computationally inefficient, often requiring minutes of GPU time for just a few seconds of video. This inefficiency poses a critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jieying Chen , Jeffrey Hu , Joan Lasenby , Ayush Tewari

Video style transfer aims to render videos in a target artistic style while preserving content, structure, and motion. While image stylization has advanced rapidly, video stylization remains challenging due to temporal inconsistency. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yiren Song , Wangzi Yao , Haofan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Long-context video understanding and generation pose a significant computational challenge for Transformer-based video models due to the quadratic complexity of self-attention. While existing sparse attention methods employ coarse-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Anmin Liu , Ruixuan Yang , Huiqiang Jiang , Bin Lin , Minmin Sun , Yong Li , Chen Zhang , Tao Xie

While diffusion models have achieved great success in the field of video generation, this progress is accompanied by a rapidly escalating computational burden. Among the existing acceleration methods, Feature Caching is popular due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chang Zou , Changlin Li , Yang Li , Patrol Li , Jianbing Wu , Xiao He , Songtao Liu , Zhao Zhong , Kailin Huang , Linfeng Zhang

Efficient Transformers have been developed for long sequence modeling, due to their subquadratic memory and time complexity. Sparse Transformer is a popular approach to improving the efficiency of Transformers by restricting self-attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Aosong Feng , Irene Li , Yuang Jiang , Rex Ying

Autoregressive (AR) transformers have emerged as a powerful paradigm for visual generation, largely due to their scalability, computational efficiency and unified architecture with language and vision. Among them, next scale prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Amandeep Kumar , Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Vishal M. Patel

Reconstructing 3D objects from extremely sparse views is a long-standing and challenging problem. While recent techniques employ image diffusion models for generating plausible images at novel viewpoints or for distilling pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zi-Xin Zou , Weihao Cheng , Yan-Pei Cao , Shi-Sheng Huang , Ying Shan , Song-Hai Zhang

Diffusion models show promise for 3D molecular generation, but face a fundamental trade-off between sampling efficiency and conformational accuracy. While flow-based models are fast, they often produce geometrically inaccurate structures,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Peining Zhang , Jinbo Bi , Minghu Song

Recent advances in diffusion models have enabled high-quality video generation, but the additional temporal dimension significantly increases computational costs, making training and inference on long videos prohibitively expensive. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xingyang Li , Muyang Li , Tianle Cai , Haocheng Xi , Shuo Yang , Yujun Lin , Lvmin Zhang , Songlin Yang , Jinbo Hu , Kelly Peng , Maneesh Agrawala , Ion Stoica , Kurt Keutzer , Song Han

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) are essential for video generation but suffer from significant latency due to the quadratic complexity of attention. By computing only critical tokens, sparse attention reduces computational costs and offers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shuo Yang , Haocheng Xi , Yilong Zhao , Muyang Li , Jintao Zhang , Han Cai , Yujun Lin , Xiuyu Li , Chenfeng Xu , Jianfei Chen , Song Han , Kurt Keutzer , Ion Stoica

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

Diffusion transformers have emerged as the mainstream paradigm for video generation models. However, the use of up to billions of parameters incurs significant computational costs. Quantization offers a promising solution by reducing memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Weilun Feng , Haotong Qin , Chuanguang Yang , Xiangqi Li , Han Yang , Yuqi Li , Zhulin An , Libo Huang , Michele Magno , Yongjun Xu

Scaling Transformers to ultra-long contexts is bottlenecked by the $O(n^2 d)$ cost of self-attention. Existing methods reduce this cost along the sequence axis through local windows, kernel approximations, or token-level sparsity, but these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yan Xie , Tiansheng Wen , Tangda Huang , Bo Chen , Chenyu You , Stefanie Jegelka , Yifei Wang