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TurboDiffusion: Accelerating Video Diffusion Models by 100-200 Times

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-12-19 v1 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

We introduce TurboDiffusion, a video generation acceleration framework that can speed up end-to-end diffusion generation by 100-200x while maintaining video quality. TurboDiffusion mainly relies on several components for acceleration: (1) Attention acceleration: TurboDiffusion uses low-bit SageAttention and trainable Sparse-Linear Attention (SLA) to speed up attention computation. (2) Step distillation: TurboDiffusion adopts rCM for efficient step distillation. (3) W8A8 quantization: TurboDiffusion quantizes model parameters and activations to 8 bits to accelerate linear layers and compress the model. In addition, TurboDiffusion incorporates several other engineering optimizations. We conduct experiments on the Wan2.2-I2V-14B-720P, Wan2.1-T2V-1.3B-480P, Wan2.1-T2V-14B-720P, and Wan2.1-T2V-14B-480P models. Experimental results show that TurboDiffusion achieves 100-200x speedup for video generation even on a single RTX 5090 GPU, while maintaining comparable video quality. The GitHub repository, which includes model checkpoints and easy-to-use code, is available at https://github.com/thu-ml/TurboDiffusion.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.16093,
  title  = {TurboDiffusion: Accelerating Video Diffusion Models by 100-200 Times},
  author = {Jintao Zhang and Kaiwen Zheng and Kai Jiang and Haoxu Wang and Ion Stoica and Joseph E. Gonzalez and Jianfei Chen and Jun Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.16093},
  year   = {2025}
}
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