Variable-size tokens cut diffusion costs where less detail is needed

LoT Diffusion adapts pretrained image and video models to process coarse or fine spatial tokens according to a planned detail layout.

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Kiyohiro Nakayama · Brian Chao · Jan Ackermann · Hansheng Chen · Federico Tombari · Leonidas Guibas · +2 more

Stanford University · Google

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Nakayama et al.

The authors represented images and videos with multiresolution layouts in which each token covers a rectangular patch of variable height and width.

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LoT Diffusion enables image and video generation with fewer tokens in low-detail regions, achieving up to 2.04x and 3.53x speedups with quality preserved.

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