arXiv:2609.37001v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) enable high-quality video generation but suffer from substantial inference latency, primarily attributable to the compu...
By Xingyu Jia, Baole Ai, Ang Wang, Kang Zhao, Yong Li
arXiv:2605. 14513v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sparse attention accelerates video diffusion by allowing each attention head to focus on only a small subset of interactions.
By Xuzhe Zheng, Yuexiao Ma, Jing Xu, Xiawu Zheng, Rongrong Ji, Fei Chao
arXiv:2609.23153v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Video diffusion transformers are expensive because attention dominates long spatiotemporal token sequences. We identify the \emph{high-sparsity trap}:...
By Yuxi Liu, Haoyu Li, Zekun Zhang, Tengxu Sun, Yixiang Cai, Jiayong Li, Yifei Xia, Tianle Liu, Baole Ai, Ang Wang, Jiamang Wang, Lin Qu, Kai Zhang, Kun Yuan, Bin Cui
Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) incur quadratic self-attention cost over spatiotemporal tokens. Existing training-free sparse attention methods often construct sparse masks from block-level or cluster-level proxy scores, which can obscure fine-grained differences among keys and miss high contribution keys under aggressive sparsity.
arXiv:2608. 06628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (dLLMs) offer a promising alternative to autoregressive models by accelerating inference through parallel decoding.
By Jinha Kim, Younghun Roh, Jaeyeon Kim
Block Sparse Flash Attention (BSFA) is a drop‑in replacement for FlashAttention that speeds up long‑context inference by pruning about 50% of computation and memory transfers. It selects the top‑k most important value blocks for each query using exact query‑key similarities and calibrated per‑layer, per‑head thresholds, requiring only a one‑time training‑free calibration. On Llama‑3.1‑8B, BSFA delivers up to 1.13× speedup on LongBench with a 1.1% accuracy drop and up to 1.24× on Needle‑in‑a‑Haystack retrieval with a 1% drop, while the attention kernel itself accelerates by up to 1.38×.
By Daniel Ohayon, Itay Lamprecht, Itay Hubara, Israel Cohen, Daniel Soudry, Noam Elata
arXiv:2606. 13392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ultra-long-context capability is becoming indispensable for frontier LLMs: agentic workflows, repository-scale code reasoning, and persistent memory all require the model to jointly attend over hundreds of thousands to millions of tokens, yet the quadratic cost of softmax attention makes this untenable at deployment scale.
By Xunhao Lai, Weiqi Xu, Yufeng Yang, Qiaorui Chen, Yang Xu, Lunbin Zeng, Xiaolong Li, Haohai Sun, Haichao Zhu, Vito Zhang, Pengyu Zhao
arXiv:2504. 17768v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sparse attention offers a promising strategy to extend long-context capabilities in Transformer LLMs, yet its efficiency-accuracy trade-offs remain unclear due to the lack of comprehensive evaluation.
By Piotr Nawrot, Robert Li, Renjie Huang, Sebastian Ruder, Kelly Marchisio, Edoardo M. Ponti
arXiv:2606. 04511v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse attention reduces compute and memory bandwidth for long-context LLM inference.
By Yaosheng Fu, Guangxuan Xiao, Xin Dong, Song Han, Oreste Villa
arXiv:2607. 03012v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Diffusion Transformers (VDiTs) have demonstrated significant capabilities in high-fidelity video generation.
By Dongyeun Lee, Amir Zandieh, Vahab Mirrokni, Junmo Kim, Insu Han
arXiv:2609.15810v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion Transformers deliver state-of-the-art video generation, but their long spatiotemporal sequences make attention the dominant deployment cost,...
By Xingyang Li, Dongyun Zou, Shining Zhang, Jiacheng Chen, Haocheng Xi, Lvmin Zhang, Jun-Yan Zhu, Song Han, Zhekai Zhang, Yujun Lin, Muyang Li
The study investigates how long‑video language models decide which frames to keep, compress, and reuse, testing each decision in isolation across six selection rules, three benchmarks, and two answering models. It finds that selecting frames based on queries yields the biggest performance boost, that halving spatial resolution costs little, and that reallocating saved tokens to more compressed frames can further improve accuracy. The work also highlights the importance of a unified evaluation harness to avoid misleading comparisons.
By Prakhar Khatri