The paper introduces an adaptive step schedule controller for text‑to‑image diffusion models, allowing the number of denoising steps to vary based on the complexity of the input prompt. By mixing step schedules of different sizes and monitoring error discrepancies at each timestep, the method switches schedules to maintain image quality while reducing inference time. Experiments on COCO and DiffusionDB demonstrate that this approach achieves faster generation without sacrificing visual fidelity.
By Kuluhan Binici, Cihan Acar, Shivam Aggarwal, Siying Liu, Tulika Mitra
The paper introduces Optimizing Your Sampling (OYS), a method that treats diffusion model timestep selection as a black-box optimization problem and uses Bayesian optimization to directly improve the target metric. OYS outperforms default schedules and the Align Your Steps approach on text-to-image generation, inpainting, and other image tasks, as shown by both quantitative and human evaluations. It works without additional training, applies to distilled models, and enhances both simple and sophisticated samplers, achieving 89–94% of a 50‑step schedule’s quality with only 5 steps and a tenfold reduction in inference cost.
By Travis Zhang, Christian Belardi, Justin Lovelace, Jin Peng Zhou, Saebyeol Shin, Carla P. Gomes, Kilian Q. Weinberger
arXiv:2606. 31026v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose OTCache, a training-free framework for accelerating diffusion sampling via caching schedule prediction.
By Huanlin Gao, Fang Zhao, Qiang Hui, Fuyuan Shi, Shaoan Zhao, Yantao Li, Chao Tan, Ting Lu, Yuren You, Kai Wang, Shiguo Lian
arXiv:2607. 00773v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete diffusion models are widely used for learning and generating discrete distributions.
By Yu Yao, Huanjian Zhou, Andi Han, Wei Huang, Masashi Sugiyama
GeoSPRINT is a training‑free framework that constructs non‑uniform sampling schedules for diffusion model inference by detecting geometrically redundant steps in denoising trajectories. It uses a hyperplanarity test in latent space, implemented via QR factorization, to allocate more steps to high‑curvature regions, and introduces the trajectory projection score α_traj as a model‑free diagnostic for flow quality. Across CIFAR‑10, LSUN Church, and Stable Diffusion v1.5, GeoSPRINT consistently outperforms uniform DDIM schedules at matched NFE budgets, improving FID scores by up to 1.93 points.
By Arpita Joshi
ChebBooster is a training‑free extrapolation framework that accelerates Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) by using Chebyshev polynomial theory. It employs a Barycentric formulation for numerically stable evaluation and separates the process into an offline weight precomputation phase and a lightweight online application stage. Experiments on DiT‑XL/2, PixArt‑Σ, and FLUX.1‑dev show consistent visual quality gains and up to 3.68× latency speedup and 5.12× FLOPs reduction compared to existing training‑free baselines.
By Chengjie Lu, Tianchi Deng, Zhengqi He, Chengwen Luo, Xueliang Li
arXiv:2506. 13058v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in visual generation.
By Hu Yu, Hao Luo, Xueyang Fu, Jie Huang, Fan Wang, Feng Zhao
arXiv:2502. 10389v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models (DMs) have become the leading choice for generative tasks across diverse domains.
By Ziming Liu, Yifan Yang, Chengruidong Zhang, Yiqi Zhang, Lili Qiu, Yang You, Yuqing Yang
arXiv:2608.28670v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion Transformers achieve high-fidelity image and video generation, but their iterative sampling remains expensive, for each denoising step requir...
By Chengjie Lu, Tianchi Deng, Zhengqi He, Zhijian Gao, Huisi Wu, Xueliang Li
arXiv:2608. 14038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern text-to-image diffusion models rely on classifier-free guidance (CFG) to achieve high image fidelity and text alignment.
By Ashwini Pokle, Alexandre Galashov, Arnaud Doucet, Mauricio Delbracio, Valentin De Bortoli
arXiv:2505. 06668v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present StableMotion, a novel framework that leverages geometric and content priors from pretrained large-scale image diffusion models for motion estimation in single-image rectification tasks such as Stitched Image Rectangling (SIR) and Rolling Shutter Correction (RSC).
By Ziyi Wang, Haipeng Li, Lin Sui, Tianhao Zhou, Hai Jiang, Lang Nie, Bing Zeng, Shuaicheng Liu
Text-to-image diffusion models expose many inference-time sampling parameters, including prompts, negative prompts, classifier-free guidance scales, and noise schedules. These parameters are typically manually chosen once and then held fixed across prompts and denoising timesteps, even though different prompts and stages of generation can benefit from different parameter values.