The paper investigates why Diffusion Transformers perform well when predicting clean data but poorly when predicting noise or velocity. It introduces the concept of *residual-stream burden*, explaining that noisy targets force the residual stream to carry noise-dependent variation through the network, limiting representation flexibility. Experiments show that spectral concentration of clean targets reduces this burden, and the authors propose Spatially Indexed Hyper-Connections (SiHC) to expand residual bandwidth, achieving state‑of‑the‑art FID on ImageNet.
arXiv:2610.12978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual representations are largely developed for understanding, yet what makes them useful for generation remains unclear. We study this question in pi...
arXiv:2603.15132v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While recent Flow Matching models avoid the reconstruction bottlenecks of latent autoencoders by operating directly in pixel space, the raw pixel m...
arXiv:2506. 14202v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: End-to-end backpropagation requires storing activations throughout all layers, creating memory bottlenecks that limit model scalability.
arXiv:2605. 20708v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have become a de facto backbone of modern visual generation, and nearly every major axis of their design -- tokenization, attention, conditioning, objectives, and latent autoencoders -- has been extensively revisited.
arXiv:2607. 05319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study why diffusion autoencoders can achieve similar image quality while learning substantially different latent structures.
V-Co investigates visual co-denoising for pixel-space diffusion models, using a unified JiT-based framework to isolate key design choices. The study identifies two essential components: a dual-stream architecture with flexible cross-stream interaction and a perceptual-drifting hybrid loss combined with RMS-based feature rescaling for stronger semantic supervision. Experiments on ImageNet-256 demonstrate that V-Co surpasses baseline pixel-space diffusion and strong prior pixel-diffusion methods at comparable model sizes while requiring fewer training epochs.
arXiv:2608. 01298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a core architecture in generative modeling due to their scalability and adaptability to multimodal tasks.
arXiv:2608.30720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Representational similarity is foundational to analyses of deep networks, yet distances between point-valued representations are not intrinsically tied...
arXiv:2610.07002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models learn semantic representations while generating images. In the Decoupled Diffusion Transformer (DDT), a condition encoder provides fea...
arXiv:2609.37080v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) typically adopt a two-stage pipeline: an auto-encoder (AE) is first pre-trained to define a latent space, then a diffusi...
arXiv:2603.17825v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this work, we study the role of Massive Activations (MAs), which are rare, high-magnitude spikes confined to a few fixed hidden dimensions in vi...
arXiv:2609.24919v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in pixel-space diffusion models have narrowed the image quality gap with latent-space diffusion, but still converge more slowly and lag...