arXiv:2604.24136v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Pretrained diffusion models have revolutionized real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR), but their iterative sampling is computationally prohi...
By Shyang-En Weng, Yi-Cheng Liao, Yu-Syuan Xu, Chia-Hung Yuan, Wei-Chen Chiu, Ching-Chun Huang
The paper introduces LEADer, a framework that uses local epistemic uncertainty to guide active sampling in diffusion-based image restoration. By adjusting prior strength per pixel and pruning sampling trajectories based on uncertainty traces, LEADer balances detail preservation with artifact suppression and accelerates convergence. The method is plug‑and‑play, theoretically guarantees data consistency and stable convergence, and improves performance across multiple state‑of‑the‑art diffusion models with minimal memory overhead.
By Jiaqi Zhang, Zheng Pang, Rongrong Gao, Qiyuan Zhang, Yang Yang
The paper introduces TRACK, a training‑free trajectory routing method that accelerates video diffusion by selectively switching between large and small models during denoising steps. A calibration process generates a disagreement score map, guiding the selection of the appropriate model at each step to maintain quality while reducing computational cost. Experiments on Wan 2.1, Cosmos 3, TurboDiffusion, and FastVideo show speedups ranging from 1.95× to 2.73× with comparable quality and diversity.
By Mustafa Munir, Huy Vu, Shreyas Misra, Rohit Jena, Sajad Norouzi, Ali Taghibakhshi, Anis Ahmad, Anjul Patney, Pavlo Molchanov, Nima Tajbakhsh
Accelerating Video Diffusion via Training-Free Trajectory Routing (TRACK) introduces a heterogeneous denoising strategy that switches between large and small diffusion models at selected steps, determined by a calibration process that measures disagreement between model predictions. By routing quality-sensitive steps to the large model and low-disagreement steps to the small model, TRACK achieves significant speedups—up to 2.73×—across several video diffusion benchmarks while maintaining comparable quality and diversity. The method requires no retraining, architectural changes, or online dual-model evaluation, making it a practical acceleration paradigm for video diffusion.
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
Score distillation turns a pretrained 2D diffusion model into a 3D generator, but the per-step gradient is estimated from a single randomly chosen view: it is high-variance and blind to global shape consistency. Prior work addresses this by retraining the diffusion prior on multi-view data; this improves consistency but makes the sampling contribution inseparable from prior quality.
FlashRender is a few-step generative rendering framework that quickly retakes a source video along a target camera trajectory. It addresses discretization error by introducing Representation Transformation and Alignment (RETA) to align source-video representations with target-video features, reducing denoising trajectory curvature. The model is further refined with a MeanFlow objective and on-policy flow map distillation, achieving video quality and geometric consistency comparable to multi-step baselines at a 25× lower sampling cost while improving camera controllability.
By Byeongjun Park, Byung-Hoon Kim, Hyungjin Chung
arXiv:2607. 10140v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing optical flow methods broadly follow two paradigms: iterative optimization and diffusion-based estimation.
By Yuang Meng, Chenyang Wu, Xianshun Liu, Chun-Le Guo, Zichen Liang, Lina Lei, Jie Liang, Hui Zeng, Chongyi Li, Lei Zhang
arXiv:2601. 09881v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large video diffusion and flow models have achieved remarkable success in high-quality video generation, but their use in real-time interactive applications remains limited due to their inefficient multi-step sampling process.
By Weili Nie, Julius Berner, Nanye Ma, Chao Liu, Saining Xie, Arash Vahdat
arXiv:2603.20186v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In this work, we propose Image-to-Image Rectified Flow Reformulation (I2I-RFR), a practical plug-in reformulation that recasts standard I2I regress...
By Satoshi Iizuka, Shun Okamoto, Kazuhiro Fukui
The paper introduces GVCC, a zero‑shot video compression framework that uses a pretrained generative video model as the decoder. GVCC transforms deterministic rectified‑flow samplers into stochastic processes, enabling the transmission of compressed information through per‑step stochastic innovations. The authors evaluate three GVCC variants—Text‑to‑Video, Image‑to‑Video, and First‑Last‑Frame‑to‑Video—on the UVG dataset, reporting perceptual, fidelity, and temporal metrics without claiming global rate‑distortion gains.
By Ziyue Zeng, Xun Su, Haoyuan Liu, Bingyu Lu, Yui Tatsumi, Hiroshi Watanabe
SelfLift is a progressive‑resolution framework that accelerates few‑step diffusion models by enabling late, self‑recovering transitions between low‑ and high‑resolution latents. It introduces a training‑free Artifact‑Aware Consistency Lift that uses disagreement between direct latent lifting and pixel‑VAE re‑encoding to detect and correct artifacts, and a self‑recovery policy that transfers high‑resolution guidance from an internal teacher. Experiments on FLUX.2‑Klein and Z‑Image‑Turbo show latency reductions of 41.5% and 44.1%, and overall speedups of 29.61× and 19.21× over 50‑step baselines while maintaining competitive generation quality.
By Tingyan Wen, Chenqian Yan, Xurui Peng, Xiazhang Fang, Shuai Wang, Xueqian Wang, Songwei Liu