arXiv AI By Evelyn Turri, Davide Bucciarelli, Sara Sarto, Lorenzo Baraldi, Marcella Cornia

Few Channels Draw The Whole Picture: Revealing Massive Activations in Diffusion Transformers

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arXiv:2605. 13974v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) and related flow-based architectures are now among the strongest text-to-image generators, yet the internal mechanisms through which prompts shape image semantics remain poorly understood.

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