arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

Efficient One-Step Diffusion Restoration Model with Compact Token Compression and Linear Attention

The paper introduces SANA‑SR, an efficient one‑step diffusion restoration framework for real‑world image super‑resolution. It uses a deep compression autoencoder to reduce latent tokens by a 32× ratio, preserving essential structures and textures, and applies a linear‑attention DiT with LoRA fine‑tuning for linear‑complexity token mixing. Experiments show competitive or superior performance on benchmark datasets, and the pruned model runs in 0.019 s with 407.95 G MACs and 344 M parameters, indicating strong potential for mobile deployment.

By Bingtian Qiao, Yue Shi, Yingjie Zhou, Yong Guo, Guangtao Zhai, Jiezhang Cao
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

Restore What Matters: Lessons from Joint Restoration and Recognition

arXiv:2609.13791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recognition pipelines typically adopt a restore-then-recognize workflow, yet decades of experience show that generating visually pleasing images seldom...

By Lanqing Guo, Xijun Wang, Minchul Kim, Yu Yuan, Wes Robbins, Xingguang Zhang, Nicholas Chimitt, Stanley H. Chan, Zhangyang Wang, Xiaoming Liu