arXiv AI By Chao Xu, Maohua Li, Qirui Li, Yixuan Xu, Yanke Zhou, Yunhe Li, Cuifeng Shen, Hanlin Tang, Kan Liu, Tao Lan, Lin Qu, Shao-Qun Zhang

Rethinking Cross-Layer Information Routing in Diffusion Transformers

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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.

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arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Importance-Aware Low-Rank Distillation of Diffusion Transformers

The paper introduces SVDtrunc, a two‑step block‑level compression method for Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) that allocates ranks across blocks, applies truncated SVD to the least important ones, and then fine‑tunes all blocks with modular knowledge distillation and a rectified‑flow objective. Experiments on FLUX.dev show that SVDtrunc achieves near‑full performance at 68% of the original parameters and remains competitive even at 57%, outperforming all competing approaches on GenEval, HPSv2, and DPG benchmarks. The method also works well without fine‑tuning, complementing step distillation and offering a practical path to efficient large‑scale generative models.

By Denis Zavadski, Sebastian Heid, Damjan Kal\v{s}an, Stefan Roth, Carsten Rother