Training-free Mixed-Resolution Latent Upsampling for Spatially Accelerated Diffusion Transformers

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Main Authors: Jeong, Wongi, Lee, Kyungryeol, Seo, Hoigi, Chun, Se Young
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author Jeong, Wongi
Lee, Kyungryeol
Seo, Hoigi
Chun, Se Young
author_facet Jeong, Wongi
Lee, Kyungryeol
Seo, Hoigi
Chun, Se Young
contents Diffusion transformers (DiTs) offer excellent scalability for high-fidelity generation, but their computational overhead poses a great challenge for practical deployment. Existing acceleration methods primarily exploit the temporal dimension, whereas spatial acceleration remains underexplored. In this work, we investigate spatial acceleration for DiTs via latent upsampling. We found that naïve latent upsampling for spatial acceleration introduces artifacts, primarily due to aliasing in high-frequency edge regions and mismatching from noise-timestep discrepancies. Then, based on these findings and analyses, we propose a training-free spatial acceleration framework, dubbed Region-Adaptive Latent Upsampling (RALU), to mitigate those artifacts while achieving spatial acceleration of DiTs by our mixed-resolution latent upsampling. RALU achieves artifact-free, efficient acceleration with early upsampling only on artifact-prone edge regions and noise-timestep matching for different latent resolutions, leading to up to 7.0$\times$ speedup on FLUX-1.dev and 3.0$\times$ on Stable Diffusion 3 with negligible quality degradation. Furthermore, our RALU is complementarily applicable to existing temporal acceleration methods and timestep-distilled models, leading to up to 15.9$\times$ speedup.
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spellingShingle Training-free Mixed-Resolution Latent Upsampling for Spatially Accelerated Diffusion Transformers
Jeong, Wongi
Lee, Kyungryeol
Seo, Hoigi
Chun, Se Young
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
Diffusion transformers (DiTs) offer excellent scalability for high-fidelity generation, but their computational overhead poses a great challenge for practical deployment. Existing acceleration methods primarily exploit the temporal dimension, whereas spatial acceleration remains underexplored. In this work, we investigate spatial acceleration for DiTs via latent upsampling. We found that naïve latent upsampling for spatial acceleration introduces artifacts, primarily due to aliasing in high-frequency edge regions and mismatching from noise-timestep discrepancies. Then, based on these findings and analyses, we propose a training-free spatial acceleration framework, dubbed Region-Adaptive Latent Upsampling (RALU), to mitigate those artifacts while achieving spatial acceleration of DiTs by our mixed-resolution latent upsampling. RALU achieves artifact-free, efficient acceleration with early upsampling only on artifact-prone edge regions and noise-timestep matching for different latent resolutions, leading to up to 7.0$\times$ speedup on FLUX-1.dev and 3.0$\times$ on Stable Diffusion 3 with negligible quality degradation. Furthermore, our RALU is complementarily applicable to existing temporal acceleration methods and timestep-distilled models, leading to up to 15.9$\times$ speedup.
title Training-free Mixed-Resolution Latent Upsampling for Spatially Accelerated Diffusion Transformers
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08422