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Main Authors: Liu, Tianyi, Lu, Ye, Zhang, Linfeng, Cai, Chen, Gao, Jianjun, Wang, Yi, Yap, Kim-Hui, Chau, Lap-Pui
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Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24260
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author Liu, Tianyi
Lu, Ye
Zhang, Linfeng
Cai, Chen
Gao, Jianjun
Wang, Yi
Yap, Kim-Hui
Chau, Lap-Pui
author_facet Liu, Tianyi
Lu, Ye
Zhang, Linfeng
Cai, Chen
Gao, Jianjun
Wang, Yi
Yap, Kim-Hui
Chau, Lap-Pui
contents Diffusion-based video editing has emerged as an important paradigm for high-quality and flexible content generation. However, despite their generality and strong modeling capacity, Diffusion Transformers (DiT) remain computationally expensive due to the iterative denoising process, posing challenges for practical deployment. Existing video diffusion acceleration methods primarily exploit denoising timestep-level feature reuse, which mitigates the redundancy in denoising process, but overlooks the architectural redundancy within the DiT that many attention operations over spatio-temporal tokens are redundantly executed, offering little to no incremental contribution to the model output. This work introduces HetCache, a training-free diffusion acceleration framework designed to exploit the inherent heterogeneity in diffusion-based masked video-to-video (MV2V) generation and editing. Instead of uniformly reuse or randomly sampling tokens, HetCache assesses the contextual relevance and interaction strength among various types of tokens in designated computing steps. Guided by spatial priors, it divides the spatial-temporal tokens in DiT model into context and generative tokens, and selectively caches the context tokens that exhibit the strongest correlation and most representative semantics with generative ones. This strategy reduces redundant attention operations while maintaining editing consistency and fidelity. Experiments show that HetCache achieves a noticeable acceleration, including a 2.67$\times$ latency speedup and FLOPs reduction over commonly used foundation models, with negligible degradation in editing quality.
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spellingShingle Accelerating Diffusion-based Video Editing via Heterogeneous Caching: Beyond Full Computing at Sampled Denoising Timestep
Liu, Tianyi
Lu, Ye
Zhang, Linfeng
Cai, Chen
Gao, Jianjun
Wang, Yi
Yap, Kim-Hui
Chau, Lap-Pui
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Diffusion-based video editing has emerged as an important paradigm for high-quality and flexible content generation. However, despite their generality and strong modeling capacity, Diffusion Transformers (DiT) remain computationally expensive due to the iterative denoising process, posing challenges for practical deployment. Existing video diffusion acceleration methods primarily exploit denoising timestep-level feature reuse, which mitigates the redundancy in denoising process, but overlooks the architectural redundancy within the DiT that many attention operations over spatio-temporal tokens are redundantly executed, offering little to no incremental contribution to the model output. This work introduces HetCache, a training-free diffusion acceleration framework designed to exploit the inherent heterogeneity in diffusion-based masked video-to-video (MV2V) generation and editing. Instead of uniformly reuse or randomly sampling tokens, HetCache assesses the contextual relevance and interaction strength among various types of tokens in designated computing steps. Guided by spatial priors, it divides the spatial-temporal tokens in DiT model into context and generative tokens, and selectively caches the context tokens that exhibit the strongest correlation and most representative semantics with generative ones. This strategy reduces redundant attention operations while maintaining editing consistency and fidelity. Experiments show that HetCache achieves a noticeable acceleration, including a 2.67$\times$ latency speedup and FLOPs reduction over commonly used foundation models, with negligible degradation in editing quality.
title Accelerating Diffusion-based Video Editing via Heterogeneous Caching: Beyond Full Computing at Sampled Denoising Timestep
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24260