LegoDiffusion: Micro-Serving Text-to-Image Diffusion Workflows

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Auteurs principaux: Yang, Lingyun, Li, Suyi, Feng, Tianyu, Jiang, Xiaoxiao, Di, Zhipeng, Lu, Weiyi, Liu, Kan, Yu, Yinghao, Lan, Tao, Yang, Guodong, Qu, Lin, Zhang, Liping, Wang, Wei
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author Yang, Lingyun
Li, Suyi
Feng, Tianyu
Jiang, Xiaoxiao
Di, Zhipeng
Lu, Weiyi
Liu, Kan
Yu, Yinghao
Lan, Tao
Yang, Guodong
Qu, Lin
Zhang, Liping
Wang, Wei
author_facet Yang, Lingyun
Li, Suyi
Feng, Tianyu
Jiang, Xiaoxiao
Di, Zhipeng
Lu, Weiyi
Liu, Kan
Yu, Yinghao
Lan, Tao
Yang, Guodong
Qu, Lin
Zhang, Liping
Wang, Wei
contents Text-to-image generation executes a diffusion workflow comprising multiple models centered on a base diffusion model. Existing serving systems treat each workflow as an opaque monolith, provisioning, placing, and scaling all constituent models together, which obscures internal dataflow, prevents model sharing, and enforces coarse-grained resource management. In this paper, we make a case for micro-serving diffusion workflows with LegoDiffusion, a system that decomposes a workflow into loosely coupled model-execution nodes that can be independently managed and scheduled. By explicitly managing individual model inference, LegoDiffusion unlocks cluster-scale optimizations, including per-model scaling, model sharing, and adaptive model parallelism. Collectively, LegoDiffusion outperforms existing diffusion workflow serving systems, sustaining up to 3x higher request rates and tolerating up to 8x higher burst traffic.
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spellingShingle LegoDiffusion: Micro-Serving Text-to-Image Diffusion Workflows
Yang, Lingyun
Li, Suyi
Feng, Tianyu
Jiang, Xiaoxiao
Di, Zhipeng
Lu, Weiyi
Liu, Kan
Yu, Yinghao
Lan, Tao
Yang, Guodong
Qu, Lin
Zhang, Liping
Wang, Wei
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Artificial Intelligence
Text-to-image generation executes a diffusion workflow comprising multiple models centered on a base diffusion model. Existing serving systems treat each workflow as an opaque monolith, provisioning, placing, and scaling all constituent models together, which obscures internal dataflow, prevents model sharing, and enforces coarse-grained resource management. In this paper, we make a case for micro-serving diffusion workflows with LegoDiffusion, a system that decomposes a workflow into loosely coupled model-execution nodes that can be independently managed and scheduled. By explicitly managing individual model inference, LegoDiffusion unlocks cluster-scale optimizations, including per-model scaling, model sharing, and adaptive model parallelism. Collectively, LegoDiffusion outperforms existing diffusion workflow serving systems, sustaining up to 3x higher request rates and tolerating up to 8x higher burst traffic.
title LegoDiffusion: Micro-Serving Text-to-Image Diffusion Workflows
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08123