Summary of Token Caching For Diffusion Transformer Acceleration, by Jinming Lou et al.
Token Caching for Diffusion Transformer Acceleration
by Jinming Lou, Wenyang Luo, Yufan Liu, Bing Li, Xinmiao Ding, Weiming Hu, Jiajiong Cao, Yuming Li, Chenguang Ma
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a novel post-training acceleration method called TokenCache, designed to reduce computational complexity in diffusion generative modeling using diffusion transformers. The method addresses three critical questions: which tokens to prune, which blocks to target, and when to apply caching. TokenCache introduces a Cache Predictor for selective pruning and an adaptive block selection strategy to optimize output quality. Additionally, the Two-Phase Round-Robin (TPRR) scheduling policy optimizes caching intervals throughout the denoising process. Experimental results demonstrate an effective trade-off between generation quality and inference speed across various models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary TokenCache is a new way to make diffusion transformers faster. These models are great for generating images, but they take a long time to do it because of how they’re built. The problem is the attention mechanisms and multi-step inference. TokenCache solves this by answering three big questions: which parts of the model to get rid of, which parts to keep, and when to use shortcuts. It also uses something called Cache Predictors to decide what’s most important. This makes it faster without making it less good at generating images. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Diffusion » Inference » Pruning
