Researchers have introduced PixelU, a novel U-shaped Diffusion Transformer designed for efficient end-to-end pixel diffusion. This model challenges the necessity of complex decoders in pixel-space diffusion by focusing on the $x$-prediction paradigm rather than $v$-prediction. PixelU utilizes zero-cost skip connections for direct routing of high-frequency details and a constant-channel spatial down-sampling mechanism to isolate low-frequency semantics. Experiments on ImageNet show PixelU achieving competitive FID scores with significantly reduced computational cost compared to existing methods. AI
IMPACT Introduces a more computationally efficient approach to pixel diffusion models, potentially accelerating research and development in generative image synthesis.
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