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PixelU Transformer offers efficient end-to-end pixel diffusion

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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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PixelU Transformer offers efficient end-to-end pixel diffusion

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zipeng Guo, Lichen Ma, Yu He, Xiaolong Fu, Jingling Fu, Junshi Huang, Yan Li ·

    PixelU: A U-Shaped Transformer for Efficient End-to-End Pixel Diffusion

    arXiv:2606.27760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end pixel-space diffusion models bypass the lossy compression of Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) but struggle to jointly model low-frequency semantics and high-frequency signals in high-dimensional space. Existing works heavil…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yan Li ·

    PixelU: A U-Shaped Transformer for Efficient End-to-End Pixel Diffusion

    End-to-end pixel-space diffusion models bypass the lossy compression of Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) but struggle to jointly model low-frequency semantics and high-frequency signals in high-dimensional space. Existing works heavily rely on complex pixel decoders to alleviate th…

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