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Register tokens enhance pixel-space Diffusion Transformers, study finds

Researchers have investigated the utility of register tokens in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), finding that while DiTs do not exhibit the same patch-token outliers as Vision Transformers (ViTs), they still benefit from register tokens. The study indicates that registers are more effective in pixel-space DiTs than in latent-space DiTs, potentially by producing cleaner feature maps at higher noise levels. Building on these findings, the paper introduces Register Guidance, a method to enhance the impact of register tokens for improving visual structure and coherence in generated images. AI

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Register tokens enhance pixel-space Diffusion Transformers, study finds

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Nikita Starodubcev, Ilia Sudakov, Ilya Drobyshevskiy, Artem Babenko, Dmitry Baranchuk ·

    Registers Matter for Pixel-Space Diffusion Transformers

    arXiv:2605.16147v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) are known to exhibit high-norm patch-token outliers that degrade feature map quality, a problem effectively mitigated by register tokens. As diffusion models increasingly adopt transformer architecture…