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New BAG policy accelerates Diffusion Transformers with adaptive caching

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Researchers have developed BAG (Budget-Aware Gating), a new caching policy designed to accelerate Diffusion Transformers (DiTs). Unlike previous methods that either lacked budget awareness or instance adaptivity, BAG uses a lightweight gating network to dynamically decide whether to re-use cached features or perform full computation. This approach, trained via offline-to-online schedule distillation, consistently outperforms existing caching techniques across various speedup levels and resolutions on FLUX.1-dev and Wan2.1 datasets. AI

IMPACT This new caching strategy could lead to faster inference times for diffusion models, improving efficiency in generative AI applications.

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Tong Zhao, Mingkun Lei, Yucheng Han, Chi Zhang ·

    BAG: Budget-Aware Gating for Diffusion Caching

    arXiv:2608.09231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion caching is a lightweight strategy that accelerates Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) by reusing intermediate features across denoising steps, but existing paradigms face a fundamental trade-off: online heuristics lack global b…

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