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PISA method boosts Diffusion Transformer efficiency with piecewise sparse attention

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Researchers have developed PISA, a new training-free method for Piecewise Sparse Attention designed to improve the efficiency of Diffusion Transformers. PISA addresses the quadratic complexity of attention in these models by approximating non-critical attention blocks using Taylor expansion, rather than discarding them. This approach allows for significant speedups without sacrificing quality, demonstrated by achieving 1.91x and 2.57x acceleration on the Wan2.1-14B and Hunyuan-Video models, respectively, and a 1.2x acceleration on FLUX for image generation. AI

IMPACT This method could lead to faster and more efficient image and video generation models.

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PISA method boosts Diffusion Transformer efficiency with piecewise sparse attention

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Haopeng Li, Shitong Shao, Wenliang Zhong, Zikai Zhou, Lichen Bai, Hui Xiong, Zeke Xie ·

    PISA: Piecewise Sparse Attention Is Wiser for Efficient Diffusion Transformers

    arXiv:2602.01077v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion Transformers are fundamental for video and image generation, but their efficiency is bottlenecked by the quadratic complexity of attention. While block sparse attention accelerates computation by attending only critica…

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