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InvarDiff: Cross-Scale Invariance Caching for Accelerated Diffusion Models

arXiv 2512.05134 ↗First posted 29 Nov 2025cs.CV cs.DC cs.LGcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Diffusion transformers require repeated denoiser evaluations, making image and video generation computationally expensive. We propose a training-free framework that uses a few calibration conditions to construct a fixed, fine-grained module-reuse schedule without schedule search. The design is motivated by an empirical effect along deterministic sampling trajectories: with initial noise fixed, condition-dependent deviations in several module outputs evolve similarly across adjacent steps, so temporal differencing attenuates much of their variation. We term this effect Conditional Common-Mode Rejection (CCMR). Motivated by this observation, we rank timestep--layer--module locations using normalized ratios of consecutive feature displacements and construct a Cache Book through two-stage calibration. The second stage updates a scorer-only reference with each provisional bit after recording its indexed score, while retaining full-compute trajectories. At inference, the fixed schedule requires no per-input policy estimation and can be nested within fixed step-wise cache policies. Module caching alone achieves 1.66--1.72× speedup on the evaluated image models and 1.54--1.68× on the video models. Combining it with MagCache or SeaCache provides further acceleration at a model-dependent cost in paired fidelity.

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