HyperDiT: Hyper-Connected Transformers for High-Fidelity Pixel-Space Diffusion
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Abstract (arXiv)
Pixel-space diffusion models bypass the reconstruction bottleneck of Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) but face a fundamental "granularity dilemma": capturing global semantics favors large patch scales, while generating high-fidelity details demands fine-grained inputs. To address this issue, we propose HyperDiT, a unified framework establishing Hyper-Connected Cross-Scale Interactions to bridge the semantic and pixel manifold. Diverging from injecting semantics by AdaLN, HyperDiT utilizes Cross-Attention mechanisms, enabling fine-grained tokens to query multi-level semantic anchors globally. To resolve the spatial mismatch during multi-scale interactions, we introduce Scale-Aware Rotary Position Embedding (SA-RoPE) to ensure precise geometric alignment among tokens of varying patch sizes. Furthermore, we incorporate Registers to learn the dense semantics from a pretrained Visual Foundation Model (VFM), effectively reducing generation hallucination and artifacts. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HyperDiT achieves state-of-the-art (SoTA) FID of 1.56 on ImageNet 256×256 directly within the pixel space. By combining the fine-grained stream with semantic guidance, HyperDiT offers a superior paradigm for high-fidelity pixel generation.
Key facts. Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Diffusion foundations and sampling, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 43 of its 49 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 15 May 2026.
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