Token Radius Attention for Efficient Video Generation
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Abstract (arXiv)
Video Diffusion Transformers (VDiTs) enable high-fidelity generation but incur quadratic cost from dense 3D self-attention. Existing head- and block-level sparse methods share computation budgets across queries, overlooking token-specific attention demand. We observe that retained density varies across queries yet correlates log-linearly with attention entropy, while dominant interactions form query-centered neighborhoods with token-dependent radii. Based on these findings, we propose Token Radius Attention (TRA), a training-free framework that maps query entropy to an analytic token budget and converts it into a temporally decayed radius without explicit key ranking. Fused entropy extraction, warm-up reuse, and block-sparse mask construction further reduce overhead. Across seven Wan2.1, Wan2.2, and HunyuanVideo T2V/I2V configurations, TRA retains only 9-19% of attention interactions and achieves 1.56x-2.05x speedup with competitive generation quality. Code is available at https://github.com/IF-LAB-PKU/Token-Radius-Attention.
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- 2025Radial Attention: O(nlog n) Sparse Attention with Energy Decay for Long Video Generation24 Jun
- 2025Sparse VideoGen2: Accelerate Video Generation with Sparse Attention via Semantic-Aware Permutation24 May
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- 2025From Reusing to Forecasting: Accelerating Diffusion Models with TaylorSeerscited by 124
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