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  1. Learning to Read the Contextual Tokens in Diffusion Transformers

    Oct 5, 2026Omer Dahary, Etai Sella, Hadar Averbuch-Elor +2Diffusion Transformers

    Tel Aviv University · Cornell University

  2. MC-Sparse: Deconstructing and Closing the Dense-Sparse Attention Gap in Diffusion Transformers

    Oct 5, 2026Jiarui Chen, Zeqiang Lai, Jiangshan Wang +5Diffusion Transformers

    Fudan University · Tencent HY · Shanghai Innovation Institute +4

  3. CentriQ: Calibration-Free Quantization of Diffusion Transformers via Exact Mean Centering

    Oct 5, 2026Nataša Jovanović, Mathieu Salzmann, Saqib JavedDiffusion Transformers

    Tenstorrent · EPFL

  4. Level-of-Token Diffusion

    Oct 5, 2026Kiyohiro Nakayama, Brian Chao, Jan Ackermann +5Diffusion TransformersVisual Tokenizers

    Stanford University · Google

  5. LiFT: Loop Flow Transformers

    Oct 4, 2026Mohammad Mahdi Derakhshani, Pedro M. P. Curvo, Gertjan J. Burghouts +2Diffusion Transformers

    VISLab · University of Amsterdam · TNO, Intelligent Imaging +1

  6. Diffusion Transformers are Provably Optimal In-context Generators

    Oct 4, 2026Guoji Fu, Tomoya Wakayama, Ryotaro Kawata +3Diffusion TransformersIn-Context Learning

    National University of Singapore · RIKEN AIP · The University of Tokyo +1

  7. Embedding Prediction Helps Image Generation

    Oct 1, 2026Sihan Xu, Ji Xie, Zilin Wang +2Diffusion TransformersImage Generation

    University of Michigan · Carnegie Mellon University

  8. Joint Branch-Space Transform Coding for Diffusion Activation Quantization with Classifier-Free Guidance

    Oct 1, 2026Mingrun Jiang, Yuejia Liu, Zishan Shao +11Diffusion TransformersClassifier-Free Guidance

    Duke University · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Florida +2

  9. Geometric Similarity in VLM Low-Level Vision Representations

    Oct 1, 2026Shao-Jun Xia, Huixin Zhang, Zhen Lei +3Recent Vision-Language ModelsDiffusion Transformers

    Florida State University · UNC Chapel Hill

  10. PixelDense: Dense Prediction as Representation Alignment for Pixel Diffusion

    Sep 30, 2026Lehan Yang, Daiqing Qi, Wenhao Zhang +9Dense PredictionDiffusion Transformers

    University of Virginia · Michigan State University · Adobe +1

  11. Looped Diffusion Transformer

    Sep 30, 2026Yong Xien Chng, Tianyi Chen, Wenwen Tong +7Diffusion Transformers

    SenseTime Research · LeapLab, Tsinghua University · Nanyang Tehnological Univesity

  12. D-Scope: Decomposing and Steering Diffusion Transformers with Sparse Autoencoders

    Sep 30, 2026Xinyue Xu, Jiahao Zhang, Lijie Hu +2Diffusion TransformersDiffusion Models

    Pivotal Research · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Schmidt Sciences +2

  13. ECHO-G: Embodied Co-speech Humanoid mOtion Generation

    Sep 30, 2026Yizhao Li, Pusen Gao, Ming Wang +3Co-Speech Gesture GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Beihang University · Mondo Robotics · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +1

  14. Discrete Forcing: Infusing Discrete Guidance into Continuous Denoising for Few-Step Action Experts

    Sep 30, 2026Jingbo Wang, Wenxuan Song, Wenhao Yu +6Diffusion TransformersAction Expert

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · South China University of Technology · University of Science and Technology of China +3

  15. ResARC: Residual-Aware AutoRegressive Coding for Ultra-Low Bitrate Image Compression

    Sep 30, 2026Qin Yan, Ruixiao Dong, Yutao Xie +5Ultra-Low BitratesAutoregressive Image Generation

    University of Science and Technology of China · Alibaba Group

  16. Co-PiLOT: Constrained Physics-Informed Latent Optimization for Target-Driven Inverse Design

    Sep 29, 2026Mahish K. Guru, Mayank Nagar, Ayush vyas +3Generative Inverse DesignInverse Design

    Institute of Material and Process Design, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany · Institute of Production Technology and Systems, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany · AI for Physical Systems, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany +1

  17. NowcastDiT: Diffusion Transformers are Effective Precipitation Nowcasters

    Sep 29, 2026Haoran Xu, Xingzhuo Guo, Yuchen Zhang +3Precipitation NowcastingDiffusion Transformers

    School of Software, BNRist, Tsinghua University, China

  18. FastVR: Efficient Streaming Video Restoration with One-Step Diffusion

    Sep 29, 2026Xiaoxu Chen, Qin Yang, Haoran Bai +2Video RestorationDiffusion Transformers

    Alibaba Group · Xidian University

  19. Representation by Design in Generation: Cross-View Class-Token Alignment in Diffusion Transformers

    Sep 28, 2026Xiaoyu Wu, Yifei Wang, Chen WeiDiffusion TransformersDiffusion Models

    Carnegie Mellon University · Rice University

  20. FlowAct-R2: Beyond Talking Avatar via Streaming Multimodal References and Proactive Agent Planning

    Sep 28, 2026Ziyao Huang, Zhengkun Rong, Shiyang Qin +5Human Motion GenerationMultimodal Generation

    Bytedance Intelligent Creation

  21. FlowTool: Controlling Tool Parameter in Image Retouching via Flow Matching

    Sep 28, 2026Thanh-Long V. Le, Steven Walton, Seunghyun Yoon +4Image EditingMulti-Reference Image Generation

    Adobe Research · KAIST

  22. Scaffold Then Internalize: Representation Injection for Diffusion Transformers

    Sep 28, 2026Han Fu, Jiacheng Chen, Baoquan Zhao +4Diffusion TransformersTransformer Architectures

    Sun Yat-sen University · Video Rebirth · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  23. FILIGREE3D: Scaling Sparse Latent Flow Matching for Ultra-High-Resolution Image-to-3D Generation

    Sep 28, 2026Hongjie Li, Xinran Yang, Xiuchao Wu +23D Generative Models3D Generation

    AlibabaGroup

  24. What Visual Generators Need from Teachers: Rethinking Representation Alignment

    Sep 28, 2026Yongcong Wang, Hingchin Chen, Mingyu Fan +6Diffusion AlignmentDiffusion Transformers

    Central South University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Tsinghua University +7

  25. TSGate: Timestep-Aware Gated Attention for Diffusion Transformers

    Sep 28, 2026Boyu Zhang, Yifan Liu, Shuxia Lin +3Diffusion TransformersVideo Generation

    Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group · Southeast University

  26. KiT: A Foundation Model for Financial Time-Series Forecasting using DiffusionTransformers

    Sep 28, 2026Boyu Zhang, Haorui LiTime Series Foundation ModelsTime Series Forecasting

    University of California, Los Angeles · Southeast University

  27. TLC-DiT: Task-Aligned Local Visual Conditioning for Robust Multitask Robot Manipulation

    Sep 28, 2026Xianbo Cai, Hideyuki Ichiwara, Zihang Wang +2Robotic ManipulationDiffusion Transformers

    Department of Intermedia Art and Science, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan · SB Intuitions Corp., Tokyo, Japan · Department of Electronic and Physical Systems, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan +2

  28. MotionSpaceFlow: Representation-Aware Flow Matching in Direct Motion Space

    Sep 28, 2026Qing Yu, Kent FujiwaraContrastive Flow MatchingHuman Motion Generation

    LY Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

  29. Residual-Stream Burden Shapes Representation Learning in Diffusion Transformers

    Sep 27, 2026Tongtong Liang, Siqi Kou, Ziqiao Xi +6Diffusion TransformersTransformer Residual Streams

    UC San Diego · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Aether AI

  30. GeoShrink: Accelerating Diffusion Transformers with Two Lines of Code

    Sep 27, 2026Haosen Li, Wenshuo Chen, Shaofeng Liang +3Diffusion TransformersGeogs-Slam

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Griffith University · Data61, CSIRO +1

  31. Fill2SR: Repurposing Inpainting Diffusion Transformers for Real-World Super-Resolution

    Sep 27, 2026Xingfu Yi, Xiaoxue YuReal-World Image Super-ResolutionInpainting

    Independent Researcher, Hangzhou, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  32. In-Token Learning for High-Fidelity Image Restoration via Diffusion Transformers

    Sep 27, 2026Xingfu Yi, Xiaoxue YuImage RestorationDiffusion Transformers

    Independent Researcher, Hangzhou, China · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  33. Chameleon: Dynamic Format Adapter for Efficient Diffusion

    Sep 27, 2026Arnab Sanyal, Sandeep ChinchaliDiffusion Transformers

    UT SWARM Lab, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering The University of Texas, Austin TX 78712

  34. All modalities are equal, but video is more equal: Closing the Cross-Attention Gap in Joint Video Generation

    Sep 23, 2026Ohad Rahamim, Dvir Samuel, Idan Schwartz +1Cross-Modal AttentionAudio-Visual Consistency

    Bar-Ilan University · NVIDIA

  35. KwaiMind Technical Report

    Sep 22, 2026Boheng Zhang, Fan Yang, Jia Sun +14Image EditingTechnical Report

    KwaiMind Team, Kuaishou Group

  36. ForeDrive: Foresight-Guided End-to-End Autonomous Driving with a Planning-Relevant Latent World Model

    Sep 22, 2026Sinuo Wang, Zichong Gu, Yuhan Huang +10Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Zaofu Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. · Tongji University

  37. MM-Future: Multi-Mode Joint World-Action Modeling for Autonomous Driving

    Sep 17, 2026Shuai Liu, Hechangle Gong, Hao Jiang +5Autonomous DrivingEfficient World-Action Model

    NIO · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University · Beihang University +1

  38. SlotDiT: Object-Centric Representations for Diffusion Transformers

    Sep 15, 2026Gjergj Plepi, Sven BehnkeDiffusion TransformersVideo Generation

    Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Computer Science Institute VI – Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Center for Robotics and the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, University of Bonn, Germany

  39. Temporal-Attention Head Specialization During Video Diffusion Training

    Sep 14, 2026Taewoo Ha, Shafayat Mowla Anik, Dae Yeol Lee +2Temporal AttentionDiffusion Transformers

    Independent Researcher · University of Colorado - Colorado Springs · Dolby Laboratories +1

  40. LynnReal-Omni: Native multi-modal Video Generation for Agentic Visual Workflows

    Sep 14, 2026Xiaofeng Mao, Peijia Lin, Shaohao Rui +3Interactive Video GenerationVideo Generation

    LynnReal AI

  41. Exploring Diffusion Transformers for Cross-Modal Augmentation in Multimodal Brain State Decoding

    Sep 12, 2026Ziwei Wang, Xingyi He, Hongbin Wang +3Cross-Modal AttentionMultimodal Learning

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

  42. Harnessing Intrinsic Subject-Aware Attention for Controllable Multi-Subject Video Generation

    Sep 11, 2026Niange Yu, Ye Tian, Biaolong Chen +5Diffusion TransformersSpatial Grounding

    Alibaba Group · Peking University

  43. Multimodal Taxonomic Conditioning for Generative Plankton Imagery

    Sep 10, 2026Daniela Ivanova, Ozgu Goksu, Nicolas PugeaultPlankton ClassifierTaxonomy

    University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK · National Defence University, Istanbul, Türkiye

  44. Marigold V2: Revisiting Diffusion Transformers for Monocular Depth Estimation

    Sep 8, 2026Igor Pavlovic, Thiemo Wandel, Anton Obukhov +6Monocular Depth EstimationDiffusion Transformers

    EPFL, HUAWEI Bayer Lab, Switzerland · HUAWEI Bayer Lab, Switzerland · University of Bologna, Italy +1

  45. VoT: Vision-of-Thought for Unified Multimodal Representation Alignment

    Sep 7, 2026Jingxiang Sun, Chao Liao, Zhengxiong Luo +6Modern Text-To-Image ModelsDiffusion Transformers

    ByteDance Seed

  46. Alignment-Free Text-Audiobox for Voice Dubbing and Full-Duplex Dialogue Synthesis

    Sep 3, 2026Sanyuan Chen, Min-Jae Hwang, Sho Inoue +12Text-To-AudioFull-Duplex Speech Models

    FAIR at Meta

  47. SPARK: Input-Conditioned Sparse Activation Modulation for Frozen DiT-based Super-Resolution

    Sep 3, 2026Federico Putamorsi, Leonardo Zini, Marcella Cornia +1Diffusion TransformersFrozen Backbone

    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy

  48. LLaDA-Image: Building Strong Image Generators with Fully Open Training Recipes

    Sep 3, 2026Chuyan Chen, Haoxing Chen, Kun Chen +27Multi-Reference Image GenerationVisual Generation

    AGI Research Center, Inclusion AI

  49. RegionCache: Semantic-Aware Region Reuse for Efficient Multi-Turn Image Generation

    Aug 30, 2026Peizheng Li, Xin Ai, Hanyuan Liu +2Diffusion-Based Image EditingImage Editing

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China · School of Computer Science

  50. Beyond Attention Masks: Instruction Anchoring for Efficient In-Context Diffusion Generation

    Aug 21, 2026Yangshuai Liu, Zheming Li, Jiaao Li +4Diffusion TransformersMultimodal Generation

    Harbin Institute of Technology · KlingAI Research

  51. Semantic Steering for Controllable Generation: Tuning-Free Concept Erasure in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers

    Aug 13, 2026Qiao Li, Xiaomeng Fu, Yuanshu Zhao +3Diffusion TransformersConcept Erasure

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China · School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing, China

  52. NullEdit: Stealthy Image Protection via VLM Condition Redirection

    Aug 11, 2026Weiyao Huang, Liqin Wang, Ziqi Sheng +1Image EditingText-To-Image Diffusion Models

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

  53. Bridging Event Streams and DiT: Event-Guided Video Frame Interpolation

    Aug 11, 2026Guixu Lin, Yuyang Yu, Xiang Ji +6Large Inter-Frame DisplacementsDiffusion Transformers

    The University of Tokyo · South China University of Technology · Wuhan University +1

  54. Unveiling the Secret of AdaLN-Zero in Diffusion Transformer

    Aug 10, 2026Jie Zhu, Mingyu Ding, Boqiang Duan +2Diffusion Transformers

    Key Lab of High Confidence Software Technologies (Peking University), Ministry of Education, China, and School of Computer Science, Peking University, China. · UC Berkeley · Baidu, Beijing, China

  55. BAG: Budget-Aware Gating for Diffusion Caching

    Aug 10, 2026Tong Zhao, Mingkun Lei, Yucheng Han +1Diffusion TransformersCache

    Zhejiang University · AGI Lab, Westlake University · StepFun

  56. When Latents Forget Pixels: Restoring Fidelity in Diffusion Transformer Super-Resolution

    Aug 10, 2026Yu Shi, Yuyao Zhang, Yu-wing TaiGenerative Super-ResolutionDiffusion Transformers

    Dartmouth College

  57. VIOLET: High-Fidelity Violin Synthesis with Techniques and Dynamics

    Aug 8, 2026Baotong Tian, Cynthia Lu, Vincent K. M. Cheung +3SynthesizerInstrument

    University of Rochester, USA · Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan · National Taiwan University, Taiwan +1

  58. Fluid-DiT: Graph-Free Diffusion Transformers for Fluid Flow Simulations Learning

    Aug 7, 2026Shentong Mo, Guolin KeFluid DynamicsTurbulent Flows

    CMU · DP Tech

  59. HRDiT: Training-Free High-Resolution Image Generation with Off-the-Shelf Diffusion Transformer Models

    Aug 7, 2026Yu Xue, Haoxuan Qu, Zhuoling Li +5Diffusion TransformersText-To-Image

    Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK · South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China · NVIDIA AI Tech Centre, Singapore

  60. ControlRef: Efficient Layout-Guided Multi-Instance Generation via Anchored 4D-RoPE

    Aug 7, 2026Yunkai Yang, Yudong Zhang, Xinying Chen +7Diffusion TransformersVisual Fidelity

    1Sun Yat-Sen University · 2Tsinghua University · 3Beijing Institute of Technology +1