From dormant spaces to the latest in technology: LightningDiT's journey

Latent diffusion models are advanced techniques for generating high-resolution images by compressing visual data into a latent space using visual tokenizers. These tokenizers reduce computational demands while preserving essential details. However, these models face a critical challenge: increasing the token feature dimensions increases the quality of the reconstruction but decreases the quality of the image generation. Therefore, it creates an optimization dilemma where achieving detailed reconstruction compromises the ability to generate visually appealing images.

Existing methods require much more computational power, which creates limitations. This presents difficulties in efficiently achieving both detailed reconstruction and high-quality image generation. Visual tokenizers like United Arab Emirates, VQVAEand VQGAN It compresses visual data but struggles with poor codebook utilization and inefficient optimization over larger latent spaces. VAE continuous diffusion models improve reconstruction, but hurt generation performance and increase costs: methods such as MAGVIT-v2 and BEET We tried to address these issues but added complexity without resolving the core trade-offs. Diffusion transformers, widely used for scalability, also face slow training speeds despite improvements such as Feel either MaskDiT. These inefficiencies of tokenizers and latent spaces remain a key barrier to the effective integration of generative and reconstruction tasks.

To address optimization challenges in latent diffusion models, researchers from Huazhong University of Science and technology proposed the VA-VAE method, which integrates a Vision Foundation model alignment loss (VF loss) to improve the training of high-dimensional visual tokenizers. This framework regularizes the latent space with element and pair similarities, making it more aligned with the Vision Foundation model. Loss of VF includes marginal cosine similarity loss and marginal distance matrix similarity loss, which further improves the alignment without limiting the capacity of the latent space. As a result, the framework improves reconstruction and generation performance by addressing intensity concentration in latent spatial distributions.

Integrated researchers Loss of VF within the latent diffusion system to improve reconstruction and generation performance by using RayoDiToptimizing convergence and scalability. The loss of VF, particularly with basic models such as DINOV2accelerated convergence, with an acceleration of up to 2.7x in training time. Experiments with different configurations, such as tokenizers with and without VF loss, showed that VF loss markedly improved performance, especially on high-dimensional tokenizers, and closed the gap between generative and reconstruction performance. The VF loss also improved scalability, optimizing models ranging from 0.1 billion to 1.6 billion parameters so that high-dimensional tokenizers maintained strong scalability without significant performance loss. The results showed the effectiveness of the method in improving the generative performance and convergence speed and minimizing the dependence on cfg.

In conclusion, the proposed framework VA-VAE and RayoDiT address optimization challenges in latent diffusion systems. VA-VAE aligns latent space with vision models, improving convergence and uniformity, while LightningDiT accelerates training. The approach achieves ADVOCATE in ImagenNet with a 21.8× acceleration. This work provides a foundation for future research, enabling further optimization and scalability improvements in generative models with reduced training costs.

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