LUA Adapter Skips Pixel Upscaling for Diffusion, Speeding Up by 3x

rsasaki0109 · x · 2026-08-23

LUA (Latent Upscale Adapter) is a fast latent space upsampling adapter for diffusion models, accepted to ECCV 2026. It performs ×2/×4 super-resolution directly in the latent space before VAE decoding, requiring no additional diffusion steps. The approach reduces decoding and upscaling time by nearly 3× and transfers to SDXL, SD3, and FLUX with brief fine-tuning, achieving image quality close to native high-resolution generation at 2K and 4K.

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