MiniT2I Cuts Pixel Diffusion Compute in Half with Region Tokens, Same Quality at 2x Speed
AntonObukhov1 · x · 2026-09-12
Pixel diffusion models spend as much compute on blank sky as on faces, since every patch is a token in every layer. A fine-tuned MiniT2I instead runs on region tokens.
- Results: Half as many tokens, same generation quality, twice as fast.
- Flexibility: Trained at multiple compute budgets to support elastic inference.
The work targets the compute waste inherent in patch-level pixel diffusion and proposes region tokens as an efficiency fix.
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