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Han Cai

27 accepted papers

2026

Quant VideoGen: Auto-Regressive Long Video Generation via 2-Bit KV-Cache Quantization

ICML 2026poster

Despite rapid progress in auto-regressive video diffusion, we identify an emerging system–algorithm bottleneck that limits both deployability and generation quality: KV-cache memory. In auto-regressive video generation models, the KV-cache grows with generation history and quickly dominates GPU memo…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

SANA-Video: Efficient Video Generation with Block Linear Diffusion Transformer

ICLR 2026oral

We introduce SANA-Video, a small diffusion model that can efficiently generate videos up to 720×1280 resolution and minute-length duration. SANA-Video synthesizes high-resolution, high-quality and long videos with strong text-video alignment at a remarkably fast speed, deployable on RTX 5090 GPU. Tw…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

COAT: Compressing Optimizer states and Activations for Memory-Efficient FP8 Training

ICLR 2025poster

FP8 training has emerged as a promising method for improving training efficiency. Existing frameworks accelerate training by applying FP8 computation to linear layers while leaving optimizer states and activations in higher precision, which fails to fully optimize memory usage. This paper introduces…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

DC-AE 1.5: Accelerating Diffusion Model Convergence with Structured Latent Space

ICCV 2025poster

We present DC-AE 1.5, a new family of deep compression autoencoders for high-resolution diffusion models. Increasing the autoencoder's latent channel number is a highly effective approach for improving its reconstruction quality. However, it results in slow convergence for diffusion models, leading…

2025

DC-AR: Efficient Masked Autoregressive Image Generation with Deep Compression Hybrid Tokenizer

ICCV 2025poster

We introduce DC-AR, a novel masked autoregressive (AR) text-to-image generation framework that delivers superior image generation quality with exceptional computational efficiency. Due to the tokenizers' limitations, prior masked AR models have lagged behind diffusion models in terms of quality or e…

2025

Deep Compression Autoencoder for Efficient High-Resolution Diffusion Models

ICLR 2025poster

We present Deep Compression Autoencoder (DC-AE), a new family of autoencoders for accelerating high-resolution diffusion models. Existing autoencodes have demonstrated impressive results at a moderate spatial compression ratio (e.g., 8x), but fail to maintain satisfactory reconstruction accuracy for…

2025

HART: Efficient Visual Generation with Hybrid Autoregressive Transformer

ICLR 2025poster

We introduce Hybrid Autoregressive Transformer (HART), the first autoregressive (AR) visual generation model capable of directly generating 1024x1024 images, rivaling diffusion models in image generation quality. Existing AR models face limitations due to the poor image reconstruction quality of the…

2025

Jet-Nemotron: Efficient Language Model with Post Neural Architecture Search

NeurIPS 2025poster

We present Jet-Nemotron, a new family of hybrid-architecture language models, which matches or exceeds the accuracy of leading full-attention models while significantly improving generation throughput. Jet-Nemotron is developed using Post Neural Architecture Search (PostNAS), a novel neural architec…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

SANA 1.5: Efficient Scaling of Training-Time and Inference-Time Compute in Linear Diffusion Transformer

ICML 2025poster

This paper presents SANA-1.5, a linear Diffusion Transformer for efficient scaling in text-to-image generation. Building upon SANA-1.0, we introduce three key innovations: (1) Efficient Training Scaling: A depth-growth paradigm that enables scaling from 1.6B to 4.8B parameters with significantly red…

2025

SANA-Sprint: One-Step Diffusion with Continuous-Time Consistency Distillation

ICCV 2025poster

This paper presents SANA-Sprint, an efficient diffusion model for ultra-fast text-to-image (T2I) generation. SANA-Sprint is built on a pre-trained foundation model and augmented with hybrid distillation, dramatically reducing inference steps from 20 to 1-4.We introduce three key innovations: (1) We…

2025

SANA: Efficient High-Resolution Text-to-Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformers

ICLR 2025oral

We introduce Sana, a text-to-image framework that can efficiently generate images up to 4096$\times$4096 resolution. Sana can synthesize high-resolution, high-quality images with strong text-image alignment at a remarkably fast speed, deployable on laptop GPU. Core designs include: (1) Deep compress…

Cited by 79SourcePDFScholar
2025

Scaling Vision Pre-Training to 4K Resolution

CVPR 2025highlight

High-resolution perception of visual details is crucial for daily tasks. Current vision pre-training, however, is still limited to low resolutions (e.g., 378 x 378 pixels) due to the quadratic cost of processing larger images. We introduce PS3 that scales CLIP-style vision pre-training to 4K resolut…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Sparse Video-Gen: Accelerating Video Diffusion Transformers with Spatial-Temporal Sparsity

ICML 2025poster

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) dominate video generation but their high computational cost severely limits real-world applicability, usually requiring tens of minutes to generate a few seconds of video even on high-performance GPUs. This inefficiency primarily arises from the quadratic computational…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2025

Sparse VideoGen2: Accelerate Video Generation with Sparse Attention via Semantic-Aware Permutation

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) are essential for video generation but suffer from significant latency due to the quadratic complexity of attention. By computing only critical tokens, sparse attention reduces computational costs and offers a promising acceleration approach. However, we identify that…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Win Fast or Lose Slow: Balancing Speed and Accuracy in Latency-Sensitive Decisions of LLMs

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance across diverse reasoning and generation tasks, and are increasingly deployed as agents in dynamic environments such as code generation and recommendation systems. However, many real-world applications, such as high-frequency trading and…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2024

Condition-Aware Neural Network for Controlled Image Generation

CVPR 2024poster

We present Condition-Aware Neural Network (CAN) a new method for adding control to image generative models. In parallel to prior conditional control methods CAN controls the image generation process by dynamically manipulating the weight of the neural network. This is achieved by introducing a condi…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar
2024

DistriFusion: Distributed Parallel Inference for High-Resolution Diffusion Models

CVPR 2024highlight

Diffusion models have achieved great success in synthesizing high-quality images. However generating high-resolution images with diffusion models is still challenging due to the enormous computational costs resulting in a prohibitive latency for interactive applications. In this paper we propose Dis…

2023

EfficientViT: Lightweight Multi-Scale Attention for High-Resolution Dense Prediction

ICCV 2023poster

High-resolution dense prediction enables many appealing real-world applications, such as computational photography, autonomous driving, etc. However, the vast computational cost makes deploying state-of-the-art high-resolution dense prediction models on hardware devices difficult. This work presents…

Cited by 135PDFcodeScholar
2022

Lite Pose: Efficient Architecture Design for 2D Human Pose Estimation

CVPR 2022poster

Pose estimation plays a critical role in human-centered vision applications. However, it is difficult to deploy state-of-the-art HRNet-based pose estimation models on resource-constrained edge devices due to the high computational cost (more than 150 GMACs per frame). In this paper, we study efficie…

Cited by 139PDFcodeScholar
2021

Memory-efficient Patch-based Inference for Tiny Deep Learning

NeurIPS 2021poster

Tiny deep learning on microcontroller units (MCUs) is challenging due to the limited memory size. We find that the memory bottleneck is due to the imbalanced memory distribution in convolutional neural network (CNN) designs: the first several blocks have an order of magnitude larger memory usage th…

Cited by 209SourcePDFScholar
2020

APQ: Joint Search for Network Architecture, Pruning and Quantization Policy

CVPR 2020poster

We present APQ, a novel design methodology for efficient deep learning deployment. Unlike previous methods that separately optimize the neural network architecture, pruning policy, and quantization policy, we design to optimize them in a joint manner. To deal with the larger design space it brings,…

Cited by 253PDFcodeScholar
2020

Once-for-All: Train One Network and Specialize it for Efficient Deployment

ICLR 2020poster

We address the challenging problem of efficient inference across many devices and resource constraints, especially on edge devices. Conventional approaches either manually design or use neural architecture search (NAS) to find a specialized neural network and train it from scratch for each case, wh…

Cited by 1607SourcecodeScholar
2020

TinyTL: Reduce Memory, Not Parameters for Efficient On-Device Learning

NeurIPS 2020poster

Efficient on-device learning requires a small memory footprint at training time to fit the tight memory constraint. Existing work solves this problem by reducing the number of trainable parameters. However, this doesn't directly translate to memory saving since the major bottleneck is the activation…

2019

ProxylessNAS: Direct Neural Architecture Search on Target Task and Hardware

ICLR 2019poster

Neural architecture search (NAS) has a great impact by automatically designing effective neural network architectures. However, the prohibitive computational demand of conventional NAS algorithms (e.g. 10 4 GPU hours) makes it difficult to directly search the architectures on large-scale tasks (e.g.…

2018

Activation Maximization Generative Adversarial Nets

ICLR 2018poster

Class labels have been empirically shown useful in improving the sample quality of generative adversarial nets (GANs). In this paper, we mathematically study the properties of the current variants of GANs that make use of class label information. With class aware gradient and cross-entropy decomposi…

2018

Path-Level Network Transformation for Efficient Architecture Search

ICML 2018oral

We introduce a new function-preserving transformation for efficient neural architecture search. This network transformation allows reusing previously trained networks and existing successful architectures that improves sample efficiency. We aim to address the limitation of current network transforma…