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Taming Outlier Tokens in Diffusion Transformers
Apple Machine Learning Research · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Apple researchers identified outlier tokens in Diffusion Transformers that degrade image generation quality and proposed Dual-Stage Registers to mitigate them.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building or optimizing diffusion-based image generation systems, particularly those using transformer architectures for text-to-image tasks.
- Watch out
- The problem stems from corrupted patch semantics, not just extreme values, so simple masking fails. Solution requires trained or test-time registers depending on availability.
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