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Challenges and Advances in On-Device Diffusion Model Inference

On-device inference is growing rapidly, mainly driven by language models, while diffusion pipelines remain challenging due to their memory demands and complex processing steps. Researchers are exploring trade-offs between performance, quality, and model size to enable diffusion models on consumer d...

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-09-18T14:42:55+00:00 Detected 2026-09-21T05:22:35+00:00
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On-device inference is growing rapidly, mainly driven by language models, while diffusion pipelines remain challenging due to their memory demands and complex processing steps. Researchers are exploring trade-offs between performance, quality, and model size to enable diffusion models on consumer d...

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On-device inference is booming, but the momentum is almost all in language models. Diffusion pipelines are memory hungry, latency-sensitive, and require orchestrating an embedder, a transformer, a decoder, and often further postprocessing that is not as standardized as LLM inference loops are. We navigate the...

Understanding these challenges is key to expanding advanced AI capabilities like diffusion models beyond powerful servers to everyday client devices. This could broaden access to interactive AI applications that currently rely heavily on language model inference.

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