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Peebles and Xie: diffusion transformers generate images from latent patches

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Generative image modeling architectures · Generative image modeling architectures

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What changed

A conditioned latent-patch transformer backbone with adaLN-Zero and controlledsize/patch ablations broadens diffusion architectural options while retaining establisheddiffusion/VAE/ViT methods.

Scientific scope

A conditioned latent-patch transformer backbone with adaLN-Zero and controlledsize/patch ablations broadens diffusion architectural options while retaining establisheddiffusion/VAE/ViT methods. The work replaces the stated image-diffusion backbone with a transformer and evaluates scaling under specified training, data and guidance settings. Reported compute/quality correlations are not a universal scaling law or guarantee across all modalities. Data preparation, autoencoding and sampling costs remain. WRS has not independently replayed the experiments.

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Provisional WRS assessment, edition 2026-10-16.1. Independent expert calibration is pending. This grade does not certify correctness or assign ownership.

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