dc-ae-f32c32-sana-1.1

Deep Compression Autoencoder for Efficient High-Resolution Diffusion Models

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This repository contains the model of the paper SANA 1.5: Efficient Scaling of Training-Time and Inference-Time Compute in Linear Diffusion Transformer.

Project page: https://hanlab.mit.edu/projects/sana/

<p align="center"> <b> Figure 1: We address the reconstruction accuracy drop of high spatial-compression autoencoders. </p>

<p align="center"> <b> Figure 2: DC-AE delivers significant training and inference speedup without performance drop. </p>

<p align="center"> <img src="assets/dc_ae_sana.jpg" width="1200"> </p> <p align="center"> <b> Figure 3: DC-AE enables efficient text-to-image generation on the laptop. </p>

Abstract

We present Deep Compression Autoencoder (DC-AE), a new family of autoencoder models for accelerating high-resolution diffusion models. Existing autoencoder models have demonstrated impressive results at a moderate spatial compression ratio (e.g., 8x), but fail to maintain satisfactory reconstruction accuracy for high spatial compression ratios (e.g., 64x). We address this challenge by introducing two key techniques: (1) Residual Autoencoding, where we design our models to learn residuals based on the space-to-channel transformed features to alleviate the optimization difficulty of high spatial-compression autoencoders; (2) Decoupled High-Resolution Adaptation, an efficient decoupled three-phases training strategy for mitigating the generalization penalty of high spatial-compression autoencoders. With these designs, we improve the autoencoder's spatial compression ratio up to 128 while maintaining the reconstruction quality. Applying our DC-AE to latent diffusion models, we achieve significant speedup without accuracy drop. For example, on ImageNet 512x512, our DC-AE provides 19.1x inference speedup and 17.9x training speedup on H100 GPU for UViT-H while achieving a better FID, compared with the widely used SD-VAE-f8 autoencoder.

Usage

Deep Compression Autoencoder

# build DC-AE models
# full DC-AE model list: https://huggingface.co/collections/mit-han-lab/dc-ae-670085b9400ad7197bb1009b
from efficientvit.ae_model_zoo import DCAE_HF

dc_ae = DCAE_HF.from_pretrained(f"mit-han-lab/dc-ae-f64c128-in-1.0")

# encode
from PIL import Image
import torch
import torchvision.transforms as transforms
from torchvision.utils import save_image
from efficientvit.apps.utils.image import DMCrop

device = torch.device("cuda")
dc_ae = dc_ae.to(device).eval()

transform = transforms.Compose([
    DMCrop(512), # resolution
    transforms.ToTensor(),
    transforms.Normalize((0.5, 0.5, 0.5), (0.5, 0.5, 0.5)),
])
image = Image.open("assets/fig/girl.png")
x = transform(image)[None].to(device)
latent = dc_ae.encode(x)
print(latent.shape)

# decode
y = dc_ae.decode(latent)
save_image(y * 0.5 + 0.5, "demo_dc_ae.png")

Efficient Diffusion Models with DC-AE

# build DC-AE-Diffusion models
# full DC-AE-Diffusion model list: https://huggingface.co/collections/mit-han-lab/dc-ae-diffusion-670dbb8d6b6914cf24c1a49d
from efficientvit.diffusion_model_zoo import DCAE_Diffusion_HF

dc_ae_diffusion = DCAE_Diffusion_HF.from_pretrained(f"mit-han-lab/dc-ae-f64c128-in-1.0-uvit-h-in-512px-train2000k")

# denoising on the latent space
import torch
import numpy as np
from torchvision.utils import save_image

torch.set_grad_enabled(False)
device = torch.device("cuda")
dc_ae_diffusion = dc_ae_diffusion.to(device).eval()

seed = 0
torch.manual_seed(seed)
torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(seed)
eval_generator = torch.Generator(device=device)
eval_generator.manual_seed(seed)

prompts = torch.tensor(
    [279, 333, 979, 936, 933, 145, 497, 1, 248, 360, 793, 12, 387, 437, 938, 978], dtype=torch.int, device=device
)
num_samples = prompts.shape[0]
prompts_null = 1000 * torch.ones((num_samples,), dtype=torch.int, device=device)
latent_samples = dc_ae_diffusion.diffusion_model.generate(prompts, prompts_null, 6.0, eval_generator)
latent_samples = latent_samples / dc_ae_diffusion.scaling_factor

# decode
image_samples = dc_ae_diffusion.autoencoder.decode(latent_samples)
save_image(image_samples * 0.5 + 0.5, "demo_dc_ae_diffusion.png", nrow=int(np.sqrt(num_samples)))

Reference

If DC-AE is useful or relevant to your research, please kindly recognize our contributions by citing our papers:

@article{chen2024deep,
  title={Deep Compression Autoencoder for Efficient High-Resolution Diffusion Models},
  author={Chen, Junyu and Cai, Han and Chen, Junsong and Xie, Enze and Yang, Shang and Tang, Haotian and Li, Muyang and Lu, Yao and Han, Song},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.10733},
  year={2024}
}

The work on SANA 1.5 can be cited as follows:

@misc{xie2025sana,
      title={SANA 1.5: Efficient Scaling of Training-Time and Inference-Time Compute in Linear Diffusion Transformer},
      author={Enze Xie and Junyu Chen and Han Cai and Junsong Chen and Haotian Tang and Yao Lu and Song Han},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2501.18427},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18427},
}