AsyncDiff: Parallelizing Diffusion Models by Asynchronous Denoising

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06911v3
• Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:47:36 GMT
• Title: AsyncDiff: Parallelizing Diffusion Models by Asynchronous Denoising
• Authors: Zigeng Chen, Xinyin Ma, Gongfan Fang, Zhenxiong Tan, Xinchao Wang,
• Abstract summary: AsyncDiff is a universal and plug-and-play acceleration scheme that enables model parallelism across multiple devices. For the Stable Diffusion v2.1, AsyncDiff achieves a 2.7x speedup with negligible degradation and a 4.0x speedup with only a slight reduction of 0.38 in CLIP Score. Our experiments also demonstrate that AsyncDiff can be readily applied to video diffusion models with encouraging performances.
• Score: 49.785626309848276
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Diffusion models have garnered significant interest from the community for their great generative ability across various applications. However, their typical multi-step sequential-denoising nature gives rise to high cumulative latency, thereby precluding the possibilities of parallel computation. To address this, we introduce AsyncDiff, a universal and plug-and-play acceleration scheme that enables model parallelism across multiple devices. Our approach divides the cumbersome noise prediction model into multiple components, assigning each to a different device. To break the dependency chain between these components, it transforms the conventional sequential denoising into an asynchronous process by exploiting the high similarity between hidden states in consecutive diffusion steps. Consequently, each component is facilitated to compute in parallel on separate devices. The proposed strategy significantly reduces inference latency while minimally impacting the generative quality. Specifically, for the Stable Diffusion v2.1, AsyncDiff achieves a 2.7x speedup with negligible degradation and a 4.0x speedup with only a slight reduction of 0.38 in CLIP Score, on four NVIDIA A5000 GPUs. Our experiments also demonstrate that AsyncDiff can be readily applied to video diffusion models with encouraging performances. The code is available at https://github.com/czg1225/AsyncDiff.

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