SenCache: Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Sensitivity-Aware Caching

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24208v1
• Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:36:09 GMT
• Title: SenCache: Accelerating Diffusion Model Inference via Sensitivity-Aware Caching
• Authors: Yasaman Haghighi, Alexandre Alahi,
• Abstract summary: Caching reduces computation by reusing previously computed model outputs across timesteps.<n>We propose Sensitivity-Aware Caching (SenCache), a dynamic caching policy that adaptively selects caching timesteps on a per-sample basis.<n>SenCache achieves better visual quality than existing caching methods under similar computational budgets.
• Score: 75.02865981328509
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art video generation quality, but their inference remains expensive due to the large number of sequential denoising steps. This has motivated a growing line of research on accelerating diffusion inference. Among training-free acceleration methods, caching reduces computation by reusing previously computed model outputs across timesteps. Existing caching methods rely on heuristic criteria to choose cache/reuse timesteps and require extensive tuning. We address this limitation with a principled sensitivity-aware caching framework. Specifically, we formalize the caching error through an analysis of the model output sensitivity to perturbations in the denoising inputs, i.e., the noisy latent and the timestep, and show that this sensitivity is a key predictor of caching error. Based on this analysis, we propose Sensitivity-Aware Caching (SenCache), a dynamic caching policy that adaptively selects caching timesteps on a per-sample basis. Our framework provides a theoretical basis for adaptive caching, explains why prior empirical heuristics can be partially effective, and extends them to a dynamic, sample-specific approach. Experiments on Wan 2.1, CogVideoX, and LTX-Video show that SenCache achieves better visual quality than existing caching methods under similar computational budgets.

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