Massive Activations are the Key to Local Detail Synthesis in Diffusion Transformers

Massive Activations Drive Fine-Grained Local Detail Synthesis in DiTs.
Detail Guidance: Superior Local Detail Fidelity Compared to CFG.
Training-free, One Line of Code to Apply.
Chaofan Gan, Zicheng Zhao, Yuanpeng Tu, Xi Chen, Ziran Qin, Tieyuan Chen, Mehrtash Harandi, Weiyao Lin
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Monash University, The University of Hong Kong
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DG versus CFG with SD3-Medium

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DG versus CFG with SD3.5-Large

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DG versus CFG with Flux-dev-de-distill

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CFG versus CFG+DG

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BibTeX


      @misc{2510.11538,
      Author = {Chaofan Gan and Zicheng Zhao and Yuanpeng Tu and Xi Chen and Ziran Qin and Tieyuan Chen and Mehrtash Harandi and Weiyao Lin},
      Title = {Massive Activations are the Key to Local Detail Synthesis in Diffusion Transformers},
      Year = {2025},
      Eprint = {arXiv:2510.11538},
      }