diffusers/docs/source/en/api/cache.md

Caching methods

Pyramid Attention Broadcast

Pyramid Attention Broadcast from Xuanlei Zhao, Xiaolong Jin, Kai Wang, Yang You.

Pyramid Attention Broadcast (PAB) is a method that speeds up inference in diffusion models by systematically skipping attention computations between successive inference steps and reusing cached attention states. The attention states are not very different between successive inference steps. The most prominent difference is in the spatial attention blocks, not as much in the temporal attention blocks, and finally the least in the cross attention blocks. Therefore, many cross attention computation blocks can be skipped, followed by the temporal and spatial attention blocks. By combining other techniques like sequence parallelism and classifier-free guidance parallelism, PAB achieves near real-time video generation.

Enable PAB with [~PyramidAttentionBroadcastConfig] on any pipeline. For some benchmarks, refer to this pull request.

import torch
from diffusers import CogVideoXPipeline, PyramidAttentionBroadcastConfig

pipe = CogVideoXPipeline.from_pretrained("THUDM/CogVideoX-5b", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16)
pipe.to("cuda")

# Increasing the value of `spatial_attention_timestep_skip_range[0]` or decreasing the value of
# `spatial_attention_timestep_skip_range[1]` will decrease the interval in which pyramid attention
# broadcast is active, leader to slower inference speeds. However, large intervals can lead to
# poorer quality of generated videos.
config = PyramidAttentionBroadcastConfig(
    spatial_attention_block_skip_range=2,
    spatial_attention_timestep_skip_range=(100, 800),
    current_timestep_callback=lambda: pipe.current_timestep,
)
pipe.transformer.enable_cache(config)

CacheMixin

[[autodoc]] CacheMixin

PyramidAttentionBroadcastConfig

[[autodoc]] PyramidAttentionBroadcastConfig

[[autodoc]] apply_pyramid_attention_broadcast