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The Weight Is Over - Interactive Diffusion on Consumer GPUs

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arXiv:2609.21849 (cs)
[Submitted on 18 Sep 2026]

Title:The Weight Is Over - Interactive Diffusion on Consumer GPUs

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Abstract:On-device inference is booming, but the momentum is almost all in language models. Diffusion pipelines are memory hungry, latency-sensitive, and require orchestrating an embedder, a transformer, a decoder, and often further postprocessing that is not as standardized as LLM inference loops are. We navigate the trade-off between performance, quality, and model footprint to reach as many client devices in the wild as possible. We make three contributions: an embedding translator that maps a small text encoder into a large encoder space to cut weight and latency; a reproducible sweep recipe for navigating the speed/quality/memory triangle in diffusion pipelines; and an interactive on-device image generation editor achieving sub-second TTFI on recent GPUs.
Subjects: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Performance (cs.PF)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.21849 [cs.LG]
  (or arXiv:2609.21849v1 [cs.LG] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.21849
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Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3829339.3847852
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From: Frieder Ganz [view email]
[v1] Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:42:55 UTC (3,327 KB)
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