SparkDiffusion: 265× Faster Video Generation on Consumer GPUs via Sparse Attention & Distillation
Researchers from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Alibaba introduce SparkDiffusion, a unified framework combining sparse attention, few-step distillation, and FP8 quantization to achieve 265× acceleration for DiT video generation on a single RTX 5090, overcoming the high-sparsity trap that degrades quality at extreme sparsity.
