SEGA: Spectral-Energy Guided Attention for Resolution Extrapolation in Diffusion Transformers
About
Diffusion transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a dominant architecture for text-to-image generation, yet their performance drops when generating at resolutions beyond their training range. Existing training-free approaches mitigate this by modifying inference-time attention behavior, often through Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE) extrapolation combined with attention scaling. However, these strategies apply a uniform and content-agnostic scaling across RoPE components with distinct frequency characteristics, inducing a trade-off between preserving global structure and recovering fine detail. We introduce SEGA, a training-free method that dynamically scales attention across RoPE components according to the latent's spatial-frequency structure at each denoising step. This adaptive scaling improves both structural coherence and fine-detail fidelity. Experiments show that SEGA consistently improves high-resolution synthesis across multiple target resolutions, outperforming state-of-the-art training-free baselines.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High-Resolution Image Generation | Aesthetic-4K | IR1.3 | 64 | |
| Text-to-Image Generation | Aesthetic-4K (test) | IR1.39 | 20 | |
| Text-to-Image Generation | Aesthetic-4K v1.0 (test) | IR1.51 | 16 | |
| Text-to-Image Generation | Aesthetic-4K zero-shot 4096 x 4096 | IR1.58 | 11 |