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arxiv: 2601.06338 · v2 · submitted 2026-01-09 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.CV· cs.LG

Circuit Mechanisms for Spatial Relation Generation in Diffusion Transformers

Binxu Wang , Jingxuan Fan , Xu Pan This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.AI cs.CVcs.LG
keywords diffusion transformersmechanistic interpretabilityspatial relationstext-to-image generationcross-attentiontext encoderscircuit analysis
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The pith

Diffusion transformers use different internal circuits for spatial relations depending on the text encoder.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper trains small DiTs from scratch to generate images of two objects with specified attributes and positions. It shows that models reach near-perfect accuracy in all cases, yet the flow of spatial information from text to image tokens takes radically different paths. With random text embeddings the circuit splits the work across two cross-attention heads that read relation and attributes separately. With a pretrained T5 encoder the model instead fuses both pieces of information inside a single text token and reads them together. These mechanistic differences produce similar in-domain performance but different robustness to prompt changes.

Core claim

Although all models learn the task to near-perfect accuracy, the underlying mechanisms differ drastically depending on the choice of text encoder. When using random text embeddings, the spatial-relation information is passed to image tokens through a two-stage circuit involving two cross-attention heads that separately read the spatial relation and single-object attributes. When using a pretrained T5 encoder, the DiT uses a different circuit that leverages information fusion in the text tokens, reading spatial-relation and single-object information together from a single text token.

What carries the argument

Two distinct circuits that route spatial-relation information from text tokens to image tokens: a two-stage cross-attention pathway versus fused representation inside a single text token.

Load-bearing premise

The circuits identified in small models trained from scratch accurately reflect or inform the mechanisms inside large-scale pretrained diffusion transformers used in applications.

What would settle it

Probing a large pretrained DiT on the same two-object spatial task and checking whether the two-stage cross-attention pattern or the single-token fusion pattern appears.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2601.06338 by Binxu Wang, Jingxuan Fan, Xu Pan.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematics of the model and task. Our T2I model ar￾chitecture adopted the design of PixArt [5]. There are three main components: the text encoder that processes tokenized natural language prompts into text embeddings, the VAE that processes image inputs into image tokens, and the Diffusion Transformer (DiT) which is the backbone of the denoising diffusion process. The text information routes through the cr… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Training dynamics of the T2I models (DiT-B). A. and B. Both models trained with random token embedding (RTE) and T5 can achieve good accuracy on the task. Solid lines shows the result of model using exponential moving averaged (ema) weights, while dashed line shows the non-averaged weights. C. The task is learned in distinct stages. In both models, they first learn to gener￾ate objects but with wrong attri… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Illustration of our methods to find relevant heads A. Attention synopsis: The giant attention tensor is first reduced to those only between two interested groups of tokens (e.g. the relation token regardless specific words, or an object token regardless where or what it is). Then the reduced attention tensor is averaged over diffusion time steps, resulting in a layer × head map which we use to pinpoint rel… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The spatial relation heads in random-embedding-based DiT. A. We find specialized cross attention heads that contributes to the object image tokens (top: the object1 in the text; bottom: the object2 in the text) attending to the relation text tokens. B. We show the activation of this head across images tokens and sampling steps. The map for the composite relation “below and right” decomposes cleanly as the … view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The object generation heads in random-embedding-based DiT. A. Specialized heads emerge in cross-attention synopses, by summarizing strength from image tokens of each object to its own shape token. B. Activation of this head (L4H3) across images tokens and sampling steps for the prompt “red square is below and to the right of the blue circle”: tokens at the eventual square location attend to “square,” while… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Schematics of the object relation circuit in DiT trained with random embedding tokens with matching tags attend to shape token of the cor￾responding object. The VO circuit maps these text features [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Mechanism for relational generation in T5-DiT. A. T5-based DiT is robust to attention ablation of relation word, but most sensitive to shape2 and EOS. B. Weight space screening for spatial relation heads via projection score, and its corresponding spatial gradients (L3H7). C. Vector arithmetic on factorized word embedding causally affects generated object relation. spatial relationships in generated images… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Benchmark scores of spatial relationship and object feature attributes of open- and closed- source models. Color of dots denote the text encoder [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison of training dynamics of DiT models with different text encoding and scale. Specific evaluation prompt used was “blue triangle is to the upper left of red square”, sampled with 14 steps at cfg 4.5, sampled from the same noise seed. Further, T5 models immediately learn to achieve object attribute binding after learning attributes themselves, while random embedding model (RTE) gradually learn the c… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Observation on sampling dynamics Specific evaluation prompt used was “the red square is above and to the right of the blue circle”, sampled with 14 steps at cfg 4.5. Model used is RTE x DiT-B. A transition can be seen at step 4-6, where the two object at their final positions can be clearly seen from the expected outcome G(xˆ0(xt)) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Cross attention energy during sampling dynamics. Highlighting the smooth varying attention strength, and the salient contribution of L2H8 head from first object to relation words in RTE x DiT-B [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Cross attention energy summary (max over time) for the specific prompt above [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Attention Synopsis for Shape to Relation word for RTE x DiT-mini, showing it’s invariant to the specific shape of object1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Attention Synopsis for Shape to Relation word for RTE x DiT-mini, showing it’s invariant to the specific spatial relation and phrasing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Attention Synopsis for Shape to Relation word for RTE x DiT-micro, showing it’s invariant to the specific shape of object1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Attention Synopsis for Shape to Relation word for RTE x DiT-micro, showing it’s invariant to the specific spatial relation and phrasing [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_16.png] view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Attention Synopsis for Shape to corresponding shape word for RTE x DiT-mini [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_17.png] view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Attention Synopsis for Shape to corresponding Shape word for RTE x DiT-micro [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_18.png] view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: Attention Synopsis for Shape to Relation word for T5 x DiT-B. The pattern is much less clear than RTE [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_19.png] view at source ↗
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: Attention Synopsis for Shape to Relation word for T5 x DiT-B. The pattern is much less clear than RTE [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_20.png] view at source ↗
Figure 21
Figure 21. Figure 21: Dimension reduction visualization of shape2 token representation (PCA, tSNE, UMAP). Top row: T5 contextual embed￾ding (4096d), Bottom row: Caption projection (784d) using MLP from T5 x DiT-B [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_21.png] view at source ↗
Figure 22
Figure 22. Figure 22: Weight-space relation head screening for RTE-DiT (B, mini, micro, nano). Each column shows a different alignment metric (cosine, projection, energy); each row shows a different model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_22.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: Weight-space relation head screening for T5-DiT (shape2 token) (B, mini, with/without weight decay). Each column shows a different alignment metric (cosine, projection, energy); each row shows a different model. Note this one uses the spatial feature vectors from variance partitioning on shape2 token [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_23.png] view at source ↗
Figure 24
Figure 24. Figure 24: Weight-space relation head screening for T5-DiT (shape1 token) (B, mini, with/without weight decay). Each column shows a different alignment metric (cosine, projection, energy); each row shows a different model. Note this one uses the spatial feature vectors from variance partitioning on shape1 token [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_24.png] view at source ↗
Figure 25
Figure 25. Figure 25: Weight-space relation head screening for CLIP-DiT (B, mini). Each column shows a different alignment metric (cosine, projection, energy); each row shows a different model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_25.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 26. Figure 26: Evaluation of model performance on trained and generalized prompt template [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_26.png] view at source ↗
Figure 27
Figure 27. Figure 27: T5-DiT Robustness and Circuit Analysis (A) The change of contextual embedding of the shape2 token when the word “the” is added interfere with the 8 relation feature directions, esp. positively with lower left and upper right feature. (B) Unnormalized attention maps of the relation head (layer 3, head 7) before and after the prompt perturbation. (C) The generated spatial relationship, i.e. the displacement… view at source ↗
Figure 28
Figure 28. Figure 28: Prompt generalization behavior of RTE-DiT and T5-DiT. Each row shows a different model, each column shows a different prompt template. In each panel, we plot the displacement between the two objects (Dx, Dy) parsed from the generated images; prompts are represented by the color (relationship), size (color1) and marker type (shape1). One can see the addition of “the” at different positions (before first or… view at source ↗
Figure 29
Figure 29. Figure 29: Circuit dissection of PixArt with CLIP text encoder (A) General evaluation of CLIP-DiT-mini model on training and generalized prompt templates, showing it is relatively robust to prompt perturbation, comparing to T5-DiT. (B) Attention masking analysis showing CLIP-DiT is robust to attention masking of most words (including the relation word), but is most sensitive to shape2 and slightly to shape1, similar… view at source ↗
Figure 30
Figure 30. Figure 30: Pre-trained T2I models (A) The prompt set construction and evaluation pipeline. (B) Object and relation accuracy across various object pairs for the PixArt-Sigma model. (C) A text token ablation analysis demonstrating how masking specific tokens affects object and relation accuracy. (D) Projection scores used to identify salient spatial relation heads within the model’s layers To evaluate pre-trained mode… view at source ↗
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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have greatly advanced text-to-image generation, but models still struggle to generate the correct spatial relations between objects as specified in the text prompt. In this study, we adopt a mechanistic interpretability approach to investigate how a DiT can generate correct spatial relations between objects. We train, from scratch, DiTs of different sizes with different text encoders to learn to generate images containing two objects whose attributes and spatial relations are specified in the text prompt. We find that, although all the models can learn this task to near-perfect accuracy, the underlying mechanisms differ drastically depending on the choice of text encoder. When using random text embeddings, we find that the spatial-relation information is passed to image tokens through a two-stage circuit, involving two cross-attention heads that separately read the spatial relation and single-object attributes in the text prompt. When using a pretrained text encoder (T5), we find that the DiT uses a different circuit that leverages information fusion in the text tokens, reading spatial-relation and single-object information together from a single text token. We further show that, although the in-domain performance is similar for the two settings, their robustness to out-of-domain perturbations differs, potentially suggesting the difficulty of generating correct relations in real-world scenarios.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper trains small Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) from scratch on a synthetic two-object spatial-relation image generation task using either random text embeddings or a pretrained T5 encoder. It claims that all models reach near-perfect in-domain accuracy, yet the underlying circuits differ sharply: random embeddings induce a two-stage cross-attention pathway in which two heads separately read spatial relations and object attributes, while T5 induces information fusion within text tokens so that a single token supplies both relation and attribute information. The work further reports differing robustness to out-of-domain perturbations and suggests these mechanisms may help explain spatial-relation failures in large pretrained DiTs.

Significance. If the circuit identifications prove reproducible, the controlled comparison supplies concrete mechanistic evidence that text-encoder choice alters how spatial information is routed inside DiTs. This is a useful existence proof that distinct circuits can solve the same task and that out-of-domain robustness can diverge even when in-domain accuracy is matched. The absence of any bridging experiments to large-scale or pretrained models, however, confines the result to the small-scratch regime and weakens its immediate relevance to deployed text-to-image systems.

major comments (3)
  1. [Methods] Methods section: the manuscript provides no description of the circuit-discovery procedure (activation patching, attention-head ablation, causal interventions, or quantitative metrics) used to identify the two-stage cross-attention pathway or the single-token fusion mechanism. Without these details the central claim that the circuits are distinct cannot be evaluated.
  2. [Results] Results and §4: no error bars, run-to-run variance, or statistical controls accompany the “near-perfect accuracy” figures or the reported circuit differences. This omission is load-bearing because the paper’s strongest claim is that mechanisms differ despite matched performance.
  3. [Discussion] Discussion: the suggestion that the observed circuits “may indicate why real-world DiTs struggle with spatial relations” is unsupported; all experiments use small models trained from scratch, and no ablation, head-role comparison, or circuit analysis on any pretrained or large-scale DiT checkpoint is reported.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Figures] Figure captions and axis labels should explicitly state the number of training runs and random seeds underlying each plotted accuracy or attention value.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback. We address each major comment below with clarifications and proposed revisions to strengthen the manuscript while remaining within the scope of our controlled small-scale experiments.

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  1. Referee: [Methods] Methods section: the manuscript provides no description of the circuit-discovery procedure (activation patching, attention-head ablation, causal interventions, or quantitative metrics) used to identify the two-stage cross-attention pathway or the single-token fusion mechanism. Without these details the central claim that the circuits are distinct cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We agree that the Methods section requires a more explicit description of the circuit identification techniques. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated subsection detailing the activation patching protocol, attention-head ablation experiments, causal interventions, and quantitative metrics (including logit-difference scores and attention-map consistency measures) used to establish the two-stage cross-attention circuit for random embeddings versus the single-token fusion circuit for T5. This addition will include procedural steps and representative examples to allow full evaluation of the claims. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Results] Results and §4: no error bars, run-to-run variance, or statistical controls accompany the “near-perfect accuracy” figures or the reported circuit differences. This omission is load-bearing because the paper’s strongest claim is that mechanisms differ despite matched performance.

    Authors: We accept that variance reporting is necessary to support the claim of matched in-domain performance with distinct mechanisms. The revised Results section and §4 will include error bars (standard deviation across at least three independent training seeds per configuration) for accuracy metrics and circuit-identification outcomes. We will also add a brief statistical summary confirming that circuit differences remain consistent across runs. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Discussion] Discussion: the suggestion that the observed circuits “may indicate why real-world DiTs struggle with spatial relations” is unsupported; all experiments use small models trained from scratch, and no ablation, head-role comparison, or circuit analysis on any pretrained or large-scale DiT checkpoint is reported.

    Authors: We recognize that our experiments are limited to small models trained from scratch and that direct evidence on large pretrained DiTs is absent. The original phrasing presented the link as a hypothesis motivated by the observed out-of-domain robustness differences. In revision we will reword the Discussion to frame this explicitly as a speculative direction for future work, add a limitations paragraph stating the small-model scope, and remove any implication of direct applicability to deployed systems. revision: partial

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  • We cannot perform circuit analysis on large-scale pretrained DiT checkpoints, as this would require access to model weights and computational resources beyond the controlled small-scale setting of the current study.

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No circularity in empirical circuit discovery

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The paper trains DiTs from scratch on a synthetic two-object spatial-relation task and identifies circuits via direct mechanistic analysis of attention heads and information flow. All claims rest on observed model behavior after training, head ablations, and comparisons between random embeddings versus T5 encoders; no parameters are fitted to the target result, no self-citations justify core premises, and no equations or definitions reduce the findings to their own inputs by construction. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained empirical observation.

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The central claim rests on the assumption that mechanistic interpretability correctly isolates the functional circuits and that small from-scratch models reveal principles relevant to the broader field.

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  • domain assumption Mechanistic interpretability techniques can accurately identify the functional circuits in the trained DiT models responsible for spatial relations.
    The paper relies on this to claim specific circuits like two-stage cross-attention or text-token fusion.

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