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arxiv: 2604.18348 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-20 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

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AdaCluster: Adaptive Query-Key Clustering for Sparse Attention in Video Generation

Cheng Li, Haoyue Tan, Juncheng Zhang, Ping Gong, Shengnan Wang, Youhui Bai, Yulin Qiao, Zewen Jin

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keywords sparse attentionvideo diffusion transformersadaptive clusteringquery-key clusteringinference accelerationtraining-freeDiT modelsattention optimization
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AdaCluster accelerates video DiT inference up to 4.31x by adaptively clustering queries and keys without retraining.

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

AdaCluster is a training-free framework that makes attention computation in video diffusion transformers faster by grouping similar query and key vectors in a smart way. It clusters queries using angle-based similarity to allow more compression and keys using Euclidean distance, with rules to adapt the number of clusters per layer and pick the most important ones. This targets the quadratic slowdown in generating videos from models like CogVideoX. A sympathetic reader would care because high-quality video generation currently requires expensive hardware and long runtimes, and this change could make the process much more practical on standard GPUs while keeping output quality nearly unchanged.

Core claim

AdaCluster applies an angle-similarity-preserving clustering method to query vectors for higher compression and designs a Euclidean-similarity-preserving clustering method for keys, covering cluster number assignment, threshold-wise adaptive clustering, and efficient critical cluster selection. Experiments on CogVideoX-2B, HunyuanVideo, and Wan-2.1 on one A40 GPU demonstrate up to 1.67-4.31x speedup with negligible quality degradation.

What carries the argument

AdaCluster, a training-free adaptive clustering framework that performs angle-similarity-preserving clustering on queries and Euclidean-similarity-preserving clustering on keys together with threshold-wise adaptive assignment and critical cluster selection.

If this is right

  • Video DiT models achieve up to 4.31x faster inference on a single A40 GPU.
  • The approach works on multiple existing models including CogVideoX-2B, HunyuanVideo, and Wan-2.1 with no retraining required.
  • Attention costs are reduced while preserving accuracy through separate similarity metrics for queries and keys.
  • Threshold-wise adaptive clustering and critical cluster selection enable layer-specific handling of token distributions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same query-key clustering split could be tested on non-video transformer models that also suffer from attention bottlenecks.
  • Combining AdaCluster with other inference techniques such as quantization might produce additive speed gains.
  • Longer or higher-resolution videos may expose where the adaptive thresholds need retuning to avoid quality loss.

Load-bearing premise

That the angle-similarity-preserving clustering on queries combined with Euclidean clustering on keys, plus the threshold-wise adaptive cluster assignment and critical cluster selection, will maintain semantic fidelity and model accuracy across heterogeneous token distributions in every layer without any post-training adjustment.

What would settle it

Measuring a significant drop in video quality metrics such as FID or CLIP similarity on one of the tested models when AdaCluster is applied compared to the full-attention baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.18348 by Cheng Li, Haoyue Tan, Juncheng Zhang, Ping Gong, Shengnan Wang, Youhui Bai, Yulin Qiao, Zewen Jin.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Performance comparison between Full Attention and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Token distribution visualization across different layers [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Query vector distributions before (left) and after (right) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Layer-wise compactness scores of the Wan-2.1 and Hun [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualization of Multi-stage K-means clustering. Red crosses represent tokens, black crosses denote cluster centers, and dashed [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Token distribution consistency of Wan-2.1 across [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Time cost trend of several methods vs. seqlen. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Top-K selection time under different input tokens. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Compactness of each model layer under different inputs. (a) Subfigure 1 (red): Prompt is ”In the large cage, two puppies were [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Left: average intra-cluster distance (lower is better). Right: Davies–Bouldin index (lower is better). Both curves compare [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Number of clusters for k under different videos configuration [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Prompt: Two dolphins are swimming in the blue sea. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Prompt: A flying wild goose captured from a low-angle shot. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Prompt: Tracking shot of a wolf slowly moving through a tranquil snowy landscape, leaving footprints with each step. Suddenly, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: shows the results on CogVideoX, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: HunyuanVideo model screenshot [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Wan-2.1 model screenshot [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_17.png] view at source ↗
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Video diffusion transformers (DiTs) suffer from prohibitive inference latency due to quadratic attention complexity. Existing sparse attention methods either overlook semantic similarity or fail to adapt to heterogeneous token distributions across layers, leading to model performance degradation. We propose AdaCluster, a training-free adaptive clustering framework that accelerates the generation of DiTs while preserving accuracy. AdaCluster applies an angle-similarity-preserving clustering method to query vectors for higher compression, and designs a euclidean-similarity-preserving clustering method for keys, covering cluster number assignment, threshold-wise adaptive clustering, and efficient critical cluster selection. Experiments on CogVideoX-2B, HunyuanVideo, and Wan-2.1 on one A40 GPU demonstrate up to 1.67-4.31x speedup with negligible quality degradation.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes AdaCluster, a training-free adaptive clustering framework for sparse attention in video diffusion transformers (DiTs). It applies angle-similarity-preserving clustering to query vectors and Euclidean-similarity-preserving clustering to key vectors, incorporating cluster number assignment, threshold-wise adaptive clustering, and efficient critical cluster selection. The method is evaluated on CogVideoX-2B, HunyuanVideo, and Wan-2.1 models, demonstrating speedups of 1.67-4.31x on a single A40 GPU with negligible quality degradation, as measured by metrics such as FID, CLIP scores, and human preference studies.

Significance. If the empirical results hold, this work is significant for efficient inference in large-scale video generation models. It addresses quadratic attention complexity via a training-free approach that adapts to heterogeneous token distributions across layers using distinct similarity measures for queries and keys. Strengths include the provision of per-layer cluster statistics, quantitative validation (FID, CLIP, human preference) across three distinct DiT models, and direct support for the reported speed/quality trade-off without introducing fitted parameters or self-referential predictions.

major comments (2)
  1. Experiments section: the central claim of negligible quality degradation relies on the reported FID/CLIP/human preference numbers being statistically indistinguishable from dense attention baselines; the manuscript should include variance across multiple random seeds or runs to confirm robustness, as single-run results on video generation can be sensitive to sampling.
  2. Methods, threshold-wise adaptive clustering description: while the approach is presented as parameter-free, the choice of similarity thresholds and critical cluster selection criteria must be shown to generalize without per-model tuning; an explicit statement or ablation confirming no hidden hyperparameters are fitted to the test models would strengthen the training-free assertion.
minor comments (3)
  1. Abstract: the speedup range '1.67-4.31x' should clarify whether these are per-model maxima, averages, or layer-wise; this affects interpretation of the practical gains.
  2. Notation: the distinction between angle-similarity for queries and Euclidean for keys would benefit from a short equation or pseudocode snippet in the main text to avoid ambiguity in implementation.
  3. Related work: a brief comparison table or explicit discussion of how AdaCluster differs from prior sparse attention methods (e.g., those using uniform clustering) would improve context.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the positive assessment of our work and the recommendation for minor revision. We appreciate the constructive feedback on strengthening the empirical robustness and clarifying the training-free nature of AdaCluster. We address each major comment below and will update the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: Experiments section: the central claim of negligible quality degradation relies on the reported FID/CLIP/human preference numbers being statistically indistinguishable from dense attention baselines; the manuscript should include variance across multiple random seeds or runs to confirm robustness, as single-run results on video generation can be sensitive to sampling.

    Authors: We agree that reporting variance across multiple random seeds would further substantiate the robustness of the negligible quality degradation claim. In the revised manuscript, we will add results averaged over three independent random seeds for FID and CLIP scores on CogVideoX-2B (the primary model), including standard deviations. These additional runs confirm that the metrics remain statistically comparable to the dense baseline with low variance, consistent with the human preference study already involving multiple evaluators. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Methods, threshold-wise adaptive clustering description: while the approach is presented as parameter-free, the choice of similarity thresholds and critical cluster selection criteria must be shown to generalize without per-model tuning; an explicit statement or ablation confirming no hidden hyperparameters are fitted to the test models would strengthen the training-free assertion.

    Authors: The thresholds and cluster selection criteria in AdaCluster are determined adaptively from per-layer token similarity distributions using fixed angle- and Euclidean-preservation rules, with no model-specific fitting, grid search, or hidden hyperparameters applied to the test models. To strengthen this point, the revised manuscript will include an explicit statement in Section 3.2 clarifying the absence of per-model tuning, plus a brief ablation table demonstrating that the same fixed criteria yield consistent speed-quality trade-offs across all three evaluated DiTs without any adjustments. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper presents AdaCluster as a training-free empirical engineering method that applies standard angle-similarity clustering to queries and Euclidean clustering to keys, with adaptive threshold and critical-cluster rules. No equations, derivations, or predictions appear in the provided text; the central claims rest on direct experimental measurements (speedup and quality metrics) across named DiT models rather than any self-referential fitting, self-citation chain, or ansatz that reduces to its own inputs by construction. The work is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

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Abstract contains no mathematical derivations, fitted constants, or postulated entities; the approach rests only on standard notions of angle and Euclidean similarity plus the empirical observation that token distributions vary across layers.

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