Hierarchical Patch Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Video Generation
Authors: name: Ivan Skorokhodov, name: Willi Menapace, name: Aliaksandr Siarohin, name: Sergey Tulyakov

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in image and video
synthesis. However, scaling them to high-resolution inputs is challenging and
requires restructuring the diffusion pipeline into multiple independent
components, limiting scalability and complicating downstream applications. This
makes it very efficient during training and unlocks end-to-end optimization on
high-resolution videos. We improve PDMs in two principled ways. First, to
enforce consistency between patches, we develop deep context fusion -- an
architectural technique that propagates the context information from low-scale
to high-scale patches in a hierarchical manner. Second, to accelerate training
and inference, we propose adaptive computation, which allocates more network
capacity and computation towards coarse image details. The resulting model sets
a new state-of-the-art FVD score of 66.32 and Inception Score of 87.68 in
class-conditional video generation on UCF-101 256^2, surpassing recent
methods by more than 100%. Then, we show that it can be rapidly fine-tuned from
a base 36times 64 low-resolution generator for high-resolution 64 times
288 times 512 text-to-video synthesis. To the best of our knowledge, our
model is the first diffusion-based architecture which is trained on such high
resolutions entirely end-to-end. Project webpage:
https://snap-research.github.io/hpdm.