Title: Efficient-LVSM: Faster, Cheaper, and Better Large View Synthesis Model via Decoupled Co-Refinement Attention
Primary area: applications to computer vision, audio, language, and other modalities
Keywords: novel view synthesis, novel view synthesis, transformer, large model

Abstract: Feedforward models for novel view synthesis (NVS) have recently advanced by transformer-based methods like LVSM, using attention among all input and target views. In this work, we argue that its full self-attention design is suboptimal, suffering from quadratic complexity with respect to the number of input views and rigid parameter sharing among heterogeneous tokens.  We propose \textbf{Efficient-LVSM}, a dual-stream architecture that avoids these issues with a decoupled co-refinement mechanism. It applies intra-view self-attention for input views and self-then-cross attention for target views, eliminating unnecessary computation. Efficient-LVSM achieves 30.6 dB PSNR on RealEstate10K with 2 input views, surpassing LVSM by 0.9 dB, with 2× faster training convergence and 4.2× faster inference speed. 
Efficient-LVSM achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks, exhibits strong zero-shot generalization to unseen view counts, and enables incremental inference with KV-cache, thanks to its decoupled designs.