SANA: O(n²)→O(n) Linear Attention Generates 1024² Images in 0.6 Seconds
How Linear Attention solved Self-Attention quadratic complexity. The secret behind 100x faster generation compared to DiT.
SANA: Ultra-Fast High-Resolution Image Generation with Linear Attention
TL;DR: SANA generates 1024×1024 images in just 0.6 seconds through Linear Attention and efficient token compression. It's a groundbreaking architecture that's 100x faster than DiT while maintaining equivalent quality.
1. Introduction: Overcoming the Speed-Quality Tradeoff
1.1 Speed Issues with Existing Diffusion Models
High-resolution image generation is computationally expensive:
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