Calibri: Enhancing Diffusion Transformers via Parameter-Efficient Calibration

Danil Tokhchukov, Aysel Mirzoeva, Andrey Kuznetsov, Konstantin Sobolev

Calibri: Enhancing Diffusion Transformers via Parameter-Efficient Calibration: 67 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #3 of 29 papers on 2026-03-27. Day-by-day upvote history.

In this paper, we uncover the hidden potential of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) to significantly enhance generative tasks. Through an in-depth analysis of the denoising process, we demonstrate that introducing a single learned scaling parameter can significantly improve the performance of DiT blocks. Building on this insight, we propose Calibri, a parameter-efficient approach that optimally calibrates DiT components to elevate generative quality. Calibri frames DiT calibration as a black-box reward optimization problem, which is efficiently solved using an evolutionary algorithm and modifies just ~100 parameters. Experimental results reveal that despite its lightweight design, Calibri consistently improves performance across various text-to-image models. Notably, Calibri also reduces the inference steps required for image generation, all while maintaining high-quality outputs.

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