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Abstract: In recent years, the rapid development of lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and lightweight vision transformers (ViTs) has led to significant progress in the field of mobile ...

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Abstract: There has been immense progress recently in the visual quality of Stable Diffusion-based Super Resolution (SD-SR). However, deploying large diffusion models on computationally restricted ...