Block3D: Efficient Text-to-3D Generation via Block-Wise Diffusion

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Splits discrete shape-token sequences into contiguous blocks; generates blocks autoregressively while jointly denoising all tokens within each block. Confidence-guided intra-block correction revises low-confidence tokens before a block is finalized. On a held-out TRELLIS-500K subset, mean end-to-end generation time drops from 25.71 s to 4.99 s — a 5.15x speedup over a fine-tuned autoregressive baseline — while preserving geometric quality.

Why it matters

HF Daily 27 upvotes on Aug 25. Hybrid autoregressive + intra-block diffusion is a practical compromise for 3D generation that beats pure-AR baselines on speed without losing the global coherence of pure diffusion.

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HF Daily 27 upvotes

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