The Golden Path Hypothesis: Reusable Schedules in Diffusion Caching

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arXiv:2609.39343v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion caching accelerates generation by replacing transformer computation with cached or predicted features at selected denoising steps. We introduce the Golden Path Hypothesis (GPH): under fixed inference conditions, prompt-independent cache schedules can achieve final-output quality comparable to the best prompt-specific schedules across prompts. We investigate the GPH across ten caching methods, four image and video models, and three cache