Diffusion-4K: Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

Jinjin Zhang, Qiuyu Huang, Junjie Liu, Xiefan Guo, Di Huang
2/10/2026

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Abstract

In this paper, we present Diffusion-4K, a novel framework for direct ultra-high-resolution image synthesis using text-to-image diffusion models. The core advancements include: (1) Aesthetic-4K Benchmark: addressing the absence of a publicly available 4K image synthesis dataset, we construct Aesthetic-4K, a comprehensive benchmark for ultra-high-resolution image generation. We curated a high-quality 4K dataset with carefully selected images and captions generated by GPT-4o. Additionally, we introduce GLCM Score and Compression Ratio metrics to evaluate fine details, combined with holistic measures such as FID, Aesthetics and CLIPScore for a comprehensive assessment of ultra-high-resolution images. (2) Wavelet-based Fine-tuning: we propose a wavelet-based fine-tuning approach for direct training with photorealistic 4K images, applicable to various latent diffusion models, demonstrating its effectiveness in synthesizing highly detailed 4K images. Consequently, Diffusion-4K achieves impressive performance in high-quality image synthesis and text prompt adherence, especially when powered by modern large-scale diffusion models (e.g., SD3-2B and Flux-12B). Extensive experimental results from our benchmark demonstrate the superiority of Diffusion-4K in ultra-high-resolution image synthesis. Code is available at https://github.com/zhang0jhon/diffusion-4k.

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[CVPR 2025] Diffusion-4K: Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

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High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models

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@article{zhang2026diffusionk,
  title  = {Diffusion-4K: Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models},
  author = {Jinjin Zhang and Qiuyu Huang and Junjie Liu and Xiefan Guo and Di Huang},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2503.18352},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18352},
  journal = {CVPR 2025 2025}
}

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