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The Image Reached 4K One Patch at a Time

Progressive diffusion restoration replaced quadratic attention with convolutions and used local text prompts to limit content drift.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-17-016
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Summary

Progressive diffusion restoration replaced quadratic attention with convolutions and used local text prompts to limit content drift.

MagnifiQ refines successive resolutions from 1024 to 4096 pixels and reports better perceptual quality and human preference than prior diffusion restorers on tested images.

Why it matters

Progressive diffusion restoration replaced quadratic attention with convolutions and used local text prompts to limit content drift.

Limits and context

No additional limitation was separately recorded.

Key claims

  1. Progressive diffusion restoration replaced quadratic attention with convolutions and used local text prompts to limit content drift.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-17-018

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.14543arXiv · primary research

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