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JointDiT: Enhancing RGB-Depth Joint Modeling with Diffusion Transformers

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Pith's one-line read JointDiT models the joint distribution of RGB images and depth maps so that joint generation, depth estimation, and depth-conditioned image generation all become special cases of one flow-matching network controlled by two timesteps.

desk verdict Solid empirical paper extending joint RGB-depth diffusion to a Flux transformer with two simple, ablated techniques; the 'viable alternative' claim outruns the evidence because the comparison mixes base models. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.00482 v3 pith:Q5TXP4KL submitted 2025-05-01 cs.CV cs.AI

classification cs.CVcs.AI
keywords jointdistributionmodelingdiffusiontransformerRGB-Ddepthestimationdepth-conditionedimagegenerationflowmatchingadaptiveschedulingweightstimestepsampling
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The reading

This paper tries to establish that modeling the joint distribution of color images and depth maps is enough to solve three different tasks with a single network: generating an image together with its depth, estimating depth from an image, and generating an image from a given depth map. The proposed model, JointDiT, appends a parallel depth branch to a pre-trained diffusion transformer and trains the two branches with separate noise timesteps, so the task is selected at inference time by setting the timestep pair. Two training techniques are introduced to make that work: adaptive scheduling weights that let the noisier branch borrow structure from the cleaner branch, and an unbalanced timestep sampling strategy that covers extreme noise combinations. If the central claim is right, task-specific heads and per-task fine-tuning pipelines for depth estimation could be replaced by one shared generative model, which matters because depth estimation and depth-conditioned image generation are currently built as separate conditional models.

What carries the argument

The engine is a two-timestep flow-matching objective over paired modalities. Instead of one diffusion time, JointDiT samples independent timesteps $t_x$ and $t_y$ for the RGB and depth branches and minimizes the Joint Conditional Flow Matching loss, which forces the network to predict both components of the joint vector field at every noise-level combination. The joint connection module is a cross-attention layer between branches whose outputs are scaled by adaptive scheduling weights $w_x(t_x,t_y)$ and $w_y(t_x,t_y)$; each weight is a sigmoid of the relative noise imbalance, so the cleaner branch's structure is transferred more strongly to the noisier branch. The unbalanced timestep sampling strategy draws $t_x$ and $t_y$ independently from two different timestep distributions half of the time, and from the same distribution the other half, ensuring coverage of the extreme pairs needed for the conditional tasks.

What would settle it

Replace the teacher-generated depth labels with ground-truth depth from the synthetic datasets at their original scale, retrain the same JointDiT pipeline, and compare absolute relative error on ETH3D; if the gap against the diffusion-based depth estimators does not shrink, then the paper's attribution of its ETH3D weakness to the teacher is not the explanation.

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Core claim

JointDiT's central claim is that a single flow-matching network can learn the joint distribution of an RGB image and its depth map over every combination of their noise levels, and that the resulting model is a viable replacement for conditional generation in depth tasks. The training objective is a joint conditional flow-matching loss with two independent timesteps, $t_x$ for the image and $t_y$ for the depth, so the vector field $v_{t_x,t_y}(x,y|x_1,y_1)$ is learned for all pairs. At inference, $(t_x,t_y)=(0,0)$ yields joint image-depth generation, $(1,0)$ gives depth estimation from a clean image, and $(0,1)$ gives depth-conditioned image generation. The architecture keeps a pre-trained diffusion transformer's image branch frozen, adds a parallel depth branch through low-rank adapters, and exchanges features between branches through joint cross-attention modules gated by adaptive scheduling weights. The paper reports high-fidelity joint generation with geometrically plausible 3D lifting, depth-estimation accuracy comparable to dedicated generative depth estimators on several benchmarks, and better depth-conditioned generation scores than the conditional baselines compared on the same training data.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that the depth maps produced by the pre-trained teacher predictor, normalized to the unit interval, are faithful enough to serve as ground truth for the depth branch, so any systematic error in those labels is inherited by JointDiT.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • One frozen image-generation backbone plus trainable adapters can serve as a unified model for joint generation, monocular depth estimation, and depth-conditioned image generation, with the task selected by timesteps instead of by network head.
  • Depth estimation from a single image no longer needs a task-specific architecture: with only a small fraction of trainable parameters, the joint model matches diffusion-based depth estimators on NYUv2 and ScanNet and improves on them after a short fine-tuning on synthetic data.
  • Jointly generated image-depth pairs lift to more coherent 3D point clouds than depth estimated from the already-generated image, and this advantage extends to stylized domains such as cartoon and pixel-art images.
  • In depth-conditioned image generation, the joint model provides lower FID and lower depth-consistency error than the conditional baselines compared on the same data.
  • Feature analysis shows the depth branch encodes structure while the RGB branch encodes texture, suggesting the joint model can serve as a geometric prior rather than only an appearance generator.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Because the real-image training pairs use teacher-generated depth labels, the teacher's systematic errors set a ceiling on the model; a better teacher or a mix of ground-truth and synthetic depth should improve the conditional tasks, and the paper's own ETH3D gap is consistent with this.
  • The same two-timestep recipe should transfer to other paired modalities where one branch is structurally reliable, such as normals, segmentation, or albedo, and could be tested with identical adaptive scheduling and unbalanced sampling.
  • The joint model's ability to run at varying resolutions and without a text prompt suggests it could serve as a prior for inverse problems like depth completion or inpainting, which the paper does not explore.
  • The observed RGB-texture / depth-structure division of labor could be turned into a test: if joint generation is used to synthesize depth for out-of-domain illustrations, it should generalize better than monocular depth estimators, which the paper partly demonstrates but does not quantify.
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Summary. The paper proposes JointDiT, a diffusion transformer that models the joint distribution of RGB images and depth maps. The architecture extends a frozen Flux backbone with a parallel depth branch using LoRA adapters and joint cross-attention modules. Two techniques are introduced: adaptive scheduling weights, which modulate cross-modal information transfer according to the relative noise levels of the two branches, and an unbalanced timestep sampling strategy, which trains on both shared and independent timesteps per modality. By controlling the timesteps of each branch, the same network performs joint RGB-depth generation, depth estimation from an image, and depth-conditioned image generation. Experiments report strong joint generation quality, depth estimation comparable to diffusion-based depth estimators, and state-of-the-art depth-conditioned generation on the UniCon evaluation protocol. The central claim is that joint distribution modeling can serve as a viable alternative to conditional generation.

Significance. If the central claim is established, the paper offers a unified framework where one network handles several tasks through timestep control, which is a conceptually appealing direction for multi-modal diffusion models. The architecture is described in detail, and the ablation studies in Section 4.4 provide credible internal evidence that the two proposed techniques improve joint generation and depth estimation. The paper is generally clearly written and includes a limitation statement. However, the headline claim that joint distribution modeling can replace conditional generation is not supported by the present comparisons: the depth-conditioned generation baselines use a different and weaker base model (Stable Diffusion) than JointDiT (Flux), and no same-backbone conditional control is provided. In addition, the depth estimation evaluation lacks a precise description of the alignment protocol, which is essential for interpreting the AbsRel numbers. These gaps are fixable within the scope of a revision.

major comments (3)
  1. [§4.3, Table 2; Abstract and Conclusion] The claim that joint distribution modeling is a viable alternative to conditional generation is not established because the comparison in Table 2 does not control for the base generative model or the joint pretraining stage. Readout-Guidance, ControlNet, and UniCon are all based on Stable Diffusion, whereas JointDiT uses the Flux transformer backbone, adds a parallel depth branch with LoRA, and is first joint-pretrained on 50k image-depth pairs before the PascalVOC fine-tuning described in Supplementary A.1. The lower FID and AbsRel of JointDiT may therefore be due to the stronger Flux prior and the architecture rather than to joint-distribution modeling. Please add a depth-conditioned image generator with the same Flux backbone and the same LoRA budget that does not use joint pretraining, or run an ablation of JointDiT without the 50k joint-pretraining stage. Without such a control, the paper should not claim that joint modeling itself is responsible for the improvement.
  2. [§4.2, Table 1; Supplementary A.1] The depth estimation evaluation protocol is underspecified regarding the alignment of predicted depth to ground truth. JointDiT outputs normalized disparity, yet the reported AbsRel values (e.g., 5.7 on NYUv2) are only meaningful if some affine alignment (e.g., least-squares or median) to the ground truth is applied. The paper states that no ensemble technique is used but does not state whether or how alignment was performed for JointDiT or for the compared methods Marigold and GeoWizard. Without a precise statement of the alignment procedure, the numbers in Table 1 are not reproducible and the comparison to generative depth estimators is not interpretable. Please specify the exact evaluation protocol, including the alignment step, for all methods.
  3. [§4.2 and Supplementary A.2] The depth branch is trained on Depth-Anything-V2 pseudo-labels, and the synthetic fine-tuning data are rescaled to match DA-2's mean and standard deviation. The paper acknowledges that this teacher leads to a weak ETH3D result (AbsRel 16.5 vs 6.4 for GeoWizard), but the claim of comparable depth estimation on NYUv2, ScanNet, KITTI, and DIODE is still conditional on the teacher's quality. Because systematic errors in DA-2 predictions are likely inherited by JointDiT, the paper should discuss the potential bias of this supervision more thoroughly and, if possible, report a variant trained with a different pseudo-label source or elevate the Ours+ft results (with synthetic ground truth) as the primary evidence for the depth-estimation capability.
minor comments (4)
  1. [§3.1, Eq. (6)] The adaptive scheduling weights wx and wy are undefined when tx + ty = 0, which corresponds to the initialization for joint generation. Please add a convention (e.g., define the value as 1/2 by limit) or add an epsilon to the denominator so the formula is well-defined for all inputs.
  2. [§4.3, Table 2 caption] The phrase "With the same training dataset" is potentially misleading because the compared methods also differ in base pretraining and in the joint-pretraining stage; please rephrase as "with the same fine-tuning dataset" or clarify the exact sense in which the training data are the same.
  3. [Table 4] In the depth-conditioned image generation ablation, the full model (both techniques) achieves FID 12.58, which is not the best among the four configurations (the "neither" configuration gives 11.94 and the "unbalanced only" configuration gives 12.51). The claim that the two techniques together are effective for this task rests primarily on the ImageReward ranking; please clarify why FID does not improve and whether human-preference ranking is the intended primary metric.
  4. [Supplementary A.3, Eq. (7)] The definition of f(t) is given, but g(t) is only described as f(t) with s=0.25; please write g(t) explicitly to avoid ambiguity.

Circularity Check

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No derivational circularity: the joint-modeling pipeline trains on external pseudo-labels and is evaluated on independent benchmarks; no equation in the method reduces to its own outputs.

full rationale

The method section builds a two-timestep flow-matching objective (Eq. 4), adds a parallel depth branch with LoRAs and joint cross-attention from UniCon, and proposes adaptive scheduling weights (Eqs. 5-6) and unbalanced timestep sampling. None of these components is defined in terms of the evaluation metrics, and the test-time protocols (tx=1/ty=0 for depth estimation, tx=0/ty=1 for depth-conditioned generation) are direct evaluations of the trained vector field rather than re-statements of the training target. Depth-estimation numbers are reported on NYUv2, ScanNet, KITTI, DIODE, and ETH3D, none of which supplies the training signal; the paper explicitly attributes its ETH3D AbsRel weakness to the Depth-Anything-V2 teacher, a data-quality limitation rather than a circular reduction. Table 2 follows UniCon's protocol with the same PascalVOC training split for all methods and OpenImages for evaluation; the AbsRel there is a consistency check against an off-the-shelf depth model, so the metric could be self-referential if the conditioning and evaluation depth models coincide, but the paper fits no parameter to that metric and no equation forces the result. The self-citations (e.g., [28] on depth completion) appear only as Related Work context and are not load-bearing for the central joint-modeling claim. There is no imported uniqueness theorem, no ansatz smuggled in through a self-citation, and no renaming of a known empirical pattern as organization. The strongest caveat—the absence of a same-backbone conditional-generation baseline—is an experimental-confound concern, not a circularity, and is outside the circularity rubric.

Assumptions & free parameters 5 free parameters · 6 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central method rests on standard flow matching, the assumption that separate per-modality timesteps yield the conditional tasks, and the choice of Depth-Anything-V2 pseudo-labels as supervision. The main hand-set constants are alpha=3 and the parameters of the two timestep distributions; these affect training but are not fitted to the evaluation benchmarks.

free parameters (5)
  • alpha (adaptive scheduling weight scale) = 3
    Controls the slope of the sigmoid gating in Eq. 6. Set by hand for all experiments; sensitivity not reported.
  • s in f(t) = 3.1582
    Timestep sampling distribution from the base sd-scripts training code; not original to this paper, but the central training distribution depends on it.
  • s in g(t) = 0.25
    Chosen to make the unbalanced timestep distribution; no ablation or derivation is given for this value.
  • probability of separate vs shared timestep sampling = 0.5
    Half probability for sampling tx and ty from different distributions; set by design without sensitivity analysis.
  • LoRA rank = 64 (DiT blocks), 512/1024 (input stage)
    Selected after an ablation on NYUv2 and ScanNet (Table 8); affects capacity and results.
assumptions (6)
  • standard math Flow matching and conditional flow matching objectives from Lipman et al. are valid for training the joint vector field.
    Used in Section 2 and Eq. 4 without proof; standard background.
  • domain assumption Sampling separate timesteps tx and ty induces a joint flow that, at endpoints, yields the conditional densities needed for depth estimation and depth-conditioned generation.
    Section 3 states tasks are achieved by adjusting tx and ty. The training distributions f(t) and g(t) have support near but not necessarily at t=0 and t=1, and the paper provides no proof that the learned vector field at extreme timesteps equals the conditional target.
  • domain assumption Depth-Anything-V2 pseudo-labels are acceptable as ground-truth depth for training the joint model.
    Section 4 Implementation details: depth maps are generated by Depth-Anything-V2. This transfers the teacher's systematic errors to JointDiT.
  • ad hoc to paper Pre-trained Flux's image prior transfers to a depth branch through a frozen backbone plus LoRA.
    Core architectural assumption of Section 3.1; empirically supported by results but not derived.
  • domain assumption Joint cross-attention from UniCon is sufficient to align RGB and depth features.
    Adopted from prior work in Section 3.1 with no comparison to other fusion schemes.
  • ad hoc to paper The visual interpretation that the depth branch focuses on geometry and the RGB branch on texture explains the improved joint generation.
    Section 4.4 and Figure 6 present this as a post-hoc interpretation without causal verification.

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  year         = {2026},
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We present JointDiT, a diffusion transformer that models the joint distribution of RGB and depth. By leveraging the architectural benefit and outstanding image prior of the state-of-the-art diffusion transformer, JointDiT not only generates high-fidelity images but also produces geometrically plausible and accurate depth maps. This solid joint distribution modeling is achieved through two simple yet effective techniques that we propose, namely, adaptive scheduling weights, which depend on the noise levels of each modality, and the unbalanced timestep sampling strategy. With these techniques, we train our model across all noise levels for each modality, enabling JointDiT to naturally handle various combinatorial generation tasks, including joint generation, depth estimation, and depth-conditioned image generation by simply controlling the timesteps of each branch. JointDiT demonstrates outstanding joint generation performance. Furthermore, it achieves comparable results in depth estimation and depth-conditioned image generation, suggesting that joint distribution modeling can serve as a viable alternative to conditional generation. The project page is available at https://byungki-k.github.io/JointDiT/.

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Figure 1. We present JointDiT, a diffusion transformer modeling the RGB-Depth joint distribution. By leveraging the image prior of a [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. 3D lifting results of JointDiT and depth diffusion models, i.e., Marigold [32] and GeoWizard [21]. JointDiT also shows more plausible 3D point clouds than depth estimation models in challenging illustration domains, likely due to the complementary behavior of the RGB and depth branches across generative processes, i.e., the RGB branch focuses on texture, and the depth branch on structure. and even further cross-moda… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Overall pipeline of JointDiT. Building on Flux [7], we introduce a parallel depth branch with trainable LoRAs [27]. The joint connection module enables the aligned joint generation. We propose adaptive scheduling weights and an unbalanced timestep sampling strategy for effective training using separate timesteps. MM-DiT and P-DiT denote the multi-modal [19] and parallel [18] diffusion transformers, respectively. The… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: 3D lifting results of LDM3D [60], JointNet [71], and our JointDiT. Our JointDiT generates highly plausible image-aligned 3D structures, surpassing previous joint generation methods in achieving superior consistency with real 3D space. eration. We also analyze the behav…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Depth estimation results of joint generation models. We visualize the depth estimation results of JointNet, UniCon, and our method on the NYUv2 and ScanNet dataset. Our approach captures thin and fine-grained details with only a timestep adjust￾ment, i.e., tx = 1 and t…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Feature visualization of RGB-Depth branches in MM-DiT blocks. We observe that, at timestep t = 0.48, the depth branch tends to focus on scene geometry, while the RGB branch captures semantic patterns related to texture and appearance. generation from text prompts, even…
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Comparison of 3D lifting results from our JointDiT, Marigold, and Depth-Anything-V2. The jointly generated depth from JointDiT leads to more coherent 3D shapes and better preservation of structural details compared to the estimated depths. Generation Method ImageNet 6K…
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Comparison between original images and images generated by Flux [7] on the ImageNet [53] 6K dataset. Flux often generates stylized images, which leads to a higher FID be￾tween the real image dataset and the generated images. the limited size of the training dataset. Am…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Failure cases in depth estimation. Red and Blue areas indicate near and far depth predictions, respectively. B.5. Joint Panorama Generation JointDiT can be used for RGB-D panorama generation as well. For panorama generation, we strictly follow the Joint￾Net [71] method…
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Figure 10. Figure 10 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_10.png]
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Joint generation results of JointDiT. The joint generated images and depths are geometrically reasonable in 3D [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_11.png]
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Joint generation results in illustration domains. The jointly generated images and depths from JointDiT produce geometri￾cally plausible 3D structures, even in stylized domains [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_12.png]
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Depth estimation results of joint generation models. We visualize the depth estimation results of JointNet, UniCon, and our method on the NYUv2, ScanNet, MSCOCO dataset [17, 38, 56]. Our method shows sharp and fine-detailed depth visualization, which aligns with the t…
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Depth-conditioned image generation results of JointNet, UniCon, and Ours. JointNet and UniCon often fail to reflect the text prompt properly, e.g., the green dog generated by UniCon and the flower with green petals generated by JointNet. Our JointDiT generates images …

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