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arxiv: 2606.17378 · v1 · pith:64QZME7Vnew · submitted 2026-06-16 · 💻 cs.DC

RISE: Relay Inference and Online Scheduling for Efficient Edge-Device Collaborative Diffusion Model Services

Zilan Huang , Zhiqing Tang , Hanshuai Cui , Tian Wang , Yuan Wu , Weijia Jia , Wei Zhao This is my paper

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keywords diffusion modelsedge computingcollaborative inferencerelay mechanismcontextual bandittext-to-image generationonline scheduling
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The pith

A relay mechanism lets large edge models pass intermediate latents to small device models after early denoising steps, yielding up to 2.1 times speedup with no quality loss.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that text-to-image diffusion models can split their denoising workload across edge servers and user devices without retraining. It rests on the observation that latent intensity changes little at the transition point, so the large model can shape semantic structure in early steps and hand the latent off to a smaller device model for detail refinement. A contextual bandit scheduler then picks the right split point and model pair in real time based on prompt difficulty, user preferences, network conditions, and current loads. This matters because existing strategies force a hard choice between high-fidelity but slow edge-only runs and fast but semantically weaker device-only runs. Experiments on standard benchmarks confirm the relay reaches full-model quality at up to 2.1 times the speed while the scheduler keeps the quality-latency trade-off stable under mixed traffic.

Core claim

RISE's training-free relay exploits the shared latent space within a model family: the edge model executes the initial denoising steps that determine overall semantics, then transfers the intermediate latent to the device-side model for the remaining refinement steps; a contextual bandit scheduler selects the relay configuration on the fly using prompt complexity, user preferences, network quality, and node loads. The resulting service delivers up to 2.1 times speedup while matching full-model output quality.

What carries the argument

The training-free relay mechanism that hands off the intermediate latent after early denoising steps, enabled by minimal deviation in latent intensity within a model family.

If this is right

  • Diffusion services can meet diverse quality and latency targets by dynamically allocating early semantic steps to the edge and later refinement to the device.
  • The same scheduler can adapt relay choices to changing network conditions or device loads without requiring model retraining.
  • Full semantic coherence is retained because the large model still controls the steps that fix global structure.
  • Mixed workloads can be served from a single deployment rather than maintaining separate edge-only and device-only pipelines.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The approach may generalize to other diffusion-based tasks such as video or 3D generation if their latent spaces show comparable stability across model sizes.
  • Keeping later denoising steps on the device could reduce the amount of user data leaving the local device, with possible privacy benefits.
  • Model families with more than two sizes could form deeper relay chains, passing the latent through intermediate sizes as load or network conditions change.

Load-bearing premise

Latent intensity exhibits minimal deviation after a model handoff, allowing the early and late denoising stages to be performed by different-sized models without quality drop.

What would settle it

An experiment that measures the change in final image quality or latent statistics when the relay handoff occurs at the same step count but with deliberately mismatched models from outside the family, and finds a clear drop compared with the single-model baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.17378 by Hanshuai Cui, Tian Wang, Weijia Jia, Wei Zhao, Yuan Wu, Zhiqing Tang, Zilan Huang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: System overview of RISE integrating relay inference and online scheduling [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Latent trajectory analysis III. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY As illustrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: The process of relay inference Large handled the first 20 steps and Medium took over for the remaining 30. After the relay point, we recorded the latent intensity ||xt||2 at each step. As Figure 2a shows, the two curves almost overlap after the handoff, meaning Medium did not deviate from the denoising direction that Large had established. To put a number on this gap, we calculated a per￾step relative devi… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Visual comparison across relay configurations. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Quality metrics vs. relay step on both datasets. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Reward and several metrics comparison across five scheduling policies [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly deployed at the network edge to serve heterogeneous workloads with diverse quality and latency requirements. However, existing deployment strategies choose either large edge-side models with high fidelity but high latency or lightweight device-side models that offer speed at the cost of semantic coherence. Moreover, these approaches rarely split the denoising workload between models of different sizes across edge servers and user devices. To bridge this gap, we propose RISE, a method for edge-device diffusion model services that combines relay inference with online scheduling. Driven by the finding that the latent intensity exhibits minimal deviation after a model handoff, RISE uses a training-free relay mechanism that exploits the shared latent space within a model family: the large model on the edge handles the early denoising steps that shape semantic structure, then passes the intermediate latent to a small device-side model for detail refinement. To deploy this mechanism as a practical service, a contextual bandit scheduler selects the best relay configuration based on prompt complexity, user preferences, network quality and real-time node loads. Experiments on two benchmarks show that RISE's relay mechanism achieves up to 2.1$\times$ speedup while preserving full-model quality, and its context-aware scheduler effectively balances quality and latency under mixed workloads.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes RISE for edge-device collaborative text-to-image diffusion services. It introduces a training-free relay where a large edge model performs early denoising steps that shape semantics and hands off the intermediate latent to a smaller device model for refinement, justified by the empirical claim that latent intensity shows minimal deviation after handoff within a model family. A contextual bandit scheduler then selects relay configurations online using prompt complexity, user preferences, network quality, and node loads. Experiments on two benchmarks are reported to achieve up to 2.1× speedup while preserving full-model quality and to balance quality-latency tradeoffs under mixed workloads.

Significance. If the minimal-deviation assumption is shown to hold robustly, the training-free relay plus online scheduler would offer a practical way to split denoising workloads across heterogeneous edge and device hardware without retraining, addressing a real deployment gap between high-fidelity edge models and fast but lower-quality device models. The choice of a standard contextual bandit for the scheduler is a strength, as it enables adaptation without additional learned components.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (Relay Inference): The entire quality-preservation guarantee and the 2.1× speedup claim rest on the unquantified assertion that 'the latent intensity exhibits minimal deviation after a model handoff.' No definition of intensity is given, no L2 distances, variance statistics, or perceptual metrics are reported, and no ablation across model families or prompt complexities appears. This single assumption is load-bearing; without it the handoff can inject uncorrectable semantic errors.
  2. [§5] §5 (Experiments): The abstract states that 'experiments on two benchmarks show' the speedup and quality results, yet supplies no baseline descriptions, model families/sizes, number of prompts or runs, statistical tests, or exclusion criteria. This prevents verification of whether the reported 2.1× figure is robust or comparable to prior edge-device splitting methods.
  3. [§4] §4 (Scheduler): The contextual bandit selects configurations that presuppose reliable relay outcomes. No analysis is provided of how the reward function or regret bounds behave if the minimal-deviation condition is violated on some prompts, which directly affects the claimed balance of quality and latency under mixed workloads.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract uses LaTeX '2.1$\times$' but the surrounding text should spell out the unit for clarity in the first occurrence.
  2. [§3] Notation for 'latent intensity' should be introduced with a symbol or equation even if the quantity is only used empirically.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive feedback. We address each major comment below. Where the comments correctly identify gaps in quantification or reporting, we commit to revisions that add the requested analysis and details without altering the core claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (Relay Inference): The entire quality-preservation guarantee and the 2.1× speedup claim rest on the unquantified assertion that 'the latent intensity exhibits minimal deviation after a model handoff.' No definition of intensity is given, no L2 distances, variance statistics, or perceptual metrics are reported, and no ablation across model families or prompt complexities appears. This single assumption is load-bearing; without it the handoff can inject uncorrectable semantic errors.

    Authors: We agree that the current manuscript presents the minimal-deviation observation as an empirical finding without sufficient quantitative backing. In the revision we will (i) provide an explicit definition of latent intensity (the L2 norm of the latent tensor at each timestep), (ii) report L2 distances, per-channel variance, and LPIPS perceptual distances between relay handoff latents and the corresponding full-model latents on the same prompts, and (iii) add ablations across two model families (Stable Diffusion 1.5/2.1) and prompt complexity strata. These additions will directly substantiate or qualify the handoff assumption. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (Experiments): The abstract states that 'experiments on two benchmarks show' the speedup and quality results, yet supplies no baseline descriptions, model families/sizes, number of prompts or runs, statistical tests, or exclusion criteria. This prevents verification of whether the reported 2.1× figure is robust or comparable to prior edge-device splitting methods.

    Authors: We acknowledge the lack of experimental detail. The revised §5 will explicitly list: (a) all baselines (full edge model, full device model, static split at fixed timestep, and two prior edge-device partitioning methods), (b) exact model families and parameter counts, (c) number of prompts per benchmark and total runs (with seed reporting), (d) statistical tests (paired t-tests and bootstrap confidence intervals), and (e) any exclusion criteria. This will enable direct comparison and reproducibility assessment of the 2.1× claim. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4] §4 (Scheduler): The contextual bandit selects configurations that presuppose reliable relay outcomes. No analysis is provided of how the reward function or regret bounds behave if the minimal-deviation condition is violated on some prompts, which directly affects the claimed balance of quality and latency under mixed workloads.

    Authors: The scheduler is intentionally lightweight and relies on observed outcomes rather than an explicit model of the deviation condition. Nevertheless, we will add a sensitivity study that injects controlled latent perturbations (simulating violation cases) into the reward signal and reports resulting changes in cumulative regret and quality-latency Pareto front under mixed workloads. This will quantify robustness without requiring changes to the bandit formulation itself. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper's central mechanism rests on an empirical observation ('latent intensity exhibits minimal deviation after a model handoff') presented as an input finding rather than a derived result, with the relay and scheduler described as direct applications of that observation and a standard contextual bandit. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-citations, or uniqueness theorems appear in the provided text that would reduce any claim to its own inputs by construction. The reported speedups and quality preservation are framed as experimental outcomes, making the derivation self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on an empirical observation about latent stability after handoff and on the effectiveness of a standard contextual bandit; no free parameters, invented entities, or additional axioms are stated in the abstract.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption latent intensity exhibits minimal deviation after a model handoff
    This observation is presented as the driver that makes the training-free relay possible.

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