The Golden Path Hypothesis: Reusable Schedules in Diffusion Caching
Quick summary
arXiv:2609.39343v1 Announce Type: new 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 ratios. Prompt-adaptive methods repeatedly select a small number of schedules, and reusing their most
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.39343v1 Announce Type: new 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 ratios.
Why it matters
The importance of “The Golden Path Hypothesis: Reusable Schedules in Diffusion Caching” will be measured by what changes in practice. User behavior, access conditions, verifiable performance and responsible-use outcomes are the signals worth following.

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