FLUX.2 Klein foveated generation for ComfyUI — implements the paper "Foveated Diffusion: Prioritized Distortion for Efficiency" (Brian Chao et al., Stanford 2026).

Speed: 2–4× faster generation by processing peripheral image regions at lower resolution while maintaining full quality in the foveal region.

Paper & Resources

Paper Website: Foveated Diffusion Project Page
Original Source Code: GitHub - bchao1/foveated_diffusion
Paper Link: arXiv:2603.23491 (2026)
HuggingFace Models: bchao1/foveated-diffusion on Hugging Face

⚡ Performance Comparison

Foveated diffusion reduces the sequence token length by running lower resolution steps in the peripheral blocks. For FLUX.2 Klein (20 steps) generation:

Standard FLUX.2 Klein: ~17.0 seconds
Foveated FLUX.2 Klein (Circular, radius 0.60): ~10.0 seconds (~1.7× DIT speedup)
Foveated FLUX.2 Klein (Circular, radius 0.30): ~6.5 seconds (~2.6× DIT speedup)

Image Comparison (Foveated vs. Normal)

🎨 Workflows & Visualization

The foveation mask overlays and visualizes the gaze region directly in ComfyUI:

Foveated Diffusion Workflow

Nodes

| Node | Purpose | |------|---------| | FoveationMask (FovDiff) | Generate a binary foveation mask (circular/square/ellipse) | | LoadFoveatedLoRA (FovDiff) | Load the foveated FLUX.2 Klein LoRA (auto-download from HF) | | FoveatedKSampler (FovDiff) | Run foveated sampling with mixed-resolution tokenization | | FoveatedVAEDecode (FovDiff) | Decode foveated latents with HR/LR blending (merge mode) | | FoveationMaskPreview (FovDiff) | Overlay mask on an image for visualization |

Quick Start

[LoadCheckpoint FLUX.2-klein-4B] → MODEL, VAE, CLIP
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[LoadFoveatedLoRA (FovDiff)] ← lora_mode: auto_download_random, lr_factor: 2
         | MODEL (patched)
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[CLIPTextEncode] → positive, negative

[EmptyLatentImage 1024×1024] → LATENT
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[FoveationMask (FovDiff)] ← latent, center_x=0, center_y=0, radius=0.6
         | FOVEATION_MASK
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[FoveatedKSampler (FovDiff)] ← MODEL, positive, negative, LATENT, FOVEATION_MASK
         |                        steps=20, cfg=4.0
         | LATENT
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[VAEDecode] → IMAGE
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[SaveImage]

Expected Speedups

| lr_factor | Peripheral resolution | Token reduction | Expected speedup | |-----------|----------------------|-----------------|-----------------| | 2 | 1/4 tokens per block | ~40-50% | ~1.5-2.5× | | 4 | 1/16 tokens per block | ~60-70% | ~3-4× |

Speedup depends on mask coverage — larger foveal region = less speedup.

Mask Parameters

center_x, center_y: Normalized gaze position (-1 = left/top, +1 = right/bottom, 0 = center)
radius: Foveal radius as fraction of image half-width (0.30 = default paper setting, 0.60 = comparison example)
mask_shape: circular, square, or ellipse

LoRA Modes

auto_download_random — Download the random-trajectory LoRA from HuggingFace
auto_download_saliency — Download the saliency-guided LoRA
auto_download_bbox — Download the bbox-guided LoRA
from_path — Use a local .safetensors file

Decode Modes

direct (default): Denoise in foveated space, reconstruct + blend in latent space, then VAE decode
merge: Separately decode HR and LR regions, blend in pixel space (via FoveatedVAEDecode)

Requirements

ComfyUI with FLUX.2 Klein support
PyTorch 2.0+
einops
huggingface_hub (for auto-download)
Pre-trained LoRA from bchao1/foveated-diffusion on HuggingFace