diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/cross_attention.py b/src/diffusers/models/cross_attention.py
index 98173cb8a406..1e8453399dff 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/cross_attention.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/cross_attention.py
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 from typing import Optional, Union
+from .sub_quadratic_attention import efficient_dot_product_attention
 
 import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
-from torch import nn
+from torch import nn, Tensor
 
 from ..utils.import_utils import is_xformers_available
 
@@ -145,6 +146,29 @@ def set_attention_slice(self, slice_size):
             processor = CrossAttnProcessor()
 
         self.set_processor(processor)
+    
+    def set_subquadratic_attention(
+        self,
+        query_chunk_size = 1024,
+        kv_chunk_size: Optional[int] = None,
+        kv_chunk_size_min: Optional[int] = None,
+        chunk_threshold_bytes: Optional[int] = None,
+    ):
+        r"""
+        Args:
+            query_chunk_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `1024`)
+            kv_chunk_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `None`): if None, sqrt(key_tokens) is used.
+            kv_chunk_size_min (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `None`): only considered when `kv_chunk_size is None`. changes `sqrt(key_tokens)` into `max(sqrt(key_tokens), kv_chunk_size_min)`, to ensure our chunk sizes don't get too small (smaller chunks = more chunks = less concurrent work done).
+            chunk_threshold_bytes (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `None`): if defined: only bother chunking if the self-attn matmul would allocate more bytes than this. whenever we can fit traditional attention into memory: we should prefer to do so, as the unchunked algorithm is faster.
+        """
+        processor = SubQuadraticCrossAttnProcessor(
+            query_chunk_size=query_chunk_size,
+            kv_chunk_size=kv_chunk_size,
+            kv_chunk_size_min=kv_chunk_size_min,
+            chunk_threshold_bytes=chunk_threshold_bytes,
+        )
+
+        self.set_processor(processor)
 
     def set_processor(self, processor: "AttnProcessor"):
         self.processor = processor
@@ -236,6 +260,94 @@ def __call__(self, attn: CrossAttention, hidden_states, encoder_hidden_states=No
 
         return hidden_states
 
+class SubQuadraticCrossAttnProcessor:
+    query_chunk_size: int
+    kv_chunk_size: Optional[int]
+    kv_chunk_size_min: Optional[int]
+    chunk_threshold_bytes: Optional[int]
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        query_chunk_size = 1024,
+        kv_chunk_size: Optional[int] = None,
+        kv_chunk_size_min: Optional[int] = None,
+        chunk_threshold_bytes: Optional[int] = None,
+    ):
+        r"""
+        Args:
+            query_chunk_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `1024`)
+            kv_chunk_size (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `None`): if None, sqrt(key_tokens) is used.
+            kv_chunk_size_min (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `None`): only considered when `kv_chunk_size is None`. changes `sqrt(key_tokens)` into `max(sqrt(key_tokens), kv_chunk_size_min)`, to ensure our chunk sizes don't get too small (smaller chunks = more chunks = less concurrent work done).
+            chunk_threshold_bytes (`int`, *optional*, defaults to `None`): if defined: only bother chunking if the self-attn matmul would allocate more bytes than this. whenever we can fit traditional attention into memory: we should prefer to do so, as the unchunked algorithm is faster.
+        """
+        self.query_chunk_size = query_chunk_size
+        self.kv_chunk_size = kv_chunk_size
+        self.kv_chunk_size_min = kv_chunk_size_min
+        self.chunk_threshold_bytes = chunk_threshold_bytes
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        attn: CrossAttention,
+        hidden_states: Tensor,
+        encoder_hidden_states: Optional[Tensor]=None,
+        attention_mask: Optional[Tensor]=None,
+    ):
+        encoder_hidden_states = hidden_states if encoder_hidden_states is None else encoder_hidden_states
+
+        assert attention_mask is None, "attention-mask not currently implemented for SubQuadraticCrossAttnProcessor."
+        # I don't know what test case can be used to determine whether softmax is computed at sufficient bit-width,
+        # but sub-quadratic attention has a pretty bespoke softmax (defers computation of the denominator) so this needs some thought.
+        assert not attn.upcast_softmax or torch.finfo(hidden_states.dtype).bits >= 32, "upcast_softmax was requested, but is not implemented"
+
+        query = attn.to_q(hidden_states)
+        key = attn.to_k(encoder_hidden_states)
+        value = attn.to_v(encoder_hidden_states)
+
+        query = query.unflatten(-1, (attn.heads, -1)).transpose(1,2).flatten(end_dim=1)
+        key_t = key.transpose(1,2).unflatten(1, (attn.heads, -1)).flatten(end_dim=1)
+        del key
+        value = value.unflatten(-1, (attn.heads, -1)).transpose(1,2).flatten(end_dim=1)
+
+        dtype = query.dtype
+        # TODO: do we still need to do *everything* in float32, given how we delay the division?
+        # TODO: do we need to support upcast_softmax too? SD 2.1 seems to work without it
+        if attn.upcast_attention:
+            query = query.float()
+            key_t = key_t.float()
+
+        bytes_per_token = torch.finfo(query.dtype).bits//8
+        batch_x_heads, q_tokens, _ = query.shape
+        _, _, k_tokens = key_t.shape
+        qk_matmul_size_bytes = batch_x_heads * bytes_per_token * q_tokens * k_tokens
+
+        query_chunk_size = self.query_chunk_size
+        kv_chunk_size = self.kv_chunk_size
+
+        if self.chunk_threshold_bytes is not None and qk_matmul_size_bytes <= self.chunk_threshold_bytes:
+            # the big matmul fits into our memory limit; do everything in 1 chunk,
+            # i.e. send it down the unchunked fast-path
+            query_chunk_size = q_tokens
+            kv_chunk_size = k_tokens
+
+        hidden_states = efficient_dot_product_attention(
+            query,
+            key_t,
+            value,
+            query_chunk_size=query_chunk_size,
+            kv_chunk_size=kv_chunk_size,
+            kv_chunk_size_min=self.kv_chunk_size_min,
+            use_checkpoint=attn.training,
+        )
+
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.to(dtype)
+
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.unflatten(0, (-1, attn.heads)).transpose(1,2).flatten(start_dim=2)
+
+        out_proj, dropout = attn.to_out
+        hidden_states = out_proj(hidden_states)
+        hidden_states = dropout(hidden_states)
+
+        return hidden_states
+
 
 class CrossAttnAddedKVProcessor:
     def __call__(self, attn: CrossAttention, hidden_states, encoder_hidden_states=None, attention_mask=None):
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/sub_quadratic_attention.py b/src/diffusers/models/sub_quadratic_attention.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a2e8aea513f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/sub_quadratic_attention.py
@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+# original source:
+#   https://github.com/AminRezaei0x443/memory-efficient-attention/blob/1bc0d9e6ac5f82ea43a375135c4e1d3896ee1694/memory_efficient_attention/attention_torch.py
+# license:
+#   unspecified
+# credit:
+#   Amin Rezaei (original author)
+#   Alex Birch (optimized algorithm for 3D tensors, at the expense of removing bias, masking and callbacks)
+# implementation of:
+#   Self-attention Does Not Need O(n2) Memory":
+#   https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05682v2
+
+from functools import partial
+import torch
+from torch import Tensor
+from torch.utils.checkpoint import checkpoint
+import math
+from typing import Optional, NamedTuple, Protocol, List
+from ..utils.dynamic_slice import dynamic_slice
+
+class AttnChunk(NamedTuple):
+    exp_values: Tensor
+    exp_weights_sum: Tensor
+    max_score: Tensor
+
+class SummarizeChunk(Protocol):
+    @staticmethod
+    def __call__(
+        query: Tensor,
+        key_t: Tensor,
+        value: Tensor,
+    ) -> AttnChunk: ...
+
+class ComputeQueryChunkAttn(Protocol):
+    @staticmethod
+    def __call__(
+        query: Tensor,
+        key_t: Tensor,
+        value: Tensor,
+    ) -> Tensor: ...
+
+def _summarize_chunk(
+    query: Tensor,
+    key_t: Tensor,
+    value: Tensor,
+    scale: float,
+) -> AttnChunk:
+    attn_weights = torch.baddbmm(
+        torch.empty(1, 1, 1, device=query.device, dtype=query.dtype),
+        query,
+        key_t,
+        alpha=scale,
+        beta=0,
+    )
+    max_score, _ = torch.max(attn_weights, -1, keepdim=True)
+    max_score = max_score.detach()
+    exp_weights = torch.exp(attn_weights - max_score)
+    exp_values = torch.bmm(exp_weights, value)
+    max_score = max_score.squeeze(-1)
+    return AttnChunk(exp_values, exp_weights.sum(dim=-1), max_score)
+
+def _query_chunk_attention(
+    query: Tensor,
+    key_t: Tensor,
+    value: Tensor,
+    summarize_chunk: SummarizeChunk,
+    kv_chunk_size: int,
+) -> Tensor:
+    batch_x_heads, k_channels_per_head, k_tokens = key_t.shape
+    _, _, v_channels_per_head = value.shape
+
+    def chunk_scanner(chunk_idx: int) -> AttnChunk:
+        key_chunk = dynamic_slice(
+            key_t,
+            (0, 0, chunk_idx),
+            (batch_x_heads, k_channels_per_head, kv_chunk_size)
+        )
+        value_chunk = dynamic_slice(
+            value,
+            (0, chunk_idx, 0),
+            (batch_x_heads, kv_chunk_size, v_channels_per_head)
+        )
+        return summarize_chunk(query, key_chunk, value_chunk)
+
+    chunks: List[AttnChunk] = [
+        chunk_scanner(chunk) for chunk in torch.arange(0, k_tokens, kv_chunk_size)
+    ]
+    acc_chunk = AttnChunk(*map(torch.stack, zip(*chunks)))
+    chunk_values, chunk_weights, chunk_max = acc_chunk
+
+    global_max, _ = torch.max(chunk_max, 0, keepdim=True)
+    max_diffs = torch.exp(chunk_max - global_max)
+    chunk_values *= torch.unsqueeze(max_diffs, -1)
+    chunk_weights *= max_diffs
+
+    all_values = chunk_values.sum(dim=0)
+    all_weights = torch.unsqueeze(chunk_weights, -1).sum(dim=0)
+    return all_values / all_weights
+
+# TODO: refactor CrossAttention#get_attention_scores to share code with this
+def _get_attention_scores_no_kv_chunking(
+    query: Tensor,
+    key_t: Tensor,
+    value: Tensor,
+    scale: float,
+) -> Tensor:
+    attn_scores = torch.baddbmm(
+        torch.empty(1, 1, 1, device=query.device, dtype=query.dtype),
+        query,
+        key_t,
+        alpha=scale,
+        beta=0,
+    )
+    attn_probs = attn_scores.softmax(dim=-1)
+    del attn_scores
+    hidden_states_slice = torch.bmm(attn_probs, value)
+    return hidden_states_slice
+
+class ScannedChunk(NamedTuple):
+    chunk_idx: int
+    attn_chunk: AttnChunk
+
+def efficient_dot_product_attention(
+    query: Tensor,
+    key_t: Tensor,
+    value: Tensor,
+    query_chunk_size=1024,
+    kv_chunk_size: Optional[int] = None,
+    kv_chunk_size_min: Optional[int] = None,
+    use_checkpoint=True,
+):
+    """Computes efficient dot-product attention given query, transposed key, and value.
+      This is efficient version of attention presented in
+      https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.05682v2 which comes with O(sqrt(n)) memory requirements.
+      Args:
+        query: queries for calculating attention with shape of
+          `[batch * num_heads, tokens, channels_per_head]`.
+        key_t: keys for calculating attention with shape of
+          `[batch * num_heads, channels_per_head, tokens]`.
+        value: values to be used in attention with shape of
+          `[batch * num_heads, tokens, channels_per_head]`.
+        query_chunk_size: int: query chunks size
+        kv_chunk_size: Optional[int]: key/value chunks size. if None: defaults to sqrt(key_tokens)
+        kv_chunk_size_min: Optional[int]: key/value minimum chunk size. only considered when kv_chunk_size is None. changes `sqrt(key_tokens)` into `max(sqrt(key_tokens), kv_chunk_size_min)`, to ensure our chunk sizes don't get too small (smaller chunks = more chunks = less concurrent work done).
+        use_checkpoint: bool: whether to use checkpointing (recommended True for training, False for inference)
+      Returns:
+        Output of shape `[batch * num_heads, query_tokens, channels_per_head]`.
+      """
+    batch_x_heads, q_tokens, q_channels_per_head = query.shape
+    _, _, k_tokens = key_t.shape
+    scale = q_channels_per_head ** -0.5
+
+    kv_chunk_size = min(kv_chunk_size or int(math.sqrt(k_tokens)), k_tokens)
+    if kv_chunk_size_min is not None:
+        kv_chunk_size = max(kv_chunk_size, kv_chunk_size_min)
+
+    def get_query_chunk(chunk_idx: int) -> Tensor:
+        return dynamic_slice(
+            query,
+            (0, chunk_idx, 0),
+            (batch_x_heads, min(query_chunk_size, q_tokens), q_channels_per_head)
+        )
+    
+    summarize_chunk: SummarizeChunk = partial(_summarize_chunk, scale=scale)
+    summarize_chunk: SummarizeChunk = partial(checkpoint, summarize_chunk) if use_checkpoint else summarize_chunk
+    compute_query_chunk_attn: ComputeQueryChunkAttn = partial(
+        _get_attention_scores_no_kv_chunking,
+        scale=scale
+    ) if k_tokens <= kv_chunk_size else (
+        # fast-path for when there's just 1 key-value chunk per query chunk (this is just sliced attention btw)
+        partial(
+            _query_chunk_attention,
+            kv_chunk_size=kv_chunk_size,
+            summarize_chunk=summarize_chunk,
+        )
+    )
+
+    if q_tokens <= query_chunk_size:
+        # fast-path for when there's just 1 query chunk
+        return compute_query_chunk_attn(
+            query=query,
+            key_t=key_t,
+            value=value,
+        )
+    
+    # TODO: maybe we should use torch.empty_like(query) to allocate storage in-advance,
+    # and pass slices to be mutated, instead of torch.cat()ing the returned slices
+    res = torch.cat([
+        compute_query_chunk_attn(
+            query=get_query_chunk(i * query_chunk_size),
+            key_t=key_t,
+            value=value,
+        ) for i in range(math.ceil(q_tokens / query_chunk_size))
+    ], dim=1)
+    return res
diff --git a/src/diffusers/utils/dynamic_slice.py b/src/diffusers/utils/dynamic_slice.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..046678bb51f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/diffusers/utils/dynamic_slice.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+from torch import Tensor
+from typing import List
+
+def dynamic_slice(
+    x: Tensor,
+    starts: List[int],
+    sizes: List[int],
+) -> Tensor:
+    slicing = [slice(start, start + size) for start, size in zip(starts, sizes)]
+    return x[slicing]
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