diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/attention_processor.py b/src/diffusers/models/attention_processor.py
index 66455d733aee..91c31fe6dcf1 100755
--- a/src/diffusers/models/attention_processor.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/attention_processor.py
@@ -2785,6 +2785,227 @@ def __call__(
         return hidden_states
 
 
+class MemoryEfficientSelectiveAttnProcessor2_0:
+    r"""
+    Processor for implementing selective attention (https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02703) with optional token pruning.
+
+    Args:
+        selection_head_idx (`int`, defaults to 0):
+            Index of the attention head to use for computing selection scores.
+        bidirectional (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
+            Whether to use bidirectional masking (for diffusion) or causal masking (for LLMs).
+        enable_pruning (`bool`, defaults to `False`):
+            Whether to remove heavily masked tokens from computation.
+        pruning_threshold (`float`, defaults to 1.0):
+            Tokens with masking scores above this threshold are pruned.
+        masking_strength (`float`, defaults to 0.1):
+            Scaling factor for the masking values. Lower values = gentler masking.
+            Set to 0.0 to disable selective masking entirely (useful for debugging).
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        selection_head_idx: int = 0,
+        bidirectional: bool = True,
+        enable_pruning: bool = False,
+        pruning_threshold: float = 1.0,
+        masking_strength: float = 0.1,
+    ):
+        if not hasattr(F, "scaled_dot_product_attention"):
+            raise ImportError(
+                "MemoryEfficientSelectiveAttnProcessor2_0 requires PyTorch 2.0, to use it, please upgrade PyTorch to 2.0."
+            )
+        self.selection_head_idx = selection_head_idx
+        self.bidirectional = bidirectional
+        self.enable_pruning = enable_pruning
+        self.pruning_threshold = pruning_threshold
+        self.masking_strength = masking_strength
+
+    def _compute_selection_scores(
+        self,
+        query: torch.Tensor,
+        key: torch.Tensor,
+        selection_head_idx: int,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Compute selection scores S from the specified attention head."""
+        seq_len = query.shape[2]
+        head_dim = query.shape[3]
+
+        q_select = query[:, selection_head_idx, :, :]
+        k_select = key[:, selection_head_idx, :, :]
+
+        scale = head_dim ** -0.5
+        selection_logits = torch.matmul(q_select, k_select.transpose(-2, -1)) * scale
+
+        # Apply constraints: ReLU, zero first column, zero diagonal
+        S = torch.relu(selection_logits)
+        S[:, :, 0] = 0
+        diagonal_mask = torch.eye(seq_len, device=S.device, dtype=torch.bool)
+        S = S.masked_fill(diagonal_mask.unsqueeze(0), 0)
+
+        return S
+
+    def _compute_masking_matrix(
+        self,
+        S: torch.Tensor,
+        bidirectional: bool = True,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Compute the accumulated masking matrix F from selection scores S."""
+        if bidirectional:
+            # Symmetric: F[i,j] = sum_{k!=i} S[k,j]
+            total_votes = S.sum(dim=-2, keepdim=True)
+            F = total_votes - S
+        else:
+            # Causal: F[i,j] = sum_{k<i} S[k,j]
+            cumsum_S = torch.cumsum(S, dim=-2)
+            F = cumsum_S - S
+
+        return F
+
+    def __call__(
+        self,
+        attn: "Attention",
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        encoder_hidden_states: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        attention_mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        temb: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+        *args,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        if len(args) > 0 or kwargs.get("scale", None) is not None:
+            deprecation_message = (
+                "The `scale` argument is deprecated and will be ignored. Please remove it, "
+                "as passing it will raise an error in the future. `scale` should directly be "
+                "passed while calling the underlying pipeline component i.e., via `cross_attention_kwargs`."
+            )
+            deprecate("scale", "1.0.0", deprecation_message)
+
+        residual = hidden_states
+        if attn.spatial_norm is not None:
+            hidden_states = attn.spatial_norm(hidden_states, temb)
+
+        input_ndim = hidden_states.ndim
+
+        if input_ndim == 4:
+            batch_size, channel, height, width = hidden_states.shape
+            hidden_states = hidden_states.view(batch_size, channel, height * width).transpose(1, 2)
+
+        batch_size, sequence_length, _ = (
+            hidden_states.shape if encoder_hidden_states is None else encoder_hidden_states.shape
+        )
+
+        if attention_mask is not None:
+            attention_mask = attn.prepare_attention_mask(attention_mask, sequence_length, batch_size)
+            attention_mask = attention_mask.view(batch_size, attn.heads, -1, attention_mask.shape[-1])
+
+        if attn.group_norm is not None:
+            hidden_states = attn.group_norm(hidden_states.transpose(1, 2)).transpose(1, 2)
+
+        query = attn.to_q(hidden_states)
+
+        is_self_attention = encoder_hidden_states is None
+        if is_self_attention:
+            encoder_hidden_states = hidden_states
+        elif attn.norm_cross:
+            encoder_hidden_states = attn.norm_encoder_hidden_states(encoder_hidden_states)
+
+        key = attn.to_k(encoder_hidden_states)
+        value = attn.to_v(encoder_hidden_states)
+
+        inner_dim = key.shape[-1]
+        head_dim = inner_dim // attn.heads
+
+        query = query.view(batch_size, -1, attn.heads, head_dim).transpose(1, 2)
+        key = key.view(batch_size, -1, attn.heads, head_dim).transpose(1, 2)
+        value = value.view(batch_size, -1, attn.heads, head_dim).transpose(1, 2)
+
+        if attn.norm_q is not None:
+            query = attn.norm_q(query)
+        if attn.norm_k is not None:
+            key = attn.norm_k(key)
+
+        # Selective attention: only apply to self-attention with at least 2 tokens
+        if is_self_attention and query.shape[2] > 1:
+            if self.selection_head_idx >= attn.heads:
+                logger.warning(
+                    f"selection_head_idx ({self.selection_head_idx}) >= num_heads ({attn.heads}). "
+                    f"Falling back to head 0."
+                )
+                selection_head_idx = 0
+            else:
+                selection_head_idx = self.selection_head_idx
+
+            # Compute selection scores and masking matrix
+            S = self._compute_selection_scores(query, key, selection_head_idx)
+            F_mask = self._compute_masking_matrix(S, self.bidirectional)
+            F_mask = F_mask.unsqueeze(1).expand(-1, attn.heads, -1, -1)
+
+            # Normalize F_mask to prevent explosion for long sequences
+            # Scale by 1/seq_len to make masking strength sequence-length independent
+            seq_len = query.shape[2]
+            F_mask = F_mask / seq_len
+
+            # Apply masking strength scaling
+            # Lower strength = gentler masking, preserving more of the original attention
+            F_mask = F_mask * self.masking_strength
+
+            # Combine with existing attention mask (F is subtracted from logits)
+            selective_mask = -F_mask
+            if attention_mask is not None:
+                attention_mask = attention_mask + selective_mask
+            else:
+                attention_mask = selective_mask
+
+            # Optional pruning: remove heavily masked tokens
+            if self.enable_pruning:
+                max_masking_per_token = F_mask[:, 0, :, :].max(dim=-2)[0]
+                keep_mask = max_masking_per_token < self.pruning_threshold
+
+                # Ensure at least 10% of tokens are kept
+                min_tokens = max(1, int(sequence_length * 0.1))
+                tokens_to_keep = keep_mask.sum(dim=-1)
+
+                for b in range(batch_size):
+                    if tokens_to_keep[b] < min_tokens:
+                        _, indices = max_masking_per_token[b].topk(min_tokens, largest=False)
+                        keep_mask[b] = False
+                        keep_mask[b, indices] = True
+
+                # Apply pruning mask
+                if not keep_mask.all():
+                    prune_mask = ~keep_mask
+                    prune_mask = prune_mask.unsqueeze(1).unsqueeze(2)
+                    prune_mask = prune_mask.expand(-1, attn.heads, query.shape[2], -1)
+
+                    if attention_mask is not None:
+                        attention_mask = attention_mask.masked_fill(prune_mask, float("-inf"))
+                    else:
+                        attention_mask = torch.zeros_like(F_mask)
+                        attention_mask = attention_mask.masked_fill(prune_mask, float("-inf"))
+
+        hidden_states = F.scaled_dot_product_attention(
+            query, key, value, attn_mask=attention_mask, dropout_p=0.0, is_causal=False
+        )
+
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.transpose(1, 2).reshape(batch_size, -1, attn.heads * head_dim)
+        hidden_states = hidden_states.to(query.dtype)
+
+        # Linear projection
+        hidden_states = attn.to_out[0](hidden_states)
+        # Dropout
+        hidden_states = attn.to_out[1](hidden_states)
+
+        if input_ndim == 4:
+            hidden_states = hidden_states.transpose(-1, -2).reshape(batch_size, channel, height, width)
+
+        if attn.residual_connection:
+            hidden_states = hidden_states + residual
+
+        hidden_states = hidden_states / attn.rescale_output_factor
+
+        return hidden_states
+
+
 class XLAFlashAttnProcessor2_0:
     r"""
     Processor for implementing scaled dot-product attention with pallas flash attention kernel if using `torch_xla`.
diff --git a/src/diffusers/models/modeling_utils.py b/src/diffusers/models/modeling_utils.py
index 41da95d3a2a2..8349a3e1bd05 100644
--- a/src/diffusers/models/modeling_utils.py
+++ b/src/diffusers/models/modeling_utils.py
@@ -435,6 +435,73 @@ def disable_xformers_memory_efficient_attention(self) -> None:
         """
         self.set_use_memory_efficient_attention_xformers(False)
 
+    def enable_selective_attention(
+        self,
+        selection_head_idx: int = 0,
+        bidirectional: bool = True,
+        enable_pruning: bool = False,
+        pruning_threshold: float = 1.0,
+        masking_strength: float = 0.1,
+    ) -> None:
+        r"""
+        Enable selective attention for memory-efficient inference.
+
+        Based on "Selective Attention Improves Transformer" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02703).
+
+        Parameters:
+            selection_head_idx (`int`, defaults to 0):
+                Index of the attention head to use for computing selection scores.
+            bidirectional (`bool`, defaults to `True`):
+                Whether to use bidirectional masking (for diffusion) or causal masking (for LLMs).
+            enable_pruning (`bool`, defaults to `False`):
+                Whether to remove heavily masked tokens from computation.
+            pruning_threshold (`float`, defaults to 1.0):
+                Tokens with masking scores above this threshold are pruned.
+            masking_strength (`float`, defaults to 0.1):
+                Scaling factor for masking values. Lower = gentler masking. Start with 0.1 and increase.
+        """
+        from .attention_processor import AttnProcessor2_0, MemoryEfficientSelectiveAttnProcessor2_0
+
+        def fn_recursive_set_selective_attention(module: torch.nn.Module):
+            if hasattr(module, "set_processor"):
+                current_processor = module.get_processor() if hasattr(module, "get_processor") else None
+                if current_processor is None or isinstance(current_processor, AttnProcessor2_0):
+                    module.set_processor(
+                        MemoryEfficientSelectiveAttnProcessor2_0(
+                            selection_head_idx=selection_head_idx,
+                            bidirectional=bidirectional,
+                            enable_pruning=enable_pruning,
+                            pruning_threshold=pruning_threshold,
+                            masking_strength=masking_strength,
+                        )
+                    )
+
+            for child in module.children():
+                fn_recursive_set_selective_attention(child)
+
+        for module in self.children():
+            if isinstance(module, torch.nn.Module):
+                fn_recursive_set_selective_attention(module)
+
+    def disable_selective_attention(self) -> None:
+        r"""
+        Disable selective attention and revert to standard attention.
+        """
+        from .attention_processor import AttnProcessor2_0, MemoryEfficientSelectiveAttnProcessor2_0
+
+        def fn_recursive_disable_selective_attention(module: torch.nn.Module):
+            if hasattr(module, "set_processor"):
+                current_processor = module.get_processor() if hasattr(module, "get_processor") else None
+                if isinstance(current_processor, MemoryEfficientSelectiveAttnProcessor2_0):
+                    module.set_processor(AttnProcessor2_0())
+
+            for child in module.children():
+                fn_recursive_disable_selective_attention(child)
+
+        for module in self.children():
+            if isinstance(module, torch.nn.Module):
+                fn_recursive_disable_selective_attention(module)
+
     def enable_layerwise_casting(
         self,
         storage_dtype: torch.dtype = torch.float8_e4m3fn,