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Diffusion models are rising as a powerful solution for high-fidelity image generation, which exceeds GANs in quality in many circumstances. However, their slow training and inference speed is a huge bottleneck, blocking them from being used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Hao Phung , Quan Dao , Anh Tran

Sensor fusion can significantly improve the performance of many computer vision tasks. However, traditional fusion approaches are either not data-driven and cannot exploit prior knowledge nor find regularities in a given dataset or they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Fabian Duffhauss , Ngo Anh Vien , Hanna Ziesche , Gerhard Neumann

Normalizing flows, autoregressive models, variational autoencoders (VAEs), and deep energy-based models are among competing likelihood-based frameworks for deep generative learning. Among them, VAEs have the advantage of fast and tractable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-11 Arash Vahdat , Jan Kautz

Recent work in synthetic data generation in the time-series domain has focused on the use of Generative Adversarial Networks. We propose a novel architecture for synthetically generating time-series data with the use of Variational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Abhyuday Desai , Cynthia Freeman , Zuhui Wang , Ian Beaver

Recent progress in diffusion-based visual generation has largely relied on latent diffusion models with variational autoencoders (VAEs). While effective for high-fidelity synthesis, this VAE+diffusion paradigm suffers from limited training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minglei Shi , Haolin Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Ziyang Yuan , Xiaoshi Wu , Xintao Wang , Pengfei Wan , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

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Recently, the application of diffusion probabilistic models has advanced speech enhancement through generative approaches. However, existing diffusion-based methods have focused on the generation process in high-dimensional waveform or…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Shengkui Zhao , Zexu Pan , Kun Zhou , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang , Bin Ma

We present fast, realistic image generation on high-resolution, multimodal datasets using hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) trained on a deterministic autoencoder's latent space. In this two-stage setup, the autoencoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Troy Luhman , Eric Luhman

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have shown promising results in 3D point cloud synthesis. To advance 3D DDMs and make them useful for digital artists, we require (i) high generation quality, (ii) flexibility for manipulation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Xiaohui Zeng , Arash Vahdat , Francis Williams , Zan Gojcic , Or Litany , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

This paper examines three major generative modelling frameworks: Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), and Stable Diffusion models. VAEs are effective at learning latent representations but frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Sanchayan Vivekananthan

Pixel-space generative models are often more difficult to train and generally underperform compared to their latent-space counterparts, leaving a persistent performance and efficiency gap. In this paper, we introduce a novel two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiachen Lei , Keli Liu , Julius Berner , Haiming Yu , Hongkai Zheng , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu

Latent generative modeling, where a pretrained autoencoder maps pixels into a latent space for the diffusion process, has become the standard strategy for Diffusion Transformers (DiT); however, the autoencoder component has barely evolved.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Boyang Zheng , Nanye Ma , Shengbang Tong , Saining Xie

Recent advances in generative AI offer promising solutions for synthetic data generation but often rely on large datasets for effective training. To address this limitation, we propose a novel generative model that learns from limited data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Michail Spitieris , Massimiliano Ruocco , Abdulmajid Murad , Alessandro Nocente

With the introduction of the variational autoencoder (VAE), probabilistic latent variable models have received renewed attention as powerful generative models. However, their performance in terms of test likelihood and quality of generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-13 Lars Maaløe , Marco Fraccaro , Valentin Liévin , Ole Winther

Spatio-temporal compression of videos, utilizing networks such as Variational Autoencoders (VAE), plays a crucial role in OpenAI's SORA and numerous other video generative models. For instance, many LLM-like video models learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Sijie Zhao , Yong Zhang , Xiaodong Cun , Shaoshu Yang , Muyao Niu , Xiaoyu Li , Wenbo Hu , Ying Shan

The Variational Autoencoder (VAE) is a powerful deep generative model that is now extensively used to represent high-dimensional complex data via a low-dimensional latent space learned in an unsupervised manner. In the original VAE model,…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Xiaoyu Bie , Laurent Girin , Simon Leglaive , Thomas Hueber , Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Generating realistic 3D Human-Human Interaction (HHI) requires coherent modeling of the physical plausibility of the agents and their interaction semantics. Existing methods compress all motion information into a single latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zichen Geng , Zeeshan Hayder , Bo Miao , Jian Liu , Wei Liu , Ajmal Mian

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) are generative models showing competitive performance in various domains, including image synthesis and 3D point cloud generation. Sampling from pre-trained DPMs involves multiple neural function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Vinh Tong , Hoang Trung-Dung , Anji Liu , Guy Van den Broeck , Mathias Niepert

Generative models serve as powerful tools for modeling the real world, with mainstream diffusion models, particularly those based on the latent diffusion model paradigm, achieving remarkable progress across various tasks, such as image and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wanghan Xu , Xiaoyu Yue , Zidong Wang , Yao Teng , Wenlong Zhang , Xihui Liu , Luping Zhou , Wanli Ouyang , Lei Bai

Generative models have attracted significant interest due to their ability to handle uncertainty by learning the inherent data distributions. However, two prominent generative models, namely Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yu Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Liangwei Yang , Philip S. Yu