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Diffusion models have been widely studied for removing unsafe content learned during pre-training. Existing methods require expensive supervised data, either unsafe-text paired with safe-image groundtruth or negative/positive image pairs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Komal Kumar , Ankan Deria , Abhishek Basu , Fahad Shamshad , Hisham Cholakkal , Karthik Nandakumar

The Stable Diffusion Model (SDM) is a popular and efficient text-to-image (t2i) generation and image-to-image (i2i) generation model. Although there have been some attempts to reduce sampling steps, model distillation, and network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Jinchao Zhu , Yuxuan Wang , Xiaobing Tu , Siyuan Pan , Pengfei Wan , Gao Huang

Using image models naively for solving inverse video problems often suffers from flickering, texture-sticking, and temporal inconsistency in generated videos. To tackle these problems, in this paper, we view frames as continuous functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Giannis Daras , Weili Nie , Karsten Kreis , Alex Dimakis , Morteza Mardani , Nikola Borislavov Kovachki , Arash Vahdat

Stable Diffusion Models (SDMs) have shown remarkable proficiency in image synthesis. However, their broad application is impeded by their large model sizes and intensive computational requirements, which typically require expensive cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Chenqian Yan , Songwei Liu , Hongjian Liu , Xurui Peng , Xiaojian Wang , Fangmin Chen , Lean Fu , Xing Mei

Recently, diffusion models have shown remarkable results in image synthesis by gradually removing noise and amplifying signals. Although the simple generative process surprisingly works well, is this the best way to generate image data? For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sangyun Lee , Hyungjin Chung , Jaehyeon Kim , Jong Chul Ye

The remarkable ability of diffusion models to generate high-fidelity images has led to their widespread adoption. However, concerns have also arisen regarding their potential to produce Not Safe for Work (NSFW) content and exhibit social…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zhiwen Li , Die Chen , Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Yaliang Li , Yanhao Wang , Wenmeng Zhou

Recent text-conditioned image generation models have demonstrated an exceptional capacity to produce diverse and creative imagery with high visual quality. However, when pre-trained on billion-sized datasets randomly collected from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yue Jiang , Yueming Lyu , Tianxiang Ma , Bo Peng , Jing Dong

Evaluating the quality of automatically generated image descriptions is a complex task that requires metrics capturing various dimensions, such as grammaticality, coverage, accuracy, and truthfulness. Although human evaluation provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jia-Hong Huang , Hongyi Zhu , Yixian Shen , Stevan Rudinac , Evangelos Kanoulas

Diffusion models are powerful generative models, and this capability can also be applied to discrimination. The inner activations of a pre-trained diffusion model can serve as features for discriminative tasks, namely, diffusion feature. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Benyuan Meng , Qianqian Xu , Zitai Wang , Zhiyong Yang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Diffusion-based text-to-image generation models like GLIDE and DALLE-2 have gained wide success recently for their superior performance in turning complex text inputs into images of high quality and wide diversity. In particular, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zhihong Pan , Xin Zhou , Hao Tian

Text-to-image generative models such as Stable Diffusion and DALL$\cdot$E raise many ethical concerns due to the generation of harmful images such as Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) ones. To address these ethical concerns, safety filters are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yuchen Yang , Bo Hui , Haolin Yuan , Neil Gong , Yinzhi Cao

There is a bias in the inference pipeline of most diffusion models. This bias arises from a signal leak whose distribution deviates from the noise distribution, creating a discrepancy between training and inference processes. We demonstrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Martin Nicolas Everaert , Athanasios Fitsios , Marco Bocchio , Sami Arpa , Sabine Süsstrunk , Radhakrishna Achanta

Diffusion models have made significant strides in recent years, exhibiting strong generalization capabilities in planning and control tasks. However, most diffusion-based policies remain focused on reward maximization or cost minimization,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Xiaoyuan Cheng , Xiaohang Tang , Yiming Yang

Recent advancements in diffusion models have revolutionized video generation, enabling the creation of high-quality, temporally consistent videos. However, generating high frame-rate (FPS) videos remains a significant challenge due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Geunmin Hwang , Hyun-kyu Ko , Younghyun Kim , Seungryong Lee , Eunbyung Park

Latent diffusion models excel at producing high-quality images from text. Yet, concerns appear about the lack of diversity in the generated imagery. To tackle this, we introduce Diverse Diffusion, a method for boosting image diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mariia Zameshina , Olivier Teytaud , Laurent Najman

Stable diffusion, a generative model used in text-to-image synthesis, frequently encounters resolution-induced composition problems when generating images of varying sizes. This issue primarily stems from the model being trained on pairs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Qingping Zheng , Yuanfan Guo , Jiankang Deng , Jianhua Han , Ying Li , Songcen Xu , Hang Xu

Classifier-free guided diffusion models have recently been shown to be highly effective at high-resolution image generation, and they have been widely used in large-scale diffusion frameworks including DALLE-2, Stable Diffusion and Imagen.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Chenlin Meng , Robin Rombach , Ruiqi Gao , Diederik P. Kingma , Stefano Ermon , Jonathan Ho , Tim Salimans

Diffusion model-based approaches have shown promise in data-driven planning, but there are no safety guarantees, thus making it hard to be applied for safety-critical applications. To address these challenges, we propose a new method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Wei Xiao , Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Chuang Gan , Daniela Rus

Despite diffusion models' superior capabilities in modeling complex distributions, there are still non-trivial distributional discrepancies between generated and ground-truth images, which has resulted in several notable problems in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yujian Liu , Yang Zhang , Tommi Jaakkola , Shiyu Chang

Diffusion models are highly effective at generating high-quality images but pose risks, such as the unintentional generation of NSFW (not safe for work) content. Although various techniques have been proposed to mitigate unwanted influences…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jing Wu , Trung Le , Munawar Hayat , Mehrtash Harandi