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Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zijie Li , Henry Li , Yichun Shi , Amir Barati Farimani , Yuval Kluger , Linjie Yang , Peng Wang

This report analyzes the evolution of key design patterns in computer vision by examining six influential papers. The analysis begins with foundational architectures for image recognition. We review ResNet, which introduced residual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Radu-Andrei Bourceanu , Neil De La Fuente , Jan Grimm , Andrei Jardan , Andriy Manucharyan , Cornelius Weiss , Daniel Cremers , Roman Pflugfelder

This paper presents the Large Vision Diffusion Transformer (LaVin-DiT), a scalable and unified foundation model designed to tackle over 20 computer vision tasks in a generative framework. Unlike existing large vision models directly adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhaoqing Wang , Xiaobo Xia , Runnan Chen , Dongdong Yu , Changhu Wang , Mingming Gong , Tongliang Liu

While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which uses a single pre-training stage to address both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Srinidhi Hegde , Tianyi Zhou , Abhinav Shrivastava

Diffusion models with their powerful expressivity and high sample quality have achieved State-Of-The-Art (SOTA) performance in the generative domain. The pioneering Vision Transformer (ViT) has also demonstrated strong modeling capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Ali Hatamizadeh , Jiaming Song , Guilin Liu , Jan Kautz , Arash Vahdat

Vision-transformers (ViTs) and large-scale convolution-neural-networks (CNNs) have reshaped computer vision through pretrained feature representations that enable strong transfer learning for diverse tasks. However, their efficiency as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alon Kaya , Igal Bilik , Inna Stainvas

We propose an efficient approach to train large diffusion models with masked transformers. While masked transformers have been extensively explored for representation learning, their application to generative learning is less explored in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Hongkai Zheng , Weili Nie , Arash Vahdat , Anima Anandkumar

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully applied in image classification tasks recently. In this paper, we show that, unlike convolution neural networks (CNNs)that can be improved by stacking more convolutional layers, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daquan Zhou , Bingyi Kang , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Xiaochen Lian , Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

The past year has witnessed the rapid development of applying the Transformer module to vision problems. While some researchers have demonstrated that Transformer-based models enjoy a favorable ability of fitting data, there are still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Zhengsu Chen , Lingxi Xie , Jianwei Niu , Xuefeng Liu , Longhui Wei , Qi Tian

Multi-scale Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a powerful backbone for computer vision tasks, while the self-attention computation in Transformer scales quadratically w.r.t. the input patch number. Thus, existing solutions commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Ting Yao , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Chong-Wah Ngo , Tao Mei

Diffusion models are primarily trained for image synthesis, yet their denoising trajectories encode rich, spatially aligned visual priors. In this paper, we demonstrate that these priors can be utilized for text-conditioned semantic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haoxiao Wang , Antao Xiang , Haiyang Sun , Peilin Sun , Changhao Pan , Yifu Chen , Minjie Hong , Weijie Wang , Shuang Chen , Yue Chen , Zhou Zhao

In this work, we introduce a self-supervised feature representation learning framework DreamTeacher that utilizes generative networks for pre-training downstream image backbones. We propose to distill knowledge from a trained generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Daiqing Li , Huan Ling , Amlan Kar , David Acuna , Seung Wook Kim , Karsten Kreis , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

We are witnessing a modeling shift from CNN to Transformers in computer vision. In this work, we present a self-supervised learning approach called MoBY, with Vision Transformers as its backbone architecture. The approach basically has no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zhenda Xie , Yutong Lin , Zhuliang Yao , Zheng Zhang , Qi Dai , Yue Cao , Han Hu

Current popular backbones in computer vision, such as Vision Transformers (ViT) and ResNets are trained to perceive the world from 2D images. However, to more effectively understand 3D structural priors in 2D backbones, we propose Mask3D to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ji Hou , Xiaoliang Dai , Zijian He , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

In this paper, we question if well pre-trained vision transformer (ViT) models could be used as teachers that exhibit scalable properties to advance cross architecture knowledge distillation (KD) research, in the context of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiawei Fan , Chao Li , Xiaolong Liu , Anbang Yao

Since being introduced in 2020, Vision Transformers (ViT) has been steadily breaking the record for many vision tasks and are often described as ``all-you-need" to replace ConvNet. Despite that, ViTs are generally computational,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Chuong H. Nguyen , Su Huynh , Vinh Nguyen , Ngoc Nguyen

Label noise in medical image classification datasets significantly hampers the training of supervised deep learning methods, undermining their generalizability. The test performance of a model tends to decrease as the label noise rate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Bidur Khanal , Prashant Shrestha , Sanskar Amgain , Bishesh Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Cristian A. Linte

Beyond high-fidelity image synthesis, diffusion models have recently exhibited promising results in dense visual perception tasks. However, most existing work treats diffusion models as a standalone component for perception tasks, employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Shuhong Zheng , Zhipeng Bao , Ruoyu Zhao , Martial Hebert , Yu-Xiong Wang

Video diffusion models have advanced rapidly in the recent years as a result of series of architectural innovations (e.g., diffusion transformers) and use of novel training objectives (e.g., flow matching). In contrast, less attention has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Dohun Lee , Hyeonho Jeong , Jiwook Kim , Duygu Ceylan , Jong Chul Ye

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in image processing tasks by utilizing self-attention mechanisms to capture global relationships within data. However, their scalability is hindered by significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Huy Trinh , Rebecca Ma , Zeqi Yu , Tahsin Reza