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Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative methods for image synthesis, yet their potential as general-purpose feature encoders remains underexplored. Trained for denoising and generation without labels, they can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 A. Nieto Juscafresa , Á. Mazcuñán Herreros , J. Sullivan

Diffusion model has emerged as the \emph{de-facto} model for image generation, yet the heavy training overhead hinders its broader adoption in the research community. We observe that diffusion models are commonly trained to learn all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiachen Lei , Qinglong Wang , Peng Cheng , Zhongjie Ba , Zhan Qin , Zhibo Wang , Zhenguang Liu , Kui Ren

While insights into the workings of the transformer model have largely emerged by analysing their behaviour on language tasks, this work investigates the representations learnt by the Vision Transformer (ViT) encoder through the lens of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Akshad Shyam Purushottamdas , Pranav K Nayak , Divya Mehul Rajparia , Deekshith Patel , Yashmitha Gogineni , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Sumohana S. Channappayya

End-to-end backpropagation requires storing activations throughout all layers, creating memory bottlenecks that limit model scalability. Existing block-wise training methods offer means to alleviate this problem, but they rely on ad-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Makoto Shing , Masanori Koyama , Takuya Akiba

Vision language tasks, such as answering questions about or generating captions that describe an image, are difficult tasks for computers to perform. A relatively recent body of research has adapted the pretrained transformer architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Clayton Fields , Casey Kennington

We present a novel framework for high-fidelity novel view synthesis (NVS) from sparse images, addressing key limitations in recent feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods built on Vision Transformer (ViT) backbones. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yitong Dong , Qi Zhang , Minchao Jiang , Zhiqiang Wu , Qingnan Fan , Ying Feng , Huaqi Zhang , Hujun Bao , Guofeng Zhang

There has been a debate about the superiority between vision Transformers and ConvNets, serving as the backbone of computer vision models. Although they are usually considered as two completely different architectures, in this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chong Zhou , Chen Change Loy , Bo Dai

In light of the remarkable success of in-context learning in large language models, its potential extension to the vision domain, particularly with visual foundation models like Stable Diffusion, has sparked considerable interest. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tianqi Chen , Yongfei Liu , Zhendong Wang , Jianbo Yuan , Quanzeng You , Hongxia Yang , Mingyuan Zhou

Diffusion models have shown incredible capabilities as generative models; indeed, they power the current state-of-the-art models on text-conditioned image generation such as Imagen and DALL-E 2. In this work we review, demystify, and unify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Calvin Luo

The aim of this work is to explore the potential of pre-trained vision-language models, e.g. Vision Transformers (ViT), enhanced with advanced data augmentation strategies for the detection of AI-generated images. Our approach leverages a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shrikant Malviya , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Stamos Katsigiannis

Diffusion-based generative modeling has been achieving state-of-the-art results on various generation tasks. Most diffusion models, however, are limited to a single-generation modeling. Can we generalize diffusion models with the ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Changyou Chen , Han Ding , Bunyamin Sisman , Yi Xu , Ouye Xie , Benjamin Z. Yao , Son Dinh Tran , Belinda Zeng

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classification and object detection. Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mika Yagoda , Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

In this paper, we propose a diffusion model that integrates a representation-conditioning mechanism, where the representations derived from a Vision Transformer (ViT) are used to condition the internal process of a Transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Kosuke Ukita , Ye Xiaolong , Tsuyoshi Okita

Existing computer vision research in categorization struggles with fine-grained attributes recognition due to the inherently high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances. SOTA methods tackle this challenge by locating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Marcos V. Conde , Kerem Turgutlu

Diffusion-based methods represented as stochastic differential equations on a continuous-time domain have recently proven successful as a non-adversarial generative model. Training such models relies on denoising score matching, which can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Sarthak Mittal , Korbinian Abstreiter , Stefan Bauer , Bernhard Schölkopf , Arash Mehrjou

Vision Transformers and U-Net architectures have been widely adopted in the implementation of Diffusion Models. However, each architecture presents specific challenges while realizing them on-device. Vision Transformers require positional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Sanchar Palit , Sathya Veera Reddy Dendi , Mallikarjuna Talluri , Raj Narayana Gadde

Uniform downsampling remains the de facto standard for reducing spatial resolution in vision backbones. In this work, we propose an alternative design built around a content-aware spatial grouping layer, that dynamically assigns tokens to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Guillem Brasó , Aljoša Ošep , Laura Leal-Taixé

We present an end-to-end Transformer based Latent Diffusion model for image synthesis. On the ImageNet class conditioned generation task we show that a Transformer based Latent Diffusion model achieves a 14.1FID which is comparable to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Princy Chahal

We introduce a vision-language foundation model called VL-BEiT, which is a bidirectional multimodal Transformer learned by generative pretraining. Our minimalist solution conducts masked prediction on both monomodal and multimodal data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hangbo Bao , Wenhui Wang , Li Dong , Furu Wei

The emergence of vision transformers (ViTs) in image classification has shifted the methodologies for visual representation learning. In particular, ViTs learn visual representation at full receptive field per layer across all the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Li Zhang , Jiachen Lu , Sixiao Zheng , Xinxuan Zhao , Xiatian Zhu , Yanwei Fu , Tao Xiang , Jianfeng Feng , Philip H. S. Torr