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Latent Diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable results in synthesizing high-resolution images. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally intensive and leads to slow generation. Inspired by Consistency Models (song…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao

We introduce Transfusion, a recipe for training a multi-modal model over discrete and continuous data. Transfusion combines the language modeling loss function (next token prediction) with diffusion to train a single transformer over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Chunting Zhou , Lili Yu , Arun Babu , Kushal Tirumala , Michihiro Yasunaga , Leonid Shamis , Jacob Kahn , Xuezhe Ma , Luke Zettlemoyer , Omer Levy

Masked diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for text and multimodal generation. However, their sampling procedure updates multiple tokens simultaneously and treats generated tokens as immutable, which may lead to error…

To enhance the controllability of text-to-image diffusion models, current ControlNet-like models have explored various control signals to dictate image attributes. However, existing methods either handle conditions inefficiently or use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qingdong He , Jinlong Peng , Pengcheng Xu , Boyuan Jiang , Xiaobin Hu , Donghao Luo , Yong Liu , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Xiangtai Li , Jiangning Zhang

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) generate discrete sequences by iterative denoising under an absorbing masking process. In standard masked diffusion, if a token remains masked after a reverse update, the model discards its clean-state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Michael Cardei , Huu Binh Ta , Ferdinando Fioretto

Classical methods in robot motion planning, such as sampling-based and optimization-based methods, often struggle with scalability towards higher-dimensional state spaces and complex environments. Diffusion models, known for their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Edward Sandra , Lander Vanroye , Dries Dirckx , Ruben Cartuyvels , Jan Swevers , Wilm Decré

Recently, the multimedia community has witnessed the rise of diffusion models trained on large-scale multi-modal data for visual content creation, particularly in the field of text-to-image generation. In this paper, we propose a new task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Jingwen Chen , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image generation but remain computationally costly due to iterative denoising. Latent-space models like Stable Diffusion reduce overhead yet lose fine detail, while retrieval-augmented methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

We present ControlNet, a neural network architecture to add spatial conditioning controls to large, pretrained text-to-image diffusion models. ControlNet locks the production-ready large diffusion models, and reuses their deep and robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Lvmin Zhang , Anyi Rao , Maneesh Agrawala

With the development of diffusion models, enhancing spatial controllability in text-to-image generation has become a vital challenge. As a representative task for addressing this challenge, layout-to-image generation aims to generate images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Sida Huang , Siqi Huang , Ping Luo , Hongyuan Zhang

A unified diffusion framework for multi-modal generation and understanding has the transformative potential to achieve seamless and controllable image diffusion and other cross-modal tasks. In this paper, we introduce MMGen, a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Jiepeng Wang , Zhaoqing Wang , Hao Pan , Yuan Liu , Dongdong Yu , Changhu Wang , Wenping Wang

Existing generative approaches for guided image synthesis of multi-object scenes typically rely on 2D controls in the image or text space. As a result, these methods struggle to maintain and respect consistent three-dimensional geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Léopold Maillard , Tom Durand , Adrien Ramanana Rahary , Maks Ovsjanikov

Recent advances in conditional image generation from diffusion models have shown great potential in achieving impressive image quality while preserving the constraints introduced by the user. In particular, ControlNet enables precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Hannah Kniesel , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Widely adopted medical image segmentation methods, although efficient, are primarily deterministic and remain poorly amenable to natural language prompts. Thus, they lack the capability to estimate multiple proposals, human interaction, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yuan Lin , Murong Xu , Marc Hölle , Chinmay Prabhakar , Andreas Maier , Vasileios Belagiannis , Bjoern Menze , Suprosanna Shit

Discriminative classifiers have become a foundational tool in deep learning for medical imaging, excelling at learning separable features of complex data distributions. However, these models often need careful design, augmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Gian Mario Favero , Parham Saremi , Emily Kaczmarek , Brennan Nichyporuk , Tal Arbel

Pre-trained diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative priors for both unconditional and conditional sample generation, yet their outputs often deviate from the characteristics of user-specific target data. Such mismatches are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Matina Mahdizadeh Sani , Nima Jamali , Mohammad Jalali , Farzan Farnia

MRI synthesis promises to mitigate the challenge of missing MRI modality in clinical practice. Diffusion model has emerged as an effective technique for image synthesis by modelling complex and variable data distributions. However, most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-27 Lan Jiang , Ye Mao , Xi Chen , Xiangfeng Wang , Chao Li

Multi-turn compositional image generation (M-CIG) is a challenging task that aims to iteratively manipulate a reference image given a modification text. While most of the existing methods for M-CIG are based on generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Chao Wang

Spatial profiling technologies in biology, such as imaging mass cytometry (IMC) and spatial transcriptomics (ST), generate high-dimensional, multi-channel data with strong spatial alignment and complex inter-channel relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Haoran Zhang , Mingyuan Zhou , Wesley Tansey

Existing multimodal conditional image synthesis (MCIS) methods generate images conditioned on any combinations of various modalities that require all of them must be exactly conformed, hindering the synthesis controllability and leaving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Jianbin Zheng , Daqing Liu , Chaoyue Wang , Minghui Hu , Zuopeng Yang , Changxing Ding , Dacheng Tao