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Despite the groundbreaking success of diffusion models in generating high-fidelity images, their latent space remains relatively under-explored, even though it holds significant promise for enabling versatile and interpretable image editing…

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The rapid advancement in image generation models has predominantly been driven by diffusion models, which have demonstrated unparalleled success in generating high-fidelity, diverse images from textual prompts. Despite their success,…

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Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have recently received much research attention since they outperform alternative approaches, such as GANs, and currently provide state-of-the-art generative performance. The superior performance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dmitry Baranchuk , Ivan Rubachev , Andrey Voynov , Valentin Khrulkov , Artem Babenko

Recent research has shown that it is possible to find interpretable directions in the latent spaces of pre-trained GANs. These directions enable controllable generation and support a variety of semantic editing operations. While previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Umut Kocasari , Alperen Bag , Oguz Kaan Yuksel , Pinar Yanardag

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have achieved remarkable quality in image generation that rivals GANs'. But unlike GANs, DPMs use a set of latent variables that lack semantic meaning and cannot serve as a useful representation for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Konpat Preechakul , Nattanat Chatthee , Suttisak Wizadwongsa , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Large-scale pre-training tasks like image classification, captioning, or self-supervised techniques do not incentivize learning the semantic boundaries of objects. However, recent generative foundation models built using text-based latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Koutilya Pnvr , Bharat Singh , Pallabi Ghosh , Behjat Siddiquie , David Jacobs

Generative models capture the true distribution of data, yielding semantically rich representations. Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) exhibit superior generative capabilities, though efficient representation learning for them are lacking.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Limai Jiang , Yunpeng Cai

Despite the success of diffusion models (DMs), we still lack a thorough understanding of their latent space. To understand the latent space $\mathbf{x}_t \in \mathcal{X}$, we analyze them from a geometrical perspective. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yong-Hyun Park , Mingi Kwon , Jaewoong Choi , Junghyo Jo , Youngjung Uh

The discovery of interpretable directions in the latent spaces of pre-trained GAN models has recently become a popular topic. In particular, StyleGAN2 has enabled various image generation and manipulation tasks due to its rich and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Enis Simsar , Umut Kocasari , Ezgi Gülperi Er , Pinar Yanardag

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have achieved remarkable success in various image generation tasks compared with Generative Adversarial Nets (GANs). Recent work on semantic image synthesis mainly follows the de facto…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Wengang Zhou , Weilun Wang , Jianmin Bao , Dongdong Chen , Dong Chen , Lu Yuan , Houqiang Li

Generative models have recently undergone significant advancement due to the diffusion models. The success of these models can be often attributed to their use of guidance techniques, such as classifier or classifier-free guidance, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Gyeongnyeon Kim , Wooseok Jang , Gyuseong Lee , Susung Hong , Junyoung Seo , Seungryong Kim

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) employ a sequence of white Gaussian noise samples to generate an image. In analogy with GANs, those noise maps could be considered as the latent code associated with the generated image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Inbar Huberman-Spiegelglas , Vladimir Kulikov , Tomer Michaeli

As recent generative models can generate photo-realistic images, people seek to understand the mechanism behind the generation process. Interpretable generation process is beneficial to various image editing applications. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Yu-Ding Lu , Hsin-Ying Lee , Hung-Yu Tseng , Ming-Hsuan Yang

A large body of recent work has identified transformations in the latent spaces of generative adversarial networks (GANs) that consistently and interpretably transform generated images. But existing techniques for identifying these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Sarah Schwettmann , Evan Hernandez , David Bau , Samuel Klein , Jacob Andreas , Antonio Torralba

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely applied in modeling diverse image distributions. However, despite its impressive applications, the structure of the latent space in GANs largely remains as a black-box, leaving its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zikun Chen , Ruowei Jiang , Brendan Duke , Han Zhao , Parham Aarabi

Although diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the field of image generation, their latent space remains under-explored. Current methods for identifying semantics within latent space often rely on external supervision, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zixiang Li , Yue Song , Renshuai Tao , Xiaohong Jia , Yao Zhao , Wei Wang

The semantically disentangled latent subspace in GAN provides rich interpretable controls in image generation. This paper includes two contributions on semantic latent subspace analysis in the scenario of face generation using StyleGAN2.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Bo Li , Qiulin Wang , Jiquan Pei , Yu Yang , Xiangyang Ji

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved remarkable success in diverse and high-quality text-to-image(T2I) generation. However, how text and image latents individually and jointly contribute to the semantics of generated images, remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zitao Shuai , Chenwei Wu , Zhengxu Tang , Bowen Song , Liyue Shen

Recently, diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models. Despite their success, there is still limited understanding of their semantic spaces. This makes it challenging to achieve precise and disentangled image…

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