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StableDiffusion is a revolutionary text-to-image generator that is causing a stir in the world of image generation and editing. Unlike traditional methods that learn a diffusion model in pixel space, StableDiffusion learns a diffusion model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Zixin Zhu , Xuelu Feng , Dongdong Chen , Jianmin Bao , Le Wang , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan , Gang Hua

Diffusion models generate high-quality images but require dozens of forward passes. We introduce Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD), a procedure to transform a diffusion model into a one-step image generator with minimal impact on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tianwei Yin , Michaël Gharbi , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Fredo Durand , William T. Freeman , Taesung Park

Many deep learning tasks require annotations that are too time consuming for human operators, resulting in small dataset sizes. This is especially true for dense regression problems such as crowd counting which requires the location of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Arian Bakhtiarnia , Qi Zhang , Alexandros Iosifidis

Taking advantage of the many recent advances in deep learning, text-to-image generative models currently have the merit of attracting the general public attention. Two of these models, DALL-E 2 and Imagen, have demonstrated that highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Robin Zbinden

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

One of the main drawback of diffusion models is the slow inference time for image generation. Among the most successful approaches to addressing this problem are distillation methods. However, these methods require considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Senmao Li , Taihang Hu , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Tao Liu , Linxuan Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jian Yang

Generative depth estimation methods leverage the rich visual priors stored in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models, demonstrating astonishing zero-shot capability. However, parameter updates during training lead to catastrophic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hongkai Lin , Dingkang Liang , Mingyang Du , Xin Zhou , Xiang Bai

Transformers achieve unrivalled performance in modelling language, but remain inefficient in terms of memory and time complexity. A possible remedy is to reduce the sequence length in the intermediate layers by pooling fixed-length segments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Piotr Nawrot , Jan Chorowski , Adrian Łańcucki , Edoardo M. Ponti

Diffusion-based text-to-image generative models, e.g., Stable Diffusion, have revolutionized the field of content generation, enabling significant advancements in areas like image editing and video synthesis. Despite their formidable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yanyu Li , Xian Liu , Anil Kag , Ju Hu , Yerlan Idelbayev , Dhritiman Sagar , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

As generative models scale to larger inputs across language, vision, and video domains, the cost of token-level computation has become a key bottleneck. While prior work suggests that only a subset of tokens significantly influence…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Dong Liu , Yanxuan Yu

We present Muse, a text-to-image Transformer model that achieves state-of-the-art image generation performance while being significantly more efficient than diffusion or autoregressive models. Muse is trained on a masked modeling task in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Huiwen Chang , Han Zhang , Jarred Barber , AJ Maschinot , Jose Lezama , Lu Jiang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Kevin Murphy , William T. Freeman , Michael Rubinstein , Yuanzhen Li , Dilip Krishnan

In recent years, image generation has shown a great leap in performance, where diffusion models play a central role. Although generating high-quality images, such models are mainly conditioned on textual descriptions. This begs the…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Guy Yariv , Itai Gat , Lior Wolf , Yossi Adi , Idan Schwartz

This paper presents an energy-efficient stable diffusion processor for text-to-image generation. While stable diffusion attained attention for high-quality image synthesis results, its inherent characteristics hinder its deployment on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jiwon Choi , Wooyoung Jo , Seongyon Hong , Beomseok Kwon , Wonhoon Park , Hoi-Jun Yoo

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

Token compression is crucial for mitigating the quadratic complexity of self-attention mechanisms in Vision Transformers (ViTs), which often involve numerous input tokens. Existing methods, such as ToMe, rely on GPU-inefficient operations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Simin Huo , Ning Li

Diffusion models create data from noise by inverting the forward paths of data towards noise and have emerged as a powerful generative modeling technique for high-dimensional, perceptual data such as images and videos. Rectified flow is a…

Generative image modeling enables a wide range of applications but raises ethical concerns about responsible deployment. This paper introduces an active strategy combining image watermarking and Latent Diffusion Models. The goal is for all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Pierre Fernandez , Guillaume Couairon , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze , Teddy Furon

A novel accelerated mobile edge generation (MEG) framework is proposed for generating high-resolution images on mobile devices. Exploiting a large-scale latent diffusion model (LDM) distributed across edge server (ES) and user equipment…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-08 Xiaoxia Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Hong Xing , Arumugam Nallanathan

Diffusion model based language-guided image editing has achieved great success recently. However, existing state-of-the-art diffusion models struggle with rendering correct text and text style during generation. To tackle this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Haoxing Chen , Zhuoer Xu , Zhangxuan Gu , Jun Lan , Xing Zheng , Yaohui Li , Changhua Meng , Huijia Zhu , Weiqiang Wang

We propose in this paper an analytically new construct of a diffusion model whose drift and diffusion parameters yield an exponentially time-decaying Signal to Noise Ratio in the forward process. In reverse, the construct cleverly carries…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-16 Tanmay Asthana , Yufang Bao , Hamid Krim