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Stable diffusion models represent the state-of-the-art in data synthesis across diverse domains and hold transformative potential for applications in science and engineering, e.g., by facilitating the discovery of novel solutions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Stefano Zampini , Jacob K. Christopher , Luca Oneto , Davide Anguita , Ferdinando Fioretto

Recent text-to-video generation approaches rely on computationally heavy training and require large-scale video datasets. In this paper, we introduce a new task of zero-shot text-to-video generation and propose a low-cost approach (without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Levon Khachatryan , Andranik Movsisyan , Vahram Tadevosyan , Roberto Henschel , Zhangyang Wang , Shant Navasardyan , Humphrey Shi

Given the recent success of diffusion in producing natural-sounding synthetic speech, we investigate how diffusion can be used in speaker adaptive TTS. Taking cues from more traditional adaptation approaches, we show that adaptation can be…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Haolin Chen , Philip N. Garner

Large-scale text-guided image diffusion models have shown astonishing results in text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, applying these models to synthesize textures for 3D geometries remains challenging due to the domain gap between 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Jiawei Lu , Yingpeng Zhang , Zengjun Zhao , He Wang , Kun Zhou , Tianjia Shao

Expressive text-to-speech systems have undergone significant advancements owing to prosody modeling, but conventional methods can still be improved. Traditional approaches have relied on the autoregressive method to predict the quantized…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hyung-Seok Oh , Sang-Hoon Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, prior work reports a significant performance gap between diffusion and autoregressive (AR) methods in language modeling. In this work, we show that simple masked discrete…

Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved high-quality speech generation for unseen speakers, but most systems remain unsuitable for real-time applications because of their offline design. Current streaming…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hui Wang , Yifan Yang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Lingwei Meng , Yanqing Liu , Jiaming Zhou , Haoqin Sun , Yan Lu , Yong Qin

One of the most compelling features of global discrete diffusion language models is their global bidirectional contextual capability. However, existing block-based diffusion studies tend to introduce autoregressive priors, which, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Linrui Ma , Yufei Cui , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

In text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis, diffusion models have achieved promising generation quality. However, because of the pre-defined data-to-noise diffusion process, their prior distribution is restricted to a noisy representation, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Zehua Chen , Guande He , Kaiwen Zheng , Xu Tan , Jun Zhu

Text-to-image models have recently made significant advances in generating realistic and semantically coherent images, driven by advanced diffusion models and large-scale web-crawled datasets. However, these datasets often contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Byeonghu Na , Mina Kang , Jiseok Kwak , Minsang Park , Jiwoo Shin , SeJoon Jun , Gayoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Il-Chul Moon

Diffusion models have exhibited remarkable capabilities in text-to-image generation. However, their performance in image-to-text generation, specifically image captioning, has lagged behind Auto-Regressive (AR) models, casting doubt on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Yuchi Wang , Shuhuai Ren , Rundong Gao , Linli Yao , Qingyan Guo , Kaikai An , Jianhong Bai , Xu Sun

Uniform-state discrete diffusion models hold the promise of fast text generation due to their inherent ability to self-correct. However, they are typically outperformed by autoregressive models and masked diffusion models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Subham Sekhar Sahoo , Justin Deschenaux , Aaron Gokaslan , Guanghan Wang , Justin Chiu , Volodymyr Kuleshov

In recent years, the burgeoning interest in diffusion models has led to significant advances in image and speech generation. Nevertheless, the direct synthesis of music waveforms from unrestricted textual prompts remains a relatively…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Pengfei Zhu , Chao Pang , Yekun Chai , Lei Li , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hao Tian , Hua Wu

Recent breakthroughs in text-to-image diffusion models have significantly advanced the generation of high-fidelity, photo-realistic images from textual descriptions. Yet, these models often struggle with interpreting spatial arrangements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jiaqi Liu , Tao Huang , Chang Xu

Diffusion models that are based on iterative denoising have been recently proposed and leveraged in various generation tasks like image generation. Whereas, as a way inherently built for continuous data, existing diffusion models still have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiaao Chen , Aston Zhang , Mu Li , Alex Smola , Diyi Yang

Scene text recognition in low-resource languages frequently faces challenges due to the limited availability of training datasets derived from real-world scenes. This study proposes a novel approach that generates text images in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Chihiro Noguchi , Shun Fukuda , Shoichiro Mihara , Masao Yamanaka

Terrain modeling has traditionally relied on procedural techniques, which often require extensive domain expertise and handcrafted rules. In this paper, we present MESA - a novel data-centric alternative by training a diffusion model on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Paul Borne--Pons , Mikolaj Czerkawski , Rosalie Martin , Romain Rouffet

Personalized text-to-image models allow users to generate varied styles of images (specified with a sentence) for an object (specified with a set of reference images). While remarkable results have been achieved using diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Fanyue Wei , Wei Zeng , Zhenyang Li , Dawei Yin , Lixin Duan , Wen Li

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have attracted significant interest in extending their capabilities to multimodal scenarios, particularly for speech-to-speech conversational systems. However, existing multimodal models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Tianqiao Liu , Xueyi Li , Hao Wang , Haoxuan Li , Zhichao Chen , Weiqi Luo , Zitao Liu

We introduce Seed-TTS, a family of large-scale autoregressive text-to-speech (TTS) models capable of generating speech that is virtually indistinguishable from human speech. Seed-TTS serves as a foundation model for speech generation and…