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Discrete image tokenizers encode visual inputs as sequences of tokens from a finite vocabulary and are gaining popularity in multimodal systems, including encoder-only, encoder-decoder, and decoder-only models. However, unlike CLIP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Rishika Bhagwatkar , Irina Rish , Nicolas Flammarion , Francesco Croce

Pretrained language models have significantly advanced performance across various natural language processing tasks. However, adversarial attacks continue to pose a critical challenge to systems built using these models, as they can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zhenhao Li , Huichi Zhou , Marek Rei , Lucia Specia

Thanks to their remarkable denoising capabilities, diffusion models are increasingly being employed as defensive tools to reinforce the security of other models, notably in purifying adversarial examples and certifying adversarial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Changjiang Li , Ren Pang , Bochuan Cao , Jinghui Chen , Fenglong Ma , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Li Wang , Boyan Gao , Yanran Li , Zhao Wang , Xiaosong Yang , David A. Clifton , Jun Xiao

Counterfactual explanations have emerged as a promising method for elucidating the behavior of opaque black-box models. Recently, several works leveraged pixel-space diffusion models for counterfactual generation. To handle noisy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Karim Farid , Simon Schrodi , Max Argus , Thomas Brox

Due to their powerful image generation capabilities, diffusion-based adversarial example generation methods through image editing are rapidly gaining popularity. However, due to reliance on the discriminative capability of the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gaozheng Pei , Ke Ma , Dongpeng Zhang , Chengzhi Sun , Qianqian Xu , Qingming Huang

As a class of fruitful approaches, diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown excellent advantages in high-resolution image reconstruction. On the other hand, masked autoencoders (MAEs), as popular self-supervised vision learners,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zhiyuan Ma , zhihuan yu , Jianjun Li , Bowen Zhou

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for image manipulation, yet interactive, localized editing workflows remain underdeveloped. We introduce Layered Diffusion Brushes (LDB), a novel training-free framework that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Peyman Gholami , Robert Xiao

Fashionable image generation aims to synthesize images of diverse fashion prevalent around the globe, helping fashion designers in real-time visualization by giving them a basic customized structure of how a specific design preference would…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Krishna Sri Ipsit Mantri , Nevasini Sasikumar

Can continuous diffusion models bring the same performance breakthrough on natural language they did for image generation? To circumvent the discrete nature of text data, we can simply project tokens in a continuous space of embeddings, as…

Latent diffusion has demonstrated promising results in image generation and permits efficient sampling. However, this framework might suffer from the problem of posterior collapse when applied to time series. In this paper, we first show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yangming Li , Yixin Cheng , Mihaela van der Schaar

Large-scale generative models have achieved remarkable advancements in various visual tasks, yet their application to shadow removal in images remains challenging. These models often generate diverse, realistic details without adequate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xinjie Li , Yang Zhao , Dong Wang , Yuan Chen , Li Cao , Xiaoping Liu

Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Shi , Yu Liu , Zhong-Cheng Wu , Juan Cheng , Huafeng Li , Xun Chen

In this paper, we present Diffusion-4K, a novel framework for direct ultra-high-resolution image synthesis using text-to-image diffusion models. The core advancements include: (1) Aesthetic-4K Benchmark: addressing the absence of a publicly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jinjin Zhang , Qiuyu Huang , Junjie Liu , Xiefan Guo , Di Huang

Text-guided image editing has recently experienced rapid development. However, simultaneously performing multiple editing actions on a single image, such as background replacement and specific subject attribute changes, while maintaining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Pengzhi Li , QInxuan Huang , Yikang Ding , Zhiheng Li

Low-light photography produces images with low signal-to-noise ratios due to limited photons. In such conditions, common approximations like the Gaussian noise model fall short, and many denoising techniques fail to remove noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

In recent years, diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the realm of high-quality image generation, garnering increased attention. This surge in interest is paralleled by a growing concern over the security threats associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Sen Li , Junchi Ma , Minhao Cheng

Latent diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images but lose the benefits of end-to-end modeling. They discard information during image encoding, require a separately trained decoder, and model an auxiliary distribution to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alan Baade , Eric Ryan Chan , Kyle Sargent , Changan Chen , Justin Johnson , Ehsan Adeli , Li Fei-Fei

Diffusion models are a new class of generative models that have shown outstanding performance in image generation literature. As a consequence, studies have attempted to apply diffusion models to other tasks, such as speech enhancement. A…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Philippe Gonzalez , Zheng-Hua Tan , Jan Østergaard , Jesper Jensen , Tommy Sonne Alstrøm , Tobias May

Interpreting horizon-scale black hole images currently relies on computationally intensive General Relativistic Ray Tracing (GRRT) simulations, which pose a significant bottleneck for rapid parameter exploration and high-precision tests of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Ao Liu , Xudong Zhang , Lin Ding , Cuihong Wen , Wentao Liu , Jieci Wang