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Diffusion models have emerged as dominant performers for image generation. To support training large diffusion models, this paper studies pipeline parallel training of diffusion models and proposes DiffusionPipe, a synchronous pipeline…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ye Tian , Zhen Jia , Ziyue Luo , Yida Wang , Chuan Wu

We aim to leverage diffusion to address the challenging image matting task. However, the presence of high computational overhead and the inconsistency of noise sampling between the training and inference processes pose significant obstacles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yihan Hu , Yiheng Lin , Wei Wang , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei , Humphrey Shi

Ambient diffusion is a recently proposed framework for training diffusion models using corrupted data. Both Ambient Diffusion and alternative SURE-based approaches for learning diffusion models from corrupted data resort to approximations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Giannis Daras , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Constantinos Daskalakis

Diffusion model has emerged as the \emph{de-facto} model for image generation, yet the heavy training overhead hinders its broader adoption in the research community. We observe that diffusion models are commonly trained to learn all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jiachen Lei , Qinglong Wang , Peng Cheng , Zhongjie Ba , Zhan Qin , Zhibo Wang , Zhenguang Liu , Kui Ren

Diffusion models can be used as a motion planner by sampling from a distribution of possible futures. However, the samples may not satisfy hard constraints that exist only implicitly in the training data, e.g., avoiding falls or not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Nicholas Ioannidis , Daniele Reda , Setareh Cohan , Michiel van de Panne

Diffusion models are relatively easy to train but require many steps to generate samples. Consistency models are far more difficult to train, but generate samples in a single step. In this paper we propose Multistep Consistency Models: A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jonathan Heek , Emiel Hoogeboom , Tim Salimans

Image classification systems often inherit biases from uneven group representation in training data. For example, in face datasets for hair color classification, blond hair may be disproportionately associated with females, reinforcing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Abhipsa Basu , Aviral Gupta , Abhijnya Bhat , R. Venkatesh Babu

Recently, diffusion-based depth estimation methods have drawn widespread attention due to their elegant denoising patterns and promising performance. However, they are typically unreliable under adverse conditions prevalent in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jiyuan Wang , Chunyu Lin , Lang Nie , Kang Liao , Shuwei Shao , Yao Zhao

Diffusion models have gained prominence in generating high-quality sequences of text. Nevertheless, current approaches predominantly represent discrete text within a continuous diffusion space, which incurs substantial computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Shansan Gong , Mukai Li , Jiangtao Feng , Zhiyong Wu , Lingpeng Kong

Randomized smoothing-based certification is an effective approach for obtaining robustness certificates of deep neural networks (DNNs) against adversarial attacks. This method constructs a smoothed DNN model and certifies its robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Shubham Ugare , Tarun Suresh , Debangshu Banerjee , Gagandeep Singh , Sasa Misailovic

Consistency models, which were proposed to mitigate the high computational overhead during the sampling phase of diffusion models, facilitate single-step sampling while attaining state-of-the-art empirical performance. When integrated into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-13 Gen Li , Zhihan Huang , Yuting Wei

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable success in various image generation tasks, but their performance is often limited by the uniform processing of inputs across varying conditions and noise levels. To address this limitation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Minglei Shi , Ziyang Yuan , Haotian Yang , Xintao Wang , Mingwu Zheng , Xin Tao , Wenliang Zhao , Wenzhao Zheng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai

Diffusion and flow matching models have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image generation. However, these models typically rely on the predetermined denoising schedules for all prompts. The multi-step reverse diffusion process can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zilyu Ye , Zhiyang Chen , Tiancheng Li , Zemin Huang , Weijian Luo , Guo-Jun Qi

Diffusion models have achieved impressive advancements in various vision tasks. However, these gains often rely on increasing model size, which escalates computational complexity and memory demands, complicating deployment, raising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yang Zhang , Er Jin , Wenzhong Liang , Yanfei Dong , Ashkan Khakzar , Philip Torr , Johannes Stegmaier , Kenji Kawaguchi

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks through high-fidelity outputs, yet flow matching (FM) offers faster inference and empirical performance gains. However, current foundation FM models are computationally prohibitive for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Johannes Schusterbauer , Ming Gui , Frank Fundel , Björn Ommer

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have transformed image generation with their impressive fidelity and diversity. We show that they also excel in estimating optical flow and monocular depth, surprisingly, without task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Saurabh Saxena , Charles Herrmann , Junhwa Hur , Abhishek Kar , Mohammad Norouzi , Deqing Sun , David J. Fleet

As Diffusion Models have shown promising performance, a lot of efforts have been made to improve the controllability of Diffusion Models. However, how to train Diffusion Models to have the disentangled latent spaces and how to naturally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Wonwoong Cho , Hareesh Ravi , Midhun Harikumar , Vinh Khuc , Krishna Kumar Singh , Jingwan Lu , David I. Inouye , Ajinkya Kale

Diffusion models, as a class of deep generative models, have recently emerged as powerful tools for robot skills by enabling stable training with reliable convergence. In this paper, we present an end-to-end framework for generating long,…

The success of denoising diffusion models raises important questions regarding their generalisation behaviour, particularly in high-dimensional settings. Notably, it has been shown that when training and sampling are performed perfectly,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Tyler Farghly , Patrick Rebeschini , George Deligiannidis , Arnaud Doucet

While diffusion models effectively generate remarkable synthetic images, a key limitation is the inference inefficiency, requiring numerous sampling steps. To accelerate inference and maintain high-quality synthesis, teacher-student…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Chi Hong , Jiyue Huang , Robert Birke , Dick Epema , Stefanie Roos , Lydia Y. Chen