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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) introduce the transformer architecture to diffusion tasks for latent-space image generation. With an isotropic architecture that chains a series of transformer blocks, DiTs demonstrate competitive performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuchuan Tian , Zhijun Tu , Hanting Chen , Jie Hu , Chao Xu , Yunhe Wang

Creating 3D assets from single-view images is a complex task that demands a deep understanding of the world. Recently, feed-forward 3D generative models have made significant progress by training large reconstruction models on extensive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wenqiang Sun , Zhengyi Wang , Shuo Chen , Yikai Wang , Zilong Chen , Jun Zhu , Jun Zhang

With the success of image generation, generative diffusion models are increasingly adopted for discriminative tasks, as pixel generation provides a unified perception interface. However, directly repurposing the generative denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ziqi Pang , Xin Xu , Yu-Xiong Wang

While U-Net architectures remain the gold standard for medical image segmentation, their deployment in resource-constrained environments demands aggressive model compression. However, finding an optimally efficient configuration is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Alvin Kimbowa , Moein Heidari , David Liu , Ilker Hacihaliloglu

Diffusion models are a class of generative models that have demonstrated remarkable success in tasks such as image generation. However, one of the bottlenecks of these models is slow sampling due to the delay before the onset of trajectory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-25 Li Cunzhi , Louis Kang , Hideaki Shimazaki

Urban buildings are extracted from high-resolution Earth observation (EO) images using semantic segmentation networks like U-Net and its successors. Each re-iteration aims to improve performance by employing a denser skip connection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Bipul Neupane , Jagannath Aryal , Abbas Rajabifard

Foundation models pre-trained on large-scale natural image datasets offer a powerful paradigm for medical image segmentation. However, effectively transferring their learned representations for precise clinical applications remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haoyue Li , Yifan Gao , Feng Yuan , Xiaosong Wang , Xin Gao

Oversmoothing remains a persistent problem when applying deep learning to off-axis quantitative phase imaging (QPI). End-to-end U-Nets favour low-frequency content and under-represent fine, diagnostic detail. We trace this issue to spectral…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Yi Zhang

Diffusion models have attained remarkable success in the domains of image generation and editing. It is widely recognized that employing larger inversion and denoising steps in diffusion model leads to improved image reconstruction quality.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Chen Hou , Guoqiang Wei , Zhibo Chen

This paper strives for image editing via generative models. Flow Matching is an emerging generative modeling technique that offers the advantage of simple and efficient training. Simultaneously, a new transformer-based U-ViT has recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Vincent Tao Hu , David W Zhang , Pascal Mettes , Meng Tang , Deli Zhao , Cees G. M. Snoek

Federated learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without sharing local data. However, most existing methods assume identical model architectures across clients, limiting their applicability in heterogeneous real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Beomseok Seo , Kichang Lee , JaeYeon Park

Diffusion models show promising generation capability for a variety of data. Despite their high generation quality, the inference for diffusion models is still time-consuming due to the numerous sampling iterations required. To accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Kexun Zhang , Xianjun Yang , William Yang Wang , Lei Li

Public image diffusion models are now powerful enough that an attacker without the resources to train a tabular-specific generator may repurpose one off the shelf. This study tests that possibility directly. An unmodified Stable Diffusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Adam Arthur , Christopher Schwartz

A diffusion probabilistic model (DPM), which constructs a forward diffusion process by gradually adding noise to data points and learns the reverse denoising process to generate new samples, has been shown to handle complex data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Zhengxiong Luo , Dayou Chen , Yingya Zhang , Yan Huang , Liang Wang , Yujun Shen , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou , Tieniu Tan

This paper aims to explore the evolution of image denoising in a pedagological way. We briefly review classical methods such as Fourier analysis and wavelet bases, highlighting the challenges they faced until the emergence of neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jean-Eric Campagne

Large denoising diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have been trained on billions of image-caption pairs to perform text-conditioned image generation. As a byproduct of this training, these models have acquired general knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alexandros Graikos , Nebojsa Jojic , Dimitris Samaras

This work introduces UDPNet, a novel architecture designed to accelerate the reverse diffusion process in speech synthesis. Unlike traditional diffusion models that rely on timestep embeddings and shared network parameters, UDPNet unrolls…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Peter Ochieng

We introduce meta-learning algorithms that perform zero-shot weight-space adaptation of neural network models to unseen tasks. Our methods repurpose the popular generative image synthesis techniques of natural language guidance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Elvis Nava , Seijin Kobayashi , Yifei Yin , Robert K. Katzschmann , Benjamin F. Grewe

We introduce FLEX (FLow EXpert), a backbone architecture for generative modeling of spatio-temporal physical systems using diffusion models. FLEX operates in the residual space rather than on raw data, a modeling choice that we motivate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 N. Benjamin Erichson , Vinicius Mikuni , Dongwei Lyu , Yang Gao , Omri Azencot , Soon Hoe Lim , Michael W. Mahoney

We present Diffusion Soup, a compartmentalization method for Text-to-Image Generation that averages the weights of diffusion models trained on sharded data. By construction, our approach enables training-free continual learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Benjamin Biggs , Arjun Seshadri , Yang Zou , Achin Jain , Aditya Golatkar , Yusheng Xie , Alessandro Achille , Ashwin Swaminathan , Stefano Soatto