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Diffusion models have gained traction as powerful algorithms for synthesizing high-quality images. Central to these algorithms is the diffusion process, a set of equations which maps data to noise in a way that can significantly affect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Subham Sekhar Sahoo , Aaron Gokaslan , Chris De Sa , Volodymyr Kuleshov

Contrastive audio-language pretraining yields powerful joint representations, yet a persistent audio-text modality gap limits the benefits of coupling multimodal encoders with large language models (LLMs). We present Diffusion-Link, a…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-14 KiHyun Nam , Jongmin Choi , Hyeongkeun Lee , Jungwoo Heo , Joon Son Chung

Learning robust representations for physiological time-series signals continues to pose a substantial challenge in developing efficient few-shot learning applications. This difficulty is largely due to the complex pathological variations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Rami Zewail

Speech enhancement significantly improves the clarity and intelligibility of speech in noisy environments, improving communication and listening experiences. In this paper, we introduce a novel pretraining feature-guided diffusion model…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Yiyuan Yang , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

We propose the first joint audio-video generation framework that brings engaging watching and listening experiences simultaneously, towards high-quality realistic videos. To generate joint audio-video pairs, we propose a novel Multi-Modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Ludan Ruan , Yiyang Ma , Huan Yang , Huiguo He , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Qin Jin , Baining Guo

Video Frame Interpolation (VFI) remains a cornerstone in video enhancement, enabling temporal upscaling for tasks like slow-motion rendering, frame rate conversion, and video restoration. While classical methods rely on optical flow and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Priyansh Srivastava , Romit Chatterjee , Abir Sen , Aradhana Behura , Ratnakar Dash

With the rapid growth in deepfake video content, we require improved and generalizable methods to detect them. Most existing detection methods either use uni-modal cues or rely on supervised training to capture the dissonance between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Trevine Oorloff , Surya Koppisetti , Nicolò Bonettini , Divyaraj Solanki , Ben Colman , Yaser Yacoob , Ali Shahriyari , Gaurav Bharaj

We introduce a multi-modal diffusion model tailored for the bi-directional conditional generation of video and audio. We propose a joint contrastive training loss to improve the synchronization between visual and auditory occurrences. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ruihan Yang , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun

Recent studies have demonstrated that vision models can effectively learn multimodal audio-image representations when paired. However, the challenge of enabling deep models to learn representations from unpaired modalities remains…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman , Kin Wai Lau , Yuyang Xie , Ma Lan , JiaJun Shen

Recent Speech Large Language Models~(LLMs) have achieved impressive capabilities in end-to-end speech interaction. However, the prevailing autoregressive paradigm imposes strict serial constraints, limiting generation efficiency and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ziyang Cheng , Yuhao Wang , Heyang Liu , Ronghua Wu , Qunshan Gu , Yanfeng Wang , Yu Wang

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP), which excels at abstracting open-world representations across domains and modalities, has become a foundation for a variety of vision and multimodal tasks. However, recent studies reveal that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Wenxuan Wang , Quan Sun , Fan Zhang , Yepeng Tang , Jing Liu , Xinlong Wang

We present a multimodal framework to learn general audio representations from videos. Existing contrastive audio representation learning methods mainly focus on using the audio modality alone during training. In this work, we show that…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Luyu Wang , Pauline Luc , Adria Recasens , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Aaron van den Oord

End-to-end autonomous driving systems based on vision-language-action (VLA) models integrate multimodal sensor inputs and language instructions to generate planning and control signals. While autoregressive large language models and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mingwang Xu , Jiahao Cui , Feipeng Cai , Hanlin Shang , Zhihao Zhu , Shan Luan , Yifang Xu , Neng Zhang , Yaoyi Li , Jia Cai , Siyu Zhu

In this paper, we address the challenge of procedure planning in instructional videos, aiming to generate coherent and task-aligned action sequences from start and end visual observations. Previous work has mainly relied on text-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yufan Zhou , Zhaobo Qi , Lingshuai Lin , Junqi Jing , Tingting Chai , Beichen Zhang , Shuhui Wang , Weigang Zhang

With recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) showing strong visual understanding and reasoning, interest is growing in using them to improve the editing performance of diffusion models. Despite rapid progress, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Chong Mou , Qichao Sun , Yanze Wu , Pengze Zhang , Xinghui Li , Fulong Ye , Songtao Zhao , Qian He

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled image-based question-answering capabilities. However, a key limitation is the use of CLIP as the visual encoder; while it can capture coarse global information, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Vatsal Agarwal , Matthew Gwilliam , Gefen Kohavi , Eshan Verma , Daniel Ulbricht , Abhinav Shrivastava

Self-supervised learning has proved effective for skeleton-based human action understanding. However, previous works either rely on contrastive learning that suffers false negative problems or are based on reconstruction that learns too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Lehong Wu , Lilang Lin , Jiahang Zhang , Yiyang Ma , Jiaying Liu

Audio and video are two most common modalities in the mainstream media platforms, e.g., YouTube. To learn from multimodal videos effectively, in this work, we propose a novel audio-video recognition approach termed audio video Transformer,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Wentao Zhu

Training diffusion models for audiovisual sequences allows for a range of generation tasks by learning conditional distributions of various input-output combinations of the two modalities. Nevertheless, this strategy often requires training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Gwanghyun Kim , Alonso Martinez , Yu-Chuan Su , Brendan Jou , José Lezama , Agrim Gupta , Lijun Yu , Lu Jiang , Aren Jansen , Jacob Walker , Krishna Somandepalli

This paper combines autoregressive and masked-diffusion training objectives without any architectural modifications, resulting in flexible language models that outperform single-objective models. Autoregressive modeling has been a popular…

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