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Diffusion Models (DMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in content generation without requiring adversarial training. These models are trained using a two-step process. First, a forward - diffusion - process gradually adds…

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We investigate the utility of diffusion generative models to efficiently synthesise datasets that effectively train deep learning models for image analysis. Specifically, we propose novel $\Gamma$-distribution Latent Denoising Diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 David Stojanovski , Mariana da Silva , Pablo Lamata , Arian Beqiri , Alberto Gomez

Diffusion models have recently shown promise in offline RL. However, these methods often suffer from high training costs and slow convergence, particularly when using transformer-based denoising backbones. While several optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhiying Qiu , Tao Lin

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

Training machine learning models on massive datasets is expensive and time-consuming. Dataset distillation addresses this by creating a small synthetic dataset that achieves the same performance as the full dataset. Recent methods use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jeffrey A. Chan-Santiago , Mubarak Shah

GraphRAG integrates (knowledge) graphs with large language models (LLMs) to improve reasoning accuracy and contextual relevance. Despite its promising applications and strong relevance to multiple research communities, such as databases and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yukun Cao , Zengyi Gao , Zhiyang Li , Xike Xie , S. Kevin Zhou , Jianliang Xu

Detectors often suffer from performance drop due to domain gap between training and testing data. Recent methods explore diffusion models applied to domain generalization (DG) and adaptation (DA) tasks, but still struggle with large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Boyong He , Yuxiang Ji , Zhuoyue Tan , Liaoni Wu

We tackle the problem of sequential brick assembly with LEGO bricks to create combinatorial 3D structures. This problem is challenging since this brick assembly task encompasses the characteristics of combinatorial optimization problems. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Seokjun Ahn , Jungtaek Kim , Minsu Cho , Jaesik Park

Low-light image enhancement (LLIE) is vital for safety-critical applications such as surveillance, autonomous navigation, and medical imaging, where visibility degradation can impair downstream task performance. Recently, diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Eashan Adhikarla , Yixin Liu , Brian D. Davison

Diffusion models generate images with an unprecedented level of quality, but how can we freely rearrange image layouts? Recent works generate controllable scenes via learning spatially disentangled latent codes, but these methods do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Jiawei Ren , Mengmeng Xu , Jui-Chieh Wu , Ziwei Liu , Tao Xiang , Antoine Toisoul

Unifying image understanding and generation has gained growing attention in recent research on multimodal models. Although design choices for image understanding have been extensively studied, the optimal model architecture and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Jiuhai Chen , Zhiyang Xu , Xichen Pan , Yushi Hu , Can Qin , Tom Goldstein , Lifu Huang , Tianyi Zhou , Saining Xie , Silvio Savarese , Le Xue , Caiming Xiong , Ran Xu

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable advancements in text-to-image generation. However, existing models still have many difficulties when faced with multiple-object compositional generation. In this paper, we propose RealCompo, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xinchen Zhang , Ling Yang , Yaqi Cai , Zhaochen Yu , Kai-Ni Wang , Jiake Xie , Ye Tian , Minkai Xu , Yong Tang , Yujiu Yang , Bin Cui

Bridge models in image restoration construct a diffusion process from degraded to clear images. However, existing methods typically require training a bridge model from scratch for each specific type of degradation, resulting in high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Hanting Wang , Tao Jin , Wang Lin , Shulei Wang , Hai Huang , Shengpeng Ji , Zhou Zhao

Diffusion models (DMs) have revolutionized generative learning. They utilize a diffusion process to encode data into a simple Gaussian distribution. However, encoding a complex, potentially multimodal data distribution into a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yilun Xu , Gabriele Corso , Tommi Jaakkola , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

We train a language model to generate LEGO-brick build sequences. While prior work has been restricted to discrete, voxel-like towers, we consider a much broader set of pieces, encompassing thousands of part types with diverse connection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Peter Kulits , Cordelia Schmid

By decomposing the image formation process into a sequential application of denoising autoencoders, diffusion models (DMs) achieve state-of-the-art synthesis results on image data and beyond. Additionally, their formulation allows for a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Dominik Lorenz , Patrick Esser , Björn Ommer

Recent endeavors in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) aim to unify visual comprehension and generation by combining LLM and diffusion models, the state-of-the-art in each task, respectively. Existing approaches rely on spatial visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Kaihang Pan , Wang Lin , Zhongqi Yue , Tenglong Ao , Liyu Jia , Wei Zhao , Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Hanwang Zhang

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as the go-to generative framework for solving inverse problems in imaging. A critical concern regarding these models is their performance on out-of-distribution tasks, which remains an under-explored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Riccardo Barbano , Alexander Denker , Hyungjin Chung , Tae Hoon Roh , Simon Arridge , Peter Maass , Bangti Jin , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhennan Chen , Junwei Zhu , Xu Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Cutting-edge diffusion models produce images with high quality and customizability, enabling them to be used for commercial art and graphic design purposes. But do diffusion models create unique works of art, or are they replicating content…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Gowthami Somepalli , Vasu Singla , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein