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In implicit models, one often interpolates between sampled points in latent space. As we show in this paper, care needs to be taken to match-up the distributional assumptions on code vectors with the geometry of the interpolating paths.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Yannic Kilcher , Aurelien Lucchi , Thomas Hofmann

Image-to-image translation aims to learn a mapping between a source and a target domain, enabling tasks such as style transfer, appearance transformation, and domain adaptation. In this work, we explore a diffusion-based framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Qiang Zhu , Kuan Lu , Menghao Huo , Yuxiao Li

Diffusion models have shown superior performance in image generation and manipulation, but the inherent stochasticity presents challenges in preserving and manipulating image content and identity. While previous approaches like DreamBooth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Inhwa Han , Serin Yang , Taesung Kwon , Jong Chul Ye

While continuous diffusion models have achieved remarkable success, discrete diffusion offers a unified framework for jointly modeling text and images. Beyond unification, discrete diffusion provides faster inference, finer control, and…

While text-driven diffusion models demonstrate remarkable performance in image editing, the critical components of their text embeddings remain underexplored. The ambiguity and entanglement of these embeddings pose challenges for precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yitong Yang , Yinglin Wang , Tian Zhang , Jing Wang , Shuting He

Pre-trained diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in synthesizing images across a wide range of scenarios with customizable prompts, indicating their effective capacity to capture universal features. Motivated by this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yuxiang Ji , Boyong He , Chenyuan Qu , Zhuoyue Tan , Chuan Qin , Liaoni Wu

In image editing employing diffusion models, it is crucial to preserve the reconstruction fidelity to the original image while changing its style. Although existing methods ensure reconstruction fidelity through optimization, a drawback of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Daiki Miyake , Akihiro Iohara , Yu Saito , Toshiyuki Tanaka

We present FreeMorph, the first tuning-free method for image morphing that accommodates inputs with different semantics or layouts. Unlike existing methods that rely on finetuning pre-trained diffusion models and are limited by time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yukang Cao , Chenyang Si , Jinghao Wang , Ziwei Liu

In controllable generation tasks, flexibly manipulating the generated images to attain a desired appearance or structure based on a single input image cue remains a critical and longstanding challenge. Achieving this requires the effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xi Wang , Yichen Peng , Heng Fang , Yilin Wang , Haoran Xie , Xi Yang , Chuntao Li

Denoising diffusion bridge models (DDBMs) are a powerful variant of diffusion models for interpolating between two arbitrary paired distributions given as endpoints. Despite their promising performance in tasks like image translation, DDBMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Kaiwen Zheng , Guande He , Jianfei Chen , Fan Bao , Jun Zhu

We introduce a novel, training-free method for sampling differentiable representations (diffreps) using pretrained diffusion models. Rather than merely mode-seeking, our method achieves sampling by "pulling back" the dynamics of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yash Savani , Marc Finzi , J. Zico Kolter

Infrared and visible light image fusion aims to combine the strengths of both modalities to generate images that are rich in information and fulfill visual or computational requirements. This paper proposes an image fusion method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shuchen Sun , Ligen Shi , Chang Liu , Lina Wu , Jun Qiu

The quality of the prompts provided to text-to-image diffusion models determines how faithful the generated content is to the user's intent, often requiring `prompt engineering'. To harness visual concepts from target images without prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Shweta Mahajan , Tanzila Rahman , Kwang Moo Yi , Leonid Sigal

Recent advancements in text-guided diffusion models have unlocked powerful image manipulation capabilities. However, applying these methods to real images necessitates the inversion of the images into the domain of the pretrained diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Daniel Garibi , Or Patashnik , Andrey Voynov , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Daniel Cohen-Or

With the rise of large, publicly-available text-to-image diffusion models, text-guided real image editing has garnered much research attention recently. Existing methods tend to either rely on some form of per-instance or per-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Adham Elarabawy , Harish Kamath , Samuel Denton

Diffusion Posterior Sampling (DPS) provides a principled Bayesian approach to inverse problems by sampling from $p(x_0 \mid y)$. While posterior sampling is valuable for capturing uncertainty and multi-modality, many classical and practical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Shaorong Zhang , Rob Brekelmans , Greg Ver Steeg

Diffusion models excel at joint pixel sampling for image generation but lack efficient training-free methods for partial conditional sampling (e.g., inpainting with known pixels). Prior work typically formulates this as an intractable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Candi Zheng , Yuan Lan , Yang Wang

Diffusion-based generative models are extremely effective in generating high-quality images, with generated samples often surpassing the quality of those produced by other models under several metrics. One distinguishing feature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ashwini Pokle , Zhengyang Geng , Zico Kolter

Diffusion-based image compression methods have achieved notable progress, delivering high perceptual quality at low bitrates. However, their practical deployment is hindered by significant inference latency and heavy computational overhead,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yiwen Jia , Hao Wei , Yanhui Zhou , Chenyang Ge

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generative modeling, yet their sampling procedures remain vulnerable to hallucinations-often stemming from inaccuracies in score approximation. In this work, we reinterpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yiqi Tian , Pengfei Jin , Mingze Yuan , Na Li , Bo Zeng , Quanzheng Li