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Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis tasks as well as density estimation. Applied in the latent space of a powerful pretrained autoencoder (LDM), their immense computational requirements can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Jeremias Traub

Reinforcement learning (RL) has significantly enhanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), but its reliance on expensive human-labeled data or complex reward models severely limits scalability. While existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenzhen Yuan , Shengji Tang , Weihao Lin , Jiacheng Ruan , Ganqu Cui , Bo Zhang , Tao Chen , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu , Peng Ye , Lei Bai

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that allow for precise control over the characteristics of the generated samples. While these diffusion models trained on large datasets have achieved success, there is often a need to…

Addressing the critical need for robust safety in Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly against adversarial attacks and in-distribution errors, we introduce Reinforcement Learning with Backtracking Feedback (RLBF). This framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Bilgehan Sel , Vaishakh Keshava , Phillip Wallis , Lukas Rutishauser , Ming Jin , Dingcheng Li

Learning from human feedback has been shown to improve text-to-image models. These techniques first learn a reward function that captures what humans care about in the task and then improve the models based on the learned reward function.…

Diffusion-based large language models offer a non-autoregressive alternative for text generation, but enabling them to perform complex reasoning remains challenging. Reinforcement learning has recently emerged as an effective post-training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Shaoan Xie , Lingjing Kong , Xiangchen Song , Xinshuai Dong , Guangyi Chen , Eric P. Xing , Kun Zhang

Reinforcement Learning from human feedback (RLHF) has been shown a promising direction for aligning generative models with human intent and has also been explored in recent works for alignment of diffusion generative models. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Hanyang Zhao , Haoxian Chen , Ji Zhang , David D. Yao , Wenpin Tang

In reinforcement learning (RL), it is challenging to learn directly from high-dimensional observations, where data augmentation has recently been shown to remedy this via encoding invariances from raw pixels. Nevertheless, we empirically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Chenyu Sun , Hangwei Qian , Chunyan Miao

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing image editing and text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, current reward models, which act as critics during RL, often suffer from hallucinations and assign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Xiangyu Zhao , Peiyuan Zhang , Junming Lin , Tianhao Liang , Yuchen Duan , Shengyuan Ding , Changyao Tian , Yuhang Zang , Junchi Yan , Xue Yang

Text-based image segmentation aims to delineate object boundaries within an image from text prompts, offering higher flexibility and broader application scope compared to traditional fixed-category segmentation tasks. Recent studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Zishen Qu , Xuesong Li , Haijian Gu , Hongwei Kang , Quan Meng , Tianrui Niu , Xin Yang , Ruidong Pan

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various research domains, including the field of Information Retrieval (IR). However, the responses generated by off-the-shelf LLMs tend to be generic, i.e.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Qian Dong , Yiding Liu , Qingyao Ai , Zhijing Wu , Haitao Li , Yiqun Liu , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Shaoping Ma

Diffusion models excel at generating high-likelihood samples but often require alignment with downstream objectives. Existing fine-tuning methods for diffusion models significantly suffer from reward over-optimization, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hyeongyu Kang , Jaewoo Lee , Woocheol Shin , Kiyoung Om , Jinkyoo Park

Faithful image super-resolution (SR) not only needs to recover images that appear realistic, similar to image generation tasks, but also requires that the restored images maintain fidelity and structural consistency with the input. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Junyang Chen , Jinshan Pan , Jiangxin Dong

In the e-commerce realm, compelling advertising images are pivotal for attracting customer attention. While generative models automate image generation, they often produce substandard images that may mislead customers and require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Zhenbang Du , Wei Feng , Haohan Wang , Yaoyu Li , Jingsen Wang , Jian Li , Zheng Zhang , Jingjing Lv , Xin Zhu , Junsheng Jin , Junjie Shen , Zhangang Lin , Jingping Shao

Recent strides in large language models (LLMs) have yielded remarkable performance, leveraging reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to significantly enhance generation and alignment capabilities. However, RLHF encounters…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Kuo Liao , Shuang Li , Meng Zhao , Liqun Liu , Mengge Xue , Zhenyu Hu , Honglin Han , Chengguo Yin

Bias in LLMs can harm user experience and societal outcomes. However, current bias mitigation methods often require intensive human feedback, lack transferability to other topics or yield overconfident and random outputs. We find that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Ruoxi Cheng , Haoxuan Ma , Shuirong Cao , Jiaqi Li , Aihua Pei , Zhiqiang Wang , Pengliang Ji , Haoyu Wang , Jiaqi Huo

Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce plausible but poorly-calibrated answers, limiting their reliability on reasoning-intensive tasks. We present Reinforcement Learning from Self-Feedback (RLSF), a post-training stage that uses the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Carel van Niekerk , Renato Vukovic , Benjamin Matthias Ruppik , Hsien-chin Lin , Milica Gašić

Large vision-language models (VLMs) enable intuitive visual search using natural language queries. However, improving their performance often requires fine-tuning and scaling to larger model variants. In this work, we propose a mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Bulat Khaertdinov , Mirela Popa , Nava Tintarev

Light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR) is a challenging problem due to its inherent ill-posed nature, where a single low-resolution (LR) input LF image can correspond to multiple potential super-resolved outcomes. Despite this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-29 Wentao Chao , Fuqing Duan , Xuechun Wang , Yingqian Wang , Guanghui Wang

Recent advances in diffusion models have led to impressive image generation capabilities, but aligning these models with human preferences remains challenging. Reward-based fine-tuning using models trained on human feedback improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Dmitrii Sorokin , Maksim Nakhodnov , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov