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Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been used recently to align diffusion models with downstream objectives such as aesthetic quality and text-image consistency by fine-tuning them to maximize a single reward function under a fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Min Cheng , Fatemeh Doudi , Dileep Kalathil , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Panganamala R. Kumar

Embodied AI agents require a fine-grained understanding of the physical world mediated through visual and language inputs. Such capabilities are difficult to learn solely from task-specific data. This has led to the emergence of pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-12 Gunshi Gupta , Karmesh Yadav , Yarin Gal , Dhruv Batra , Zsolt Kira , Cong Lu , Tim G. J. Rudner

Current state-of-the-art approaches to text classification typically leverage BERT-style Transformer models with a softmax classifier, jointly fine-tuned to predict class labels of a target task. In this paper, we instead propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Kishaloy Halder , Josip Krapac , Alan Akbik , Anthony Brew , Matti Lyra

Generating accurate multilingual text with diffusion models has long been desired but remains challenging. Recent methods have made progress in rendering text in a single language, but rendering arbitrary languages is still an unexplored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Runnan Lu , Yuxuan Zhang , Jiaming Liu , Haofan Wang , Yiren Song

The field of advanced text-to-image generation is witnessing the emergence of unified frameworks that integrate powerful text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, with Diffusion Transformer backbones. Although there have been efforts to control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Liang Chen , Shuai Bai , Wenhao Chai , Weichu Xie , Haozhe Zhao , Leon Vinci , Junyang Lin , Baobao Chang

Reinforcement learning is used to align language models with human preference signals after first pre-training the model to predict the next token of text within a large corpus using likelihood maximization. Before being deployed in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Alec Solway

Text images contain both visual and linguistic information. However, existing pre-training techniques for text recognition mainly focus on either visual representation learning or linguistic knowledge learning. In this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Pengyuan Lyu , Chengquan Zhang , Shanshan Liu , Meina Qiao , Yangliu Xu , Liang Wu , Kun Yao , Junyu Han , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

In the last two years, text-to-image diffusion models have become extremely popular. As their quality and usage increase, a major concern has been the need for better output control. In addition to prompt engineering, one effective method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Clément Bonnet , Ariel N. Lee , Franck Wertel , Antoine Tamano , Tanguy Cizain , Pablo Ducru

This paper presents a novel training method for end-to-end scene text recognition. End-to-end scene text recognition offers high recognition accuracy, especially when using the encoder-decoder model based on Transformer. To train a highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Shota Orihashi , Yoshihiro Yamazaki , Naoki Makishima , Mana Ihori , Akihiko Takashima , Tomohiro Tanaka , Ryo Masumura

Pre-trained Transformer language models (LM) have become go-to text representation encoders. Prior research fine-tunes deep LMs to encode text sequences such as sentences and passages into single dense vector representations for efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Luyu Gao , Jamie Callan

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

Matching images and sentences demands a fine understanding of both modalities. In this paper, we propose a new system to discriminatively embed the image and text to a shared visual-textual space. In this field, most existing works apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Zhedong Zheng , Liang Zheng , Michael Garrett , Yi Yang , Mingliang Xu , Yi-Dong Shen

Text-to-image diffusion models have advanced towards more controllable generation via supporting various additional conditions (e.g.,depth map, bounding box) beyond text. However, these models are learned based on the premise of perfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Luozhou Wang , Guibao Shen , Wenhang Ge , Guangyong Chen , Yijun Li , Ying-cong Chen

Cross-domain image-to-image translation should satisfy two requirements: (1) preserve the information that is common to both domains, and (2) generate convincing images covering variations that appear in the target domain. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Adam W. Harley , Shih-En Wei , Jason Saragih , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Recent advancements in diffusion models have notably improved the perceptual quality of generated images in text-to-image synthesis tasks. However, diffusion models often struggle to produce images that accurately reflect the intended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yang Zhang , Teoh Tze Tzun , Lim Wei Hern , Tiviatis Sim , Kenji Kawaguchi

Latent Diffusion Models have shown remarkable results in text-guided image synthesis in recent years. In the domain of natural (RGB) images, recent works have shown that such models can be adapted to various vision-language downstream tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Konstantinos Vilouras , Ilias Stogiannidis , Junyu Yan , Alison Q. O'Neil , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

The emergence of text-to-image generation models has led to the recognition that image enhancement, performed as post-processing, would significantly improve the visual quality of the generated images. Exploring diffusion models to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yang Luo , Yiheng Zhang , Zhaofan Qiu , Ting Yao , Zhineng Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang , Tao Mei

Reinforcement learning has been widely applied to diffusion and flow models for visual tasks such as text-to-image generation. However, these tasks remain challenging because diffusion models have intractable likelihoods, which creates a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jaemoo Choi , Yuchen Zhu , Wei Guo , Petr Molodyk , Bo Yuan , Jinbin Bai , Yi Xin , Molei Tao , Yongxin Chen

Groundbreaking advancements in text-to-image generation have recently been achieved with the emergence of diffusion models. These models exhibit a remarkable ability to generate highly artistic and intricately detailed images based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ziyi Dong , Yao Xiao , Pengxu Wei , Liang Lin

This paper introduces a pioneering 3D volumetric encoder designed for text-to-3D generation. To scale up the training data for the diffusion model, a lightweight network is developed to efficiently acquire feature volumes from multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Zhicong Tang , Shuyang Gu , Chunyu Wang , Ting Zhang , Jianmin Bao , Dong Chen , Baining Guo