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Generative diffusion models have advanced image editing with high-quality results and intuitive interfaces such as prompts and semantic drawing. However, these interfaces lack precise control, and the associated methods typically specialize…

Auto-encoding generative adversarial networks (GANs) combine the standard GAN algorithm, which discriminates between real and model-generated data, with a reconstruction loss given by an auto-encoder. Such models aim to prevent mode…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-24 Mihaela Rosca , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , David Warde-Farley , Shakir Mohamed

The inherent generative power of denoising diffusion models makes them well-suited for image restoration tasks where the objective is to find the optimal high-quality image within the generative space that closely resembles the input image.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zheng Ding , Xuaner Zhang , Zhuowen Tu , Zhihao Xia

Disentangled representations can be useful in many downstream tasks, help to make deep learning models more interpretable, and allow for control over features of synthetically generated images that can be useful in training other models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Aadhithya Sankar , Matthias Keicher , Rami Eisawy , Abhijeet Parida , Franz Pfister , Seong Tae Kim , Nassir Navab

In the era of generative AI, deep generative models (DGMs) with latent representations have gained tremendous popularity. Despite their impressive empirical performance, the statistical properties of these models remain underexplored. DGMs…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-07 Seunghyun Lee , Yuqi Gu

Diffusion Models enable realistic image generation, raising the risk of misinformation and eroding public trust. Currently, detecting images generated by unseen diffusion models remains challenging due to the limited generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yingjian Chen , Lei Zhang , Yakun Niu , Lei Tan , Pei Chen

What is the best paradigm to recognize objects -- discriminative inference (fast but potentially prone to shortcut learning) or using a generative model (slow but potentially more robust)? We build on recent advances in generative modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Priyank Jaini , Kevin Clark , Robert Geirhos

We present a framework for efficient inference in structured image models that explicitly reason about objects. We achieve this by performing probabilistic inference using a recurrent neural network that attends to scene elements and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-15 S. M. Ali Eslami , Nicolas Heess , Theophane Weber , Yuval Tassa , David Szepesvari , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Geoffrey E. Hinton

Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity, yet a detailed understanding of how specific perceptual attributes - such as color and shape - are internally represented remains limited. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Guillem Arias , Ariadna Solà , Martí Armengod , Maria Vanrell

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) power state-of-the-art high-resolution generative image models. LDMs learn the data distribution in the latent space of an autoencoder (AE) and produce images by mapping the generated latents into RGB image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Tariq Berrada , Pietro Astolfi , Melissa Hall , Marton Havasi , Yohann Benchetrit , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Karteek Alahari , Michal Drozdzal , Jakob Verbeek

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) provide an algorithmic framework for constructing generative models with several appealing properties: they do not require a likelihood function to be specified, only a generating procedure; they…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Shakir Mohamed , Balaji Lakshminarayanan

We introduce LlamaGen, a new family of image generation models that apply original ``next-token prediction'' paradigm of large language models to visual generation domain. It is an affirmative answer to whether vanilla autoregressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Peize Sun , Yi Jiang , Shoufa Chen , Shilong Zhang , Bingyue Peng , Ping Luo , Zehuan Yuan

Diffusion models have shown an impressive ability to model complex data distributions, with several key advantages over GANs, such as stable training, better coverage of the training distribution's modes, and the ability to solve inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yinbo Chen , Oliver Wang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Xiaolong Wang , Michael Gharbi

As generative AI image technologies become more widespread and advanced, there is a growing need for strong attribution models. These models are crucial for verifying the authenticity of images and identifying the architecture of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Danielle Sullivan-Pao , Nicole Tian , Pooya Khorrami

Image generation today can produce somewhat realistic images from text prompts. However, if one asks the generator to synthesize a specific camera setting such as creating different fields of view using a 24mm lens versus a 70mm lens, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yu Yuan , Xijun Wang , Yichen Sheng , Prateek Chennuri , Xingguang Zhang , Stanley Chan

Recent generative models can synthesize "views" of artificial images that mimic real-world variations, such as changes in color or pose, simply by learning from unlabeled image collections. Here, we investigate whether such views can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Lucy Chai , Jun-Yan Zhu , Eli Shechtman , Phillip Isola , Richard Zhang

Enforcing alignment between the internal representations of diffusion or flow-based generative models and those of pretrained self-supervised encoders has recently been shown to provide a powerful inductive bias, improving both convergence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Loukas Sfountouris , Giannis Daras , Paris Giampouras

Class-conditional generative models have emerged as accurate and robust classifiers, with diffusion models demonstrating clear advantages over other visual generative paradigms, including autoregressive (AR) models. In this work, we revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Ilia Sudakov , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

Deep generative models have been studied and developed primarily in the context of natural images and computer vision. This has spurred the development of (Bayesian) methods that use these generative models for inverse problems in image…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-17 Tristan S. W. Stevens , Jeroen Overdevest , Oisín Nolan , Wessel L. van Nierop , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Yonina C. Eldar

Most existing feature learning methods optimize inflexible handcrafted features and the affinity matrix is constructed by shallow linear embedding methods. Different from these conventional methods, we pretrain a generative neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Changlu Chen , Chaoxi Niu , Xia Zhan , Kun Zhan