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Conditioning image generation on specific features of the desired output is a key ingredient of modern generative models. However, existing approaches lack a general and unified way of representing structural and semantic conditioning at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Luca Butera , Andrea Cini , Alberto Ferrante , Cesare Alippi

Despite the substantial progress in recent years, the image captioning techniques are still far from being perfect.Sentences produced by existing methods, e.g. those based on RNNs, are often overly rigid and lacking in variability. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Bo Dai , Sanja Fidler , Raquel Urtasun , Dahua Lin

The scarcity of class-labeled data is a ubiquitous bottleneck in many machine learning problems. While abundant unlabeled data typically exist and provide a potential solution, it is highly challenging to exploit them. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Bing Yu , Ke Sun , He Wang , Zhouchen Lin , Zhanxing Zhu

The development of high-dimensional generative models has recently gained a great surge of interest with the introduction of variational auto-encoders and generative adversarial neural networks. Different variants have been proposed where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Mickaël Chen , Ludovic Denoyer , Thierry Artières

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used inference-time technique to boost the image quality of diffusion models. Yet, its reliance on text conditions prevents its use in unconditional generation. We propose a simple method to enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Weijia Zhang , Yuehao Liu , Shanyan Guan , Wu Ran , Yanhao Ge , Wei Li , Chao Ma

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

A ubiquitous challenge in machine learning is the problem of domain generalisation. This can exacerbate bias against groups or labels that are underrepresented in the datasets used for model development. Model bias can lead to unintended…

This paper introduces a novel and fully unsupervised framework for conditional GAN training in which labels are automatically obtained from data. We incorporate a clustering network into the standard conditional GAN framework that plays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Mehdi Noroozi

Guidance techniques are simple yet effective for improving conditional generation in diffusion models. Albeit their empirical success, the practical implementation of guidance diverges significantly from its theoretical motivation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhengqi Gao , Kaiwen Zha , Tianyuan Zhang , Zihui Xue , Duane S. Boning

Generative models are successfully used for image synthesis in the recent years. But when it comes to other modalities like audio, text etc little progress has been made. Recent works focus on generating audio from a generative model in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-30 Chae Young Lee , Anoop Toffy , Gue Jun Jung , Woo-Jin Han

Transformer-based language models have shown to be very powerful for natural language generation (NLG). However, text generation conditioned on some user inputs, such as topics or attributes, is non-trivial. Past approach relies on either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Fan-Keng Sun , Cheng-I Lai

Matching the performance of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks with little supervision is an important task, especially in venturing into new domains. We design a new training algorithm, which is robust to missing or ambiguous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-11 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Sewoong Oh , Ashish Khetan

Current long-tailed semi-supervised learning methods assume that labeled data exhibit a long-tailed distribution, and unlabeled data adhere to a typical predefined distribution (i.e., long-tailed, uniform, or inverse long-tailed). However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Yaxin Hou , Bo Han , Yuheng Jia , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou

Coupling the high-fidelity generation capabilities of label-conditional image synthesis methods with the flexibility of unconditional generative models, we propose a semantic bottleneck GAN model for unconditional synthesis of complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Samaneh Azadi , Michael Tschannen , Eric Tzeng , Sylvain Gelly , Trevor Darrell , Mario Lucic

Scene Graph Generation (SGG) research has suffered from two fundamental challenges: the long-tailed predicate distribution and semantic ambiguity between predicates. These challenges lead to a bias towards head predicates in SGG models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Kanghoon Yoon , Kibum Kim , Jaehyung Jeon , Yeonjun In , Donghyun Kim , Chanyoung Park

We introduce a simple but effective unsupervised method for generating realistic and diverse images. We train a class-conditional GAN model without using manually annotated class labels. Instead, our model is conditional on labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Steven Liu , Tongzhou Wang , David Bau , Jun-Yan Zhu , Antonio Torralba

Guidance in conditional diffusion generation is of great importance for sample quality and controllability. However, existing guidance schemes are to be desired. On one hand, mainstream methods such as classifier guidance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jiajun Ma , Tianyang Hu , Wenjia Wang , Jiacheng Sun

Deep generative models trained with large amounts of unlabelled data have proven to be powerful within the domain of unsupervised learning. Many real life data sets contain a small amount of labelled data points, that are typically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-04 Lars Maaløe , Marco Fraccaro , Ole Winther

Continuous Conditional Generative Modeling (CCGM) estimates high-dimensional data distributions, such as images, conditioned on scalar continuous variables (aka regression labels). While Continuous Conditional Generative Adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xin Ding , Yongwei Wang , Kao Zhang , Z. Jane Wang

Despite recent advancements in single-domain or single-object image generation, it is still challenging to generate complex scenes containing diverse, multiple objects and their interactions. Scene graphs, composed of nodes as objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Sarthak Garg , Helisa Dhamo , Azade Farshad , Sabrina Musatian , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari