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The primary axes of interest in image-generating diffusion models are image quality, the amount of variation in the results, and how well the results align with a given condition, e.g., a class label or a text prompt. The popular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Tero Karras , Miika Aittala , Tuomas Kynkäänniemi , Jaakko Lehtinen , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are the driving force behind the state-of-the-art in image generation. Despite their ability to synthesize high-resolution photo-realistic images, generating content with on-demand conditioning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Markos Georgopoulos , James Oldfield , Grigorios G Chrysos , Yannis Panagakis

Recently, encoder-decoder neural models have achieved great success on text generation tasks. However, one problem of this kind of models is that their performances are usually limited by the scale of well-labeled data, which are very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Hongyu Zang , Xiaojun Wan

Existing research on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) primarily focuses on improving overall question-answering accuracy, often overlooking the quality of sub-claims within generated responses. Recent methods that attempt to improve RAG…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Naihe Feng , Yi Sui , Shiyi Hou , Jesse C. Cresswell , Ga Wu

Curating labeled training data has become the primary bottleneck in machine learning. Recent frameworks address this bottleneck with generative models to synthesize labels at scale from weak supervision sources. The generative model's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Stephen H. Bach , Bryan He , Alexander Ratner , Christopher Ré

Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) is a fundamental technique in training conditional diffusion models. The common practice for CFG-based training is to use a single network to learn both conditional and unconditional noise prediction, with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Prin Phunyaphibarn , Phillip Y. Lee , Jaihoon Kim , Minhyuk Sung

Recent generative adversarial networks (GANs) are able to generate impressive photo-realistic images. However, controllable generation with GANs remains a challenging research problem. Achieving controllable generation requires semantically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Grigorios G Chrysos , Jean Kossaifi , Zhiding Yu , Anima Anandkumar

We study the problem of learning conditional generators from noisy labeled samples, where the labels are corrupted by random noise. A standard training of conditional GANs will not only produce samples with wrong labels, but also generate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-09 Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Ashish Khetan , Zinan Lin , Sewoong Oh

A challenge in training discriminative models like neural networks is obtaining enough labeled training data. Recent approaches use generative models to combine weak supervision sources, like user-defined heuristics or knowledge bases, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Paroma Varma , Bryan He , Dan Iter , Peng Xu , Rose Yu , Christopher De Sa , Christopher Ré

Large Language Models (LLMs) showcase remarkable abilities, yet they struggle with limitations such as hallucinations, outdated knowledge, opacity, and inexplicable reasoning. To address these challenges, Retrieval-Augmented Generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Sourav Verma

Deep generative models with latent variables have been used lately to learn joint representations and generative processes from multi-modal data. These two learning mechanisms can, however, conflict with each other and representations can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Rogelio A. Mancisidor , Michael Kampffmeyer , Kjersti Aas , Robert Jenssen

Generating text from structured data is important for various tasks such as question answering and dialog systems. We show that in at least one domain, without any supervision and only based on unlabeled text, we are able to build a Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Markus Freitag , Scott Roy

In most scenarios, conditional image generation can be thought of as an inversion of the image understanding process. Since generic image understanding involves solving multiple tasks, it is natural to aim at generating images via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Ritika Chakraborty , Nikola Popovic , Danda Pani Paudel , Thomas Probst , Luc Van Gool

Deep learning-based graph generation approaches have remarkable capacities for graph data modeling, allowing them to solve a wide range of real-world problems. Making these methods able to consider different conditions during the generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Faezeh Faez , Negin Hashemi Dijujin , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Hamid R. Rabiee

In-domain generation aims to perform a variety of tasks within a specific domain, such as unconditional generation, text-to-image, image editing, 3D generation, and more. Early research typically required training specialized generators for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Pu Cao , Feng Zhou , Lu Yang , Tianrui Huang , Qing Song

We present a new replay-based method of continual classification learning that we term "conditional replay" which generates samples and labels together by sampling from a distribution conditioned on the class. We compare conditional replay…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Timothée Lesort , Alexander Gepperth , Andrei Stoian , David Filliat

In this paper, we propose a novel variational generator framework for conditional GANs to catch semantic details for improving the generation quality and diversity. Traditional generators in conditional GANs simply concatenate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Mingqi Hu , Deyu Zhou , Yulan He

Generative vision-language models can produce fluent medical image captions but remain prone to hallucination, over-specific diagnostic claims, and factual inconsistency-serious issues in pathology. We investigate retrieval-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Md. Enamul Hoq , Wataru Uegami , Saghir Alfasly , Ghazal Alabtah , Sahar Rahimi Malakshan , Armita Kazemi , Alex T. Schmitgen , Fred Prior , H. R. Tizhoosh

Recent generative models based on score matching and flow matching have significantly advanced generation tasks, but their potential in discriminative tasks remains underexplored. Previous approaches, such as generative classifiers, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Rongkun Xue , Jinouwen Zhang , Yazhe Niu , Dazhong Shen , Bingqi Ma , Yu Liu , Jing Yang

Majority of state-of-the-art deep learning methods are discriminative approaches, which model the conditional distribution of labels given inputs features. The success of such approaches heavily depends on high-quality labeled instances,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Yanwu Xu , Mingming Gong , Junxiang Chen , Tongliang Liu , Kun Zhang , Kayhan Batmanghelich