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Graph generation is a critical yet challenging task, as empirical analyses require a deep understanding of complex, non-Euclidean structures. Diffusion models have recently made significant advances in graph generation, but these models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yiming Huang , Tolga Birdal

We propose a method for scene-level sketch-to-photo synthesis with text guidance. Although object-level sketch-to-photo synthesis has been widely studied, whole-scene synthesis is still challenging without reference photos that adequately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Makoto Shing , Kentaro Mitsui , Kei Sawada , Fumio Okura

While classifier-free guidance (CFG) is essential for conditional diffusion models, it doubles the number of neural function evaluations (NFEs) per inference step. To mitigate this inefficiency, we introduce adapter guidance distillation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Cristian Perez Jensen , Seyedmorteza Sadat

We present an inference-time diffusion sampling method to perform multi-view consistent image editing using pre-trained 2D image editing models. These models can independently produce high-quality edits for each image in a set of multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Hadi Alzayer , Yunzhi Zhang , Chen Geng , Jia-Bin Huang , Jiajun Wu

This study addresses the challenge of, without training or fine-tuning, controlling the global color aspect of images generated with a diffusion model. We rewrite the guidance equations to ensure that the outputs are closer to a known color…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Tom Bordin , Thomas Maugey

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

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have shown promise in reconstructing high-resolution images with fine details from low-resolution counterparts. However, these approaches typically require tens or even hundreds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiao He , Huaao Tang , Zhijun Tu , Junchao Zhang , Kun Cheng , Hanting Chen , Yong Guo , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jie Hu

Due to the disparity between real-world degradations in user-generated content(UGC) images and synthetic degradations, traditional super-resolution methods struggle to generalize effectively, necessitating a more robust approach to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yiwen Wang , Ying Liang , Yuxuan Zhang , Xinning Chai , Zhengxue Cheng , Yingsheng Qin , Yucai Yang , Rong Xie , Li Song

The generation of high-quality, diverse, and prompt-aligned images is a central goal in image-generating diffusion models. The popular classifier-free guidance (CFG) approach improves quality and alignment at the cost of reduced variation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Enhao Gu , Haolin Hou

Despite their strong performances on many generative tasks, diffusion models require a large number of sampling steps in order to generate realistic samples. This has motivated the community to develop effective methods to distill…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Weijian Luo , Zemin Huang , Zhengyang Geng , J. Zico Kolter , Guo-jun Qi

Despite the recent advancements, conditional image generation still faces challenges of cost, generalizability, and the need for task-specific training. In this paper, we propose Manifold Preserving Guided Diffusion (MPGD), a training-free…

Classifier-free Guidance (CFG) is a widely used technique in modern diffusion models for enhancing sample quality and prompt adherence. However, through an empirical analysis on Gaussian mixture modeling with a closed-form solution, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Chubin Chen , Jiashu Zhu , Xiaokun Feng , Nisha Huang , Chen Zhu , Meiqi Wu , Fangyuan Mao , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu , Xiu Li

Training modern neural networks on large datasets is computationally and energy intensive. We present SAGE, a streaming data-subset selection method that maintains a compact Frequent Directions (FD) sketch of gradient geometry in $O(\ell…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ashish Jha , Salman Ahmadi-Asl

The escalating demand for real-time image synthesis has driven significant advancements in one-step diffusion models, which inherently offer expedited generation speeds compared to traditional multi-step methods. However, this enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Viet Nguyen , Anh Nguyen , Trung Dao , Khoi Nguyen , Cuong Pham , Toan Tran , Anh Tran

Thanks to the recent development of deep generative models, it is becoming possible to generate high-quality images with both fidelity and diversity. However, the training of such generative models requires a large dataset. To reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Atsuhiro Noguchi , Tatsuya Harada

Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) with autoregressive world models suffers from compounding errors, whereas diffusion world models mitigate this by generating trajectory segments jointly. However, existing diffusion guides are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Daniele Foffano , Arvid Eriksson , David Broman , Karl H. Johansson , Alexandre Proutiere

As a highly expressive generative model, diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional success across various domains, including image generation, natural language processing, and combinatorial optimization. However, as data distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Myunsoo Kim , Donghyeon Ki , Seong-Woong Shim , Byung-Jun Lee

Conditional generative models typically demand large annotated training sets to achieve high-quality synthesis. As a result, there has been significant interest in designing models that perform plug-and-play generation, i.e., to use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Anoop Cherian , Suhas Lohit , Ye Wang , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Vishal M. Patel , Tim K. Marks

Traditional point-based image editing methods rely on iterative latent optimization or geometric transformations, which are either inefficient in their processing or fail to capture the semantic relationships within the image. These methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Biao Yang , Muqi Huang , Yuhui Zhang , Yun Xiong , Kun Zhou , Xi Chen , Shiyang Zhou , Huishuai Bao , Chuan Li , Feng Shi , Hualei Liu

To synthesize high-fidelity samples, diffusion models typically require auxiliary data to guide the generation process. However, it is impractical to procure the painstaking patch-level annotation effort required in specialized domains like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Alexandros Graikos , Srikar Yellapragada , Minh-Quan Le , Saarthak Kapse , Prateek Prasanna , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras