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Text-to-image diffusion models enable high-quality image generation but are computationally expensive. While prior work optimizes per-inference efficiency, we explore an orthogonal approach: reducing redundancy across correlated prompts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Dale Decatur , Thibault Groueix , Wang Yifan , Rana Hanocka , Vladimir Kim , Matheus Gadelha

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown remarkable performance in high-resolution image synthesis, but their sampling efficiency is still to be desired due to the typically large number of sampling steps. Recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Shuchen Xue , Zhaoqiang Liu , Fei Chen , Shifeng Zhang , Tianyang Hu , Enze Xie , Zhenguo Li

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

Distilling latent diffusion models (LDMs) into ones that are fast to sample from is attracting growing research interest. However, the majority of existing methods face two critical challenges: (1) They hinge on long training using a huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Qingsong Xie , Zhenyi Liao , Zhijie Deng , Chen chen , Haonan Lu

Recent advancements in large vision-language models have enabled highly expressive and diverse vector sketch generation. However, state-of-the-art methods rely on a time-consuming optimization process involving repeated feedback from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ellie Arar , Yarden Frenkel , Daniel Cohen-Or , Ariel Shamir , Yael Vinker

For image inpainting, the existing Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DDPM) based method i.e. RePaint can produce high-quality images for any inpainting form. It utilizes a pre-trained DDPM as a prior and generates inpainting results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Lintao Zhang , Xiangcheng Du , LeoWu TomyEnrique , Yiqun Wang , Yingbin Zheng , Cheng Jin

Learning diffusion bridge models is easy; making them fast and practical is an art. Diffusion bridge models (DBMs) are a promising extension of diffusion models for applications in image-to-image translation. However, like many modern…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Nikita Gushchin , David Li , Daniil Selikhanovych , Evgeny Burnaev , Dmitry Baranchuk , Alexander Korotin

We challenge a fundamental assumption of diffusion models, namely, that a large number of latent-states or time-steps is required for training so that the reverse generative process is close to a Gaussian. We first show that with careful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Samarth Gupta , Raghudeep Gadde , Rui Chen , Aleix M. Martinez

The inference latency of diffusion models remains a critical barrier to their real-time application. While trajectory-based and distribution-based step distillation methods offer solutions, they present a fundamental trade-off.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Hanbo Cheng , Peng Wang , Kaixiang Lei , Qi Li , Zhen Zou , Pengfei Hu , Jun Du

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) are renowned for their impressive generative performance; however, they are significantly constrained by considerable computational costs due to the quadratic complexity in self-attention and the extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Yi Yang

Diffusion Models (DMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in content generation without requiring adversarial training. These models are trained using a two-step process. First, a forward - diffusion - process gradually adds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities, particularly benefiting from Transformer architectures that enhance visual and artistic fidelity. However, their inherently sequential denoising process…

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We introduce a novel, training-free method for sampling differentiable representations (diffreps) using pretrained diffusion models. Rather than merely mode-seeking, our method achieves sampling by "pulling back" the dynamics of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yash Savani , Marc Finzi , J. Zico Kolter

Diffusion models have recently shown the ability to generate high-quality images. However, controlling its generation process still poses challenges. The image style transfer task is one of those challenges that transfers the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Kento Masui , Mayu Otani , Masahiro Nomura , Hideki Nakayama

Diffusion Posterior Sampling(DPS) methodology is a novel framework that permits nonlinear CT reconstruction by integrating a diffusion prior and an analytic physical system model, allowing for one-time training for different applications.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-19 Xiao Jiang , Shudong Li , Peiqing Teng , Grace Gang , J. Webster Stayman

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have been proven capable of synthesizing high-quality images with remarkable diversity when trained on large amounts of data. However, to our knowledge, few-shot image generation tasks have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Jingyuan Zhu , Huimin Ma , Jiansheng Chen , Jian Yuan

Diffusion models have seen notable success in continuous domains, leading to the development of discrete diffusion models (DDMs) for discrete variables. Despite recent advances, DDMs face the challenge of slow sampling speeds. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Yong-Hyun Park , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Satoshi Hayakawa , Yuhta Takida , Yuki Mitsufuji

We study the scaling properties of latent diffusion models (LDMs) with an emphasis on their sampling efficiency. While improved network architecture and inference algorithms have shown to effectively boost sampling efficiency of diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Kangfu Mei , Zhengzhong Tu , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Vishal M. Patel , Peyman Milanfar

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a powerful architecture for image and video generation, offering superior quality and scalability. However, their practical application suffers from inherent dynamic feature instability, leading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Guanjie Chen , Xinyu Zhao , Yucheng Zhou , Xiaoye Qu , Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng

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