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Optimal Transport (OT) problem aims to find a transport plan that bridges two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. OT theory has been widely utilized in generative modeling. In the beginning, OT distance has been used as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

Flow-based Generative Models (FGMs) effectively transform noise into complex data distributions. Incorporating Optimal Transport (OT) to couple noise and data during FGM training has been shown to improve the straightness of flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Lingkai Kong , Molei Tao , Yang Liu , Bryan Wang , Jinmiao Fu , Chien-Chih Wang , Huidong Liu

Sampling from diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) can be viewed as a piecewise distribution transformation, which generally requires hundreds or thousands of steps of the inverse diffusion trajectory to get a high-quality image. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zezeng Li , ShengHao Li , Zhanpeng Wang , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo , Xianfeng Gu

Dataset distillation seeks to synthesize a compact distilled dataset, enabling models trained on it to achieve performance comparable to models trained on the full dataset. Recent methods for large-scale datasets focus on matching global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xiao Cui , Yulei Qin , Wengang Zhou , Hongsheng Li , Houqiang Li

Optimal Transport (OT) problem investigates a transport map that bridges two distributions while minimizing a given cost function. In this regard, OT between tractable prior distribution and data has been utilized for generative modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jaemoo Choi , Jaewoong Choi , Myungjoo Kang

Diffusion Models (DMs) have achieved remarkable progress in generative modeling. However, the mismatch between the forward terminal distribution and reverse initial distribution introduces prior error, leading to deviations of sampling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zhanpeng Wang , Shenghao Li , Jiameng Che , Chen Wang , Shangling Jui , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo

Diffusion models are promising for joint trajectory prediction and controllable generation in autonomous driving, but they face challenges of inefficient inference steps and high computational demands. To tackle these challenges, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yixiao Wang , Chen Tang , Lingfeng Sun , Simone Rossi , Yichen Xie , Chensheng Peng , Thomas Hannagan , Stefano Sabatini , Nicola Poerio , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

Diffusion models have achieved outstanding image generation by reversing a forward noising process to approximate true data distributions. During training, these models predict diffusion scores from noised versions of true samples in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Dazhong Shen , Guanglu Song , Yi Zhang , Bingqi Ma , Lujundong Li , Dongzhi Jiang , Zhuofan Zong , Yu Liu

As a powerful technique in generative modeling, Flow Matching (FM) aims to learn velocity fields from noise to data, which is often explained and implemented as solving Optimal Transport (OT) problems. In this study, we bridge FM and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Angxiao Yue , Anqi Dong , Hongteng Xu

Simulation-based testing is widely used to assess the reliability of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS), but its effectiveness is limited by the operational design domain (ODD) conditions available in such simulators. To address this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Luciano Baresi , Davide Yi Xian Hu , Andrea Stocco , Paolo Tonella

Diffusion models have demonstrated strong performance in sampling and editing multi-modal data with high generation quality, yet they suffer from the iterative generation process which is computationally expensive and slow. In addition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xinrui Zu , Qian Tao

Within a broad class of generative adversarial networks, we show that discriminator optimization process increases a lower bound of the dual cost function for the Wasserstein distance between the target distribution $p$ and the generator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-09 Akinori Tanaka

The Dual Diffusion Implicit Bridge (DDIB) is an emerging image-to-image (I2I) translation method that preserves cycle consistency while achieving strong flexibility. It links two independently trained diffusion models (DMs) in the source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Zhanpeng Wang , Shuting Cao , Yuhang Lu , Yuhan Li , Na Lei , Zhongxuan Luo

Out-of-distribution (OOD) data poses serious challenges in deployed machine learning models as even subtle changes could incur significant performance drops. Being able to estimate a model's performance on test data is important in practice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yuzhe Lu , Zhenlin Wang , Runtian Zhai , Soheil Kolouri , Joseph Campbell , Katia Sycara

To deploy machine learning models in the real world, researchers have proposed many OOD detection algorithms to help models identify unknown samples during the inference phase and prevent them from making untrustworthy predictions. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Heng Gao , Zhuolin He , Jian Pu

Diffusion Transformer (DiT) is a crucial method for content generation. However, it needs a lot of time to sample. Many studies have attempted to use caching to reduce the time consumption of sampling. Existing caching methods accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Junxiang Qiu , Shuo Wang , Jinda Lu , Lin Liu , Houcheng Jiang , Xingyu Zhu , Yanbin Hao

The curvature of ODE trajectories in diffusion models hinders their ability to generate high-quality images in a few number of function evaluations (NFE). In this paper, we propose a novel and effective approach to reduce trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Yuchen Liang , Yuchuan Tian , Lei Yu , Huao Tang , Jie Hu , Xiangzhong Fang , Hanting Chen

Discrete diffusion models are a new class of text generators that offer advantages such as bidirectional context use, parallelizable generation, and flexible prompting compared to autoregressive models. However, a critical limitation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Andrew Zhang , Anushka Sivakumar , Chiawei Tang , Chris Thomas

Few-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification (FS-RSSC) presents the challenge of classifying remote sensing images with limited labeled samples. Existing methods typically emphasize single-modal feature learning, neglecting the potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Zhong Ji , Ci Liu , Jingren Liu , Chen Tang , Yanwei Pang , Xuelong Li

Diffusion and flow matching policies have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in robotic applications by accurately capturing multimodal robot trajectory distributions. However, their computationally expensive inference, due to the…

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