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We introduce Latent Space Distribution Matching (LSDM), a novel framework for semi-supervised generative modeling of conditional distributions. LSDM operates in two stages: (i) learning a low-dimensional latent space from both paired and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-05 Kwong Yu Chong , Long Feng

Autoregressive large language models achieve strong results on many benchmarks, but decoding remains fundamentally latency-limited by sequential dependence on previously generated tokens. Diffusion language models (DLMs) promise parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yihao Liang , Ze Wang , Hao Chen , Ximeng Sun , Jialian Wu , Xiaodong Yu , Jiang Liu , Emad Barsoum , Zicheng Liu , Niraj K. Jha

In the field of large language models (LLMs), Knowledge Distillation (KD) is a critical technique for transferring capabilities from teacher models to student models. However, existing KD methods face limitations and challenges in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Yixing Li , Yuxian Gu , Li Dong , Dequan Wang , Yu Cheng , Furu Wei

Reward models (RMs) are crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. They are trained using preference datasets where each example consists of one input prompt, two responses, and a preference label. As curating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiaming Shen , Ran Xu , Yennie Jun , Zhen Qin , Tianqi Liu , Carl Yang , Yi Liang , Simon Baumgartner , Michael Bendersky

Text-to-image models have shown remarkable progress in generating high-quality images from user-provided prompts. Despite this, the quality of these images varies due to the models' sensitivity to human language nuances. With advancements…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xinrui Yang , Zhuohan Wang , Anthony Hu

Sequential recommender systems have achieved significant success in modeling temporal user behavior but remain limited in capturing rich user semantics beyond interaction patterns. Large Language Models (LLMs) present opportunities to…

As large language models (LLMs) tackle increasingly complex tasks and longer documents, their computational and memory costs during inference become a major bottleneck. To address this, we propose PromptDistill, a novel, training-free…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weisheng Jin , Maojia Song , Tej Deep Pala , Yew Ken Chia , Amir Zadeh , Chuan Li , Soujanya Poria

By embedding discrete representations into a continuous latent space, we can leverage continuous-space latent diffusion models to handle generative modeling of discrete data. However, despite their initial success, most latent diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Bac Nguyen , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Naoki Murata , Toshimitsu Uesaka , Stefano Ermon , Yuki Mitsufuji

In image super-resolution, both pixel-wise accuracy and perceptual fidelity are desirable. However, most deep learning methods only achieve high performance in one aspect due to the perception-distortion trade-off, and works that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-17 Yuehan Zhang , Bo Ji , Jia Hao , Angela Yao

Efficient streaming video generation is critical for simulating interactive and dynamic worlds. Existing methods distill few-step video diffusion models with sliding window attention, using initial frames as sink tokens to maintain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yunhong Lu , Yanhong Zeng , Haobo Li , Hao Ouyang , Qiuyu Wang , Ka Leong Cheng , Jiapeng Zhu , Hengyuan Cao , Zhipeng Zhang , Xing Zhu , Yujun Shen , Min Zhang

Masked Generative Models (MGM)s demonstrate strong capabilities in generating high-fidelity images. However, they need many sampling steps to create high-quality generations, resulting in slow inference speed. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pranav Subbaraman , Shufan Li , Siyan Zhao , Aditya Grover

Video diffusion models have shown great potential in generating high-quality videos, making them an increasingly popular focus. However, their inherent iterative nature leads to substantial computational and time costs. While efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Xiaofeng Mao , Zhengkai Jiang , Fu-Yun Wang , Jiangning Zhang , Hao Chen , Mingmin Chi , Yabiao Wang , Wenhan Luo

Current approaches for restoration of degraded images face a trade-off: high-performance models are slow for practical use, while fast models produce poor results. Knowledge distillation transfers teacher knowledge to students, but existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Shourya Verma , Mengbo Wang , Nadia Atallah Lanman , Ananth Grama

Latent diffusion models have made great strides in generating expressive portrait videos with accurate lip-sync and natural motion from a single reference image and audio input. However, these models are far from real-time, often requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Hanzhong Guo , Hongwei Yi , Daquan Zhou , Alexander William Bergman , Michael Lingelbach , Yizhou Yu

Generative reward models (GRMs) have emerged as a promising approach for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences by offering greater representational capacity and flexibility than traditional scalar reward models.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yu Liang , Liangxin Liu , Longzheng Wang , Yan Wang , Yueyang Zhang , Long Xia , Zhiyuan Sun , Daiting Shi

Traditional black-box distillation for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) typically relies on a single teacher response per input, which often yields high-variance responses and format inconsistencies in multimodal or temporal scenarios.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Songlin Li , Xin Zhu , Zechao Guan , Peipeng Chen , Jian Yao

Although diffusion models have achieved strong results in decision-making tasks, their slow inference speed remains a key limitation. While consistency models offer a potential solution, existing applications to decision-making either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Xintong Duan , Yutong He , Fahim Tajwar , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , J. Zico Kolter , Jeff Schneider

Generative priors of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models enable a wide range of new generation and editing applications on diverse visual modalities. However, when adapting these priors to complex visual modalities, often represented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Subin Kim , Kyungmin Lee , June Suk Choi , Jongheon Jeong , Kihyuk Sohn , Jinwoo Shin

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have raised concerns about inference costs, increasing the need for research into model compression. While knowledge distillation (KD) is a prominent method for this, research on KD for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Gyeongman Kim , Doohyuk Jang , Eunho Yang

This research paper proposes a Latent Diffusion Model for 3D (LDM3D) that generates both image and depth map data from a given text prompt, allowing users to generate RGBD images from text prompts. The LDM3D model is fine-tuned on a dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Gabriela Ben Melech Stan , Diana Wofk , Scottie Fox , Alex Redden , Will Saxton , Jean Yu , Estelle Aflalo , Shao-Yen Tseng , Fabio Nonato , Matthias Muller , Vasudev Lal
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