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Generative real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) can synthesize visually convincing details from severely degraded low-resolution (LR) inputs, yet its stochastic sampling makes a critical failure mode hard to avoid: outputs may look…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Song Fei , Tian Ye , Sixiang Chen , Zhaohu Xing , Jianyu Lai , Lei Zhu

Knowledge distillation (KD) is an effective model compression method that can transfer the internal capabilities of large language models (LLMs) to smaller ones. However, the multi-modal probability distribution predicted by teacher LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Tianyu Peng , Jiajun Zhang

Diffusion distillation represents a highly promising direction for achieving faithful text-to-image generation in a few sampling steps. However, despite recent successes, existing distilled models still do not provide the full spectrum of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Nikita Starodubcev , Mikhail Khoroshikh , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

Text-driven human motion generation based on diffusion strategies establishes a reliable foundation for multimodal applications in human-computer interactions. However, existing advances face significant efficiency challenges due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Mengxian Hu , Minghao Zhu , Xun Zhou , Qingqing Yan , Shu Li , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

High-resolution image synthesis remains a core challenge in generative modeling, particularly in balancing computational efficiency with the preservation of fine-grained visual detail. We present Latent Wavelet Diffusion (LWD), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Luigi Sigillo , Shengfeng He , Danilo Comminiello

There is increasing interest in distilling task-specific knowledge from large language models (LLM) to smaller student models. Nonetheless, LLM distillation presents a dual challenge: 1) there is a high cost associated with querying the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yuhang Zhou , Wei Ai

Enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to continuously improve from environmental interactions is a central challenge in post-training. While on-policy self-distillation offers a promising paradigm, existing methods predominantly treat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yuwei Zhang , Sha Li , Changlong Yu , Qin Lu , Shuowei Jin , Chengyu Dong , Haoran Liu , Ilgee Hong , Xintong Li , Zhenyu Shi , Bing Yin , Jingbo Shang

The scarcity of accessible medical image data poses a significant obstacle in effectively training deep learning models for medical diagnosis, as hospitals refrain from sharing their data due to privacy concerns. In response, we gathered a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-25 Lakshmikar R. Polamreddy , Kalyan Roy , Sheng-Han Yueh , Deepshikha Mahato , Shilpa Kuppili , Jialu Li , Youshan Zhang

Blind super-resolution methods based on stable diffusion showcase formidable generative capabilities in reconstructing clear high-resolution images with intricate details from low-resolution inputs. However, their practical applicability is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Rui Xie , Chen Zhao , Kai Zhang , Zhenyu Zhang , Jun Zhou , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

This work studies knowledge distillation (KD) for large language models (LLMs) through preference optimization. We propose a reward-guided imitation learning framework for sequential KD, formulating a min-max optimization problem between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chen Jia

Non-contrast CT (NCCT) imaging may reduce image contrast and anatomical visibility, potentially increasing diagnostic uncertainty. In contrast, contrast-enhanced CT (CECT) facilitates the observation of regions of interest (ROI). Leading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Tingyi Lin , Pengju Lyu , Jie Zhang , Yuqing Wang , Cheng Wang , Jianjun Zhu

Video generation, while capable of generating realistic videos, is computationally expensive and slow, prohibiting real-time applications. In this paper, we observe that video latents encoded via an autoencoder under the Latent Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Dennis Menn , Chih-Hsien Chou

In the text-to-image generation field, recent remarkable progress in Stable Diffusion makes it possible to generate rich kinds of novel photorealistic images. However, current models still face misalignment issues (e.g., problematic spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Leigang Qu , Shengqiong Wu , Hao Fei , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Despite advances in Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs), their ability to reason over 3D structures and temporal dynamics remains limited, constrained by weak 4D perception and temporal understanding. Existing 3D and 4D Video Question Answering (VQA)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chiao-An Yang , Ryo Hachiuma , Sifei Liu , Subhashree Radhakrishnan , Raymond A. Yeh , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen

Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Huan Yang , Kai Zhang , Junnan Li

Over the past year, the emergence of transfer learning with large-scale language models (LM) has led to dramatic performance improvements across a broad range of natural language understanding tasks. However, the size and memory footprint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Luke Melas-Kyriazi , George Han , Celine Liang

Textile pattern generation (TPG) aims to synthesize fine-grained textile pattern images based on given clothing images. Although previous studies have not explicitly investigated TPG, existing image-to-image models appear to be natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Chenggong Hu , Yi Wang , Mengqi Xue , Haofei Zhang , Jie Song , Li Sun

The conditional diffusion model (CDM) enhances the standard diffusion model by providing more control, improving the quality and relevance of the outputs, and making the model adaptable to a wider range of complex tasks. However, inaccurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Weifeng Xu , Xiang Zhu , Xiaoyong Li

We present Stable Video Diffusion - a latent video diffusion model for high-resolution, state-of-the-art text-to-video and image-to-video generation. Recently, latent diffusion models trained for 2D image synthesis have been turned into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Andreas Blattmann , Tim Dockhorn , Sumith Kulal , Daniel Mendelevitch , Maciej Kilian , Dominik Lorenz , Yam Levi , Zion English , Vikram Voleti , Adam Letts , Varun Jampani , Robin Rombach

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) power state-of-the-art high-resolution generative image models. LDMs learn the data distribution in the latent space of an autoencoder (AE) and produce images by mapping the generated latents into RGB image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Tariq Berrada , Pietro Astolfi , Melissa Hall , Marton Havasi , Yohann Benchetrit , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Karteek Alahari , Michal Drozdzal , Jakob Verbeek