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Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) and diffusion models (DMs) generate high-quality data from a noise distribution. However, their sampling process demands multiple iterations to solve an ordinary differential equation (ODE) with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Denis Gudovskiy , Wenzhao Zheng , Tomoyuki Okuno , Yohei Nakata , Kurt Keutzer

Consistency models (CMs) offer faster sampling than traditional diffusion models, but their training is resource-intensive. For example, as of 2024, training a state-of-the-art CM on CIFAR-10 takes one week on 8 GPUs. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Zhengyang Geng , Ashwini Pokle , William Luo , Justin Lin , J. Zico Kolter

Timestep distillation is an effective approach for improving the generation efficiency of diffusion models. The Consistency Model (CM), as a trajectory-based framework, demonstrates significant potential due to its strong theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Bao Tang , Shuai Zhang , Yueting Zhu , Jijun Xiang , Xin Yang , Li Yu , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Inverse design refers to the problem of optimizing the input of an objective function in order to enact a target outcome. For many real-world engineering problems, the objective function takes the form of a simulator that predicts how the…

Diffusion models have been verified to be effective in generating complex distributions from natural images to motion trajectories. Recent diffusion-based methods show impressive performance in 3D robotic manipulation tasks, whereas they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Guanxing Lu , Zifeng Gao , Tianxing Chen , Wenxun Dai , Ziwei Wang , Wenbo Ding , Yansong Tang

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in photorealism, image editing, and solving inverse problems, aided by classifier-free guidance and image inversion techniques. However, rectified flow models (RFMs) remain underexplored for these tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Maitreya Patel , Song Wen , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Yezhou Yang

Diffusion Models achieve state-of-the-art performance in generating new samples but lack a low-dimensional latent space that encodes the data into editable features. Inversion-based methods address this by reversing the denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Łukasz Staniszewski , Łukasz Kuciński , Kamil Deja

Diffusion and flow matching models have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image generation. However, these models typically rely on the predetermined denoising schedules for all prompts. The multi-step reverse diffusion process can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zilyu Ye , Zhiyang Chen , Tiancheng Li , Zemin Huang , Weijian Luo , Guo-Jun Qi

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential in producing high-quality images in medical image translation to aid disease diagnosis, localization, and treatment. Nevertheless, current diffusion models have limited success in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Yunxiang Li , Hua-Chieh Shao , Xiaoxue Qian , You Zhang

Recent work showed that large diffusion models can be reused as highly precise monocular depth estimators by casting depth estimation as an image-conditional image generation task. While the proposed model achieved state-of-the-art results,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Gonzalo Martin Garcia , Karim Knaebel , Christian Schmidt , Daan de Geus , Alexander Hermans , Bastian Leibe

Computed tomography (CT) is widely used in scientific imaging systems such as synchrotron and laboratory-based nano-CT, but acquiring full-view sinograms requires high radiation dose and long scan times. Sparse-view CT reduces this burden…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Jiaze E , Srutarshi Banerjee , Tekin Bicer , Guannan Wang , Yanfu Zhang , Bin Ren

We introduce Linearly Constrained Diffusion Implicit Models (CDIM), a fast and accurate approach to solving noisy linear inverse problems using diffusion models. Traditional diffusion-based inverse methods rely on numerous projection steps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Vivek Jayaram , Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman , Steven M. Seitz , John Thickstun

Diffusion reconstruction plays a critical role in various applications such as image editing, restoration, and style transfer. In theory, the reconstruction should be simple - it just inverts and regenerates images by numerically solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Han Zhang , Jinghong Mao , Shangwen Zhu , Zhantao Yang , Lianghua Huang , Yu Liu , Deli Zhao , Ruili Feng , Fan Cheng

The Poisson Flow Consistency Model (PFCM) is a consistency-style model based on the robust Poisson Flow Generative Model++ (PFGM++) which has achieved success in unconditional image generation and CT image denoising. Yet the PFCM can only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Anthony Zhang , Mahmut Gokmen , Dennis Hein , Rongjun Ge , Wenjun Xia , Ge Wang , Jin Chen

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is widely used for medical diagnosis and treatment planning; however, concerns about ionizing radiation exposure drive efforts to optimize image quality at lower doses. This study introduces Poisson Flow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Dennis Hein , Grant Stevens , Adam Wang , Ge Wang

Image anomaly detection plays a vital role in applications such as industrial quality inspection and medical imaging, where it directly contributes to improving product quality and system reliability. However, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Zekang Weng , Jinjin Shi , Jinwei Wang , Zeming Han

Latent Consistency Models (LCMs) have achieved impressive performance in accelerating text-to-image generative tasks, producing high-quality images with minimal inference steps. LCMs are distilled from pre-trained latent diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Suraj Patil , Daniel Gu , Patrick von Platen , Apolinário Passos , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao

Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) can model data distributions with expressive infinite-length architectures. But this modeling involves computationally expensive process of solving an ordinary differential equation (ODE) during maximum…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Denis Gudovskiy , Tomoyuki Okuno , Yohei Nakata

Flow map models such as Consistency Models (CM) and Mean Flow (MF) enable few-step generation by learning the long jump of the ODE solution of diffusion models, yet training remains unstable, sensitive to hyperparameters, and costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zheyuan Hu , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuki Mitsufuji , Stefano Ermon

Recently, the diffusion model has emerged as a superior generative model that can produce high quality and realistic images. However, for medical image translation, the existing diffusion models are deficient in accurately retaining…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-31 Yunxiang Li , Hua-Chieh Shao , Xiao Liang , Liyuan Chen , Ruiqi Li , Steve Jiang , Jing Wang , You Zhang