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The success of deep learning in computer vision over the past decade has hinged on large labeled datasets and strong pretrained models. In data-scarce settings, the quality of these pretrained models becomes crucial for effective transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Bingxin Ke , Kevin Qu , Tianfu Wang , Nando Metzger , Shengyu Huang , Bo Li , Anton Obukhov , Konrad Schindler

Pre-trained diffusion models have enabled significant advancements in All-in-One Restoration (AiOR), offering improved perceptual quality and generalization. However, diffusion-based restoration methods primarily rely on fine-tuning or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sudarshan Rajagopalan , Vishal M. Patel

Diffusion models are among the most effective methods for image generation. This is in particular because, unlike GANs, they can be easily conditioned during training to produce elements with desired class or properties. However, guiding a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Mateusz Poleski , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

We present the first diffusion-based framework that can learn an unknown distribution using only highly-corrupted samples. This problem arises in scientific applications where access to uncorrupted samples is impossible or expensive to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Giannis Daras , Kulin Shah , Yuval Dagan , Aravind Gollakota , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Adam Klivans

Recent generative models show impressive results in photo-realistic image generation. However, artifacts often inevitably appear in the generated results, leading to downgraded user experience and reduced performance in downstream tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yueqin Yin , Lianghua Huang , Yu Liu , Kaiqi Huang

Recent text-to-image diffusion models have shown surprising performance in generating high-quality images. However, concerns have arisen regarding the unauthorized data usage during the training or fine-tuning process. One example is when a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zhenting Wang , Chen Chen , Lingjuan Lyu , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Shiqing Ma

Medical imaging foundation models must adapt over time, yet full retraining is often blocked by privacy constraints and cost. We present a continual learning framework that avoids storing patient exemplars by pairing class conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Anoushka Harit , William Prew , Zhongtian Sun , Florian Markowetz

The technological advancements in diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities in text-to-image generation and are widely used in diverse applications. However, they have also raised significant societal concerns,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yihua Zhang , Chongyu Fan , Yimeng Zhang , Yuguang Yao , Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Gaoyuan Zhang , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Xiaoming Liu , Sijia Liu

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

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) is a promising score distillation technique that compresses pre-trained teacher diffusion models into efficient one-step or multi-step student generators. Nevertheless, its reliance on the reverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Yanzuo Lu , Yuxi Ren , Xin Xia , Shanchuan Lin , Xing Wang , Xuefeng Xiao , Andy J. Ma , Xiaohua Xie , Jian-Huang Lai

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but they remain vulnerable to memorization -- reproducing training data rather than generating novel outputs. This not only limits their creative potential but also…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-10 Zeqi Ye , Qijie Zhu , Molei Tao , Minshuo Chen

Despite the impressive capabilities of generating images, text-to-image diffusion models are susceptible to producing undesirable outputs such as NSFW content and copyrighted artworks. To address this issue, recent studies have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Tianyun Yang , Juan Cao , Chang Xu

Learning from a large corpus of data, pre-trained models have achieved impressive progress nowadays. As popular generative pre-training, diffusion models capture both low-level visual knowledge and high-level semantic relations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Chaofan Ma , Yuhuan Yang , Chen Ju , Fei Zhang , Jinxiang Liu , Yu Wang , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Motion prediction is a challenging problem in autonomous driving as it demands the system to comprehend stochastic dynamics and the multi-modal nature of real-world agent interactions. Diffusion models have recently risen to prominence, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Jiahui Li , Tianle Shen , Zekai Gu , Jiawei Sun , Chengran Yuan , Yuhang Han , Shuo Sun , Marcelo H. Ang

Personalized image generation aims to integrate user-provided concepts into text-to-image models, enabling the generation of customized content based on a given prompt. Recent zero-shot approaches, particularly those leveraging diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Yiheng Lin , Shifang Zhao , Ting Liu , Xiaochao Qu , Luoqi Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Complex degradations like noise, blur, and low resolution are typical challenges in real world image fusion tasks, limiting the performance and practicality of existing methods. End to end neural network based approaches are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yu Shi , Yu Liu , Zhong-Cheng Wu , Juan Cheng , Huafeng Li , Xun Chen

Diffusion models have achieved impressive advancements in various vision tasks. However, these gains often rely on increasing model size, which escalates computational complexity and memory demands, complicating deployment, raising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yang Zhang , Er Jin , Wenzhong Liang , Yanfei Dong , Ashkan Khakzar , Philip Torr , Johannes Stegmaier , Kenji Kawaguchi

In this paper, we focus on generating realistic images from text descriptions. Current methods first generate an initial image with rough shape and color, and then refine the initial image to a high-resolution one. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Minfeng Zhu , Pingbo Pan , Wei Chen , Yi Yang

Can a diffusion model produce its own "mental average" of a concept-one that is as sharp and realistic as a typical sample? We introduce Diffusion Mental Averages (DMA), a model-centric answer to this question. While prior methods aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Phonphrm Thawatdamrongkit , Sukit Seripanitkarn , Supasorn Suwajanakorn

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie