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Large-scale text-to-image models have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize diverse and high-fidelity images. However, these models are often violated by several limitations. Firstly, they require the user to provide precise and…

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Forecasting multi-step user behavior trajectories requires reasoning over structured preferences across future actions, a challenge overlooked by traditional sequential recommendation. This problem is critical for applications such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hongtao Huang , Chengkai Huang , Junda Wu , Tong Yu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Recent strides in the development of diffusion models, exemplified by advancements such as Stable Diffusion, have underscored their remarkable prowess in generating visually compelling images. However, the imperative of achieving a seamless…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Xiefan Guo , Jinlin Liu , Miaomiao Cui , Jiankai Li , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang

Taking advantage of the many recent advances in deep learning, text-to-image generative models currently have the merit of attracting the general public attention. Two of these models, DALL-E 2 and Imagen, have demonstrated that highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Robin Zbinden

Diffusion models are widely used for generative tasks across domains. Given a pre-trained diffusion model, it is often desirable to fine-tune it further either to correct for errors in learning or to align with downstream applications.…

Image retouching aims to enhance the visual quality of photos. Considering the different aesthetic preferences of users, the target of retouching is subjective. However, current retouching methods mostly adopt deterministic models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei zhang , Zheng Lin , Xin Jin , Dongqing Zou , Chunle Guo , Chongyi Li

Diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks through high-fidelity outputs, yet flow matching (FM) offers faster inference and empirical performance gains. However, current foundation FM models are computationally prohibitive for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Johannes Schusterbauer , Ming Gui , Frank Fundel , Björn Ommer

Modern preference alignment methods, such as DPO, rely on divergence regularization to a reference model for training stability-but this creates a fundamental problem we call "reference mismatch." In this paper, we investigate the negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jiwoo Hong , Sayak Paul , Noah Lee , Kashif Rasul , James Thorne , Jongheon Jeong

Despite recent significant strides achieved by diffusion-based Text-to-Image (T2I) models, current systems are still less capable of ensuring decent compositional generation aligned with text prompts, particularly for the multi-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zhipeng Bao , Yijun Li , Krishna Kumar Singh , Yu-Xiong Wang , Martial Hebert

Large text-to-image diffusion models have impressive capabilities in generating photorealistic images from text prompts. How to effectively guide or control these powerful models to perform different downstream tasks becomes an important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zeju Qiu , Weiyang Liu , Haiwen Feng , Yuxuan Xue , Yao Feng , Zhen Liu , Dan Zhang , Adrian Weller , Bernhard Schölkopf

Personalized retrieval and segmentation aim to locate specific instances within a dataset based on an input image and a short description of the reference instance. While supervised methods are effective, they require extensive labeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Dvir Samuel , Rami Ben-Ari , Matan Levy , Nir Darshan , Gal Chechik

Latent diffusion models excel at producing high-quality images from text. Yet, concerns appear about the lack of diversity in the generated imagery. To tackle this, we introduce Diverse Diffusion, a method for boosting image diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mariia Zameshina , Olivier Teytaud , Laurent Najman

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly impacted the trajectory of generative machine learning research, with many adopting the strategy of fine-tuning pre-trained models using domain-specific text-to-image datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Mischa Dombrowski , Hadrien Reynaud , Johanna P. Müller , Matthew Baugh , Bernhard Kainz

Recent text-to-image models have achieved impressive results. However, since they require large-scale datasets of text-image pairs, it is impractical to train them on new domains where data is scarce or not labeled. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Shelly Sheynin , Oron Ashual , Adam Polyak , Uriel Singer , Oran Gafni , Eliya Nachmani , Yaniv Taigman

Unsupervised visual object tracking is a challenging task that requires following arbitrary targets in videos without training on ground-truth annotations. Despite considerable progress, existing state-of-the-art unsupervised trackers often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhengbo Zhang , Zhigang Tu , Junsong Yuan , De Wen Soh , Bo Du

Diffusion models usher a new era of video editing, flexibly manipulating the video contents with text prompts. Despite the widespread application demand in editing human-centered videos, these models face significant challenges in handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaojing Zhong , Xinyi Huang , Xiaofeng Yang , Guosheng Lin , Qingyao Wu

Recent works demonstrate a remarkable ability to customize text-to-image diffusion models while only providing a few example images. What happens if you try to customize such models using multiple, fine-grained concepts in a sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 James Seale Smith , Yen-Chang Hsu , Lingyu Zhang , Ting Hua , Zsolt Kira , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

Diffusion models have demonstrated great potential in generating high-quality content for images, natural language, protein domains, etc. However, how to perform user-preferred targeted generation via diffusion models with only black-box…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-11 Yueming Lyu , Kim Yong Tan , Yew Soon Ong , Ivor W. Tsang

Instruction-based image editing has made a great process in using natural human language to manipulate the visual content of images. However, existing models are limited by the quality of the dataset and cannot accurately localize editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Tiancheng Li , Jinxiu Liu , Huajun Chen , Qi Liu

Diffusion models have revolted the field of text-to-image generation recently. The unique way of fusing text and image information contributes to their remarkable capability of generating highly text-related images. From another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Changming Xiao , Qi Yang , Feng Zhou , Changshui Zhang