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The diffusion model has demonstrated promising results in image generation, recently becoming mainstream and representing a notable advancement for many generative modeling tasks. Prior applications of the diffusion model for both fast…

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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…

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Generative diffusion models have emerged as a powerful tool for high-quality image synthesis, yet their iterative nature demands significant computational resources. This paper proposes an efficient time step sampling method based on an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Haeil Lee , Hansang Lee , Seoyeon Gye , Junmo Kim

A diffusion model, which is formulated to produce an image using thousands of denoising steps, usually suffers from a slow inference speed. Existing acceleration algorithms simplify the sampling by skipping most steps yet exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Mengfei Xia , Yujun Shen , Changsong Lei , Yu Zhou , Ran Yi , Deli Zhao , Wenping Wang , Yong-Jin Liu

In this paper, we present the Directly Denoising Diffusion Model (DDDM): a simple and generic approach for generating realistic images with few-step sampling, while multistep sampling is still preserved for better performance. DDDMs require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Dan Zhang , Jingjing Wang , Feng Luo

Diffusion models have become the dominant tool for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet are critically bottlenecked by their inference speed due to the numerous iterative passes of Diffusion Transformers. To reduce the exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Han , Juntong Shi , Puheng Li , Haotian Ye , Qiushan Guo , Stefano Ermon

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in high-fidelity image, video, and audio generation, yet inference remains computationally expensive. Nevertheless, current diffusion acceleration methods based on distributed parallelism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Euisoo Jung , Byunghyun Kim , Hyunjin Kim , Seonghye Cho , Jae-Gil Lee

Diffusion-based stylization methods typically denoise from a specific partial noise state for image-to-image and video-to-video tasks. This multi-step diffusion process is computationally expensive and hinders real-world application. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Sijie Xu , Runqi Wang , Wei Zhu , Dejia Song , Nemo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu

Real-time dense scene reconstruction during unstable camera motions is crucial for robotics, yet current RGB-D SLAM systems fail when cameras experience large viewpoint changes, fast motions, or sudden shaking. Classical optimization-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Siyan Dong , Zijun Wang , Lulu Cai , Yi Ma , Yanchao Yang

Diffusion models have revolutionized image generation, yet several challenges restrict their application to large-image domains, such as digital pathology and satellite imagery. Given that it is infeasible to directly train a model on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Srikar Yellapragada , Alexandros Graikos , Kostas Triaridis , Prateek Prasanna , Rajarsi R. Gupta , Joel Saltz , Dimitris Samaras

This report presents the comprehensive implementation, evaluation, and optimization of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) and Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models (DDIMs), which are state-of-the-art generative models. During…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jaineet Shah , Michael Gromis , Rickston Pinto

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in photo-realistic image synthesis, but their adaptation to LiDAR scene generation poses a substantial hurdle. This is primarily because DMs operating in the point space struggle to preserve the curve-like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Haoxi Ran , Vitor Guizilini , Yue Wang

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Jie Liang , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

Handling the dynamic environments is a significant research challenge in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Recent research combines 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) with SLAM to achieve both robust camera pose estimation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yunsong Wang , Gim Hee Lee

Recent studies have demonstrated that the forward diffusion process is crucial for the effectiveness of diffusion models in terms of generative quality and sampling efficiency. We propose incorporating an analytical image attenuation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yuhang Huang , Zheng Qin , Xinwang Liu , Kai Xu

We present ESLAM, an efficient implicit neural representation method for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). ESLAM reads RGB-D frames with unknown camera poses in a sequential manner and incrementally reconstructs the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mohammad Mahdi Johari , Camilla Carta , François Fleuret

While super-resolution (SR) methods based on diffusion models exhibit promising results, their practical application is hindered by the substantial number of required inference steps. Recent methods utilize degraded images in the initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Ziwei Liu , Yu Qiao , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Generating high-dimensional visual modalities is a computationally intensive task. A common solution is progressive generation, where the outputs are synthesized in a coarse-to-fine spectral autoregressive manner. While diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Moayed Haji-Ali , Willi Menapace , Ivan Skorokhodov , Arpit Sahni , Sergey Tulyakov , Vicente Ordonez , Aliaksandr Siarohin

Diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in real-world image super-resolution (SR), yet their reliance on time-consuming multi-step sampling largely hinders their practical applications. While recent efforts have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jiaqi Xu , Wenbo Li , Haoze Sun , Fan Li , Zhixin Wang , Long Peng , Jingjing Ren , Haoran Yang , Xiaowei Hu , Renjing Pei , Pheng-Ann Heng

Offline black-box optimization aims to discover novel designs with high property scores using only a static dataset, a task fundamentally challenged by the out-of-distribution (OOD) extrapolation problem. Existing approaches typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yonghan Yang , Ye Yuan , Zipeng Sun , Linfeng Du , Bowei He , Haolun Wu , Can Chen , Xue Liu