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Language diffusion models aim to improve sampling speed and coherence over autoregressive LLMs. We introduce Neural Flow Diffusion Models for language generation, an extension of NFDM that enables the straightforward application of…

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Creating graphic layouts is a fundamental step in graphic designs. In this work, we present a novel generative model named LayoutDiffusion for automatic layout generation. As layout is typically represented as a sequence of discrete tokens,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Junyi Zhang , Jiaqi Guo , Shizhao Sun , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

Diffusion-based generative models (DGMs) have recently attracted attention in speech enhancement research (SE) as previous works showed a remarkable generalization capability. However, DGMs are also computationally intensive, as they…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Chenda Li , Samuele Cornell , Shinji Watanabe , Yanmin Qian

Diffusion models that are based on iterative denoising have been recently proposed and leveraged in various generation tasks like image generation. Whereas, as a way inherently built for continuous data, existing diffusion models still have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiaao Chen , Aston Zhang , Mu Li , Alex Smola , Diyi Yang

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art performance in generating many different kinds of data, including images, text, and videos. Despite their success, there has been limited research on how the underlying diffusion process and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Alex M. Tseng , Nathaniel Diamant , Tommaso Biancalani , Gabriele Scalia

We introduce discriminator guidance in the setting of Autoregressive Diffusion Models. The use of a discriminator to guide a diffusion process has previously been used for continuous diffusion models, and in this work we derive ways of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Filip Ekström Kelvinius , Fredrik Lindsten

Diffusion models are generative models that have shown significant advantages compared to other generative models in terms of higher generation quality and more stable training. However, the computational need for training diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Gulcin Baykal , Halil Faruk Karagoz , Taha Binhuraib , Gozde Unal

Autoregressive (AR) models have long dominated the landscape of large language models, driving progress across a wide range of tasks. Recently, diffusion-based language models have emerged as a promising alternative, though their advantages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mihir Prabhudesai , Mengning Wu , Amir Zadeh , Katerina Fragkiadaki , Deepak Pathak

Although recent speech processing technologies have achieved significant improvements in objective metrics, there still remains a gap in human perceptual quality. This paper proposes Diffiner, a novel solution that utilizes the powerful…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Masato Hirano , Ryosuke Sawata , Naoki Murata , Shusuke Takahashi , Yuki Mitsufuji

We present a discrete diffusion-based language model using Glauber dynamics from statistical physics. Our main insight is that instead of trying to train a discrete state space diffusion model using Glauber dynamics with a uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Tarun Kathuria , Sachin Kumar

While inference-time scaling through search has revolutionized Large Language Models, translating these gains to image generation has proven difficult. Recent attempts to apply search strategies to continuous diffusion models show limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Erik Riise , Mehmet Onurcan Kaya , Dim P. Papadopoulos

Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have shown incredible performance on text-to-image generation. Since text-to-image generation often requires models to generate visual concepts with fine-grained details and attributes specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xuehai He , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Varun Jampani , Arjun Akula , Pradyumna Narayana , Sugato Basu , William Yang Wang , Xin Eric Wang

Diffusion models have achieved great success in modeling continuous data modalities such as images, audio, and video, but have seen limited use in discrete domains such as language. Recent attempts to adapt diffusion to language have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Justin Lovelace , Varsha Kishore , Chao Wan , Eliot Shekhtman , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Recently, the multimedia community has witnessed the rise of diffusion models trained on large-scale multi-modal data for visual content creation, particularly in the field of text-to-image generation. In this paper, we propose a new task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Jingwen Chen , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang

Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…

In recent years, generative diffusion models have achieved a rapid paradigm shift in deep generative models by showing groundbreaking performance across various applications. Meanwhile, structured data, encompassing tabular and time series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Heejoon Koo , To Eun Kim

Autoregressive language models, despite their impressive capabilities, struggle with complex reasoning and long-term planning tasks. We introduce discrete diffusion models as a novel solution to these challenges. Through the lens of subgoal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jiacheng Ye , Jiahui Gao , Shansan Gong , Lin Zheng , Xin Jiang , Zhenguo Li , Lingpeng Kong

Diffusion models have emerged as a promising approach for text generation, with recent works falling into two main categories: discrete and continuous diffusion models. Discrete diffusion models apply token corruption independently using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Bocheng Li , Zhujin Gao , Linli Xu

Diffusion models are highly regarded for their controllability and the diversity of images they generate. However, class-conditional generation methods based on diffusion models often focus on more common categories. In large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Kun Wang , Donglin Di , Tonghua Su , Lei Fan