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The substantial computational costs of diffusion models, especially due to the repeated denoising steps necessary for high-quality image generation, present a major obstacle to their widespread adoption. While several studies have attempted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Junhyuk So , Jungwon Lee , Eunhyeok Park

Recent advances in diffusion bridge models leverage Doob's $h$-transform to establish fixed endpoints between distributions, demonstrating promising results in image translation and restoration tasks. However, these approaches often produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mokai Pan , Kaizhen Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Yanwei Fu , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang , Ye Shi

The rapid expansion of large foundation models within the pre-training and fine-tuning framework has underscored that larger models often yield better results. However, the scaling up of large foundation models has led to soaring costs in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Chongjie Si , Xiaokang Yang , Wei Shen

Limited labeled data makes it hard to train models from scratch in medical domain, and an important paradigm is pre-training and then fine-tuning. Large pre-trained models contain rich representations, which can be adapted to downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Along He , Kai Wang , Zhihong Wang , Tao Li , Huazhu Fu

Recent advancements in deep learning for medical image segmentation are often limited by the scarcity of high-quality training data.While diffusion models provide a potential solution by generating synthetic images, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jianhao Xie , Ziang Zhang , Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

As neural networks are increasingly being applied to real-world applications, mechanisms to address distributional shift and sequential task learning without forgetting are critical. Methods incorporating network expansion have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Vinay Kumar Verma , Kevin J Liang , Nikhil Mehta , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in generating high-quality samples. Existing diffusion-based image restoration algorithms exploit pre-trained diffusion models to leverage data priors, yet they still preserve elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-07 Hongjie Wu , Linchao He , Mingqin Zhang , Dongdong Chen , Kunming Luo , Mengting Luo , Ji-Zhe Zhou , Hu Chen , Jiancheng Lv

Diffusion Transformer (DiT) is a crucial method for content generation. However, it needs a lot of time to sample. Many studies have attempted to use caching to reduce the time consumption of sampling. Existing caching methods accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Junxiang Qiu , Shuo Wang , Jinda Lu , Lin Liu , Houcheng Jiang , Xingyu Zhu , Yanbin Hao

One of the main drawback of diffusion models is the slow inference time for image generation. Among the most successful approaches to addressing this problem are distillation methods. However, these methods require considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Senmao Li , Taihang Hu , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Tao Liu , Linxuan Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jian Yang

Recent advances in text-to-video diffusion models have enabled high-quality video synthesis, but controllable generation remains challenging, particularly under limited data and compute. Existing fine-tuning methods for conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Kinam Kim , Junha Hyung , Jaegul Choo

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

Backpropagation-based approaches aim to align diffusion models with reward functions through end-to-end backpropagation of the reward gradient within the denoising chain, offering a promising perspective. However, due to the computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiefan Guo , Miaomiao Cui , Liefeng Bo , Di Huang

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art generative performance but suffer from high computational costs during inference due to the repeated evaluation of a heavy neural network. In this work, we propose Dual-Rate Diffusion, a method to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Grigory Bartosh , David Ruhe , Emiel Hoogeboom , Jonathan Heek , Thomas Mensink , Tim Salimans

Diffusion models have shown unprecedented success in the task of text-to-image generation. While these models are capable of generating high-quality and realistic images, the complexity of sequential denoising has raised societal concerns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qinchan Li , Kenneth Chen , Changyue Su , Qi Sun

Rectified Flow (RF) models have advanced high-quality image and video synthesis via optimal transport theory. However, when applied to image-to-image translation, they still depend on costly multi-step denoising, hindering real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shengqian Li , Ming Gao , Yi Liu , Zuzeng Lin , Feng Wang , Feng Dai

Diffusion models excel at producing high-quality samples but naively require hundreds of iterations, prompting multiple attempts to distill the generation process into a faster network. However, many existing approaches suffer from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zhengyang Geng , Ashwini Pokle , J. Zico Kolter

Diffusion models are known for generating high-quality images, causing serious security concerns. To combat this, most efforts rely on deep neural networks (e.g., CNNs and Transformers), while largely overlooking the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Mengxin Fu , Yuezun Li

Diffusion transformers have demonstrated remarkable generation quality, albeit requiring longer training iterations and numerous inference steps. In each denoising step, diffusion transformers encode the noisy inputs to extract the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Shuai Wang , Zhi Tian , Weilin Huang , Limin Wang

Diffusion models are trained by learning a sequence of models that reverse each step of noise corruption. Typically, the model parameters are fully shared across multiple timesteps to enhance training efficiency. However, since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Qianli Ma , Xuefei Ning , Dongrui Liu , Li Niu , Linfeng Zhang

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