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Diffusion-based generative models are a design framework that allows generating new images from processes analogous to those found in non-equilibrium thermodynamics. These models model the reversal of a physical diffusion process in which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Jordi de la Torre

The reconstruction of X-rays CT images from sparse or limited-angle geometries is a highly challenging task. The lack of data typically results in artifacts in the reconstructed image and may even lead to object distortions. For this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Davide Evangelista , Pasquale Cascarano , Elena Loli Piccolomini

Although diffusion models exhibit impressive generative capabilities, existing methods for stylized image generation based on these models often require textual inversion or fine-tuning with style images, which is time-consuming and limits…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Xin Ma , Yaohui Wang , Xinyuan Chen , Tien-Tsin Wong , Cunjian Chen

Typical generative diffusion models rely on a Gaussian diffusion process for training the backward transformations, which can then be used to generate samples from Gaussian noise. However, real world data often takes place in discrete-state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Javier E Santos , Zachary R. Fox , Nicholas Lubbers , Yen Ting Lin

Diffusion models emerged as a leading approach in text-to-image generation, producing high-quality images from textual descriptions. However, attempting to achieve detailed control to get a desired image solely through text remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Pablo Domingo-Gregorio , Javier Ruiz-Hidalgo

Curating datasets for object segmentation is a difficult task. With the advent of large-scale pre-trained generative models, conditional image generation has been given a significant boost in result quality and ease of use. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Mischa Dombrowski , Hadrien Reynaud , Matthew Baugh , Bernhard Kainz

Score-based diffusion models have significantly advanced generative deep learning for image processing. Measurement conditioned models have also been applied to inverse problems such as CT reconstruction. However, the conventional approach,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-24 Matthew Tivnan , Dufan Wu , Quanzheng Li

Recent image generative models typically capture the image distribution in a pre-constructed latent space, relying on a frozen image tokenizer. However, there exists a significant discrepancy between the reconstruction and generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Kai Qiu , Xiang Li , Hao Chen , Jason Kuen , Xiaohao Xu , Jiuxiang Gu , Yinyi Luo , Bhiksha Raj , Zhe Lin , Marios Savvides

Tokenizing images into compact visual representations is a key step in learning efficient and high-quality image generative models. We present a simple diffusion tokenizer (DiTo) that learns compact visual representations for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Yinbo Chen , Rohit Girdhar , Xiaolong Wang , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ishan Misra

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional performances in various fields of generative modeling, but suffer from slow sampling speed due to their iterative nature. While this issue is being addressed in continuous domains, discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Satoshi Hayakawa , Yuhta Takida , Masaaki Imaizumi , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji

Diffusion models have become the dominant approach for visual generation. They are trained by denoising a Markovian process which gradually adds noise to the input. We argue that the Markovian property limits the model's ability to fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jiatao Gu , Yuyang Wang , Yizhe Zhang , Qihang Zhang , Dinghuai Zhang , Navdeep Jaitly , Josh Susskind , Shuangfei Zhai

Autoregressive generative models of images tend to be biased towards capturing local structure, and as a result they often produce samples which are lacking in terms of large-scale coherence. To address this, we propose two methods to learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Jeffrey De Fauw , Sander Dieleman , Karen Simonyan

Visual Autoregressive (VAR) modeling inefficiently applies a fixed computational depth to each position when generating high-resolution images. While existing methods accelerate inference by pruning tokens using frequency maps, their binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chunliang Li , Tianze Cao , Sanyuan Zhao

In this paper, we introduce a novel generative model, Diffusion Layout Transformers without Autoencoder (Dolfin), which significantly improves the modeling capability with reduced complexity compared to existing methods. Dolfin employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yilin Wang , Zeyuan Chen , Liangjun Zhong , Zheng Ding , Zhizhou Sha , Zhuowen Tu

In the domains of image and audio, diffusion models have shown impressive performance. However, their application to discrete data types, such as language, has often been suboptimal compared to autoregressive generative models. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Severi Rissanen , Markus Heinonen , Arno Solin

Diffusion probabilistic models have achieved enormous success in the field of image generation and manipulation. In this paper, we explore a novel paradigm of using the diffusion model and classifier guidance in the latent semantic space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Changhao Shi , Haomiao Ni , Kai Li , Shaobo Han , Mingfu Liang , Martin Renqiang Min

Multimodal autoregressive (AR) models, based on next-token prediction and transformer architecture, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various multimodal tasks including text-to-image (T2I) generation. Despite their strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yi Wu , Shengju Qian , Lingting Zhu , Lei Liu , Wandi Qiao , Ziqiang Li , Lequan Yu , Bin Li

Continuous visual autoregressive (AR) models have demonstrated promising performance in image generation. However, the heavy autoregressive inference burden imposes significant overhead. In Large Language Models (LLMs), speculative decoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zili Wang , Robert Zhang , Kun Ding , Qi Yang , Fei Li , Shiming Xiang

Large pretrained diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of generated videos, and yet their use in real-time streaming remains limited. Autoregressive models offer a natural framework for sequential frame synthesis but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jinxiu Liu , Xuanming Liu , Kangfu Mei , Yandong Wen , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Weiyang Liu

We introduce a framework for joint grounded scene graph - image generation, a challenging task involving high-dimensional, multi-modal structured data. To effectively model this complex joint distribution, we adopt a factorized approach:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Bicheng Xu , Qi Yan , Renjie Liao , Lele Wang , Leonid Sigal