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In this work, we propose Dimple, the first Discrete Diffusion Multimodal Large Language Model (DMLLM). We observe that training with a purely discrete diffusion approach leads to significant training instability, suboptimal performance, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Runpeng Yu , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

The representation gap between teacher and student is an emerging topic in knowledge distillation (KD). To reduce the gap and improve the performance, current methods often resort to complicated training schemes, loss functions, and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Tao Huang , Yuan Zhang , Mingkai Zheng , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Chang Xu

Diffusion models have quickly become some of the most popular and powerful generative models for high-dimensional data. The key insight that enabled their development was the realization that access to the score -- the gradient of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhenghan Fang , Mateo Díaz , Sam Buchanan , Jeremias Sulam

We introduce nested diffusion models, an efficient and powerful hierarchical generative framework that substantially enhances the generation quality of diffusion models, particularly for images of complex scenes. Our approach employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Xiao Zhang , Ruoxi Jiang , Rebecca Willett , Michael Maire

Prior masked modeling motion generation methods predominantly study text-to-motion. We present DiMo, a discrete diffusion-style framework, which extends masked modeling to bidirectional text--motion understanding and generation. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ning Zhang , Zhengyu Li , Kwong Weng Loh , Mingxi Xu , Qi Wang , Zhengyu Wen , Xiaoyu He , Wei Zhao , Kehong Gong , Mingyuan Zhang

While diffusion-based generative models have made significant strides in visual content creation, conventional approaches face computational challenges, especially for high-resolution images, as they denoise the entire image from noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Haohang Xu , Longyu Chen , Yichen Zhang , Shuangrui Ding , Zhipeng Zhang

Discrete diffusion models have recently emerged as a promising alternative to the autoregressive approach for generating discrete sequences. Sample generation via gradual denoising or demasking processes allows them to capture hierarchical…

The increased model capacity of Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) and the demand for generating higher resolutions of images and videos have led to a significant rise in inference latency, impacting real-time performance adversely. While prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Xibo Sun , Jiarui Fang , Aoyu Li , Jinzhe Pan

Diffusion models have recently advanced photorealistic human synthesis, although practical talking-head generation (THG) remains constrained by high inference latency, temporal instability such as flicker and identity drift, and imperfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Soumya Mazumdar , Vineet Kumar Rakesh

We investigate methods to reduce inference time and memory footprint in stable diffusion models by introducing lightweight decoders for both image and video synthesis. Traditional latent diffusion pipelines rely on large Variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Alexey Buzovkin , Evgeny Shilov

We present Stable Video Diffusion - a latent video diffusion model for high-resolution, state-of-the-art text-to-video and image-to-video generation. Recently, latent diffusion models trained for 2D image synthesis have been turned into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Andreas Blattmann , Tim Dockhorn , Sumith Kulal , Daniel Mendelevitch , Maciej Kilian , Dominik Lorenz , Yam Levi , Zion English , Vikram Voleti , Adam Letts , Varun Jampani , Robin Rombach

Diffusion models have shown incredible capabilities as generative models; indeed, they power the current state-of-the-art models on text-conditioned image generation such as Imagen and DALL-E 2. In this work we review, demystify, and unify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Calvin Luo

The recent wave of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has dramatically increased our text-based image generation abilities. These models can generate realistic images for a staggering variety of prompts and exhibit impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Alexander C. Li , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shivam Duggal , Ellis Brown , Deepak Pathak

Diffusion models have achieved promising results in image restoration tasks, yet suffer from time-consuming, excessive computational resource consumption, and unstable restoration. To address these issues, we propose a robust and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hai Jiang , Ao Luo , Songchen Han , Haoqiang Fan , Shuaicheng Liu

Text-conditioned image generation models have recently shown immense qualitative success using denoising diffusion processes. However, unlike discriminative vision-and-language models, it is a non-trivial task to subject these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Benno Krojer , Elinor Poole-Dayan , Vikram Voleti , Christopher Pal , Siva Reddy

Diffusion language models, especially masked discrete diffusion models, have achieved great success recently. While there are some theoretical and primary empirical results showing the advantages of latent reasoning with looped transformers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Cai Zhou , Chenxiao Yang , Yi Hu , Chenyu Wang , Chubin Zhang , Muhan Zhang , Lester Mackey , Tommi Jaakkola , Stephen Bates , Dinghuai Zhang

We consider the challenge of black-box optimization within hybrid discrete-continuous and variable-length spaces, a problem that arises in various applications, such as decision tree learning and symbolic regression. We propose DisCo-DSO…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jacob F. Pettit , Chak Shing Lee , Jiachen Yang , Alex Ho , Daniel Faissol , Brenden Petersen , Mikel Landajuela

While many unsupervised learning models focus on one family of tasks, either generative or discriminative, we explore the possibility of a unified representation learner: a model which addresses both families of tasks simultaneously. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Soumik Mukhopadhyay , Matthew Gwilliam , Yosuke Yamaguchi , Vatsal Agarwal , Namitha Padmanabhan , Archana Swaminathan , Tianyi Zhou , Jun Ohya , Abhinav Shrivastava

Controlling the behavior of language models (LMs) without re-training is a major open problem in natural language generation. While recent works have demonstrated successes on controlling simple sentence attributes (e.g., sentiment), there…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Xiang Lisa Li , John Thickstun , Ishaan Gulrajani , Percy Liang , Tatsunori B. Hashimoto

Diffusion models (DMs) excel in image generation but suffer from slow inference and training-inference discrepancies. Although gradient-based solvers for DMs accelerate denoising inference, they often lack theoretical foundations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shigui Li , Wei Chen , Delu Zeng