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We introduce a self-supervised vision representation model BEiT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder representation from Image Transformers. Following BERT developed in the natural language processing area, we propose a masked image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Hangbo Bao , Li Dong , Songhao Piao , Furu Wei

Diffusion models have shown strong capabilities in generating high-quality images from text prompts. However, these models often require large-scale training data and significant computational resources to train, or suffer from heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Tong Shen , Jingai Yu , Dong Zhou , Dong Li , Emad Barsoum

Vector-Quantized (VQ-based) generative models usually consist of two basic components, i.e., VQ tokenizers and generative transformers. Prior research focuses on improving the reconstruction fidelity of VQ tokenizers but rarely examines how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Yuchao Gu , Xintao Wang , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Xiaohu Qie , Mike Zheng Shou

Diffusion models have become a leading approach for high-fidelity medical image synthesis. However, most existing methods for 3D medical image generation rely on convolutional U-Net backbones within latent diffusion frameworks. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Marvin Seyfarth , Salman Ul Hassan Dar , Yannik Frisch , Philipp Wild , Norbert Frey , Florian André , Sandy Engelhardt

We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models. We achieve this on unconditional image synthesis by finding a better architecture through a series of ablations. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Prafulla Dhariwal , Alex Nichol

Conditional discrete generative models struggle to faithfully compose multiple input conditions. To address this, we derive a theoretically-grounded formulation for composing discrete probabilistic generative processes, with masked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jamie Stirling , Noura Al-Moubayed , Chris G. Willcocks , Hubert P. H. Shum

Conditional discrete generative models struggle to faithfully compose multiple input conditions. To address this, we derive a theoretically-grounded formulation for composing discrete probabilistic generative processes, with masked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jamie Stirling , Noura Al-Moubayed , Chris G. Willcocks , Hubert P. H. Shum

Faces generated using generative adversarial networks (GANs) have reached unprecedented realism. These faces, also known as "Deep Fakes", appear as realistic photographs with very little pixel-level distortions. While some work has enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Manan Oza , Sukalpa Chanda , David Doermann

PICNet pioneered the generation of multiple and diverse results for image completion task, but it required a careful balance between $\mathcal{KL}$ loss (diversity) and reconstruction loss (quality), resulting in a limited diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Chuanxia Zheng , Guoxian Song , Tat-Jen Cham , Jianfei Cai , Dinh Phung , Linjie Luo

Deep generative models, like GANs, have considerably improved the state of the art in image synthesis, and are able to generate near photo-realistic images in structured domains such as human faces. Based on this success, recent work on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Guillaume Couairon , Asya Grechka , Jakob Verbeek , Holger Schwenk , Matthieu Cord

Autoregressive transformers have revolutionized high-fidelity image generation. One crucial ingredient lies in the tokenizer, which compresses high-resolution image patches into manageable discrete tokens with a scanning or hierarchical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinzhi Zhang , Feng Xiong , Mu Xu

Generative modeling of high-frequency limit order book (LOB) dynamics is a critical yet unsolved challenge in quantitative finance, essential for robust market simulation and strategy backtesting. Existing approaches are often constrained…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-08-08 Yang Li , Zhi Chen

Transferring large amount of high resolution images over limited bandwidth is an important but very challenging task. Compressing images using extremely low bitrates (<0.1 bpp) has been studied but it often results in low quality images of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Zhihong Pan , Xin Zhou , Hao Tian

Since the advent of popular visual generation frameworks like VQGAN and latent diffusion models, state-of-the-art image generation systems have generally been two-stage systems that first tokenize or compress visual data into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Kyle Sargent , Kyle Hsu , Justin Johnson , Li Fei-Fei , Jiajun Wu

Quantum generative modeling is a rapidly evolving discipline at the intersection of quantum computing and machine learning. Contemporary quantum machine learning is generally limited to toy examples or heavily restricted datasets with few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jonas Jäger , Florian J. Kiwit , Carlos A. Riofrío

We present Meissonic, which elevates non-autoregressive masked image modeling (MIM) text-to-image to a level comparable with state-of-the-art diffusion models like SDXL. By incorporating a comprehensive suite of architectural innovations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jinbin Bai , Tian Ye , Wei Chow , Enxin Song , Xiangtai Li , Zhen Dong , Lei Zhu , Shuicheng Yan

The diffusion models, in early stages focus on constructing basic image structures, while the refined details, including local features and textures, are generated in later stages. Thus the same network layers are forced to learn both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Lei Wang , Senmao Li , Fei Yang , Jianye Wang , Ziheng Zhang , Yuhan Liu , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang

Masked diffusion models have emerged as a powerful framework for text and multimodal generation. However, their sampling procedure updates multiple tokens simultaneously and treats generated tokens as immutable, which may lead to error…

Segmenting an image into its parts is a frequent preprocess for high-level vision tasks such as image editing. However, annotating masks for supervised training is expensive. Weakly-supervised and unsupervised methods exist, but they depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xingzhe He , Bastian Wandt , Helge Rhodin

AI-generated images are becoming increasingly realistic and diverse, posing significant challenges for generalizable detection. While Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) provide rich semantic representations and frequency-based methods capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shuchang Zhou , Shangkun Wu , Jiwei Wei , Ke Liu , Ran Ran , Caiyan Qin , Yang Yang