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Diffusion models have shown remarkable progress in text-to-audio generation. However, text-guided audio editing remains in its early stages. This task focuses on modifying the target content within an audio signal while preserving the rest,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Liting Gao , Yi Yuan , Yaru Chen , Yuelan Cheng , Zhenbo Li , Juan Wen , Shubin Zhang , Wenwu Wang

Continuous normalizing flows (CNFs) and diffusion models (DMs) generate high-quality data from a noise distribution. However, their sampling process demands multiple iterations to solve an ordinary differential equation (ODE) with high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Denis Gudovskiy , Wenzhao Zheng , Tomoyuki Okuno , Yohei Nakata , Kurt Keutzer

We propose Diffusion-Sharpening, a fine-tuning approach that enhances downstream alignment by optimizing sampling trajectories. Existing RL-based fine-tuning methods focus on single training timesteps and neglect trajectory-level alignment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ye Tian , Ling Yang , Xinchen Zhang , Yunhai Tong , Mengdi Wang , Bin Cui

Fast flow models accelerate the iterative sampling process by learning to directly predict ODE path integrals, enabling one-step or few-step generation. However, we argue that current fast-flow training paradigms suffer from two fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Tianyi Zhang , Chengcheng Liu , Jinwei Chen , Chun-Le Guo , Chongyi Li , Ming-Ming Cheng , Bo Li , Peng-Tao Jiang

Diffusion Purification, purifying noised images with diffusion models, has been widely used for enhancing certified robustness via randomized smoothing. However, existing frameworks often grapple with the balance between efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Yiquan Li , Zhongzhu Chen , Kun Jin , Jiongxiao Wang , Bo Li , Chaowei Xiao

Diffusion models (DMs) have become the dominant paradigm of generative modeling in a variety of domains by learning stochastic processes from noise to data. Recently, diffusion denoising bridge models (DDBMs), a new formulation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Guande He , Kaiwen Zheng , Jianfei Chen , Fan Bao , Jun Zhu

New technologies such as Rectified Flow and Flow Matching have significantly improved the performance of generative models in the past two years, especially in terms of control accuracy, generation quality, and generation efficiency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sen Fang , Hongbin Zhong , Yalin Feng , Yanxin Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Diffusion-based models have significant achievements in time series generation but suffer from inefficient computation: solving high-dimensional ODEs/SDEs via iterative numerical solvers demands hundreds to thousands of drift function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yang Hu , Xiao Wang , Zezhen Ding , Lirong Wu , Huatian Zhang , Stan Z. Li , Sheng Wang , Jiheng Zhang , Ziyun Li , Tianlong Chen

Diffusion and flow-based models have enabled significant progress in generation tasks across various modalities and have recently found applications in predictive learning. However, unlike typical generation tasks that encourage sample…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yu Zhang , Xingzhuo Guo , Haoran Xu , Jialong Wu , Mingsheng Long

Recently, flow-based generative models have shown superior efficiency compared to diffusion models. In this paper, we study rectified flow models, which constrain transport trajectories to be linear from the base distribution to the data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Hari Krishna Sahoo , Mudit Gaur , Vaneet Aggarwal

Diffusion models have demonstrated empirical successes in various applications and can be adapted to task-specific needs via guidance. This paper studies a form of gradient guidance for adapting a pre-trained diffusion model towards…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-17 Yingqing Guo , Hui Yuan , Yukang Yang , Minshuo Chen , Mengdi Wang

Rectified Flow (RF) has been widely used as an effective generative model. Although RF is primarily based on probability flow Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE), recent studies have shown that injecting noise through reverse-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Zhenyu Gu , Yanchen Xu , Sida Huang , Yubin Guo , Hongyuan Zhang

Diffusion models are widely used for generative tasks across domains. Given a pre-trained diffusion model, it is often desirable to fine-tune it further either to correct for errors in learning or to align with downstream applications.…

Diffusion reconstruction plays a critical role in various applications such as image editing, restoration, and style transfer. In theory, the reconstruction should be simple - it just inverts and regenerates images by numerically solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Han Zhang , Jinghong Mao , Shangwen Zhu , Zhantao Yang , Lianghua Huang , Yu Liu , Deli Zhao , Ruili Feng , Fan Cheng

Customizing diffusion models to generate identity-preserving images from user-provided reference images is an intriguing new problem. The prevalent approaches typically require training on extensive domain-specific images to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Zhicheng Sun , Zhenhao Yang , Yang Jin , Haozhe Chi , Kun Xu , Kun Xu , Liwei Chen , Hao Jiang , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Yadong Mu

Generative models, including diffusion and flow-based models, often exhibit systematic biases that degrade sample quality, particularly in high-dimensional settings. We revisit refinement methods and show that effective bias correction can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Xin Peng , Ang Gao

Acquiring high-quality data for training discriminative models is a crucial yet challenging aspect of building effective predictive systems. In this paper, we present Diffusion Inversion, a simple yet effective method that leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Yongchao Zhou , Hshmat Sahak , Jimmy Ba

Rectified Flow offers a simple and effective approach to high-quality generative modeling by learning a velocity field. However, we identify a limitation in directly modeling the velocity with an unconstrained neural network: the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xixi Hu , Runlong Liao , Keyang Xu , Bo Liu , Yeqing Li , Eugene Ie , Hongliang Fei , Qiang Liu

Machine learning methods, such as diffusion models, are widely explored as a promising way to accelerate high-fidelity fluid dynamics computation via a super-resolution process from faster-to-compute low-fidelity input. However, existing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Ruoyan Li , Zijie Huang , Haixin Wang , Guancheng Wan , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a promising direction for vision-language tasks, offering bidirectional context modeling and theoretical parallelization. However, their practical application is severely hindered by a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yatai Ji , Teng Wang , Yuying Ge , Zhiheng Liu , Sidi Yang , Ying Shan , Ping Luo