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Text-to-3D generation has shown rapid progress in recent days with the advent of score distillation, a methodology of using pretrained text-to-2D diffusion models to optimize neural radiance field (NeRF) in the zero-shot setting. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Junyoung Seo , Wooseok Jang , Min-Seop Kwak , Hyeonsu Kim , Jaehoon Ko , Junho Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Seungryong Kim

Diffusion models (DMs) are a powerful generative framework that have attracted significant attention in recent years. However, the high computational cost of training DMs limits their practical applications. In this paper, we start with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Tianshuo Xu , Peng Mi , Ruilin Wang , Yingcong Chen

Generating high-dimensional visual modalities is a computationally intensive task. A common solution is progressive generation, where the outputs are synthesized in a coarse-to-fine spectral autoregressive manner. While diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Moayed Haji-Ali , Willi Menapace , Ivan Skorokhodov , Arpit Sahni , Sergey Tulyakov , Vicente Ordonez , Aliaksandr Siarohin

MeanFlow offers a promising framework for one-step generative modeling by directly learning a mean-velocity field, bypassing expensive numerical integration. However, we find that the highly curved generative trajectories of existing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xinxi Zhang , Shiwei Tan , Quang Nguyen , Quan Dao , Ligong Han , Xiaoxiao He , Tunyu Zhang , Chengzhi Mao , Dimitris Metaxas , Vladimir Pavlovic

Discrete diffusion or flow models could enable faster and more controllable sequence generation than autoregressive models. We show that na\"ive linear flow matching on the simplex is insufficient toward this goal since it suffers from…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-06-03 Hannes Stark , Bowen Jing , Chenyu Wang , Gabriele Corso , Bonnie Berger , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

Part I of this work [2] developed the exact diffusion algorithm to remove the bias that is characteristic of distributed solutions for deterministic optimization problems. The algorithm was shown to be applicable to a larger set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Kun Yuan , Bicheng Ying , Xiaochuan Zhao , Ali H. Sayed

We propose a unified diffusion model-based correction and super-resolution method to enhance the fidelity and resolution of diverse low-quality data through a two-step pipeline. First, the correction step employs a novel enhanced stochastic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Wuzhe Xu , Yulong Lu , Sifan Wang , Tong-Rui Liu

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-fidelity content but suffer from slow, iterative sampling, resulting in high latency that limits their use in interactive applications. We introduce DRiffusion, a parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Runsheng Bai , Chengyu Zhang , Yangdong Deng

Recent advancements adopt online reinforcement learning (RL) from LLMs to text-to-image rectified flow diffusion models for reward alignment. The use of group-level rewards successfully aligns the model with the targeted reward. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yiyang Wang , Xi Chen , Xiaogang Xu , Yu Liu , Hengshuang Zhao

Diffusion models can be improved with additional guidance towards more effective representations of input. Indeed, prior empirical work has already shown that aligning internal representations of the diffusion model with those of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chenyu Wang , Cai Zhou , Sharut Gupta , Zongyu Lin , Stefanie Jegelka , Stephen Bates , Tommi Jaakkola

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in face restoration. Yet, their multi-step inference process remains computationally intensive, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios. Moreover, existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jingkai Wang , Jue Gong , Lin Zhang , Zheng Chen , Xing Liu , Hong Gu , Yutong Liu , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

We present an ultra-efficient post-training method for shortcutting large-scale pre-trained flow matching diffusion models into efficient few-step samplers, enabled by novel velocity field self-distillation. While shortcutting in flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xu Cai , Yang Wu , Qianli Chen , Haoran Wu , Lichuan Xiang , Hongkai Wen

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative frameworks by progressively adding noise to data through a forward process and then reversing this process to generate realistic samples. While these models have achieved strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xingzhuo Guo , Yu Zhang , Baixu Chen , Haoran Xu , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Diffusion models have marked a significant breakthrough in the synthesis of semantically coherent images. However, their extensive noise estimation networks and the iterative generation process limit their wider application, particularly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuzhe Yao , Feng Tian , Jun Chen , Haonan Lin , Guang Dai , Yong Liu , Jingdong Wang

Diffusion models have been successfully adapted to text generation tasks by mapping the discrete text into the continuous space. However, there exist nonnegligible gaps between training and inference, owing to the absence of the forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zecheng Tang , Pinzheng Wang , Keyan Zhou , Juntao Li , Ziqiang Cao , Min Zhang

Flow matching has shown state-of-the-art performance in various generative tasks, ranging from image generation to decision-making, where generation under energy guidance (abbreviated as guidance in the following) is pivotal. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ruiqi Feng , Chenglei Yu , Wenhao Deng , Peiyan Hu , Tailin Wu

Flow models have rapidly become the go-to method for training and deploying large-scale generators, owing their success to inference-time flexibility via adjustable integration steps. A crucial ingredient in flow training is the choice of…

Diffusion models have become a successful approach for solving various image inverse problems by providing a powerful diffusion prior. Many studies tried to combine the measurement into diffusion by score function replacement, matrix…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Hanyu Chen , Zhixiu Hao , Liying Xiao

Dataset distillation compresses large datasets into compact synthetic sets with comparable performance in training models. Despite recent progress on diffusion-based distillation, this type of method typically depends on heuristic guidance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xuhui Li , Zhengquan Luo , Xiwei Liu , Yongqiang Yu , Zhiqiang Xu

In image restoration, single-step discriminative mappings often lack fine details via expectation learning, whereas generative paradigms suffer from inefficient multi-step sampling and noise-residual coupling. To address this dilemma, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Zihao Fan , Xin Lu , Jie Xiao , Dong Li , Jie Huang , Xueyang Fu