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Generative models, particularly diffusion models, have made significant success in data synthesis across various modalities, including images, videos, and 3D assets. However, current diffusion models are computationally intensive, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Yuanzhi Zhu , Hanshu Yan , Huan Yang , Kai Zhang , Junnan Li

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) dominate high-quality image generation, yet integrating representation learning with generative modeling remains a challenge. We introduce a novel generative image modeling framework that seamlessly bridges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful generative method for synthesizing high-quality and diverse set of images. In this paper, we propose a video generation method based on diffusion models, where the effects of motion are modeled in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Kangfu Mei , Vishal M. Patel

Large generative diffusion models have revolutionized text-to-image generation and offer immense potential for conditional generation tasks such as image enhancement, restoration, editing, and compositing. However, their widespread adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Kangfu Mei , Mauricio Delbracio , Hossein Talebi , Zhengzhong Tu , Vishal M. Patel , Peyman Milanfar

Preprocessing is a well-established technique for optimizing compression, yet existing methods are predominantly Rate-Distortion (R-D) optimized and constrained by pixel-level fidelity. This work pioneers a shift towards Rate-Perception…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Mengxi Guo , Shijie Zhao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang

Can we train a 3D molecule generator using data from dense regions to generate samples in sparse regions? This challenge can be framed as an out-of-distribution (OOD) generation problem. While prior research on OOD generation predominantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haokai Hong , Wanyu Lin , Ming Yang , Kay Chen Tan

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

Diffusion models have emerged as the mainstream approach for visual generation. However, these models typically suffer from sample inefficiency and high training costs. Consequently, methods for efficient finetuning, inference and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Felix Krause , Timy Phan , Ming Gui , Stefan Andreas Baumann , Vincent Tao Hu , Björn Ommer

Diffusion models are highly regarded for their controllability and the diversity of images they generate. However, class-conditional generation methods based on diffusion models often focus on more common categories. In large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Kun Wang , Donglin Di , Tonghua Su , Lei Fan

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) models have attracted substantial interest due to their powerful image restoration capabilities. However, prevailing diffusion models often struggle to strike an optimal balance between efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Qinpeng Cui , Yixuan Liu , Xinyi Zhang , Qiqi Bao , Qingmin Liao , Li Wang , Tian Lu , Zicheng Liu , Zhongdao Wang , Emad Barsoum

We introduce Adversarial Diffusion Distillation (ADD), a novel training approach that efficiently samples large-scale foundational image diffusion models in just 1-4 steps while maintaining high image quality. We use score distillation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Axel Sauer , Dominik Lorenz , Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach

Diffusion models are generative models that have shown significant advantages compared to other generative models in terms of higher generation quality and more stable training. However, the computational need for training diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Gulcin Baykal , Halil Faruk Karagoz , Taha Binhuraib , Gozde Unal

Modern video codecs and learning-based approaches struggle for semantic reconstruction at extremely low bit-rates due to reliance on low-level spatiotemporal redundancies. Generative models, especially diffusion models, offer a new paradigm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Maojun Zhang , Haotian Wu , Richeng Jin , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Diffusion Models (DMs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in content generation without requiring adversarial training. These models are trained using a two-step process. First, a forward - diffusion - process gradually adds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Anwaar Ulhaq , Naveed Akhtar

Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Dohoon Ryu , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

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

Diffusion models have recently shown great promise for generative modeling, outperforming GANs on perceptual quality and autoregressive models at density estimation. A remaining downside is their slow sampling time: generating high quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Tim Salimans , Jonathan Ho

Recent advanced diffusion methods typically derive strong generative priors by scaling diffusion transformers. However, scaling fails to generalize when adapted for real-time compression scenarios that demand lightweight models. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zhaoyang Jia , Naifu Xue , Zihan Zheng , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Xiaoyi Zhang , Zongyu Guo , Yuan Zhang , Houqiang Li , Yan Lu

There has been tremendous progress in large-scale text-to-image synthesis driven by diffusion models enabling versatile downstream applications such as 3D object synthesis from texts, image editing, and customized generation. We present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Ting-Hsuan Liao , Songwei Ge , Yiran Xu , Yao-Chih Lee , Badour AlBahar , Jia-Bin Huang

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie