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Latent diffusion models have become the popular choice for scaling up diffusion models for high resolution image synthesis. Compared to pixel-space models that are trained end-to-end, latent models are perceived to be more efficient and to…

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Autoregressive models (ARMs) are hindered by slow sequential inference. While masked diffusion models (MDMs) offer a parallel alternative, they suffer from critical drawbacks: high computational overhead from precluding Key-Value (KV)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jia-Nan Li , Jian Guan , Wei Wu , Chongxuan Li

Multi-modal data-sets are ubiquitous in modern applications, and multi-modal Variational Autoencoders are a popular family of models that aim to learn a joint representation of the different modalities. However, existing approaches suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mustapha Bounoua , Giulio Franzese , Pietro Michiardi

Recent large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable text-to-image generation capabilities, yet their visual fidelity remains constrained by the discrete image tokenization, which poses a major challenge. Although several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ji Woo Hong , Hee Suk Yoon , Gwanhyeong Koo , Eunseop Yoon , SooHwan Eom , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Chang D. Yoo

We introduce a multi-modal diffusion model tailored for the bi-directional conditional generation of video and audio. We propose a joint contrastive training loss to improve the synchronization between visual and auditory occurrences. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Ruihan Yang , Hannes Gamper , Sebastian Braun

Despite the groundbreaking success of diffusion models in generating high-fidelity images, their latent space remains relatively under-explored, even though it holds significant promise for enabling versatile and interpretable image editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Li Wang , Boyan Gao , Yanran Li , Zhao Wang , Xiaosong Yang , David A. Clifton , Jun Xiao

Large-scale multi-modal deep learning models have revolutionized domains such as healthcare, highlighting the importance of computational power. However, in resource-constrained regions like Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), limited…

Masked diffusion models have recently emerged as a flexible framework for discrete generative modeling. However, a key limitation of standard masked diffusion is its inability to effectively capture dependencies among tokens that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yichi Zhang , Alex Schwing , Zhizhen Zhao

Diffusion-based generative models have reformed generative AI, and also enabled new capabilities in the science domain, e.g., fast generation of 3D structures of molecules. In such tasks, there is often a symmetry in the system, identifying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yixian Xu , Yusong Wang , Shengjie Luo , Kaiyuan Gao , Tianyu He , Di He , Chang Liu

Recent advances in fast sampling methods for diffusion models have demonstrated significant potential to accelerate generation on image modalities. We apply these methods to 3-dimensional molecular conformations by building on the recently…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-23 Romain Lacombe , Neal Vaidya

Flow matching is a recent framework to train generative models that exhibits impressive empirical performance while being relatively easier to train compared with diffusion-based models. Despite its advantageous properties, prior methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Quan Dao , Hao Phung , Binh Nguyen , Anh Tran

Recent advancements in diffusion models have set new benchmarks in image and video generation, enabling realistic visual synthesis across single- and multi-frame contexts. However, these models still struggle with efficiently and explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Qihang Zhang , Shuangfei Zhai , Miguel Angel Bautista , Kevin Miao , Alexander Toshev , Joshua Susskind , Jiatao Gu

Diffusion models excel in image generation but are computational and resource-intensive due to their reliance on iterative Markov chain processes, leading to error accumulation and limiting the effectiveness of naive compression techniques.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Beomseok Ko , Hyeryung Jang

Diffusion models have achieved unprecedented performance in generative modeling. The commonly-adopted formulation of the latent code of diffusion models is a sequence of gradually denoised samples, as opposed to the simpler (e.g., Gaussian)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Chen Henry Wu , Fernando De la Torre

Mesh reconstruction from multi-view images is a fundamental problem in computer vision, but its performance degrades significantly under sparse-view conditions, especially in unseen regions where no ground-truth observations are available.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haoyang Wang , Liming Liu , Peiheng Wang , Junlin Hao , Jiangkai Wu , Xinggong Zhang

Autoregressive (AR) vision-language models (VLMs) have long dominated multimodal understanding, reasoning, and graphical user interface (GUI) grounding. Recently, discrete diffusion vision-language models (DVLMs) have shown strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shrinidhi Kumbhar , Haofu Liao , Srikar Appalaraju , Kunwar Yashraj Singh

Existing works on video frame interpolation (VFI) mostly employ deep neural networks that are trained by minimizing the L1, L2, or deep feature space distance (e.g. VGG loss) between their outputs and ground-truth frames. However, recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Duolikun Danier , Fan Zhang , David Bull

Text-to-image generation via Stable Diffusion models (SDM) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities. However, their computational intensity, particularly in the iterative denoising process, hinders real-time deployment in latency-sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Shuaiting Li , Juncan Deng , Zeyu Wang , Kedong Xu , Rongtao Deng , Hong Gu , Haibin Shen , Kejie Huang

We propose LayerSync, a domain-agnostic approach for improving the generation quality and the training efficiency of diffusion models. Prior studies have highlighted the connection between the quality of generation and the representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yasaman Haghighi , Bastien van Delft , Mariam Hassan , Alexandre Alahi

Image-to-Image translation models can help mitigate various challenges inherent to medical image acquisition. Latent diffusion models (LDMs) leverage efficient learning in compressed latent space and constitute the core of state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Junhyeok Lee , Hyunwoong Kim , Hyungjin Chung , Heeseong Eom , Joon Jang , Chul-Ho Sohn , Kyu Sung Choi