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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated gratifying results at learning discriminative features. However, when applied to unseen domains, state-of-the-art models are usually prone to errors due to domain shift. After…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Rang Meng , Xianfeng Li , Weijie Chen , Shicai Yang , Jie Song , Xinchao Wang , Lei Zhang , Mingli Song , Di Xie , Shiliang Pu

Image generative models, particularly diffusion-based models, have surged in popularity due to their remarkable ability to synthesize highly realistic images. However, since these models are data-driven, they inherit biases from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lin-Chun Huang , Ching Chieh Tsao , Fang-Yi Su , Jung-Hsien Chiang

The predominant success of diffusion models in generative modeling has spurred significant interest in understanding their theoretical foundations. In this work, we propose a feature learning framework aimed at analyzing and comparing the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Andi Han , Wei Huang , Yuan Cao , Difan Zou

Humans rely less on spurious correlations and trivial cues, such as texture, compared to deep neural networks which lead to better generalization and robustness. It can be attributed to the prior knowledge or the high-level cognitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Shruthi Gowda , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Vision Transformer(ViT) is one of the most widely used models in the computer vision field with its great performance on various tasks. In order to fully utilize the ViT-based architecture in various applications, proper visualization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Saebom Leem , Hyunseok Seo

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for various vision tasks. One reason behind the success lies in their ability to provide plausible innate explanations for the behavior of neural architectures. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Lijie Hu , Yixin Liu , Ninghao Liu , Mengdi Huai , Lichao Sun , Di Wang

Today's denoising diffusion models do not "denoise" in the classical sense, i.e., they do not directly predict clean images. Rather, the neural networks predict noise or a noised quantity. In this paper, we suggest that predicting clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Tianhong Li , Kaiming He

We introduce a diffusion-transformer (DiT) framework for single-image reflection removal that leverages the generalization strengths of foundation diffusion models in the restoration setting. Rather than relying on task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Daniyar Zakarin , Thiemo Wandel , Anton Obukhov , Dengxin Dai

We take a deep look into the behavior of self-attention heads in the transformer architecture. In light of recent work discouraging the use of attention distributions for explaining a model's behavior, we show that attention distributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Damian Pascual , Gino Brunner , Roger Wattenhofer

Recent advancements in diffusion models, particularly the architectural transformation from UNet-based models to Diffusion Transformers (DiTs), significantly improve the quality and scalability of image and video generation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lei Chen , Yuan Meng , Chen Tang , Xinzhu Ma , Jingyan Jiang , Xin Wang , Zhi Wang , Wenwu Zhu

Various Vision Transformer (ViT) models have been widely used for image recognition tasks. However, existing visual explanation methods can not display the attention flow hidden inside the inner structure of ViT models, which explains how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yi Liao , Yongsheng Gao , Weichuan Zhang

Despite the popularity of transformers in practice, their architectures are empirically designed and neither mathematically justified nor interpretable. Moreover, as indicated by many empirical studies, some components of transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Peng Wang , Yifu Lu , Yaodong Yu , Druv Pai , Qing Qu , Yi Ma

Deep Text-to-Image Synthesis (TIS) models such as Stable Diffusion have recently gained significant popularity for creative Text-to-image generation. Yet, for domain-specific scenarios, tuning-free Text-guided Image Editing (TIE) is of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Bingyan Liu , Chengyu Wang , Tingfeng Cao , Kui Jia , Jun Huang

Denoising is intuitively related to projection. Indeed, under the manifold hypothesis, adding random noise is approximately equivalent to orthogonal perturbation. Hence, learning to denoise is approximately learning to project. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Frank Permenter , Chenyang Yuan

In this work, we empirically study Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for text-to-image generation, focusing on architectural choices, text-conditioning strategies, and training protocols. We evaluate a range of DiT-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chen Chen , Rui Qian , Wenze Hu , Tsu-Jui Fu , Jialing Tong , Xinze Wang , Lezhi Li , Bowen Zhang , Alex Schwing , Wei Liu , Yinfei Yang

Tokenizing images into compact visual representations is a key step in learning efficient and high-quality image generative models. We present a simple diffusion tokenizer (DiTo) that learns compact visual representations for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Yinbo Chen , Rohit Girdhar , Xiaolong Wang , Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ishan Misra

Instruction-guided image editing enables users to specify modifications using natural language, offering more flexibility and control. Among existing frameworks, Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) outperform U-Net-based diffusion models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Hui Liu , Bin Zou , Suiyun Zhang , Kecheng Chen , Rui Liu , Haoliang Li

Recent advancements in diffusion models have notably improved the perceptual quality of generated images in text-to-image synthesis tasks. However, diffusion models often struggle to produce images that accurately reflect the intended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yang Zhang , Teoh Tze Tzun , Lim Wei Hern , Tiviatis Sim , Kenji Kawaguchi

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Current research on bias in language models (LMs) predominantly focuses on data quality, with significantly less attention paid to model architecture and temporal influences of data. Even more critically, few studies systematically…

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