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Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) offer attractive advantages over Auto-Regressive (AR) models, such as full-attention parallel decoding and flexible generation. However, standard DLM training uses a static, single-step masked prediction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zehua Pei , Hui-Ling Zhen , Weizhe Lin , Sinno Jialin Pan , Yunhe Wang , Mingxuan Yuan , Bei Yu

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for solving inverse problems due to their exceptional ability to model complex prior distributions. However, existing methods predominantly assume known forward operators (i.e., non-blind),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Weimin Bai , Siyi Chen , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

Discrete diffusion models offer a promising alternative to autoregressive generation through parallel decoding, but they suffer from a sampling wall: once categorical sampling occurs, rich distributional information collapses into one-hot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mingyu Jo , Jaesik Yoon , Justin Deschenaux , Caglar Gulcehre , Sungjin Ahn

Diffusion models have attained impressive visual quality for image synthesis. However, how to interpret and manipulate the latent space of diffusion models has not been extensively explored. Prior work diffusion autoencoders encode the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Zeyu Lu , Chengyue Wu , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lei Bai , Yu Qiao , Xihui Liu

The recent success of transformer-based image generative models in object-centric learning highlights the importance of powerful image generators for handling complex scenes. However, despite the high expressiveness of diffusion models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Jindong Jiang , Fei Deng , Gautam Singh , Sungjin Ahn

Diffusion models represent a powerful family of generative models widely used for image and video generation. However, the time-consuming deployment, long inference time, and requirements on large memory hinder their applications on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kafeng Wang , Jianfei Chen , He Li , Zhenpeng Mi , Jun Zhu

Diffusion models have demonstrated high-quality performance in conditional text-to-image generation, particularly with structural cues such as edges, layouts, and depth. However, lighting conditions have received limited attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Ryugo Morita , Stanislav Frolov , Brian Bernhard Moser , Ko Watanabe , Riku Takahashi , Andreas Dengel

We introduce a novel generative framework for functions by integrating Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) and Transformer-based hypernetworks into latent variable models. Unlike prior approaches that rely on MLP-based hypernetworks with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Ignacio Peis , Batuhan Koyuncu , Isabel Valera , Jes Frellsen

Generative modeling of high-dimensional data is a key problem in machine learning. Successful approaches include latent variable models and autoregressive models. The complementary strengths of these approaches, to model global and local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Thomas Lucas , Jakob Verbeek

Autoencoders are commonly trained using element-wise loss. However, element-wise loss disregards high-level structures in the image which can lead to embeddings that disregard them as well. A recent improvement to autoencoders that helps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Gustav Grund Pihlgren , Fredrik Sandin , Marcus Liwicki

Denoising Probabilistic Models (DPMs) represent an emerging domain of generative models that excel in generating diverse and high-quality images. However, most current training methods for DPMs often neglect the correlation between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Viet Nguyen , Giang Vu , Tung Nguyen Thanh , Khoat Than , Toan Tran

We consider the image transmission problem over a noisy wireless channel via deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) along with a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) at the receiver. Specifically, we are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Selim F. Yilmaz , Xueyan Niu , Bo Bai , Wei Han , Lei Deng , Deniz Gunduz

Diffusion models have been widely adopted in image generation, producing higher-quality and more diverse samples than generative adversarial networks (GANs). We introduce a latent diffusion model (LDM) for precipitation nowcasting -…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Jussi Leinonen , Ulrich Hamann , Daniele Nerini , Urs Germann , Gabriele Franch

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) are known to have an unstable generation process, where even small perturbations or shifts in the input noise can lead to significantly different outputs. This hinders their applicability in applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yifan Zhou , Zeqi Xiao , Shuai Yang , Xingang Pan

This study introduces a text-conditioned approach to generating drumbeats with Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs). It uses informative conditioning text extracted from training data filenames. By pretraining a text and drumbeat encoder through…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Pushkar Jajoria , James McDermott

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently emerged as SoTA tools for generative modeling in various domains. Standard DMs can be viewed as an instantiation of hierarchical variational autoencoders (VAEs) where the latent variables are inferred…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jiatao Gu , Shuangfei Zhai , Yizhe Zhang , Miguel Angel Bautista , Josh Susskind

Layout generation aims to synthesize realistic graphic scenes consisting of elements with different attributes including category, size, position, and between-element relation. It is a crucial task for reducing the burden on heavy-duty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Mude Hui , Zhizheng Zhang , Xiaoyi Zhang , Wenxuan Xie , Yuwang Wang , Yan Lu

While Diffusion Large Language Models (dLLMs) have emerged as a promising non-autoregressive paradigm comparable to autoregressive (AR) models, their faithfulness, specifically regarding hallucination, remains largely underexplored. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhengnan Guo , Fei Tan

Diffusion models (DMs) have shown promising results on single-image super-resolution and other image-to-image translation tasks. Benefiting from more computational resources and longer inference times, they are able to yield more realistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Yuanting Fan , Chengxu Liu , Nengzhong Yin , Changlong Gao , Xueming Qian

Artistic painting has achieved significant progress during recent years. Using an autoencoder to connect the original images with compressed latent spaces and a cross attention enhanced U-Net as the backbone of diffusion, latent diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Xianchao Wu