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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…

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Flow matching with $x$-prediction -- regressing the clean data point rather than the ambient velocity -- is known to exploit low-dimensional manifold structure effectively in pixel space \cite{li2025back}. We ask whether a pretrained…

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Despite the rapid advancement of unsupervised learning in visual representation, it requires training on large-scale datasets that demand costly data collection, and pose additional challenges due to concerns regarding data privacy.…

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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…

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Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in video generation. However, the computational intensity remains a significant challenge for practical applications. While feature caching has been proposed to…

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Recently, neural networks purely based on attention were shown to address image understanding tasks such as image classification. However, these visual transformers are pre-trained with hundreds of millions of images using an expensive…

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Recent progress in diffusion models has significantly advanced the field of human image animation. While existing methods can generate temporally consistent results for short or regular motions, significant challenges remain, particularly…

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Diffusion models have become leading approaches for high-fidelity image generation. Recent DiT-based diffusion models, in particular, achieve strong prompt adherence while producing high-quality samples. We propose SHIFT, a simple but…

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Diffusion models have shown remarkable capabilities in generating high quality and creative images conditioned on text. An interesting application of such models is structure preserving text guided image editing. Existing approaches rely on…

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One highly promising direction for enabling flexible real-time on-device image editing is utilizing data distillation by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models to generate paired datasets used for training generative…

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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) introduce the transformer architecture to diffusion tasks for latent-space image generation. With an isotropic architecture that chains a series of transformer blocks, DiTs demonstrate competitive performance…

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Diffusion Transformers, particularly for video generation, achieve remarkable quality but suffer from quadratic attention complexity, leading to prohibitive latency. Existing acceleration methods face a fundamental trade-off: dynamically…

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Visual generation quality has been greatly promoted with the rapid advances in diffusion transformers (DiTs), which is attributed to the scaling of model size and complexity. However, these attributions also hinder the practical deployment…

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Existing text-to-image diffusion models struggle to synthesize realistic images given dense captions, where each text prompt provides a detailed description for a specific image region. To address this, we propose DenseDiffusion, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Jun-Yan Zhu

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve superior image generation quality but suffer from quadratic computational complexity relative to token count. While various token reduction (TR) methods have been proposed to mitigate this cost, they…

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Recently, there have been significant advancements in Image Restoration based on CNN and transformer. However, the inherent characteristics of the Image Restoration task are often overlooked in many works. They, instead, tend to focus on…

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Text-to-image diffusion models often face a severe trilemma in human portrait generation: text-image alignment, photorealism, and human-perceived aesthetics inherently inhibit one another. Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) is an effective method…

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Subject-driven image generation (SDIG) aims to manipulate specific subjects within images while adhering to textual instructions, a task crucial for advancing text-to-image diffusion models. SDIG requires reconciling the tension between…

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