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Molecular conformation generation plays key roles in computational drug design. Recently developed deep learning methods, particularly diffusion models have reached competitive performance over traditional cheminformatical approaches.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Yixuan Yang , Xingyu Fang , Zhaowen Cheng , Pengju Yan , Xiaolin Li

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models, capable of producing high-quality images by mapping noise to a data distribution. However, recent findings suggest that image likelihood does not align with perceptual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Rafał Karczewski , Markus Heinonen , Vikas Garg

The Mixup scheme suggests mixing a pair of samples to create an augmented training sample and has gained considerable attention recently for improving the generalizability of neural networks. A straightforward and widely used extension of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Joonhyung Park , June Yong Yang , Jinwoo Shin , Sung Ju Hwang , Eunho Yang

Sampling from an unknown distribution, accessible only through discrete samples, is a fundamental problem at the core of generative AI. The current state-of-the-art methods follow a two-step process: first, estimating the score function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Samuel Hurault , Matthieu Terris , Thomas Moreau , Gabriel Peyré

Match-cuts are powerful cinematic tools that create seamless transitions between scenes, delivering strong visual and metaphorical connections. However, crafting match-cuts is a challenging, resource-intensive process requiring deliberate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Alejandro Pardo , Fabio Pizzati , Tong Zhang , Alexander Pondaven , Philip Torr , Juan Camilo Perez , Bernard Ghanem

Diffusion models have emerged as a formidable tool for training-free conditional generation.However, a key hurdle in inference-time guidance techniques is the need for compute-heavy backpropagation through the diffusion network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Nithin Gopalakrishnan Nair , Vishal M Patel

Text-to-image generative models have made remarkable advancements in generating high-quality images. However, generated images often contain undesirable artifacts or other errors due to model limitations. Existing techniques to fine-tune…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Peyman Gholami , Robert Xiao

Score-based diffusion models have emerged as effective approaches for both conditional and unconditional generation. Still conditional generation is based on either a specific training of a conditional model or classifier guidance, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Davide Scassola , Sebastiano Saccani , Ginevra Carbone , Luca Bortolussi

Diffusion models have shown their effectiveness in generation tasks by well-approximating the underlying probability distribution. However, diffusion models are known to suffer from an amplified inherent bias from the training data in terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yujin Choi , Jinseong Park , Hoki Kim , Jaewook Lee , Saerom Park

Generative data-free quantization emerges as a practical compression approach that quantizes deep neural networks to low bit-width without accessing the real data. This approach generates data utilizing batch normalization (BN) statistics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Haotong Qin , Yifu Ding , Xiangguo Zhang , Jiakai Wang , Xianglong Liu , Jiwen Lu

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 Transformers (DiTs) have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities, particularly benefiting from Transformer architectures that enhance visual and artistic fidelity. However, their inherently sequential denoising process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hanqi Chen , Xu Zhang , Xiaoliu Guan , Lielin Jiang , Guanzhong Wang , Zeyu Chen , Yi Liu

Diffusion models have become emerging generative models. Their sampling process involves multiple steps, and in each step the models predict the noise from a noisy sample. When the models make prediction, the output deviates from the ground…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Shifeng Xu , Yanzhu Liu , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Distribution Matching Distillation (DMD) distills score-based generative models into efficient one-step generators, without requiring a one-to-one correspondence with the sampling trajectories of their teachers. Yet, the limited capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiangyu Fan , Zesong Qiu , Zhuguanyu Wu , Fanzhou Wang , Zhiqian Lin , Tianxiang Ren , Dahua Lin , Ruihao Gong , Lei Yang

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…

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We present SD3.5-Flash, an efficient few-step distillation framework that brings high-quality image generation to accessible consumer devices. Our approach distills computationally prohibitive rectified flow models through a reformulated…

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Diffusion models have shown a great ability at bridging the performance gap between predictive and generative approaches for speech enhancement. We have shown that they may even outperform their predictive counterparts for non-additive…

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In this paper, we present an approach to image enhancement with diffusion model in underwater scenes. Our method adapts conditional denoising diffusion probabilistic models to generate the corresponding enhanced images by using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yi Tang , Takafumi Iwaguchi , Hiroshi Kawasaki

Coarse-guided visual generation, which synthesizes fine visual samples from degraded or low-fidelity coarse references, is essential for various real-world applications. While training-based approaches are effective, they are inherently…

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