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Generating high-quality videos that synthesize desired realistic content is a challenging task due to their intricate high-dimensionality and complexity of videos. Several recent diffusion-based methods have shown comparable performance by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Kihong Kim , Haneol Lee , Jihye Park , Seyeon Kim , Kwanghee Lee , Seungryong Kim , Jaejun Yoo

Recent work has shown that diffusion models can generate high-quality images by operating directly on SSL patch features rather than pixel-space latents. However, the dense patch grids from encoders like DINOv2 contain significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ramón Calvo-González , François Fleuret

One of the main drawback of diffusion models is the slow inference time for image generation. Among the most successful approaches to addressing this problem are distillation methods. However, these methods require considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Senmao Li , Taihang Hu , Joost van de Weijer , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Tao Liu , Linxuan Li , Shiqi Yang , Yaxing Wang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Jian Yang

Latent Diffusion models (LDMs) have achieved remarkable results in synthesizing high-resolution images. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally intensive and leads to slow generation. Inspired by Consistency Models (song…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Simian Luo , Yiqin Tan , Longbo Huang , Jian Li , Hang Zhao

Diffusion models are emerging as powerful solutions for generating high-fidelity and diverse images, often surpassing GANs under many circumstances. However, their slow inference speed hinders their potential for real-time applications. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Luan Thanh Trinh , Tomoki Hamagami

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

Latent generative models have shown remarkable progress in high-fidelity image synthesis, typically using a two-stage training process that involves compressing images into latent embeddings via learned tokenizers in the first stage. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Tejaswini Medi , Hsien-Yi Wang , Arianna Rampini , Margret Keuper

Standard Latent Diffusion Models rely on a complex, three-part architecture consisting of a separate encoder, decoder, and diffusion network, which are trained in multiple stages. This modular design is computationally inefficient, leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xiyuan Wang , Muhan Zhang

The application of diffusion transformers is suffering from their significant inference costs. Recently, feature caching has been proposed to solve this problem by reusing features from previous timesteps, thereby skipping computation in…

The recent use of diffusion prior, enhanced by pre-trained text-image models, has markedly elevated the performance of image super-resolution (SR). To alleviate the huge computational cost required by pixel-based diffusion SR, latent-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Feng Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Jun Zhang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of models and a promising route to fast language generation, but practical implementations typically rely on factored reverse transitions ignoring cross-token dependencies and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Dario Shariatian , Alain Durmus , Umut Simsekli , Stefano Peluchetti

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image and video generation. In this work, we demonstrate that diffusion models can also \textit{generate high-performing neural network parameters}. Our approach is simple, utilizing an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Kai Wang , Dongwen Tang , Boya Zeng , Yida Yin , Zhaopan Xu , Yukun Zhou , Zelin Zang , Trevor Darrell , Zhuang Liu , Yang You

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

Autoencoder (AE) is the key to the success of latent diffusion models for image and video generation, reducing the denoising resolution and improving efficiency. However, the power of AE has long been underexplored in terms of network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yushu Wu , Yanyu Li , Ivan Skorokhodov , Anil Kag , Willi Menapace , Sharath Girish , Aliaksandr Siarohin , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov

We present LayerDiffuse, an approach enabling large-scale pretrained latent diffusion models to generate transparent images. The method allows generation of single transparent images or of multiple transparent layers. The method learns a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Lvmin Zhang , Maneesh Agrawala

We present DC-AE 1.5, a new family of deep compression autoencoders for high-resolution diffusion models. Increasing the autoencoder's latent channel number is a highly effective approach for improving its reconstruction quality. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Junyu Chen , Dongyun Zou , Wenkun He , Junsong Chen , Enze Xie , Song Han , Han Cai

Video diffusion models have recently made great progress in generation quality, but are still limited by the high memory and computational requirements. This is because current video diffusion models often attempt to process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Sihyun Yu , Weili Nie , De-An Huang , Boyi Li , Jinwoo Shin , Anima Anandkumar

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Theodoros Kouzelis , Efstathios Karypidis , Ioannis Kakogeorgiou , Spyros Gidaris , Nikos Komodakis

Diffusion autoencoders (DAs) are variants of diffusion generative models that use an input-dependent latent variable to capture representations alongside the diffusion process. These representations, to varying extents, can be used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Magdalena Proszewska , Nikolay Malkin , N. Siddharth

The development of generative models in the past decade has allowed for hyperrealistic data synthesis. While potentially beneficial, this synthetic data generation process has been relatively underexplored in cancer histopathology. One…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Aakash Madhav Rao , Debayan Gupta