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One-step generators distilled from Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) compress multiple sampling steps into a single forward pass, enabling efficient text and image synthesis. However, they suffer two key limitations: they inherit modeling bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuanzhi Zhu , Xi Wang , Stéphane Lathuilière , Vicky Kalogeiton

Diffusion models are powerful generative models that achieve state-of-the-art performance in image synthesis. However, training them demands substantial amounts of data and computational resources. Continual learning would allow for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Sergi Masip , Pau Rodriguez , Tinne Tuytelaars , Gido M. van de Ven

Diffusion models are highly regarded for their controllability and the diversity of images they generate. However, class-conditional generation methods based on diffusion models often focus on more common categories. In large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Kun Wang , Donglin Di , Tonghua Su , Lei Fan

Diffusion models have emerged as the leading approach for text-to-image generation. However, their iterative sampling process, which gradually morphs random noise into coherent images, introduces significant latency that limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Peijie Qiu , Hariharan Ramshankar , Arnau Ramisa , René Vidal , Amit Kumar K C , Vamsi Salaka , Rahul Bhagat

It is well known the adversarial optimization of GAN-based image super-resolution (SR) methods makes the preceding SR model generate unpleasant and undesirable artifacts, leading to large distortion. We attribute the cause of such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Axi Niu , Kang Zhang , Joshua Tian Jin Tee , Trung X. Pham , Jinqiu Sun , Chang D. Yoo , In So Kweon , Yanning Zhang

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-resolution, realistic images across diverse natural distributions. However, their performance heavily relies on high-quality training data, making it challenging to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tianyu Chen , Yasi Zhang , Zhendong Wang , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong , Mingyuan Zhou

Despite the recent advances in large-scale diffusion models, little progress has been made on the layout-to-image (L2I) synthesis task. Current L2I models either suffer from poor editability via text or weak alignment between the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Yumeng Li , Margret Keuper , Dan Zhang , Anna Khoreva

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) models have attracted substantial interest due to their powerful image restoration capabilities. However, prevailing diffusion models often struggle to strike an optimal balance between efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Qinpeng Cui , Yixuan Liu , Xinyi Zhang , Qiqi Bao , Qingmin Liao , Li Wang , Tian Lu , Zicheng Liu , Zhongdao Wang , Emad Barsoum

While recent advancements in generative modeling have significantly improved text-image alignment, some residual misalignment between text and image representations still remains. Some approaches address this issue by fine-tuning models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jaa-Yeon Lee , Byunghee Cha , Jeongsol Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Strong generative models can accurately learn channel distributions. This could save recurring costs for physical measurements of the channel. Moreover, the resulting differentiable channel model supports training neural encoders by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Muah Kim , Rick Fritschek , Rafael F. Schaefer

The predominant approach to advancing text-to-image generation has been training-time scaling, where larger models are trained on more data using greater computational resources. While effective, this approach is computationally expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Akash Gokul , Arsh Koneru , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Aditya Grover

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

Existing text-to-image diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, but face significant efficiency challenges when scaled to high resolutions, like 4K image generation. While previous research accelerates diffusion models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Wenkun He , Yuchao Gu , Junyu Chen , Dongyun Zou , Yujun Lin , Zhekai Zhang , Haocheng Xi , Muyang Li , Ligeng Zhu , Jincheng Yu , Junsong Chen , Enze Xie , Song Han , Han Cai

Recent advances in distilling expensive diffusion models into efficient few-step generators show significant promise. However, these methods typically demand substantial computational resources and extended training periods, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Jincheng Ying , Yitao Chen , Li Wenlin , Minghui Xu , Yinhao Xiao

Image restoration aims to recover degraded images. However, existing diffusion-based restoration methods, despite great success in natural image restoration, often struggle to faithfully reconstruct textual regions in degraded images. Those…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jaewon Min , Jin Hyeon Kim , Paul Hyunbin Cho , Jaeeun Lee , Jihye Park , Minkyu Park , Sangpil Kim , Hyunhee Park , Seungryong Kim

In the visual generative area, discrete diffusion models are gaining traction for their efficiency and compatibility. However, pioneered attempts still fall behind their continuous counterparts, which we attribute to noise (absorbing state)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianren Ma , Xiaosong Zhang , Boyu Yang , Junlan Feng , Qixiang Ye

Diffusion models excel at producing high-quality samples but naively require hundreds of iterations, prompting multiple attempts to distill the generation process into a faster network. However, many existing approaches suffer from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zhengyang Geng , Ashwini Pokle , J. Zico Kolter

Image enhancement finds wide-ranging applications in real-world scenarios due to complex environments and the inherent limitations of imaging devices. Recent diffusion-based methods yield promising outcomes but necessitate prolonged and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Yixuan Zhu , Haolin Wang , Ao Li , Wenliang Zhao , Yansong Tang , Jingxuan Niu , Lei Chen , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Video synthesis has recently made remarkable strides benefiting from the rapid development of diffusion models. However, it still encounters challenges in terms of semantic accuracy, clarity and spatio-temporal continuity. They primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Shiwei Zhang , Jiayu Wang , Yingya Zhang , Kang Zhao , Hangjie Yuan , Zhiwu Qin , Xiang Wang , Deli Zhao , Jingren Zhou

Deep learning has shown great potential in accelerating diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). Nevertheless, existing methods tend to suffer from Rician noise and eddy current, leading to detail loss in reconstructing the DTI-derived parametric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Wenxin Fan , Jian Cheng , Cheng Li , Jing Yang , Ruoyou Wu , Juan Zou , Shanshan Wang