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Diffusion models have demonstrated superior performance across various generative tasks including images, videos, and audio. However, they encounter difficulties in directly generating high-resolution samples. Previously proposed solutions…

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Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

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Diffusion models are powerful tools for sampling from high-dimensional distributions by progressively transforming pure noise into structured data through a denoising process. When equipped with a guidance mechanism, these models can also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Saeed Mohseni-Sehdeh , Walid Saad , Kei Sakaguchi , Tao Yu

The increasing need for automated visual monitoring and control for applications such as smart camera surveillance, traffic monitoring, and intelligent environments, necessitates the improvement of methods for visual active monitoring.…

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Segmentation of enhancement in LGE cardiac MRI is critical for diagnosing various ischemic and non-ischemic cardiomyopathies. However, creating pixel-level annotations for these images is challenging and labor-intensive, leading to limited…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Athira J. Jacob , Puneet Sharma , Daniel Rueckert

Discrete diffusion models generate sequences by iteratively denoising samples corrupted by categorical noise, offering an appealing alternative to autoregressive decoding for structured and symbolic generation. However, standard training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Huu Binh Ta , Michael Cardei , Alvaro Velasquez , Ferdinando Fioretto

In many real-world settings, agents must learn from an offline dataset gathered by some prior behavior policy. Such a setting naturally leads to distribution shift between the behavior policy and the target policy being trained - requiring…

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Constrained generative modeling is fundamental to applications such as robotic control and autonomous driving, where models must respect physical laws and safety-critical constraints. In real-world settings, these constraints rarely take…

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We present an overview and evaluation of a new, systematic approach for generation of highly realistic, annotated synthetic data for training of deep neural networks in computer vision tasks. The main contribution is a procedural world…

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Current deep networks are very data-hungry and benefit from training on largescale datasets, which are often time-consuming to collect and annotate. By contrast, synthetic data can be generated infinitely using generative models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Weijia Wu , Yuzhong Zhao , Hao Chen , Yuchao Gu , Rui Zhao , Yefei He , Hong Zhou , Mike Zheng Shou , Chunhua Shen

Active learning aims to optimize the dataset annotation process when resources are constrained. Most existing methods are designed for balanced datasets. Their practical applicability is limited by the fact that a majority of real-life…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Umang Aggarwal , Adrian Popescu , Céline Hudelot

Recent studies have demonstrated that diffusion models are capable of generating high-quality samples, but their quality heavily depends on sampling guidance techniques, such as classifier guidance (CG) and classifier-free guidance (CFG).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Donghoon Ahn , Hyoungwon Cho , Jaewon Min , Wooseok Jang , Jungwoo Kim , SeonHwa Kim , Hyun Hee Park , Kyong Hwan Jin , Seungryong Kim

Diffusion models excel in image generation but lack detailed semantic control using text prompts. Additional techniques have been developed to address this limitation. However, conditioning diffusion models solely on text-based descriptions…

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Active learning aims to select samples to be annotated that yield the largest performance improvement for the learning algorithm. Many methods approach this problem by measuring the informativeness of samples and do this based on the…

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Despite continued advancement in recent years, deep neural networks still rely on large amounts of training data to avoid overfitting. However, labeled training data for real-world applications such as healthcare is limited and difficult to…

While imitation learning provides a simple and effective framework for policy learning, acquiring consistent actions during robot execution remains a challenging task. Existing approaches primarily focus on either modifying the action…

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With the advancement of diffusion models, there is a growing demand for high-quality, controllable image generation, particularly through methods that utilize one or multiple control signals based on ControlNet. However, in current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shikun Sun , Min Zhou , Zixuan Wang , Xubin Li , Tiezheng Ge , Zijie Ye , Xiaoyu Qin , Junliang Xing , Bo Zheng , Jia Jia

Preparing training data for deep vision models is a labor-intensive task. To address this, generative models have emerged as an effective solution for generating synthetic data. While current generative models produce image-level category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Quang Nguyen , Truong Vu , Anh Tran , Khoi Nguyen

Causal confusion is a phenomenon where an agent learns a policy that reflects imperfect spurious correlations in the data. Such a policy may falsely appear to be optimal during training if most of the training data contain such spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Gunshi Gupta , Tim G. J. Rudner , Rowan Thomas McAllister , Adrien Gaidon , Yarin Gal

While modern diffusion models excel at generating high-quality and diverse images, they still struggle with high-fidelity compositional and multimodal control, particularly when users simultaneously specify text prompts, subject references,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yusuf Dalva , Guocheng Gordon Qian , Maya Goldenberg , Tsai-Shien Chen , Kfir Aberman , Sergey Tulyakov , Pinar Yanardag , Kuan-Chieh Jackson Wang