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The recent wave of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has dramatically increased our text-based image generation abilities. These models can generate realistic images for a staggering variety of prompts and exhibit impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Alexander C. Li , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shivam Duggal , Ellis Brown , Deepak Pathak

Diffusion models have become the dominant paradigm in text-to-image generation, and test-time scaling (TTS) improves sample quality by allocating additional computation at inference. Existing TTS methods, however, resample the entire image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Qin Ren , Yufei Wang , Lanqing Guo , Wen Zhang , Zhiwen Fan , Chenyu You

Reliable image transmission over wireless channels is particularly challenging at extremely low transmission rates, where conventional compression and channel coding schemes fail to preserve adequate visual quality. To address this issue,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Shengkang Chen , Tong Wu , Zhiyong Chen , Feng Yang , Meixia Tao , Wenjun Zhang

How can we effectively unlearn selected concepts from pre-trained generative foundation models without resorting to extensive retraining? This research introduces `continual unlearning', a novel paradigm that enables the targeted removal of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kartik Thakral , Tamar Glaser , Tal Hassner , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

Despite recent advances in photorealistic image generation through large-scale models like FLUX and Stable Diffusion v3, the practical deployment of these architectures remains constrained by their inherent intractability to parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhiwen Li , Zhongjie Duan , Die Chen , Cen Chen , Daoyuan Chen , Yaliang Li , Yingda Chen

Concept erasure is the task of erasing information about a concept (e.g., gender or race) from a representation set while retaining the maximum possible utility -- information from original representations. Concept erasure is useful in…

Text-to-image synthesis models require the ability to generate diverse images while maintaining stability. To overcome this challenge, a number of methods have been proposed, including the collection of prompt-image datasets and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Keunwoo Park , Jihye Chae , Joong Ho Ahn , Jihoon Kweon

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yifan Gong , Zheng Zhan , Qing Jin , Yanyu Li , Yerlan Idelbayev , Xian Liu , Andrey Zharkov , Kfir Aberman , Sergey Tulyakov , Yanzhi Wang , Jian Ren

Text guided diffusion models are used by millions of users, but can be easily exploited to produce harmful content. Concept unlearning methods aim at reducing the models' likelihood of generating harmful content. Traditionally, this has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mansi , Avinash Kori , Francesca Toni , Soteris Demetriou

Based on recent advanced diffusion models, Text-to-image (T2I) generation models have demonstrated their capabilities to generate diverse and high-quality images. However, leveraging their potential for real-world content creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Sandra Zhang Ding , Jiafeng Mao , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable results in generating high-quality, diverse, and creative images. However, when it comes to text-based image generation, they often fail to capture the intended meaning presented in the text. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Kota Sueyoshi , Takashi Matsubara

The increasing accessibility of image editing tools and generative AI has led to a proliferation of visually convincing forgeries, compromising the authenticity of digital media. In this paper, in addition to leveraging distortions from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Youqi Wang , Shunquan Tan , Rongxuan Peng , Bin Li , Jiwu Huang

Recently, autoregressive image generation models have wowed audiences with their remarkable capability in creating surprisingly realistic images. Models such as GPT-4o and LlamaGen can not only produce images that faithfully mimic renowned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Feng Han , Chao Gong , Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Diffusion models (DMs) can generate realistic images with text guidance using large-scale datasets. However, they demonstrate limited controllability in the output space of the generated images. We propose a novel learning method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Rumeysa Bodur , Erhan Gundogdu , Binod Bhattarai , Tae-Kyun Kim , Michael Donoser , Loris Bazzani

Identifying layers within text-to-image models which control visual attributes can facilitate efficient model editing through closed-form updates. Recent work, leveraging causal tracing show that early Stable-Diffusion variants confine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Samyadeep Basu , Keivan Rezaei , Priyatham Kattakinda , Ryan Rossi , Cherry Zhao , Vlad Morariu , Varun Manjunatha , Soheil Feizi

While generative models produce high-quality images of concepts learned from a large-scale database, a user often wishes to synthesize instantiations of their own concepts (for example, their family, pets, or items). Can we teach a model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nupur Kumari , Bingliang Zhang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Jun-Yan Zhu

Recent large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable text-to-image generation capabilities, yet their visual fidelity remains constrained by the discrete image tokenization, which poses a major challenge. Although several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ji Woo Hong , Hee Suk Yoon , Gwanhyeong Koo , Eunseop Yoon , SooHwan Eom , Qi Dai , Chong Luo , Chang D. Yoo

As powerful generative models, text-to-image diffusion models have recently been explored for discriminative tasks. A line of research focuses on adapting a pre-trained diffusion model to semantic segmentation without any further training,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Benyuan Meng , Qianqian Xu , Zitai Wang , Xiaochun Cao , Longtao Huang , Qingming Huang

The rapid advancement in image generation models has predominantly been driven by diffusion models, which have demonstrated unparalleled success in generating high-fidelity, diverse images from textual prompts. Despite their success,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yusuf Dalva , Hidir Yesiltepe , Pinar Yanardag

Diffusion-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on text-to-image synthesis tasks. However, one critical limitation of these models is the low fidelity of generated images with respect to the text description, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Qiucheng Wu , Yujian Liu , Handong Zhao , Trung Bui , Zhe Lin , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang