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ControlNet offers a powerful way to guide diffusion-based generative models, yet most implementations rely on ad-hoc heuristics to choose which network blocks to control-an approach that varies unpredictably with different tasks. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zheng Fang , Lichuan Xiang , Xu Cai , Kaicheng Zhou , Hongkai Wen

Recent advances in diffusion bridge models leverage Doob's $h$-transform to establish fixed endpoints between distributions, demonstrating promising results in image translation and restoration tasks. However, these approaches frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Kaizhen Zhu , Mokai Pan , Yuexin Ma , Yanwei Fu , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang , Ye Shi

We introduce OneDiffusion, a versatile, large-scale diffusion model that seamlessly supports bidirectional image synthesis and understanding across diverse tasks. It enables conditional generation from inputs such as text, depth, pose,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Duong H. Le , Tuan Pham , Sangho Lee , Christopher Clark , Aniruddha Kembhavi , Stephan Mandt , Ranjay Krishna , Jiasen Lu

Content-aware layout generation is a critical task in graphic design automation, focused on creating visually appealing arrangements of elements that seamlessly blend with a given background image. The variety of real-world applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Zeyang Liu , Le Wang , Sanping Zhou , Yuxuan Wu , Xiaolong Sun , Gang Hua , Haoxiang Li

Generating natural and physically plausible character motion remains challenging, particularly for long-horizon control with diverse guidance signals. While prior work combines high-level diffusion-based motion planners with low-level…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yan Wu , Korrawe Karunratanakul , Zhengyi Luo , Siyu Tang

Unified models aim to support both understanding and generation by encoding images into discrete tokens and processing them alongside text within a single autoregressive framework. This unified design offers architectural simplicity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ziyao Wang , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Weiming Zhuang , Jiabo Huang , Ang Li , Lingjuan Lyu

This paper proposes a unified diffusion framework (dubbed UniDiffuser) to fit all distributions relevant to a set of multi-modal data in one model. Our key insight is -- learning diffusion models for marginal, conditional, and joint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Fan Bao , Shen Nie , Kaiwen Xue , Chongxuan Li , Shi Pu , Yaole Wang , Gang Yue , Yue Cao , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

Models for natural language and images benefit from data scaling behavior: the more data fed into the model, the better they perform. This 'better with more' phenomenon enables the effectiveness of large-scale pre-training on vast amounts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Wenzhuo Tang , Haitao Mao , Danial Dervovic , Ivan Brugere , Saumitra Mishra , Yuying Xie , Jiliang Tang

Unified understanding and generation is a highly appealing research direction in multimodal learning. There exist two approaches: one trains a transformer via an auto-regressive paradigm, and the other adopts a two-stage scheme connecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shihao Zhao , Yitong Chen , Zeyinzi Jiang , Bojia Zi , Shaozhe Hao , Yu Liu , Chaojie Mao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

The application of deep learning for partial differential equation (PDE)-constrained control is gaining increasing attention. However, existing methods rarely consider safety requirements crucial in real-world applications. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Peiyan Hu , Xiaowei Qian , Wenhao Deng , Rui Wang , Haodong Feng , Ruiqi Feng , Tao Zhang , Long Wei , Yue Wang , Zhi-Ming Ma , Tailin Wu

Unified multimodal models integrating visual understanding and generation face a fundamental challenge: visual generation incurs substantially higher computational costs than understanding, particularly for video. This imbalance motivates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Luozheng Qin , Jia Gong , Qian Qiao , Tianjiao Li , Li Xu , Haoyu Pan , Chao Qu , Zhiyu Tan , Hao Li

Recent progress in image generation has sparked research into controlling these models through condition signals, with various methods addressing specific challenges in conditional generation. Instead of proposing another specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xirui Li , Charles Herrmann , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yinxiao Li , Deqing Sun , Chao Ma , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recently, diffusion-based video generation models have achieved significant success. However, existing models often suffer from issues like weak consistency and declining image quality over time. To overcome these challenges, inspired by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Delong Liu , Zhaohui Hou , Mingjie Zhan , Shihao Han , Zhicheng Zhao , Fei Su

Following the advancements in text-guided image generation technology exemplified by Stable Diffusion, video generation is gaining increased attention in the academic community. However, relying solely on text guidance for video generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Cong Wang , Jiaxi Gu , Panwen Hu , Haoyu Zhao , Yuanfan Guo , Jianhua Han , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Diffusion models (DMs) produce high-quality images, yet their sampling remains costly when adapted to new domains. Distilled DMs are faster but typically remain confined within their teacher's domain. Thus, fast and high-quality generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yara Bahram , Mélodie Desbos , Mohammadhadi Shateri , Eric Granger

The scale and quality of datasets are crucial for training robust perception models. However, obtaining large-scale annotated data is both costly and time-consuming. Generative models have emerged as a powerful tool for data augmentation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Haowei Zhu , Tianxiang Pan , Rui Qin , Jun-Hai Yong , Bin Wang

Latent diffusion models (LDM) have revolutionized text-to-image generation, leading to the proliferation of various advanced models and diverse downstream applications. However, despite these significant advancements, current diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jiacheng Zhang , Jie Wu , Yuxi Ren , Xin Xia , Huafeng Kuang , Pan Xie , Jiashi Li , Xuefeng Xiao , Weilin Huang , Shilei Wen , Lean Fu , Guanbin Li

Large-scale AI model training divides work across thousands of GPUs, then synchronizes gradients across them at each step. This incurs a significant network burden that only centralized, monolithic clusters can support, driving up…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 David McAllister , Matthew Tancik , Jiaming Song , Angjoo Kanazawa

While Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have achieved remarkable success in cross-modal comprehension, a significant gap persists in their ability to leverage such internal knowledge for high-quality generation. We formalize this discrepancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Ruiyan Han , Zhen Fang , XinYu Sun , Yuchen Ma , Ziheng Wang , Yu Zeng , Zehui Chen , Lin Chen , Wenxuan Huang , Wei-Jie Xu , Yi Cao , Feng Zhao

Effectively designing molecular geometries is essential to advancing pharmaceutical innovations, a domain, which has experienced great attention through the success of generative models and, in particular, diffusion models. However, current…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-07 Sirine Ayadi , Leon Hetzel , Johanna Sommer , Fabian Theis , Stephan Günnemann