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Diffusion models have emerged as a promising approach for text generation, with recent works falling into two main categories: discrete and continuous diffusion models. Discrete diffusion models apply token corruption independently using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Bocheng Li , Zhujin Gao , Linli Xu

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

We present UniFluid, a unified autoregressive framework for joint visual generation and understanding leveraging continuous visual tokens. Our unified autoregressive architecture processes multimodal image and text inputs, generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lijie Fan , Luming Tang , Siyang Qin , Tianhong Li , Xuan Yang , Siyuan Qiao , Andreas Steiner , Chen Sun , Yuanzhen Li , Tao Zhu , Michael Rubinstein , Michalis Raptis , Deqing Sun , Radu Soricut

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have shown impressive results in generating visually compelling images following user prompts. Building on this, various methods further fine-tune the pre-trained T2I model for specific tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tsu-Jui Fu , Yusu Qian , Chen Chen , Wenze Hu , Zhe Gan , Yinfei Yang

Existing text-to-image diffusion models struggle to synthesize realistic images given dense captions, where each text prompt provides a detailed description for a specific image region. To address this, we propose DenseDiffusion, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Jun-Yan Zhu

Unified multimodal generative models aim to integrate image understanding and generation abilities, offering significant advantages in harnessing multimodal corpora, particularly interleaved text-image data. However, existing unified models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Hong Zhang , Zhongjie Duan , Xingjun Wang , Yuze Zhao , Weiyi Lu , Zhipeng Di , Yixuan Xu , Yingda Chen , Yu Zhang

Autoregressive large language models (LLMs) have unified a vast range of language tasks, inspiring preliminary efforts in autoregressive (AR) video generation. Existing AR video generators either diverge from standard LLM architectures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hangjie Yuan , Weihua Chen , Jun Cen , Hu Yu , Jingyun Liang , Shuning Chang , Zhihui Lin , Tao Feng , Pengwei Liu , Jiazheng Xing , Hao Luo , Jiasheng Tang , Fan Wang , Yi Yang

We introduce UGen, a unified autoregressive multimodal model that demonstrates strong performance across text processing, image understanding, and image generation tasks simultaneously. UGen converts both texts and images into discrete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hongxuan Tang , Hao Liu , Xinyan Xiao

Diffusion based video generation has received extensive attention and achieved considerable success within both the academic and industrial communities. However, current efforts are mainly concentrated on single-objective or single-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ludan Ruan , Lei Tian , Chuanwei Huang , Xu Zhang , Xinyan Xiao

Diffusion models, though originally designed for generative tasks, have demonstrated impressive self-supervised representation learning capabilities. A particularly intriguing phenomenon in these models is the emergence of unimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Xiao Li , Zekai Zhang , Xiang Li , Siyi Chen , Zhihui Zhu , Peng Wang , Qing Qu

Multi-modal generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry. Particularly, two dominant families of techniques have emerged: i) Multi-modal large language models (LLMs) demonstrate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Xin Wang , Yuwei Zhou , Bin Huang , Hong Chen , Wenwu Zhu

Uniform-state discrete diffusion models hold the promise of fast text generation due to their inherent ability to self-correct. However, they are typically outperformed by autoregressive models and masked diffusion models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Subham Sekhar Sahoo , Justin Deschenaux , Aaron Gokaslan , Guanghan Wang , Justin Chiu , Volodymyr Kuleshov

Multimodal-driven talking face generation refers to animating a portrait with the given pose, expression, and gaze transferred from the driving image and video, or estimated from the text and audio. However, existing methods ignore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Chao Xu , Shaoting Zhu , Junwei Zhu , Tianxin Huang , Jiangning Zhang , Ying Tai , Yong Liu

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

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

Most existing multimodality methods use separate backbones for autoregression-based discrete text generation and diffusion-based continuous visual generation, or the same backbone by discretizing the visual data to use autoregression for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Chuyang Zhao , Yuxing Song , Wenhao Wang , Haocheng Feng , Errui Ding , Yifan Sun , Xinyan Xiao , Jingdong Wang

The recent popularity of text-to-image diffusion models (DM) can largely be attributed to the intuitive interface they provide to users. The intended generation can be expressed in natural language, with the model producing faithful…

Recently, text-to-image denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) have demonstrated impressive image generation capabilities and have also been successfully applied to image inpainting. However, in practice, users often require more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Shiyuan Yang , Xiaodong Chen , Jing Liao

Latent diffusion models excel at producing high-quality images from text. Yet, concerns appear about the lack of diversity in the generated imagery. To tackle this, we introduce Diverse Diffusion, a method for boosting image diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mariia Zameshina , Olivier Teytaud , Laurent Najman

Recent advancements in image generation have made significant progress, yet existing models present limitations in perceiving and generating an arbitrary number of interrelated images within a broad context. This limitation becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Ying Shen , Yizhe Zhang , Shuangfei Zhai , Lifu Huang , Joshua M. Susskind , Jiatao Gu