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Recent endeavors in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) aim to unify visual comprehension and generation by combining LLM and diffusion models, the state-of-the-art in each task, respectively. Existing approaches rely on spatial visual…

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Generating visual instructions in a given context is essential for developing interactive world simulators. While prior works address this problem through either text-guided image manipulation or video prediction, these tasks are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yujiang Pu , Zhanbo Huang , Vishnu Boddeti , Yu Kong

Diffusion models have established themselves as state-of-the-art generative models across various data modalities, including images and videos, due to their ability to accurately approximate complex data distributions. Unlike traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Daniel Wesego

The generative priors of pre-trained latent diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance the visual quality of image super-resolution (SR) results. However, the noise sampling process in DMs introduces randomness in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Lingchen Sun , Rongyuan Wu , Jie Liang , Zhengqiang Zhang , Hongwei Yong , Lei Zhang

Multi-modal data-sets are ubiquitous in modern applications, and multi-modal Variational Autoencoders are a popular family of models that aim to learn a joint representation of the different modalities. However, existing approaches suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mustapha Bounoua , Giulio Franzese , Pietro Michiardi

Continuous-space video generation has advanced rapidly, while discrete approaches lag behind due to error accumulation and long-context inconsistency. In this work, we revisit discrete generative modeling and present Uniform discRete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Haoge Deng , Ting Pan , Fan Zhang , Yang Liu , Zhuoyan Luo , Yufeng Cui , Wenxuan Wang , Chunhua Shen , Shiguang Shan , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Xinlong Wang

Unsupervised monocular depth estimation has received widespread attention because of its capability to train without ground truth. In real-world scenarios, the images may be blurry or noisy due to the influence of weather conditions and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Runze Liu , Dongchen Zhu , Guanghui Zhang , Yue Xu , Wenjun Shi , Xiaolin Zhang , Lei Wang , Jiamao Li

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

Significant advances have been made in human-centric video generation, yet the joint video-depth generation problem remains underexplored. Most existing monocular depth estimation methods may not generalize well to synthesized images or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yuanhao Zhai , Kevin Lin , Linjie Li , Chung-Ching Lin , Jianfeng Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , David Doermann , Junsong Yuan , Zicheng Liu , Lijuan Wang

Autoregressive models and their sequential factorization of the data likelihood have recently demonstrated great potential for image representation and synthesis. Nevertheless, they incorporate image context in a linear 1D order by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Patrick Esser , Robin Rombach , Andreas Blattmann , Björn Ommer

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of models and a promising route to fast language generation, but practical implementations typically rely on factored reverse transitions ignoring cross-token dependencies and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Dario Shariatian , Alain Durmus , Umut Simsekli , Stefano Peluchetti

There has been a longstanding belief that generation can facilitate a true understanding of visual data. In line with this, we revisit generatively pre-training visual representations in light of recent interest in denoising diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Chen Wei , Karttikeya Mangalam , Po-Yao Huang , Yanghao Li , Haoqi Fan , Hu Xu , Huiyu Wang , Cihang Xie , Alan Yuille , Christoph Feichtenhofer

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

Deep learning is widely applied in computer-aided pathological diagnosis, which alleviates the pathologist workload and provide timely clinical analysis. However, most models generally require large-scale annotated data for training, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Zeyu Liu , Tianyi Zhang , Yufang He , Yunlu Feng , Yu Zhao , Guanglei Zhang

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality images, prior work reports a significant performance gap between diffusion and autoregressive (AR) methods in language modeling. In this work, we show that simple masked discrete…

Transparent image layer generation plays a significant role in digital art and design workflows. Existing methods typically decompose transparent layers from a single RGB image using a set of tools or generate multiple transparent layers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dingbang Huang , Wenbo Li , Yifei Zhao , Xinyu Pan , Chun Wang , Yanhong Zeng , Bo Dai

Autoregressive models excel in efficiency and plug directly into the transformer ecosystem, delivering robust generalization, predictable scalability, and seamless workflows such as fine-tuning and parallelized training. However, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Samuel Belkadi , Steve Hong , Marian Chen , Miruna Cretu , Charles Harris , Pietro Lio

Diffusion models (DMs) have revolutionized generative learning. They utilize a diffusion process to encode data into a simple Gaussian distribution. However, encoding a complex, potentially multimodal data distribution into a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yilun Xu , Gabriele Corso , Tommi Jaakkola , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

Text-guided diffusion models have shown superior performance in image/video generation and editing. While few explorations have been performed in 3D scenarios. In this paper, we discuss three fundamental and interesting problems on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Gang Li , Heliang Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Chang Li , Changwen Zheng , Dacheng Tao

We present a novel method for exemplar-based image translation, called matching interleaved diffusion models (MIDMs). Most existing methods for this task were formulated as GAN-based matching-then-generation framework. However, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Junyoung Seo , Gyuseong Lee , Seokju Cho , Jiyoung Lee , Seungryong Kim