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We propose Diffusion-Sharpening, a fine-tuning approach that enhances downstream alignment by optimizing sampling trajectories. Existing RL-based fine-tuning methods focus on single training timesteps and neglect trajectory-level alignment,…

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Diffusion models are powerful generative models but suffer from slow sampling, often taking 1000 sequential denoising steps for one sample. As a result, considerable efforts have been directed toward reducing the number of denoising steps,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Andy Shih , Suneel Belkhale , Stefano Ermon , Dorsa Sadigh , Nima Anari

To sample from a general target distribution $p_*\propto e^{-f_*}$ beyond the isoperimetric condition, Huang et al. (2023) proposed to perform sampling through reverse diffusion, giving rise to Diffusion-based Monte Carlo (DMC).…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-15 Xunpeng Huang , Difan Zou , Hanze Dong , Yian Ma , Tong Zhang

Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative models across various modalities, including image, video, and audio synthesis. However, their deployment is often limited by significant inference latency, primarily due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kunyun Wang , Bohan Li , Kai Yu , Minyi Guo , Jieru Zhao

Real-time robotic control demands fast action generation. However, existing generative policies based on diffusion and flow matching require multi-step sampling, fundamentally limiting deployment in time-critical scenarios. We propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Guowei Zou , Haitao Wang , Hejun Wu , Yukun Qian , Yuhang Wang , Weibing Li

Diffusion models have emerged as the leading approach for text-to-image generation. However, their iterative sampling process, which gradually morphs random noise into coherent images, introduces significant latency that limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Peijie Qiu , Hariharan Ramshankar , Arnau Ramisa , René Vidal , Amit Kumar K C , Vamsi Salaka , Rahul Bhagat

Direct preference optimization (DPO) methods have shown strong potential in aligning text-to-image diffusion models with human preferences by training on paired comparisons. These methods improve training stability by avoiding the REINFORCE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yi-Lun Wu , Bo-Kai Ruan , Chiang Tseng , Hong-Han Shuai

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) have led to staggering performance leaps in image generation, editing and restoration. However, existing DDMs use very large datasets for training. Here, we introduce a framework for training a DDM on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Vladimir Kulikov , Shahar Yadin , Matan Kleiner , Tomer Michaeli

In this paper, we introduce an innovative NLP model specifically fine-tuned to determine the minimal number of denoising steps required for any given text prompt. This advanced model serves as a real-time tool that recommends the ideal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Jean Yu , Haim Barad

Diffusion models, emerging as powerful deep generative tools, excel in various applications. They operate through a two-steps process: introducing noise into training samples and then employing a model to convert random noise into new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Huijie Zhang , Yifu Lu , Ismail Alkhouri , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Dogyoon Song , Qing Qu

Diffusion models have shown remarkable flexibility for solving inverse problems without task-specific retraining. However, existing approaches such as Manifold Preserving Guided Diffusion (MPGD) apply only a single gradient update per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Aditya Chakravarty

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

Incoherent k-space undersampling and deep learning-based reconstruction methods have shown great success in accelerating MRI. However, the performance of most previous methods will degrade dramatically under high acceleration factors, e.g.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Jin Liu , Qing Lin , Zhuang Xiong , Shanshan Shan , Chunyi Liu , Min Li , Feng Liu , G. Bruce Pike , Hongfu Sun , Yang Gao

The Stable Diffusion Model (SDM) is a popular and efficient text-to-image (t2i) generation and image-to-image (i2i) generation model. Although there have been some attempts to reduce sampling steps, model distillation, and network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Jinchao Zhu , Yuxuan Wang , Xiaobing Tu , Siyuan Pan , Pengfei Wan , Gao Huang

Although there have been significant advancements in image compression techniques, such as standard and learned codecs, these methods still suffer from severe quality degradation at extremely low bits per pixel. While recent diffusion-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-23 Chanung Park , Joo Chan Lee , Jong Hwan Ko

Diffusion models are emerging expressive generative models, in which a large number of time steps (inference steps) are required for a single image generation. To accelerate such tedious process, reducing steps uniformly is considered as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Lijiang Li , Huixia Li , Xiawu Zheng , Jie Wu , Xuefeng Xiao , Rui Wang , Min Zheng , Xin Pan , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have achieved impressive performance on various generation tasks. By modeling the reverse process of gradually diffusing the data distribution into a Gaussian distribution, generating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhaoyang Lyu , Xudong XU , Ceyuan Yang , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

While recent diffusion-based generative image codecs have shown impressive performance, their iterative sampling process introduces unpleasing latency. In this work, we revisit the design of a diffusion-based codec and argue that multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Naifu Xue , Zhaoyang Jia , Jiahao Li , Bin Li , Yuan Zhang , Yan Lu

Masked Diffusion Models (MDMs) have emerged as a powerful generative modeling technique. Despite their remarkable results, they typically suffer from slow inference with several steps. In this paper, we propose Di$\mathtt{[M]}$O, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yuanzhi Zhu , Xi Wang , Stéphane Lathuilière , Vicky Kalogeiton

Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) offer a flexible framework for sampling from high dimensional data distributions. DDMs generate a path of probability distributions interpolating between a reference Gaussian distribution and a data…

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