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Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) enable parallel decoding via iterative denoising, where remasking strategies play a critical role in balancing inference speed and output quality. Existing methods predominantly rely on static confidence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xinhao Sun , Huaijin Zhao , Maoliang Li , Zihao Zheng , Jiayu Chen , Yun Liang , Xiang Chen

Generative processes that involve solving differential equations, such as diffusion models, frequently necessitate balancing speed and quality. ODE-based samplers are fast but plateau in performance while SDE-based samplers deliver higher…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yilun Xu , Mingyang Deng , Xiang Cheng , Yonglong Tian , Ziming Liu , Tommi Jaakkola

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generation quality but at the cost of numerous function evaluations. Recently, advanced ODE-based solvers have been developed to mitigate the substantial computational demands of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Shuai Wang , Zexian Li , Qipeng zhang , Tianhui Song , Xubin Li , Tiezheng Ge , Bo Zheng , Limin Wang

Sampling from Diffusion Models can alternatively be seen as solving differential equations, where there is a challenge in balancing speed and image visual quality. ODE-based samplers offer rapid sampling time but reach a performance limit,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Qinpeng Cui , Xinyi Zhang , Qiqi Bao , Qingmin Liao

Sampling from unnormalized densities is analogous to the generative modeling problem, but the target distribution is defined by a known energy function instead of data samples. Because evaluating the energy function is often costly, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Aaron Havens , Brian Karrer , Neta Shaul

Distilling video generation models to extremely low inference budgets (e.g., 2--4 NFEs) is crucial for real-time deployment, yet remains challenging. Trajectory-style consistency distillation often becomes conservative under complex video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xingtong Ge , Yi Zhang , Yushi Huang , Dailan He , Xiahong Wang , Bingqi Ma , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Jun Zhang

Image tokenization plays a central role in modern generative modeling by mapping visual inputs into compact representations that serve as an intermediate signal between pixels and generative models. Diffusion-based decoders have recently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Chuhan Wang , Hao Chen

Recent advances have reformulated diffusion models as deterministic ordinary differential equations (ODEs) through the framework of flow matching, providing a unified formulation for the noise-to-data generative process. Various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yan Luo , Henry Huang , Todd Y. Zhou , Mengyu Wang

Score-based diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of generative methods, achieving state-of-the-art performance across diverse domains. Despite their empirical success, the mathematical foundations of those models remain only…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Kang Liu , Enrique Zuazua

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods are mainly limited by the low inference speed due to the requirements of hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing acceleration sampling techniques inevitably sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

Text-based diffusion models have made significant breakthroughs in generating high-quality images and videos from textual descriptions. However, the lengthy sampling time of the denoising process remains a significant bottleneck in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shangwen Zhu , Han Zhang , Zhantao Yang , Qianyu Peng , Zhao Pu , Huangji Wang , Fan Cheng

With the success of flow matching in visual generation, sampling efficiency remains a critical bottleneck for its practical application. Among flow models' accelerating methods, ReFlow has been somehow overlooked although it has theoretical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Lei Ke , Hubery Yin , Gongye Liu , Zhengyao Lv , Jingcai Guo , Chen Li , Wenhan Luo , Yujiu Yang , Jing Lyu

Deep learning models have emerged as a powerful tool for various medical applications. However, their success depends on large, high-quality datasets that are challenging to obtain due to privacy concerns and costly annotation. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Milad Yazdani , Yasamin Medghalchi , Pooria Ashrafian , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dena Shahriari

Recent advances in video generation models has significantly accelerated video generation and related downstream tasks. Among these, video stylization holds important research value in areas such as immersive applications and artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Hengye Lyu , Zisu Li , Yue Hong , Yueting Weng , Jiaxin Shi , Hanwang Zhang , Chen Liang

Mixture-of-Experts-based (MoE-based) diffusion models demonstrate remarkable scalability in high-fidelity image generation, yet their reliance on expert parallelism introduces critical communication bottlenecks. State-of-the-art methods…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jiajun Luo , Lizhuo Luo , Jianru Xu , Jiajun Song , Rongwei Lu , Chen Tang , Zhi Wang

Diffusion models have demonstrated significant promise in various generative tasks; however, they often struggle to satisfy challenging constraints. Our approach addresses this limitation by rethinking training-free loss-guided diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 William Huang , Yifeng Jiang , Tom Van Wouwe , C. Karen Liu

Although diffusion models can generate remarkably high-quality samples, they are intrinsically bottlenecked by their expensive iterative sampling procedure. Consistency models (CMs) have recently emerged as a promising diffusion model…

Large text-to-image diffusion models have impressive capabilities in generating photorealistic images from text prompts. How to effectively guide or control these powerful models to perform different downstream tasks becomes an important…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zeju Qiu , Weiyang Liu , Haiwen Feng , Yuxuan Xue , Yao Feng , Zhen Liu , Dan Zhang , Adrian Weller , Bernhard Schölkopf

Machine learning methods, such as diffusion models, are widely explored as a promising way to accelerate high-fidelity fluid dynamics computation via a super-resolution process from faster-to-compute low-fidelity input. However, existing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Ruoyan Li , Zijie Huang , Haixin Wang , Guancheng Wan , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Diffusion models, as a kind of powerful generative model, have given impressive results on image super-resolution (SR) tasks. However, due to the randomness introduced in the reverse process of diffusion models, the performances of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Yiyang Ma , Huan Yang , Wenhan Yang , Jianlong Fu , Jiaying Liu