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Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhennan Chen , Junwei Zhu , Xu Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

Masked diffusion models (MDMs) have emerged as a promising approach for language modeling, yet they face a performance gap compared to autoregressive models (ARMs) and require more training iterations. In this work, we present the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Mahdi Karami , Ali Ghodsi

Audio-driven talking face video generation has attracted increasing attention due to its huge industrial potential. Some previous methods focus on learning a direct mapping from audio to visual content. Despite progress, they often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weizhi Zhong , Junfan Lin , Peixin Chen , Liang Lin , Guanbin Li

We introduce ImmerseDiffusion, an end-to-end generative audio model that produces 3D immersive soundscapes conditioned on the spatial, temporal, and environmental conditions of sound objects. ImmerseDiffusion is trained to generate…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mojtaba Heydari , Mehrez Souden , Bruno Conejo , Joshua Atkins

Current mainstream audio generation methods primarily rely on simple text prompts, often failing to capture the nuanced details necessary for multi-style audio generation. To address this limitation, the Sound Event Enhanced Prompt Adapter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Chenxu Xiong , Ruibo Fu , Shuchen Shi , Zhengqi Wen , Jianhua Tao , Tao Wang , Chenxing Li , Chunyu Qiang , Yuankun Xie , Xin Qi , Guanjun Li , Zizheng Yang

With the development of large-scale diffusion-based and language-modeling-based generative models, impressive progress has been achieved in text-to-audio generation. Despite producing high-quality outputs, existing text-to-audio models…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yi Yuan , Xubo Liu , Haohe Liu , Xiyuan Kang , Zhuo Chen , Yuxuan Wang , Mark D. Plumbley , Wenwu Wang

Text-to-image diffusion models particularly Stable Diffusion, have revolutionized the field of computer vision. However, the synthesis quality often deteriorates when asked to generate images that faithfully represent complex prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Chenyi Zhuang , Ying Hu , Pan Gao

We introduce EzAudio, a text-to-audio (T2A) generation framework designed to produce high-quality, natural-sounding sound effects. Core designs include: (1) We propose EzAudio-DiT, an optimized Diffusion Transformer (DiT) designed for audio…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Jiarui Hai , Yong Xu , Hao Zhang , Chenxing Li , Helin Wang , Mounya Elhilali , Dong Yu

The generation of emotional talking faces from a single portrait image remains a significant challenge. The simultaneous achievement of expressive emotional talking and accurate lip-sync is particularly difficult, as expressiveness is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Chenxu Zhang , Chao Wang , Jianfeng Zhang , Hongyi Xu , Guoxian Song , You Xie , Linjie Luo , Yapeng Tian , Xiaohu Guo , Jiashi Feng

Standard discrete diffusion models treat all unobserved states identically by mapping them to an absorbing [MASK] token. This creates an 'information void' where semantic information that could be inferred from unmasked tokens is lost…

In-Context Learning and Chain-of-Thought prompting improve reasoning in large language models (LLMs). These typically come at the cost of longer, more expensive prompts that may contain redundant information. Prompt compression based on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Caleb Zheng , Jyotika Singh , Fang Tu , Weiyi Sun , Sujeeth Bharadwaj , Yassine Benajiba , Sujith Ravi , Eli Shlizerman , Dan Roth

Recent advancements in music generation have garnered significant attention, yet existing approaches face critical limitations. Some current generative models can only synthesize either the vocal track or the accompaniment track. While some…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Ziqian Ning , Huakang Chen , Yuepeng Jiang , Chunbo Hao , Guobin Ma , Shuai Wang , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) are rapidly emerging as a powerful and promising alternative to the dominant autoregressive (AR) paradigm. By generating tokens in parallel through an iterative denoising process, DLMs possess inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Tianyi Li , Mingda Chen , Bowei Guo , Zhiqiang Shen

In this paper, we present a Diffusion GAN based approach (Prosodic Diff-TTS) to generate the corresponding high-fidelity speech based on the style description and content text as an input to generate speech samples within only 4 denoising…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Neeraj Kumar , Ankur Narang , Brejesh Lall

The text-to-image synthesis by diffusion models has recently shown remarkable performance in generating high-quality images. Although performs well for simple texts, the models may get confused when faced with complex texts that contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Chang Yu , Junran Peng , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Qi Tian , Zhen Lei

We propose Diffusion Inference-Time T-Optimization (DITTO), a general-purpose frame-work for controlling pre-trained text-to-music diffusion models at inference-time via optimizing initial noise latents. Our method can be used to optimize…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zachary Novack , Julian McAuley , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick , Nicholas J. Bryan

Text-to-audio generation models (TAG) have achieved significant advances in generating audio conditioned on text descriptions. However, a critical challenge lies in the lack of transparency regarding how each textual input impacts the…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Hyunju Kang , Geonhee Han , Yoonjae Jeong , Hogun Park

Diffusion language models (DLMs) generate text through iterative denoising, but inference requires full-sequence attention at every iteration, resulting in substantial redundant computation on masked tokens. Block-wise diffusion can reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Fengrui Zuo , Zhiwei Ke , Yiming Liu , Wenqi Lou , Chao Wang , Xuehai Zhou

Masked diffusion language models enable parallel token generation and offer improved decoding efficiency over autoregressive models. However, their performance degrades significantly when generating multiple tokens simultaneously, due to a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Houxing Ren , Mingjie Zhan , Zimu Lu , Ke Wang , Yunqiao Yang , Haotian Hou , Junting Pan , Hongsheng Li

Generative recommendation represents each item as a semantic ID, i.e., a sequence of discrete tokens, and generates the next item through autoregressive decoding. While effective, existing autoregressive models face two intrinsic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Teng Shi , Chenglei Shen , Weijie Yu , Shen Nie , Chongxuan Li , Xiao Zhang , Ming He , Yan Han , Jun Xu