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Aligning language models (LMs) based on human-annotated preference data is a crucial step in obtaining practical and performant LM-based systems. However, multilingual human preference data are difficult to obtain at scale, making it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Zhaofeng Wu , Ananth Balashankar , Yoon Kim , Jacob Eisenstein , Ahmad Beirami

CycleGAN provides a framework to train image-to-image translation with unpaired datasets using cycle consistency loss [4]. While results are great in many applications, the pixel level cycle consistency can potentially be problematic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Tongzhou Wang , Yihan Lin

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in 3D content generation. However, corresponding evaluation methods struggle to keep pace. Automatic approaches have proven challenging to align with human preferences, and the mixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Weitao Wang , Haoran Xu , Yuxiao Yang , Zhifang Liu , Jun Meng , Haoqian Wang

Large language models~(LLMs) are expected to be helpful, harmless, and honest. In different alignment scenarios, such as safety, confidence, and general preference alignment, binary preference data collection and reward modeling are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shuai Zhao , Yunqiu Xu , Linchao Zhu , Yi Yang

Image feature matching is a fundamental part of many geometric computer vision applications, and using multiple images can improve performance. In this work, we formulate multi-image matching as a graph embedding problem then use a Graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Stephen Phillips , Kostas Daniilidis

Text-to-image diffusion models have recently emerged at the forefront of image generation, powered by very large-scale unsupervised or weakly supervised text-to-image training datasets. Due to their unsupervised training, controlling their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Mihir Prabhudesai , Anirudh Goyal , Deepak Pathak , Katerina Fragkiadaki

In this paper, we focus on the task of conditional image generation, where an image is synthesized according to user instructions. The critical challenge underpinning this task is ensuring both the fidelity of the generated images and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Guiyu Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Zijian Jiang , Hao Zhao , Zhedong Zheng

The goal of this paper is to enhance Text-to-Audio generation at inference, focusing on generating realistic audio that precisely aligns with text prompts. Despite the rapid advancements, existing models often fail to achieve a reliable…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Jaemin Jung , Jaehun Kim , Inkyu Shin , Joon Son Chung

Recent self-rewarding large language models (LLM) have successfully applied LLM-as-a-Judge to iteratively improve the alignment performance without the need of human annotations for preference data. These methods commonly utilize the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhaoyang Wang , Weilei He , Zhiyuan Liang , Xuchao Zhang , Chetan Bansal , Ying Wei , Weitong Zhang , Huaxiu Yao

As the quality of synthetic images improves, identifying the underlying concepts of model-generated images is becoming increasingly crucial for copyright protection and ensuring model transparency. Existing methods achieve this attribution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zongfang Liu , Guangyi Chen , Boyang Sun , Tongliang Liu , Kun Zhang

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard technique for post-training diffusion-based image synthesis models, as it enables learning from reward signals to explicitly improve desirable aspects such as image quality and prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 David McAllister , Miika Aittala , Tero Karras , Janne Hellsten , Angjoo Kanazawa , Timo Aila , Samuli Laine

The remarkable progress in text-to-video diffusion models enables the generation of photorealistic videos, although the content of these generated videos often includes unnatural movement or deformation, reverse playback, and motionless…

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In this paper, we study the problem of image-text matching. Inferring the latent semantic alignment between objects or other salient stuff (e.g. snow, sky, lawn) and the corresponding words in sentences allows to capture fine-grained…

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Modern neural networks have greatly improved performance across speech recognition benchmarks. However, gains are often driven by frequent words with limited semantic weight, which can obscure meaningful differences in word error rate, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Lasse Borgholt , Jakob Havtorn , Christian Igel , Lars Maaløe , Zheng-Hua Tan

In this paper, we introduce a model designed to improve the prediction of image-text alignment, targeting the challenge of compositional understanding in current visual-language models. Our approach focuses on generating high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yuheng Li , Haotian Liu , Mu Cai , Yijun Li , Eli Shechtman , Zhe Lin , Yong Jae Lee , Krishna Kumar Singh

Recent neural models for data-to-document generation have achieved remarkable progress in producing fluent and informative texts. However, large proportions of generated texts do not actually conform to the input data. To address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Feng Nie , Hailin Chen , Jinpeng Wang , Jin-Ge Yao , Chin-Yew Lin , Rong Pan

Learning to model how the world changes as time elapses has proven a challenging problem for the computer vision community. We propose a self-supervised solution to this problem using temporal cycle consistency jointly in vision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Dave Epstein , Jiajun Wu , Cordelia Schmid , Chen Sun

Evaluating image captions typically relies on reference captions, which are costly to obtain and exhibit significant diversity and subjectivity. While reference-free evaluation metrics have been proposed, most focus on cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Tianyu Cui , Jinbin Bai , Guo-Hua Wang , Qing-Guo Chen , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , Ye Shi

We present an approach named the Cycled Composition Network that can measure the semantic distance of the composition of image-text embedding. First, the Composition Network transit a reference image to target image in an embedding space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Jongseok Kim , Youngjae Yu , Seunghwan Lee , GunheeKim

Contrastive learning has become a popular approach in natural language processing, particularly for the learning of sentence embeddings. However, the discrete nature of natural language makes it difficult to ensure the quality of positive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Qinyuan Cheng , Xiaogui Yang , Tianxiang Sun , Linyang Li , Xipeng Qiu