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Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as powerful generative models for various tasks, including image, video, and speech synthesis. However, their inference process remains computationally expensive due to the repeated evaluation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Joseph Liu , Joshua Geddes , Ziyu Guo , Haomiao Jiang , Mahesh Kumar Nandwana

Diffusion models deliver high-fidelity synthesis but remain slow due to iterative sampling. We empirically observe there exists feature invariance in deterministic sampling, and present InvarDiff, a training-free acceleration method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Zihao Wu

Recent advancements in deep learning for medical image segmentation are often limited by the scarcity of high-quality training data.While diffusion models provide a potential solution by generating synthetic images, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jianhao Xie , Ziang Zhang , Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

We propose SymDiff, a method for constructing equivariant diffusion models using the framework of stochastic symmetrisation. SymDiff resembles a learned data augmentation that is deployed at sampling time, and is lightweight,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Leo Zhang , Kianoosh Ashouritaklimi , Yee Whye Teh , Rob Cornish

3D data simulation aims to bridge the gap between simulated and real-captured 3D data, which is a fundamental problem for real-world 3D visual tasks. Most 3D data simulation methods inject predefined physical priors but struggle to capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Mutian Xu , Chongjie Ye , Haolin Liu , Yushuang Wu , Jiahao Chang , Xiaoguang Han

In IoT based distributed network of cameras, real-time multi-camera video analytics is challenged by high bandwidth demands and redundant visual data, creating a fundamental tension where reducing data saves network overhead but can degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Ragini Gupta , Lingzhi Zhao , Jiaxi Li , Volodymyr Vakhniuk , Claudiu Danilov , Josh Eckhardt , Keyshla Bernard , Klara Nahrstedt

While diffusion models have achieved great success in the field of video generation, this progress is accompanied by a rapidly escalating computational burden. Among the existing acceleration methods, Feature Caching is popular due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chang Zou , Changlin Li , Yang Li , Patrol Li , Jianbing Wu , Xiao He , Songtao Liu , Zhao Zhong , Kailin Huang , Linfeng Zhang

Tokenizers are a key component of state-of-the-art generative image models, extracting the most important features from the signal while reducing data dimension and redundancy. Most current tokenizers are based on KL-regularized variational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Théophane Vallaeys , Jakob Verbeek , Matthieu Cord

The ability to embed watermarks in images is a fundamental problem of interest for computer vision, and is exacerbated by the rapid rise of generated imagery in recent times. Current state-of-the-art techniques suffer from computational and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Vinay Shukla , Prachee Sharma , Ryan Rossi , Sungchul Kim , Tong Yu , Aditya Grover

Diffusion models have become a leading paradigm for image super-resolution (SR), but existing methods struggle to guarantee both the high-frequency perceptual quality and the low-frequency structural fidelity of generated images. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Hexin Zhang , Dong Li , Jie Huang , Bingzhou Wang , Xueyang Fu , Zhengjun Zha

We propose SDAR, a Synergistic Diffusion-Autoregression paradigm that unifies the training efficiency of autoregressive models with the parallel inference capability of diffusion. Instead of costly end-to-end diffusion training, SDAR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shuang Cheng , Yihan Bian , Dawei Liu , Linfeng Zhang , Qian Yao , Zhongbo Tian , Wenhai Wang , Qipeng Guo , Kai Chen , Biqing Qi , Bowen Zhou

Generating temporally-consistent high-fidelity videos can be computationally expensive, especially over longer temporal spans. More-recent Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) -- despite making significant headway in this context -- have only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Haozhe Liu , Sen He , Ding Liu , Menglin Jia , Chenyang Zhang , Michael S. Ryoo , Tian Xie

Modern diffusion models, particularly those utilizing a Transformer-based UNet for denoising, rely heavily on self-attention operations to manage complex spatial relationships, thus achieving impressive generation performance. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Songhua Liu , Weihao Yu , Zhenxiong Tan , Xinchao Wang

Diffusion models have revolutionized the field of content synthesis and editing. Recent models have replaced the traditional UNet architecture with the Diffusion Transformer (DiT), and employed flow-matching for improved training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Omri Avrahami , Or Patashnik , Ohad Fried , Egor Nemchinov , Kfir Aberman , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or

Recent advances in diffusion bridge models leverage Doob's $h$-transform to establish fixed endpoints between distributions, demonstrating promising results in image translation and restoration tasks. However, these approaches often produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Mokai Pan , Kaizhen Zhu , Yuexin Ma , Yanwei Fu , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang , Ye Shi

A recent study has shown that diffusion models are well-suited for modeling the generative process of user-item interactions in recommender systems due to their denoising nature. However, existing diffusion model-based recommender systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yu Hou , Jin-Duk Park , Won-Yong Shin

Collecting and annotating images with pixel-wise labels is time-consuming and laborious. In contrast, synthetic data can be freely available using a generative model (e.g., DALL-E, Stable Diffusion). In this paper, we show that it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Weijia Wu , Yuzhong Zhao , Mike Zheng Shou , Hong Zhou , Chunhua Shen

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods have shown promise in reconstructing high-resolution images with fine details from low-resolution counterparts. However, these approaches typically require tens or even hundreds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiao He , Huaao Tang , Zhijun Tu , Junchao Zhang , Kun Cheng , Hanting Chen , Yong Guo , Mingrui Zhu , Nannan Wang , Xinbo Gao , Jie Hu

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

Real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) aims to reconstruct high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs degraded by complex, unknown processes. While many Stable Diffusion (SD)-based Real-ISR methods have achieved remarkable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Bin Chen , Gehui Li , Rongyuan Wu , Xindong Zhang , Jie Chen , Jian Zhang , Lei Zhang