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Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of models and a promising route to fast language generation, but practical implementations typically rely on factored reverse transitions ignoring cross-token dependencies and…

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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

While Masked Diffusion Language Models (MDLMs) relying on token masking and unmasking have shown promise in language modeling, their computational efficiency and generation flexibility remain constrained by the masking paradigm. In this…

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Diffusion-based Image Editing (DIE) is an emerging research hot-spot, which often applies a semantic mask to control the target area for diffusion-based editing. However, most existing solutions obtain these masks via manual operations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Siyu Zou , Jiji Tang , Yiyi Zhou , Jing He , Chaoyi Zhao , Rongsheng Zhang , Zhipeng Hu , Xiaoshuai Sun

A key challenge with procedure planning in instructional videos lies in how to handle a large decision space consisting of a multitude of action types that belong to various tasks. To understand real-world video content, an AI agent must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Fen Fang , Yun Liu , Ali Koksal , Qianli Xu , Joo-Hwee Lim

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art generative performance and have been used as strong pixel-level representation learners. This paper decomposes the interrelation between the generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Zixuan Pan , Jianxu Chen , Yiyu Shi

Autoregressive models excel in modeling sequential dependencies by enforcing causal constraints, yet they struggle to capture complex bidirectional patterns due to their unidirectional nature. In contrast, mask-based models leverage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-18 S. Rohollah Hosseyni , Ali Ahmad Rahmani , S. Jamal Seyedmohammadi , Sanaz Seyedin , Arash Mohammadi

Diffusion models arise as a powerful generative tool recently. Despite the great progress, existing diffusion models mainly focus on uni-modal control, i.e., the diffusion process is driven by only one modality of condition. To further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Ziqi Huang , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Yuming Jiang , Ziwei Liu

Visual counterfactual explanations aim to reveal the minimal semantic modifications that can alter a model's prediction, providing causal and interpretable insights into deep neural networks. However, existing diffusion-based counterfactual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Changlu Guo , Anders Nymark Christensen , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Morten Rieger Hannemose

Talking head generation with arbitrary identities and speech audio remains a crucial problem in the realm of the virtual metaverse. Recently, diffusion models have become a popular generative technique in this field with their strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Xinyang Li , Gen Li , Zhihui Lin , Yichen Qian , GongXin Yao , Weinan Jia , Aowen Wang , Weihua Chen , Fan Wang

Despite recent significant strides achieved by diffusion-based Text-to-Image (T2I) models, current systems are still less capable of ensuring decent compositional generation aligned with text prompts, particularly for the multi-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zhipeng Bao , Yijun Li , Krishna Kumar Singh , Yu-Xiong Wang , Martial Hebert

Machine learning models struggle with generalization when encountering out-of-distribution (OOD) samples with unexpected distribution shifts. For vision tasks, recent studies have shown that test-time adaptation employing diffusion models…

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In this work, we present FRIGID, a framework with a novel diffusion language model that generates molecular structures conditioned on mass spectra via intermediate fingerprint representations and determined chemical formulae, training at…

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative models, but their high computation cost in iterative sampling remains a significant bottleneck. In this work, we present an in-depth and insightful study of state-of-the-art acceleration…

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Image denoising is a fundamental problem in computational photography, where achieving high perception with low distortion is highly demanding. Current methods either struggle with perceptual quality or suffer from significant distortion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Tong Li , Hansen Feng , Lizhi Wang , Zhiwei Xiong , Hua Huang

Video Frame Interpolation (VFI) remains a cornerstone in video enhancement, enabling temporal upscaling for tasks like slow-motion rendering, frame rate conversion, and video restoration. While classical methods rely on optical flow and…

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Diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have shown incredible performance on text-to-image generation. Since text-to-image generation often requires models to generate visual concepts with fine-grained details and attributes specified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Xuehai He , Weixi Feng , Tsu-Jui Fu , Varun Jampani , Arjun Akula , Pradyumna Narayana , Sugato Basu , William Yang Wang , Xin Eric Wang

Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated their strong capabilities in generating high-fidelity samples from complex distributions through an iterative refinement process. Despite the empirical success of diffusion models in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Chaoyi Pan , Zeji Yi , Guanya Shi , Guannan Qu

Motivated by discrete diffusion's success in language-vision modeling, we explore its potential for multi-view generation, a task dominated by continuous approaches. We introduce ViewMask-1-to-3, formulating multi-view synthesis as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ruishu Zhu , Zhihao Huang , Jiacheng Sun , Ping Luo , Hongyuan Zhang , Xuelong Li

As a common image editing operation, image composition involves integrating foreground objects into background scenes. In this paper, we expand the application of the concept of Affordance from human-centered image composition tasks to a…

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