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Diffusion models have shown exceptional performance in visual generation tasks. Recently, these models have shifted from traditional U-Shaped CNN-Attention hybrid structures to fully transformer-based isotropic architectures. While these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yuchuan Tian , Jing Han , Chengcheng Wang , Yuchen Liang , Chao Xu , Hanting Chen

Deep generative models are reported to be useful in broad applications including image generation. Repeated inference between data space and latent space in these models can denoise cluttered images and improve the quality of inferred…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-13 Yoshihiro Nagano , Ryo Karakida , Masato Okada

The recent use of diffusion prior, enhanced by pre-trained text-image models, has markedly elevated the performance of image super-resolution (SR). To alleviate the huge computational cost required by pixel-based diffusion SR, latent-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Feng Luo , Jinxi Xiang , Jun Zhang , Xiao Han , Wei Yang

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…

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Physics-based models often involve large systems of parametrized partial differential equations, where design parameters control various properties. However, high-fidelity simulations of such systems on large domains or with high grid…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Diba Behnoudfar

Steered-Mixtures-of-Experts (SMoE) models provide sparse, edge-aware representations, applicable to many use-cases in image processing. This includes denoising, super-resolution and compression of 2D- and higher dimensional pixel data.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-26 Elvira Fleig , Jonas Geistert , Erik Bochinski , Rolf Jongebloed , Thomas Sikora

In this paper, we present an in-depth investigation of the convolutional autoencoder (CAE) bottleneck. Autoencoders (AE), and especially their convolutional variants, play a vital role in the current deep learning toolbox. Researchers and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Ilja Manakov , Markus Rohm , Volker Tresp

In this paper, we introduce a novel generative model, Diffusion Layout Transformers without Autoencoder (Dolfin), which significantly improves the modeling capability with reduced complexity compared to existing methods. Dolfin employs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Yilin Wang , Zeyuan Chen , Liangjun Zhong , Zheng Ding , Zhizhou Sha , Zhuowen Tu

Stable diffusion networks have emerged as a groundbreaking development for their ability to produce realistic and detailed visual content. This characteristic renders them ideal decoders, capable of producing high-quality and aesthetically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Kai Liu , Kang You , Pan Gao

Pixel-space generative models are often more difficult to train and generally underperform compared to their latent-space counterparts, leaving a persistent performance and efficiency gap. In this paper, we introduce a novel two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiachen Lei , Keli Liu , Julius Berner , Haiming Yu , Hongkai Zheng , Jiahong Wu , Xiangxiang Chu

While diffusion models excel at image synthesis, useful representations have been shown to emerge from generative pre-training, suggesting a path towards unified generative and discriminative learning. However, suboptimal semantic flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Weilai Xiang , Hongyu Yang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Diffusion models have recently gained unprecedented attention in the field of image synthesis due to their remarkable generative capabilities. Notwithstanding their prowess, these models often incur substantial computational costs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xinyin Ma , Gongfan Fang , Xinchao Wang

The generative learning phase of Autoencoder (AE) and its successor Denosing Autoencoder (DAE) enhances the flexibility of data stream method in exploiting unlabelled samples. Nonetheless, the feasibility of DAE for data stream analytic…

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Aerosol-cloud--radiation interactions remain among the most uncertain components of the Earth's climate system, in partdue to the high dimensionality of aerosol state representations and the difficulty of obtaining complete \textit{in situ}…

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Wasserstein autoencoder (WAE) shows that matching two distributions is equivalent to minimizing a simple autoencoder (AE) loss under the constraint that the latent space of this AE matches a pre-specified prior distribution. This latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Devansh Arpit , Aadyot Bhatnagar , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong

Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) enable high-quality image synthesis while avoiding excessive compute demands by training a diffusion model in a compressed lower-dimensional latent space. Here, we apply the LDM paradigm to high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Andreas Blattmann , Robin Rombach , Huan Ling , Tim Dockhorn , Seung Wook Kim , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

Hyperspectral images capture rich spectral information that enables per-pixel material identification; however, spectral mixing often obscures pure material signatures. To address this challenge, we propose the Latent Dirichlet Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Giancarlo Giannetti , Faisal Z. Qureshi

As the number of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas increases drastically with the development towards 6G systems, channel state information (CSI) compression becomes crucial for mitigating feedback overhead. In recent years,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-18 Kangzhi Lou , Xiping Wu

Audio autoencoders learn useful, compressed audio representations, but their non-linear latent spaces prevent intuitive algebraic manipulation such as mixing or scaling. We introduce a simple training methodology to induce linearity in a…

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