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Diffusion models achieve great success in generating diverse and high-fidelity images, yet their widespread application, especially in real-time scenarios, is hampered by their inherently slow generation speed. The slow generation stems…

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We apply the DiffC algorithm (Theis et al. 2022) to Stable Diffusion 1.5, 2.1, XL, and Flux-dev, and demonstrate that these pretrained models are remarkably capable lossy image compressors. A principled algorithm for lossy compression using…

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Image fusion is a fundamental and important task in computer vision, aiming to combine complementary information from different modalities to fuse images. In recent years, diffusion models have made significant developments in the field of…

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Diffusion-based real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) methods have demonstrated impressive performance.To achieve efficient Real-ISR, many works employ Variational Score Distillation (VSD) to distill pre-trained stable-diffusion (SD)…

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With the rapid development of text-to-vision generation diffusion models, classifier-free guidance has emerged as the most prevalent method for conditioning. However, this approach inherently requires twice as many steps for model…

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Arbitrary resolution image generation provides a consistent visual experience across devices, having extensive applications for producers and consumers. Current diffusion models increase computational demand quadratically with resolution,…

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Recent advances in diffusion and flow-based generative models have demonstrated remarkable success in image restoration tasks, achieving superior perceptual quality compared to traditional deep learning approaches. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yuanzhi Zhu , Ruiqing Wang , Shilin Lu , Junnan Li , Hanshu Yan , Kai Zhang

Generative receivers for wireless image transmission can improve reconstruction quality, but diffusion-based and flow-based decoding relies on iterative inference and therefore incurs substantial latency. In wireless image transmission,…

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Real-world image super-resolution aims to recover high-quality images from complex and unknown real-world degradations. However, existing generative Real-ISR methods largely inherit the dense latent representations and quadratic-cost global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Bingtian Qiao , Yue Shi , Yingjie Zhou , Yong Guo , Guangtao Zhai , Jiezhang Cao

Large denoising diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have been trained on billions of image-caption pairs to perform text-conditioned image generation. As a byproduct of this training, these models have acquired general knowledge…

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Few-step image generation has seen rapid progress, with consistency and meanflow-based methods significantly reducing the number of sampling steps. Despite their low inference cost, these approaches often suffer from training instability…

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Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art video generation quality, but their inference remains expensive due to the large number of sequential denoising steps. This has motivated a growing line of research on accelerating diffusion…

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Image compression is a widely used technique to reduce the spatial redundancy in images. Recently, learning based image compression has achieved significant progress by using the powerful representation ability from neural networks.…

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Recent studies have demonstrated that the forward diffusion process is crucial for the effectiveness of diffusion models in terms of generative quality and sampling efficiency. We propose incorporating an analytical image attenuation…

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We present StableMotion, a novel framework leverages knowledge (geometry and content priors) from pretrained large-scale image diffusion models to perform motion estimation, solving single-image-based image rectification tasks such as…

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Recovering material information from images has been extensively studied in computer graphics and vision. Recent works in material estimation leverage diffusion model showing promising results. However, these diffusion-based methods adopt a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Xiuchao Wu , Pengfei Zhu , Jiangjing Lyu , Xinguo Liu , Jie Guo , Yanwen Guo , Weiwei Xu , Chengfei Lyu

Diffusion models have revolutionized high-fidelity image and video synthesis, yet their computational demands remain prohibitive for real-time applications. These models face two fundamental challenges: strict temporal dependencies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jiacheng Liu , Chang Zou , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Fei Ren , Shaobo Wang , Kaixin Li , Linfeng Zhang

Diffusion Transformers (DiT) have emerged as a widely adopted backbone for high-fidelity image and video generation, yet their iterative denoising process incurs high computational costs. Existing training-free acceleration methods rely on…

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Diffusion-based generative processes, formulated as differential equation solving, frequently balance computational speed with sample quality. Our theoretical investigation of ODE- and SDE-based solvers reveals complementary weaknesses: ODE…

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