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Text-to-image diffusion models have an unprecedented ability to generate diverse and high-quality images. However, they often struggle to faithfully capture the intended semantics of complex input prompts that include multiple subjects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Omer Dahary , Or Patashnik , Kfir Aberman , Daniel Cohen-Or

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have enabled image-based question-answering capabilities. However, a key limitation is the use of CLIP as the visual encoder; while it can capture coarse global information, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Vatsal Agarwal , Matthew Gwilliam , Gefen Kohavi , Eshan Verma , Daniel Ulbricht , Abhinav Shrivastava

Text-to-image generation models, especially Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiT), have shown remarkable progress in generating high-quality images. However, these models often face significant computational bottlenecks, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Hanling Zhang , Rundong Su , Zhihang Yuan , Pengtao Chen , Mingzhu Shen Yibo Fan , Shengen Yan , Guohao Dai , Yu Wang

Large-scale diffusion neural networks represent a substantial milestone in text-to-image generation, but they remain poorly understood, lacking interpretability analyses. In this paper, we perform a text-image attribution analysis on Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Raphael Tang , Linqing Liu , Akshat Pandey , Zhiying Jiang , Gefei Yang , Karun Kumar , Pontus Stenetorp , Jimmy Lin , Ferhan Ture

Representing the cutting-edge technique of text-to-image models, the latest Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT) largely mitigates many generation issues existing in previous models. However, we discover that it still suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tianyi Wei , Dongdong Chen , Yifan Zhou , Xingang Pan

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation models aim to accurately assign a semantic label to each pixel in an image from a set of arbitrary open-vocabulary texts. In order to learn such pixel-level alignment, current approaches typically rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zihang Lai

Large language models (LLMs) based on decoder-only transformers have demonstrated superior text understanding capabilities compared to CLIP and T5-series models. However, the paradigm for utilizing current advanced LLMs in text-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Bingqi Ma , Zhuofan Zong , Guanglu Song , Hongsheng Li , Yu Liu

Stable diffusion has demonstrated strong image synthesis ability to given text descriptions, suggesting it to contain strong semantic clue for grouping objects. The researchers have explored employing stable diffusion for training-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Lin Sun , Jiale Cao , Jin Xie , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Yanwei Pang

In this paper, we explore a principal way to enhance the quality of object masks produced by different segmentation models. We propose a model-agnostic solution called SegRefiner, which offers a novel perspective on this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mengyu Wang , Henghui Ding , Jun Hao Liew , Jiajun Liu , Yao Zhao , Yunchao Wei

Accurate medical image segmentation is crucial for precise anatomical delineation. Deep learning models like U-Net have shown great success but depend heavily on large datasets and struggle with domain shifts, complex structures, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hantao Zhang , Yuhe Liu , Jiancheng Yang , Weidong Guo , Xinyuan Wang , Pascal Fua

While diffusion Multimodal Large Language Models (dMLLMs) have recently achieved remarkable strides in multimodal generation, the development of interpretability mechanisms has lagged behind their architectural evolution. Unlike traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Haomin Zuo , Yidi Li , Luoxiao Yang , Xiaofeng Zhang

Conditional diffusion models have exhibited superior performance in high-fidelity text-guided visual generation and editing. Nevertheless, prevailing text-guided visual diffusion models primarily focus on incorporating text-visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ling Yang , Zhilong Zhang , Zhaochen Yu , Jingwei Liu , Minkai Xu , Stefano Ermon , Bin Cui

Novel diffusion models can synthesize photo-realistic images with integrated high-quality text. Surprisingly, we demonstrate through attention activation patching that only less than $1$% of diffusion models' parameters, all contained in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Łukasz Staniszewski , Bartosz Cywiński , Franziska Boenisch , Kamil Deja , Adam Dziedzic

Medical image segmentation is crucial for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Traditional methods typically produce a single segmentation mask, failing to capture inherent uncertainty. Recent generative models enable the creation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Huynh Trinh Ngoc , Toan Nguyen Hai , Ba Luong Son , Long Tran Quoc

We propose the autofocus convolutional layer for semantic segmentation with the objective of enhancing the capabilities of neural networks for multi-scale processing. Autofocus layers adaptively change the size of the effective receptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Yao Qin , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Siddharth Ancha , Jay Nanavati , Garrison Cottrell , Antonio Criminisi , Aditya Nori

While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made impressive strides, they predominantly employ a conventional autoregressive architecture as their backbone, leaving significant room to explore effective and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lijiang Li , Zuwei Long , Yunhang Shen , Heting Gao , Haoyu Cao , Xing Sun , Caifeng Shan , Ran He , Chaoyou Fu

Unified generation models aim to handle diverse tasks across modalities -- such as text generation, image generation, and vision-language reasoning -- within a single architecture and decoding paradigm. Autoregressive unified models suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Qingyu Shi , Jinbin Bai , Zhuoran Zhao , Wenhao Chai , Kaidong Yu , Jianzong Wu , Yunhai Tong , Xiangtai Li , Xuelong Li , Shuicheng Yan

Deep Text-to-Image Synthesis (TIS) models such as Stable Diffusion have recently gained significant popularity for creative Text-to-image generation. Yet, for domain-specific scenarios, tuning-free Text-guided Image Editing (TIE) is of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Bingyan Liu , Chengyu Wang , Tingfeng Cao , Kui Jia , Jun Huang

This paper introduces a diffusion-based framework for universal image segmentation, making agnostic segmentation possible without depending on mask-based frameworks and instead predicting the full segmentation in a holistic manner. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Jakob Lønborg Christensen , Morten Rieger Hannemose , Anders Bjorholm Dahl , Vedrana Andersen Dahl

Few-Shot Medical Image Segmentation (FSMIS) aims to segment novel object classes in medical images using only minimal annotated examples, addressing the critical challenges of data scarcity and domain shifts prevalent in medical imaging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Meihua Li , Yang Zhang , Weizhao He , Hu Qu , Yisong Li