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Offline black-box optimization aims to discover novel designs with high property scores using only a static dataset, a task fundamentally challenged by the out-of-distribution (OOD) extrapolation problem. Existing approaches typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yonghan Yang , Ye Yuan , Zipeng Sun , Linfeng Du , Bowei He , Haolun Wu , Can Chen , Xue Liu

Pre-trained diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in synthesizing images across a wide range of scenarios with customizable prompts, indicating their effective capacity to capture universal features. Motivated by this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yuxiang Ji , Boyong He , Chenyuan Qu , Zhuoyue Tan , Chuan Qin , Liaoni Wu

Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural, we often aim to optimize downstream reward functions while…

Many self-supervised denoising approaches have been proposed in recent years. However, these methods tend to overly smooth images, resulting in the loss of fine structures that are essential for medical applications. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-02 Basar Demir , Yikang Liu , Xiao Chen , Eric Z. Chen , Lin Zhao , Boris Mailhe , Terrence Chen , Shanhui Sun

Diffusion models, as a kind of powerful generative model, have given impressive results on image super-resolution (SR) tasks. However, due to the randomness introduced in the reverse process of diffusion models, the performances of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Yiyang Ma , Huan Yang , Wenhan Yang , Jianlong Fu , Jiaying Liu

Diffusion models have shown preliminary success in virtual try-on (VTON) task. The typical dual-branch architecture comprises two UNets for implicit garment deformation and synthesized image generation respectively, and has emerged as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Siqi Wan , Jingwen Chen , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Diffusion models (DMs) have revolutionized generative learning. They utilize a diffusion process to encode data into a simple Gaussian distribution. However, encoding a complex, potentially multimodal data distribution into a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yilun Xu , Gabriele Corso , Tommi Jaakkola , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

Diffusion models are primarily trained for image synthesis, yet their denoising trajectories encode rich, spatially aligned visual priors. In this paper, we demonstrate that these priors can be utilized for text-conditioned semantic and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haoxiao Wang , Antao Xiang , Haiyang Sun , Peilin Sun , Changhao Pan , Yifu Chen , Minjie Hong , Weijie Wang , Shuang Chen , Yue Chen , Zhou Zhao

Image-based virtual try-on is an increasingly important task for online shopping. It aims to synthesize images of a specific person wearing a specified garment. Diffusion model-based approaches have recently become popular, as they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xu Yang , Changxing Ding , Zhibin Hong , Junhao Huang , Jin Tao , Xiangmin Xu

Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DPMs) have shown a powerful capacity of generating high-quality image samples. Recently, diffusion autoencoders (Diff-AE) have been proposed to explore DPMs for representation learning via autoencoding. Their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Zijian Zhang , Zhou Zhao , Zhijie Lin

A core capability for robot manipulation is reasoning over where and how to stably place objects in cluttered environments. Traditionally, robots have relied on object-specific, hand-crafted heuristics in order to perform such reasoning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Takuma Yoneda , Tianchong Jiang , Gregory Shakhnarovich , Matthew R. Walter

Optimizing high-dimensional and complex black-box functions is crucial in numerous scientific applications. While Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful method for sample-efficient optimization, it struggles with the curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Taeyoung Yun , Kiyoung Om , Jaewoo Lee , Sujin Yun , Jinkyoo Park

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) aligns text-to-image (T2I) generation models with human preferences using pairwise preference data. Although substantial resources are expended in collecting and labeling datasets, a critical aspect is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yunhong Lu , Qichao Wang , Hengyuan Cao , Xiaoyin Xu , Min Zhang

In pose estimation for seen objects, a prevalent pipeline involves using neural networks to predict dense 3D coordinates of the object surface on 2D images, which are then used to establish dense 2D-3D correspondences. However, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Yulin Wang , Mengting Hu , Hongli Li , Chen Luo

Deep learning models in computational pathology often fail to generalize across cohorts and institutions due to domain shift. Existing approaches either fail to leverage unlabeled data from the target domain or rely on image-to-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tengyue Zhang , Ruiwen Ding , Luoting Zhuang , Yuxiao Wu , Erika F. Rodriguez , William Hsu

Diffusion models have emerged as the new state-of-the-art generative model with high quality samples, with intriguing properties such as mode coverage and high flexibility. They have also been shown to be effective inverse problem solvers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Hyungjin Chung , Dohoon Ryu , Michael T. McCann , Marc L. Klasky , Jong Chul Ye

We introduce UPose3D, a novel approach for multi-view 3D human pose estimation, addressing challenges in accuracy and scalability. Our method advances existing pose estimation frameworks by improving robustness and flexibility without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Vandad Davoodnia , Saeed Ghorbani , Marc-André Carbonneau , Alexandre Messier , Ali Etemad

We are witnessing rapid progress in automatically generating and manipulating 3D assets due to the availability of pretrained text-image diffusion models. However, time-consuming optimization procedures are required for synthesizing each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Etai Sella , Gal Fiebelman , Noam Atia , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

This work aims to improve the applicability of diffusion models in realistic image restoration. Specifically, we enhance the diffusion model in several aspects such as network architecture, noise level, denoising steps, training image size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Ziwei Luo , Fredrik K. Gustafsson , Zheng Zhao , Jens Sjölund , Thomas B. Schön

Beyond high-fidelity image synthesis, diffusion models have recently exhibited promising results in dense visual perception tasks. However, most existing work treats diffusion models as a standalone component for perception tasks, employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Shuhong Zheng , Zhipeng Bao , Ruoyu Zhao , Martial Hebert , Yu-Xiong Wang