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Autoregressive models with continuous tokens form a promising paradigm for visual generation, especially for text-to-image (T2I) synthesis, but they suffer from high computational cost. We study how to design compute-efficient linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Jiahao Wang , Ting Pan , Haoge Deng , Dongchen Han , Taiqiang Wu , Xinlong Wang , Ping Luo

Diffusion-based visuomotor policies excel at modeling action distributions but are inference-inefficient, since recursively denoising from noise to policy requires many steps and heavy UNet backbones, which hinders deployment on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhihao Chen , Yiyuan Ge , Ziyang Wang

Feed-forward 3D reconstruction models based on Vision Transformers can directly estimate scene geometry and camera poses from a small set of input images, but scaling them to video inputs with hundreds or thousands of frames remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zecheng Tang , Jiaye Fu , Qiankun Gao , Haijie Li , Yanmin Wu , Jiaqi Zhang , Siwei Ma , Jian Zhang

Transformers have become the predominant architecture in foundation models due to their excellent performance across various domains. However, the substantial cost of scaling these models remains a significant concern. This problem arises…

Image tokenizers are crucial for visual generative models, e.g., diffusion models (DMs) and autoregressive (AR) models, as they construct the latent representation for modeling. Increasing token length is a common approach to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xiang Li , Kai Qiu , Hao Chen , Jason Kuen , Jiuxiang Gu , Bhiksha Raj , Zhe Lin

Flow matching models have emerged as a powerful framework for realistic image generation by learning to reverse a corruption process that progressively adds Gaussian noise. However, because noise is injected in the latent domain, its impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Sucheng Ren , Qihang Yu , Ju He , Xiaohui Shen , Alan Yuille , Liang-Chieh Chen

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in image and video generation. In this work, we demonstrate that diffusion models can also \textit{generate high-performing neural network parameters}. Our approach is simple, utilizing an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Kai Wang , Dongwen Tang , Boya Zeng , Yida Yin , Zhaopan Xu , Yukun Zhou , Zelin Zang , Trevor Darrell , Zhuang Liu , Yang You

Foundation models in language and vision benefit from a unified discrete token interface that converts raw inputs into sequences for scalable pre-training and inference. For graphs, an effective tokenizer should yield reusable discrete…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yang Xiang , Li Fan , Chenke Yin , Lutz Oettershagen , Chengtao Ji

Fragment-based drug design is a promising strategy leveraging the binding of small chemical moieties that can efficiently guide drug discovery. The initial step of fragment identification remains challenging, as fragments often bind weakly…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-17 Rebecca Manuela Neeser , Ilia Igashov , Arne Schneuing , Michael Bronstein , Philippe Schwaller , Bruno Correia

Foundation models are reshaping EEG analysis, yet an important problem of EEG tokenization remains a challenge. This paper presents TFM-Tokenizer, a novel tokenization framework that learns a vocabulary of time-frequency motifs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jathurshan Pradeepkumar , Xihao Piao , Zheng Chen , Jimeng Sun

While diffusion and autoregressive (AR) models have significantly advanced generative modeling, they each present distinct limitations. AR models, which rely on causal attention, cannot exploit future context and suffer from slow generation…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yanqing Liu , Ruiqing Xue , Chong Zhang , Yufei Liu , Gang Wang , Bohan Li , Yao Qian , Lei He , Shujie Liu , Sheng Zhao

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…

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We propose a model-based deep learning architecture for the reconstruction of highly accelerated diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) that enables high resolution imaging. The proposed reconstruction jointly recovers all the diffusion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-24 Merry P. Mani , Hemant K. Aggarwal , Sanjay Ghosh , Mathews Jacob

We introduce EvoFlows, a variable-length protein sequence-to-sequence modeling approach designed for protein engineering. Existing protein language models are poorly suited for optimization tasks: autoregressive models require full sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Nicolas Deutschmann , Constance Ferragu , Jonathan D. Ziegler , Shayan Aziznejad , Eli Bixby

Proteins perform their biological functions through three-dimensional structures encoded by amino acid sequences, and ligand-binding protein co-design requires models that generate sequence-structure compatible proteins under explicit…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-28 Chen Wei , Fanding Xu , Minghao Sun , Zhiyuan Liu , Lin Wang , Tianrui Jia , Yihang Zhou , Yang Zhang

Image tokenizers play a critical role in shaping the performance of subsequent generative models. Since the introduction of VQ-GAN, discrete image tokenization has undergone remarkable advancements. Improvements in architecture,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiang Li , Kai Qiu , Hao Chen , Jason Kuen , Jiuxiang Gu , Jindong Wang , Zhe Lin , Bhiksha Raj

Commonly used image tokenizers produce a 2D grid of spatially arranged tokens. In contrast, so-called 1D image tokenizers represent images as highly compressed one-dimensional sequences of as few as 32 discrete tokens. We find that the high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 L. Lao Beyer , T. Li , X. Chen , S. Karaman , K. He

Protein structure prediction is pivotal for understanding the structure-function relationship of proteins, advancing biological research, and facilitating pharmaceutical development and experimental design. While deep learning methods and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kaihui Cheng , Ce Liu , Qingkun Su , Jun Wang , Liwei Zhang , Yining Tang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Yuan Qi

After the recent ground-breaking advances in protein structure prediction, one of the remaining challenges in protein machine learning is to reliably predict distributions of structural states. Parametric models of fluctuations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Marloes Arts , Jes Frellsen , Wouter Boomsma

Style-conditioned text-to-image (T2I) generation with diffusion models requires both stable character structure and consistent, fine-grained style expression across diverse prompts. Existing approaches either rely on text-only prompting,…

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